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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — March 2013
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<b>In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" target="_blank" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members based in Delhi: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Noopur Raval</a>, and one member <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> who is working from Bangalore office.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3>Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters">Visualising Basic Parameters</a> (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. </li>
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<h3>Events Organised</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa">Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa</a> (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the editing session.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the event.</li>
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<h3>Events Co-organised</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-womens-day-in-goa">Wiki Women's Day in Goa</a> (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers">Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers</a> (organised by Wikimedia Chapter India, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
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<h3>Upcoming Event (Co-organised)</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013">Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</a> (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad.</li>
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<h3>Events Participated In</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013">Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013</a> (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013">Kannada Prabha</a> on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir">Wikipedia at Avenir</a> (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). CIS supported the event.</li>
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<h3>Event Report from Other Organisations</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report">this report</a>.</p>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore</a> (Prajavani, March 25, 2013).</li>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3>Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-04-15T16:47:20ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — June 2014
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-2014
<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of June 2014: </b>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Telugu_Books_Re-release_Under_Creative_Commons_License">Telugu Books Re-release Under Creative Commons License</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license" rel="nofollow">Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License</a> (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, June 22, 2014). For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.<br /> CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images available), these books will be uploaded on <a class="external text" href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">Telugu Wikisource</a> and converted into Unicode (searchable) text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Telugu" class="mw-redirect" title="India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015/Telugu">Telugu language area plan</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Article">Article</span></h2>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, June 18, 2014).</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Blog_Entries">Blog Entries</span></h2>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week" rel="nofollow">Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian</a> Every Week (by Diptiman Panigrahi, June 16, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-language-gets-new-unicode-font-converter" rel="nofollow">Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, June 20, 2014).</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Events_Organized">Events Organized</span></h2>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_Kannada_Book_lovers">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Book Lovers</a> (co-organized by Navakarnataka Publications, Bangalore, June 4, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era" rel="nofollow">Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era</a> (co-organized by Andhra Loyola College and CIS, Vijaywada, June 24-25, 2014).</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="News_and_Media_Coverage">News and Media Coverage</span></h2>
<p>CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-event-in-vijaywada-june-25-2014-sakshi" rel="nofollow">Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Sakshi</a> (June 25, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/eenadu-june-25-2014-coverage-of-vijaywada-event" rel="nofollow">Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu</a> (June 25, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-new-indian-express-june-25-2014-loyola-faculty-enlightened-about-open-edn-resources" rel="nofollow">Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources</a> (The New Indian Express, June 25, 2014).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed <a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests">here</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="About_CIS">About CIS</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Follow_us_elsewhere">Follow us elsewhere</span></h2>
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<li>Twitter: <a class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>CIS group on Facebook: <a class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india</a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Request_for_Collaboration:">Request for Collaboration:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu@cis-india.org.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-2014'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-10-04T15:31:04ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — June & July 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-july-2013
<b>A2K newsletter for the months of June and July, 2013.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics April to September 2013 (by T. Vishnu Vardhan; Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi June 30, 2013): The Access to Knowledge team carried out quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from September 2012 to April 2013. Though it is difficult for the A2K programme to take direct credit for the growth or lack of it the programme's support has been one of the key factors in impacting the growth of the Wikimedia projects and communities in India since the commencement of the project. Primary focus areas of the statistics are: growth of articles, Active editors, Monthly growth of new editors, Monthly pageviews and New editors statistics from outreach events organized or supported by A2K programme. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blog/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics</a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Workshops</h3>
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<li>Wikipedia editing workshop for participants from 10 civil society institutions from across India at the Institute of Internet and Society, Bangalore (Organized by the A2K team members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi, June 9, 2013)</li>
<li>A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers (organized by CIS-A2K Team, Suchitra, Bengaluru, June 23, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers</a></li>
<li>Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education (co-organised by HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS, Indian Institute of Science, July 13, 2013). Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-humanities-for-indian-higher-education" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-humanities-for-indian-higher-education</a></li>
<li>A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (organized by CIS-A2K team, July 21, 2013, Hubli). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave training to the participants on Wikipedia. Leading newspapers like Times of India, Vijaya Karnataka, Deccan Herald, VijayaVani, Prajavani, Samyukta Karnataka and HosaDiganta covered the event. Scanned versions of the published articles can be viewed here (<a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/hubli-workshop-press-coverage.zip" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/hubli-workshop-press-coverage.zip</a>). Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-hubli" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-hubli</a></li>
<li>Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (organized by CIS-A2K Team in collaboration with Telugu Jati Nava Nirmana Samstha, Hyderabad, July 21, 2013). Dr. Rajasekhar (Telugu WP admin) and T. Vishnu Vardhan conducted the workshop. Link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/13Z00Ue">http://bit.ly/13Z00Ue</a></li>
<li>A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara (organized by CIS-A2K team, Sagara, July 28, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Wikipedia and Kannada Wikipedia. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara</a> ● Odia Wikipedia Training Workshop at the Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (Organized by Odia Wikipedian Gorvachove Pothal and supported by CIS-A2K programme, July 26, 2013). Event link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/gqw">http://or.wikipedia.org/s/gqw</a></li>
<li>Telugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance (co-organised by A2K team and Telugu Wikipedia community, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, April 9, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at this event. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/telegu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/telegu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance</a> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Meetups</h3>
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<li> First Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore (co-organised by Telugu Wikipedia community and A2K on June 2, 2013). S.J. Veera conducted the meet-up. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/telegu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/telegu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013</a></li>
<li>Second monthly Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore (co-organized by Telugu Wikipedia community and A2K on July 13, 2013). Event link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/zVueaO">http://goo.gl/zVueaO</a> </li>
<li>Telugu Wikipedia Meetup @ Theatre Outreach Unit, Hyderabad (co-organised by TE WP community, ToU and A2K on July 21, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan spoke on Copyright-Creative Commons and Wikipedia. Link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/14ctSxr">http://bit.ly/14ctSxr</a> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Upcoming / Ongoing Events</h3>
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<li>A Workshop on Posting Articles in Kannada on Wikipedia (organised by the Centre for Proficiency Development Placement Service, University of Mysore, CPDPS premises, Manasagangotri, August 6, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja will conduct a workshop. The announcement (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia/article4980552.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia/article4980552.ece</a>) was made in an article by R. Krishna Kumar in the Hindu on August 2, 2013. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a></li>
<li>Wikipedia Training workshop for students at the St. Xavier College, Goa Wikipedia</li>
<li>Training workshop for students from Library Science Department at the Goa University, Goa Wikipedia</li>
<li>Training workshop for students from Konkani language Department at the Goa University, Goa </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated</h3>
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<li>Free Software (organized by Free Software Movement of Karnataka in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, July 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja presented about Wikipedia in this event. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/free-software" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/free-software</a></li>
<li>Institute of Internet and Society, Bangalore (participated by A2K team, T. Vishnu Vardhan presented about “Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet” Presentation Link: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_Knowledge_Bases_and_Platforms_via_Mass_Collaboration_on_the_Internet.pdf">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_Knowledge_Bases_and_Platforms_via_Mass_Collaboration_on_the_Internet.pdf</a>, Event Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/institute-on-internet-and-society" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/institute-on-internet-and-society</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage (including videos)</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A Feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians (HMTV, May 30-31, 2013). Watch the video: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/hmtv-may-30-2013-wikipedia-and-telegu-wikipedians" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/hmtv-may-30-2013-wikipedia-and-telegu-wikipedians</a></li>
</ul>
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<li>Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme (HMTV, June 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia. Video: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme</a></li>
</ul>
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<li>Wiki donors (by Akhila Seetharaman, TimeOut Bengaluru, June 21, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Dr. U.B. Pavanaja are quoted. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/timeout-bengaluru-akhila-seetharaman-june-21-2013-wiki-donors" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/timeout-bengaluru-akhila-seetharaman-june-21-2013-wiki-donors</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Prajavani, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Samyukta Karnataka, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/samyukta-karnataka-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/samyukta-karnataka-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Vijaya Karnataka, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijaya-karnataka-june-5-2013-report-of-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-in-hasan" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-karnataka-june-5-2013-report-of-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-in-hasan</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Wiki Rahasya: Panel Discussion (Suvarna News, June 13, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja participated in a panel discussion around Wikipedia in general and about Kannada Wikipedia in specific. Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/suvarna-news-june-13-2013-wiki-rahasya-panel-discussion" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-news-june-13-2013-wiki-rahasya-panel-discussion</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Blog Entry</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Wikipedia Visual Editor (by Nitika Tandon, June 27, 2013). Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/visual-editor.pdf/view" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/visual-editor.pdf/view</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad (Organized by A2K team, attended by T. Vishnu Vardhan) Link: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop</a> Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of three members based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (<a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a>). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">About CIS</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Follow us elsewhere</b></p>
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<li>Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
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<li>Visit us at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cis-india.org">https://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Support Us</b><br />Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Request for Collaboration</b><br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a> </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-july-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-june-july-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-10-04T10:52:46ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — July 2014
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-july-2014
<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of July 2014: </b>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="University_of_Mysore_Re-releases_Kannada_Vishwakosha_.28Encyclopaedia.29_under_Creative_Commons_Free_License"><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vishwakosha-under-cc-license" rel="nofollow">University of Mysore Re-releases Kannada Vishwakosha (Encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons Free License</a></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The University of Mysore and the Centre for Internet and Society co-organized the Open Knowledge Day in Mysore on July 15, 2014. On this occasion Mysore University released six volumes of Kannada Vishwakosha under the Creative Commons (CC) license. Kannada Vishwakosha brought out by the <a class="external text" href="http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/" rel="nofollow">University of Mysore</a> can easily be termed as the best encyclopaedia in Kannada. It has been modelled after the famous Britannica encyclopaedia. Mysore University Vishwakosha has 14 volumes having a total of 13802 pages. The very first volume was brought out in the year 1969 and the final volume was released in 2004. Many famous Kannada authors, scientists, academicians and stalwarts from other fields have worked on creating this encyclopaedia.<br /> <br /> Leading English and Kannada dailies like Andolana Kannada, City Today, Deccan Herald, Hosa Diganta, Kannada Jana Mana, Kannada Prabha, Rajya Dharma, Samyukta Karnataka, The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Udayavani, Vijaya Karnataka, and Vijaya Vani published about this. Scanned versions of the published articles can be downloaded <a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-knowledge-day-mysore-media-coverage-zip" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcement">Announcement</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Our grant application to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) of the Wikimedia Foundation was approved by its board which met in Frankfurt from May 21 to 24, 2014. CIS had requested a grant of Rs. 18,406,454 and were <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_round2" class="mw-redirect" title="FDC portal/FDC recommendations/2013-2014 round2">awarded Rs. 12,000,000</a> for the next one year.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_.2F_Blog_Entries">Articles / Blog Entries</span></h2>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/prajavani-july-3-2014-article-on-wikipedia-zero" rel="nofollow">Aircel & Wikimedia Foundation announce Wikipedia Zero</a> (by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, Prajavani, July 3, 2014). As per this, users of Aircel need not pay for data for accessing Wikipedia.</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/article-on-akruti-unicode-converter-in-samaja" rel="nofollow">ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷରସଜ୍ଜା</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Samaja, July 4, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-future-steps" rel="nofollow">State of Odia Language in Computing and Future Steps</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Sovereign for national Level Seminar on "Computer Application and Odia Language", July 7, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/sambad-july-21-2014-paths-for-development-of-odia-language" rel="nofollow">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶର ରାସ୍ତା</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, The Sambad, July 23, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikimedia-blog-dorothy-howard-wiki-loves-pride-2014-and-adding-diversity-to-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia</a> (by Dorothy Howard, Wikimedia Blog, July 25, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-july-27-2014-doctors-and-translators-are-working-together-to-bridge-wikipedias-medical-language-gap" rel="nofollow">Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, July 27, 2014). This was <a class="external text" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/doctors-working-to-bridge-wikipedias-medical-gap/">re-published</a> on the Wikimedia Blog, July 30, 2014.</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odisha-review-june-2014-classical-odia-language-in-digital-age" rel="nofollow">Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odisha Review, posted on July 28, 2014). The essay was published in the magazine’s June edition.</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Event_Organized">Event Organized</span></h2>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore" rel="nofollow">Open Knowledge Day</a> (co-organized by Mysore University and CIS-A2K, Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, July 15, 2014). The event coincided with the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin from July 15 to 17. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the event.</li>
<li>Wikipedia orientation for Christ University UG students, Bangalore</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Participation_in_Events">Participation in Events</span></h2>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-future-steps" rel="nofollow">National Level Seminar on Computer Application and Odia Language</a> (organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, July 6, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi was a panelist.</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/ok-festival-2014" rel="nofollow">Open Knowledge Festival 2014</a> (organized by Google, Omidyar, et.al., Berlin, July 15 – 17, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local and made a presentation.</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/nama-the-future-of-indic-languages" rel="nofollow"># NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages</a> (organized by Medianama, The Oberoi Hotel, Bangalore, July 24, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.</li>
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers (organized by Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath at PDA College of Engineering, Gulbarga, July 29, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo. Thirty-two participants attended the workshop.</li>
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Students and Research Scholars (organized by Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014). Dr. U. B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo. 37 participants attended the presentation.</li>
<li>Talk about Kannada Wikipedia (organized by District Kannada Sahithya Parishath, S.M. Pandit Auditorium, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk as inaugurator of the first session of the Jilla Sahithya Sammelana (district literary festival). About 600 people attended this talk.</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="News_and_Media_Coverage">News and Media Coverage</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-edit-a-thons-to-add-content-on-lgbts" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs</a> (by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 7, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-july-7-2014-bibhuti-barik-font-problem-hits-odia" rel="nofollow">Font problem hits Odia</a> (by Bibhuti Barik, The Telegraph, July 7, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-12-2014-r-krishna-kumar-four-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-digitised" rel="nofollow">Four volumes of Kannada Encyclopaedia digitised</a> (by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 12, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-digitised" rel="nofollow">‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಹಂಗಿಲ್ಲ</a> (Prajavani, July 14, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-15-2014-r-krishna-kumar-soon-all-14-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-to-be-online" rel="nofollow">Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online</a> (by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-prabha-july-15-2014-coverage-of-open-knowledge-day" rel="nofollow">ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ</a> (Kannada Prabha, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-july-15-2014-mysore-university-event-coverage-in-udayavani" rel="nofollow">ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ</a> (Udayavani, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/just-kannada-july-15-2014-wikipedia-kannada-vishwakosha-mysore-university-free-internet-kannada-department" rel="nofollow">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ kannada ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ : ಈಗ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ 6 ಸಂಪುಟಗಳು ಮುಕ್ತ…ಮುಕ್ತ……</a>(Just Kannada, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopaedias-released" rel="nofollow">Six Kannada encyclopaedias released</a> (Webindia 123, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-rare-books-get-new-lease-of-life-online-courtesy-students" rel="nofollow">150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students</a> (by Anila Backer, New Indian Express, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/spicy-ip-swaraj-paul-barooah-july-15-2014-open-access-students-help-revive-and-digitize-rare-books-for-malayalam-wiki-library" rel="nofollow">Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library</a> (Spicy IP, July 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-narayan-lakshman-july-25-2014-trolled-from-us-congress-wikipedia-bans-edits" rel="nofollow">'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits</a> (by Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu, July 25, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat" rel="nofollow">Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat</a> (by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 27, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-29-2014-svetlana-lasrado" rel="nofollow">The joys of being a Wikipedian</a> (by Svetlana Lasrado, New Indian Express, July 29, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage" rel="nofollow">Kannada Wikipedia Presentation</a> (Vijayavani, July 30, 2014).</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage" rel="nofollow">Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers</a> (Prajavani, July 31, 2014).</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed <a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests">here</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="About_CIS">About CIS</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Follow_us_elsewhere">Follow us elsewhere</span></h2>
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<li>Twitter: <a class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>CIS group on Facebook: <a class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india</a></li>
<li>Visit us at: <a class="external free" href="https://cis-india.org" rel="nofollow">https://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Request_for_Collaboration:">Request for Collaboration:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu@cis-india.org.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-july-2014'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-july-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-10-04T14:46:22ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — January 2014
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-january-2014
<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of January 2014: </b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of January 2014:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs</b><br />KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS inaugurated both the collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS respectively whereas T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there to sign in both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: <a href="http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv">http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv</a>.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Article</p>
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<li>Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r">http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r</a>.</li>
<li>WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane: <a href="http://bit.ly/1jvynKP">http://bit.ly/1jvynKP</a>. </li>
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<p><br />Blog Entries</p>
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<li>Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom (by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan, January 30, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD">http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD</a>.</li>
<li>Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January 29, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/LTFA8E">http://bit.ly/LTFA8E</a>.</li>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">Events Organised</p>
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<li>Odia WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/NBkFJi">http://bit.ly/NBkFJi</a>.</li>
<li>Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of Technology, Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f">http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f</a>.</li>
<li>Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, January 15, 2014): <a class="bitmark-shortlink" href="http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK">http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK</a> </li>
<li>Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC">http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC</a>.</li>
<li>Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy">http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy</a>.</li>
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<p>Event Participated In</p>
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<li>The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: <a href="http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc">http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc</a>.</li>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">Media Coverage</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:</p>
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<li>Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/NBtVgz">http://bit.ly/NBtVgz</a>.</li>
<li>‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ">http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ</a>. Shubhadeep interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social media.</li>
<li>ଆଦିବାସୀ ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (<a href="http://Odishan.com">Odishan.com</a>, January 12, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG">http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG</a>.</li>
<li>KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative (India Education <a href="http://Diary.com">Diary.com</a>, January 20, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk">http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk</a>.</li>
<li>Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha Diary Bureau, January 20, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB">http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB</a>.</li>
<li>FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia Foundation, January 30, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz">http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz</a>. Wikimedia Foundation published a resolution declaring CIS eligible for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.</li>
<li>Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January 31, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX">http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX</a>.</li>
<li>Odia Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ePwAON">http://bit.ly/1ePwAON</a>.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><br /> Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (<a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</span></a>). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at<a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId"> </a><a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</span></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>About CIS</b><br />The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Request for Collaboration:</b><br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-07-04T05:55:18ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — January 2013
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<b>In the first issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme director, Vishnu Vardhan, provide you an update of the Access to Knowledge (September to December 2012) Report, the Indic Languages Wikipedia Statistical Report 2012 and reports of the events organised in Goa in the month of December 2012.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of CIS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<p><b><span>CIS Office in Delhi</span></b></p>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
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<p><b>New Project Director for Wikipedia Project</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> is the new Programme Director-Access to Knowledge at CIS. Vishnu has over the last 11 years worked in various capacities as researcher, grant manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. Vishnu managed the <a href="http://www.srtt.org/institutional_grants/arts_culture/overview.htm">Art, Crafts and Culture</a> portfolio of <a href="http://www.srtt.org">Sir Ratan Tata Trust</a> and also worked as Research Coordinator at the <a href="http://www.cscs.res.in">Centre for the Study of Culture and Society</a> in Bangalore. </li>
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<p><b>Distinguished Fellow</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/distinguished-fellows">Tejaswini Niranjana</a>, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and Visiting Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is joining our team as an Adviser to the 'Access to Knowledge' programme. She will guide the A2K team in expanding the Indian language Wikipedias and in increasing the number of active editors through strategic partnerships with Higher Education institutions across India.</li>
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<p><b>Events Organised by CIS:</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: The events in Goa were organized in the month of December 2012. However, reports were published the following month.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/two-day-wiki-workshop-in-goa-university">Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 15, 2013). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa">Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 19, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/promoting-glam-in-goa">Promoting GLAM in Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 24, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/konkani-in-wikipedia-incubator">Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next Level</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 25, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad">A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad</a> (RKGIT, Ghaziabad, January 17, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-education-program-at-iimc-dhenkanal">Odia Education Program</a> (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, Orissa, January 26, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration">Odia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary Celebration</a> (Academy of Media Learning, Samantha Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, January 29, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Meeting</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/bringing-konkani-encyclopedia-in-public-domain">Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 22, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-the-success-of-wikipedia-in-wikipedia-summit-pune-2013">Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013</a> (organized by Wikipedia Club, Pune, January 12 – 13, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-january-27-2013-first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-concludes-at-iimc">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (Odisha Diary Bureau, Dhenkanal, January 27, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sambad-e-paper-january-30-2013-odia-wikipedia-workshop-coverage">Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in Media</a> (Sambad, January 30, 2013).</li>
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<p><b><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Request for Collaboration<br /></b>We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2013-04-05T06:58:56ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — February 2013
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<b>In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja. The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who works from Bangalore office. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">New Team Member</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> joined the A2K team as Programme Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the earliest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current). </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated In</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "></h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify">GNUnify 2013</a> (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 – 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. </li>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india">Creative Commons comes to India</a> (co-organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research in Pune, February 15, 2013, and CIS the Wikimedia India Chapter, Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 25, 2013).The Access to Knowledge team participated in the CC meetings organized in Bangalore.</li>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup">Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore</a> (organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Sudhwana Jogalekar (President, Wikimedia India) spoke on Wikimedia Projects. T. Vishnu Vardhan (Programme Director, A2K, CIS) gave a talk on 'Accessibility to Knowledge'. Joe Justice (Founder WikiSpeed) and Vibhu Srinivasan gave a presentation of WikiSpeed Car project. Chief Guest K.S. Viswanath (Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM) gave the welcome address. Noopur Raval participated in the event. </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam">Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore</a> (organized by Wikimedia India and Creative Commons, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. CIS supported the event.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Education Program</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal">Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Event Reports</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary">Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary</a> (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop">Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University</a> (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
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<li><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534" target="_blank">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ</a> (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013). </li>
<li><b>ସମ୍ବାଦ</b><b>:</b><a href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615&boxid=23625437" target="_blank"><i><b> </b></i>ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ</a>. (Sambad, February, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary-odia-language-application-odia-language-e-media" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia’s 9th anniversary</a> (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversary-of-odia-wikipedia-application-of-odia-language-in-e-media/" target="_blank">Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Ongoing Events</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa">Wikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa</a> (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.). </li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa">A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa</a> (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).</li>
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<h3>Announcement</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote">Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available</a>!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see <a href="http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R">http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R</a>.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> </b></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Support Us</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of December 2013: </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of December 2013:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><span>CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span>We are pleased to share with you the key accomplishments on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. It has been found that there has been an increased editing activity on Konkani Wikipedia, and an increase in the number of articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Konkani Vishwakosh was re-released under Creative Commons License, we initiated Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project and signed a MoU with Goa University to build Konkani Wikipedia: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp">http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp</a><span>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Article</b></p>
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<li><span>Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, DNA, December 16, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/19OAvUV">http://bit.ly/19OAvUV</a><span>. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshané.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><span>First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India (by Nitika Tandon, December 5, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1euwSXt">http://bit.ly/1euwSXt</a><span>.</span></li>
<li><span>Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1hldNM8">http://bit.ly/1hldNM8</a><span>. </span><span><i>We are featuring this here as we didn’t carry this in the last newsletter</i></span><span>.</span></li>
<li><span>Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator (by Nitika Tandon, December 12, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/KmxyFo">http://bit.ly/KmxyFo</a><span>.</span></li>
<li><span>Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process (by Nitika Tandon, December 13, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2">http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2</a><span>.</span></li>
<li><span>Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 16, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1keWyya">http://bit.ly/1keWyya</a><span>.</span></li>
<li><span>Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects (by Nitika Tandon, December 17, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1hlbubU">http://bit.ly/1hlbubU</a>.</li>
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<div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>(2-6 are videos of participants from the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project (jointly organised by CIS-A2K and Goa University) speaking on their experiences with Wikimedia projects.)</i></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Events Organised</b></p>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop (National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, December 5, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1edmx1z">http://bit.ly/1edmx1z</a><span>.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (KBN College, Vijaywada, December 16, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL">http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL</a><span>.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat (Moodabidre, December 19 – 22, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw">http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw</a><span>. </span></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Events Co-organised</b></p>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Wikipedia Orientation Workshop (organised by CIS-A2K and Christ University, Bangalore, December 2, 2013): </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy">http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy</a><span>.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Wikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur (organised by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, Srivahini College, Tiruvur, December 19, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik conducted the workshop: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7">http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7</a><span>. It was covered by Andhraprabha (</span><a href="http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ">http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ</a><span>).</span></span></li>
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<b>This is the fourth Access to Knowledge newsletter from the CIS team in Delhi! During the month of December we had organised the Marathi wiki workshop, a workshop at NMAIT in Karnataka and a workshop at SRM University in Chennai.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). In this issue we bring you updates from the Marathi wiki community and workshops organised in NMAIT in Karnataka and SRM University in Chennai.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CIS Office in Delhi</span></h3>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
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<h3>Education Program</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss">Marathi Wiki Workshop at TISS</a> (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, December 8, 2012). Organised as part of the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society’s initiative of focusing on Indian languages. Nitika Tandon participated in the event.</li>
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<h3>Workshops Organised by CIS:</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait">Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT</a> (NMAIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka December 21, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai">Wikipedia Workshop at SRM</a> (SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, December 17, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute). Noopur Raval participated in the event.</li>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iit-kharagpur">A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, Kharagpur</a> (Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, December 3, 2012).</li>
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<p># Blog Entries</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/non-unicode-iscii-text-can-be-converted-to-unicode">Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, December 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/new-avenues">New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups</a> (by Noopur Raval, December 28, 2012).</li>
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<h3>Video</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller">Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 12, 2012). Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk.</li>
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<h3><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programs such as <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3>Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<p>*<b>Support Us</b>*</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</li>
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<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of August 2014: </b>
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<p>Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.<br /> <b>Highlights</b></p>
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<li>Ten theosophical books authored by Rev. Fr. P. Jojaiah, SJ released under free license (CC-BY-SA-4.0)</li>
<li>For the first time an educational institution in the state of Andhra Pradesh is signing an MoU with CIS-A2K to work collaboratively to qualitatively improve Telugu Wikipedia.</li>
<li>ALC faculty and students to create free e-content in Telugu on Telugu Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Digital content from the fields of Botany, Physics, Chemistry, Telugu, Statistics, Ethics and Religion, Music and Dance to be produced on Telugu Wikipedia.</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Blog_Entries">Blog Entries</span></h2>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/we-are-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">We are Wikipedia</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices Online, June 18, 2014)</li>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-glam-august-27-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-open-glam-at-wikimania-2014" rel="nofollow">OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, OpenGlam, August 27, 2014)</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="News_and_Media_Coverage">News and Media Coverage</span></h2>
<p>CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/deccan-herald-shruthi-august-5-2014-now-christ-students-will-contribute-to-wikipedia" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia</a> (by H.M.Shruthi, Deccan Herald, August 5, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu" class="external text" rel="nofollow">CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada</a> (Eenadu, August 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-august-15-2014-alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access" class="external text" rel="nofollow">ALC signs MoU for better net access</a> (The Hindu, August 15, 2014).</li>
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<p>Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon has left from the organisation -- We wish Nitika all the best for her career. We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed <a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests">here</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="About_CIS">About CIS</span></h2>
<p>The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Follow_us_elsewhere">Follow us elsewhere</span></h2>
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<li>Twitter: <a class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>CIS group on Facebook: <a class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india</a></li>
<li>Visit us at: <a class="external free" href="https://cis-india.org" rel="nofollow">https://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Request_for_Collaboration:">Request for Collaboration:</span></h2>
<p>We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu@cis-india.org.</p>
<p>CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.</p>
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<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of August 2013:</b>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Updates from Konkani Wikipedia</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS-A2K programme organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with the Goa University for students of M.A. (Konkani) at the Central State Library, Konkani Department, University of Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted this workshop. The event saw 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. The main objective is to bring this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project. Event reports, blog entries, videos, guest column and media coverage arising from the workshop can be accessed by clicking on the links below:</p>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Event Reports</h3>
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<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blog/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder" class="external-link">Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, August 31, 2013):</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days" class="external-link">Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!</a> (by Nitika Tandon, August 31, 2013):<a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days"> </a></li>
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<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Guest Columns</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1885294/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder">Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, September 6, 2013).</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/start-up-goa-blog-september-10-2013-subhashish-panigrahi-recap-on-konkani-wikipedia-workshop" class="external-link">Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Startup Goa Blog, September 9, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/thegoan-joyce-dias-august-24-2013-wikipedia-writes-a-new-script" class="external-link">Wikipedia writes a new script </a>(by Joyce Dias, August 24, 2013, The Goan). CIS-A2K workshop held in Goa is mentioned extensively. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi are quoted.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway" class="external-link">Konkani Wikipedia makes headway</a> (by Diana Fernandes, OHeraldO, August 24, 2013). Nitika Tandon is quoted.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/?ref=Guzels.TV">Konkani Wikipedians Speak</a> (Goan Voice Daily Newsletter, September 4, 2013). Konkani Wikipedia workshop organized in Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013 is mentioned in this newsletter.</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Blog Entries</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/voices-from-goa" class="external-link">Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, August 27, 2013).</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar" class="external-link">Voices from Goa: Wikipedia Editor Rusita Paryekar </a>(by Subhashish Panigrahi, August 27, 2013) </li>
</ul>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Other Wikipedia Updates</h2>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Event Reports</h3>
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<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet" class="external-link">A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet</a> (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, August 14, 2013). The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikimania2013" class="external-link">Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, August 19, 2013). The event was organised by Wikimedia Foundation. Subhashish participated in the event.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-sambalpur" class="external-link">An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Sambalpur</a> (by Gorvachove Pothal, August 27, 2013). This workshop was held at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur on July 26 and 27, 2013. Odia Wikipedian Gorvachove Pothal organized this workshop with financial support from the CIS-A2K programme.</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Events Co-organised</h3>
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<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digitization-of-books-for-indic-language-wikisource" class="external-link">Digitization of Books for Indic Language WikiSource</a> (co-organised by Wikimedia India and CIS-A2K, CIS, Bangalore, August 18, 2013).</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai" class="external-link">A Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai </a>(organised by the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and CIS-A2K, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, August 24, 2013). The workshop was aimed at assisting students to take part in the Indian Languages Mela at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (September 20-21, 2013) which is hosting a competition for best Indian language entries on Wikipedia.</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Event Organised</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/mobile-training-workshop" class="external-link">Mobile Training Workshop @ CIS</a> (CIS, Bangalore, August 29, 2013). Rachita and Keerthana Chandrashekar gave a talk on mobile campaigns.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university" class="external-link">Wikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad</a> (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, September 5-6, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan taught a module on "Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era". </li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page">Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference</a> (organised by Wikimedia Foundation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August 7 – 11, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikimedia-asia-meeting" class="external-link">Wikimedia Asia Meeting</a> (organised by Wikimedia community, Hong Kong, August 10, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meeting. Unedited transcript of the entire conversation is <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikimedia-asia-meeting" class="external-link">posted online</a>.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/telugu-wiki-meet-up-hyderabad-august-2013" class="external-link">వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాద్/ఆగష్టు</a> (Hyderabad, August 25, 2013). T.Vishnu Vardhan participated in the meeting through Skype.</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages" class="external-link">Wikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages</a> (Before It’s News, August 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-august-1-2013-sandhya-soman-wikipedia-boom-in-marathi-malayalam-other-desi-languages" class="external-link">Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages</a> (by Sandhya Soman, The Times of India, August 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/dna-august-1-2013-divya-saboo-wikipedia-boom-in-vernacular-languages" class="external-link">Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages </a>(by Divya Saboo, DNA, August 1, 2013). The Centre for Internet and Society is mentioned.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia" class="external-link">Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia</a> (by R. Krishna Kumar, Hindu, August 2, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja is quoted.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/techcrunch-august-6-2013-mahesh-sharma-indias-indigenous-languages-drive-wikipedias-growth" class="external-link">India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth</a> (by Mahesh Sharma, TechCrunch, August 6, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop Coverage</a> (Prajavani, August 12, 2013).</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop" class="external-link">Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop Coverage</a> (Vijaya Vani, August 12, 2013). </li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop Coverage</a> (Suvarna Times of Karnataka, August 12, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Other guest columns:</h3>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odiapua-september-10-2013-subhashish-panigrahi-write-up-about-dr-subas-chandra-rout" class="external-link">ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odiapua, September 10, 2013).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Ongoing / Upcoming Events</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li dir="ltr"> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu" class="external-link">Digital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars</a> (co-organised by the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and CIS-A2K, September 13, 2013).</li>
<li dir="ltr"><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer" class="external-link">Train the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore</a> (organised by CIS-A2K, Bangalore, October 1 – 5, 2013). The programme will be held in the first week of October.</li>
</ul>
<hr style="text-align: justify; " />
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of three members based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (<a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a>). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at<a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId"> http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">About CIS</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<li>To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>.</li>
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<li>To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a> </li>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-10-04T10:49:51ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — April 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-april-2013
<b>In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Kolkata, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" target="_blank" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Delhi: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Nitika Tandon</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and one member <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> who is working from Bangalore office. <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Noopur Raval</a>, Programme Officer (Access to Knowledge) has resigned. April 24, 2013 was her last working day. Archives of our newsletters are <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<p><b>Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-page-views-and-project-pages">Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Guest Blog</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/indian-wiki-women-history-month">Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month</a> (by Netha Hussain, April 29, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Event Organised</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia.</li>
</ul>
<p>Events Co-organised</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held meetings with wikipedians:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata">Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup</a> (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community, March 14, 2013). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-cuttack-community-meetup-march-16-2013">Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup</a> (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-meet-up-bhubaneswar-march-17-2013">Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup</a> (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013). </li>
</ul>
<p>The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing the report soon:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013">Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</a> (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS, Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on April 11, 2013.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Request for Collaboration</b><br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-05-29T10:57:49ZPageAccess to Knowledge — September 2012 Bulletin
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin
<b>This is the first newsletter from the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in Delhi. The issue introduces you to the CIS Access to Knowledge program, the team members in Delhi and reports from Workshops conducted by the Wikipedia community.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India:</p>
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<h3><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge Programme</a></h3>
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<li>The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme of CIS. </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">CIS Office in Delhi</h3>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Shiju Alex</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Statistical Report</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-jan-june-2012">Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report</a> (January – June 2012) (by Shiju Alex). The data for this report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org">http://stats.wikimedia.org</a>.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Workshops</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="visualHighlight"><b>Note</b>: Although most of these workshops were conducted prior to the grant period, the reports for all of these were written during September, hence we are featuring these:</span></p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop">The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012). </li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-punjabi-university-patiala">Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 28, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-amritsar">Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/report-of-the-wikipedia-workshop-in-british-library">Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-tumkur-university">Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University</a> (Tumkur, Karnataka, September 15, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hyderabad-report">Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!</a> (by Noopur Raval, September 30, 2012). There was coverage in the <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece">Hindu</a> on September 28, 2012.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Blog Entry</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/editor-growth-and-contribution-on-telegu-wikipedia">Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telugu Wikipedia</a> (by Nitika Tandon, September 29, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessNewsletter2012-12-14T06:18:01ZPageવિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar
<b>We've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2012-12-07T10:36:20ZNews ItemA workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates
<b>Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates.</b>
<p>Spanned for three days—from August 16 through 18—54 students from the department of Telugu, Botany, Statistics and Physics edited articles related to Nobel laureates, improved the content quality and inserted images that were already there in Wikimedia Commons. There was a great balance of equal participation in the number of female and male students. During this sprint 124 existing articles on Telugu Wikipedia were improved and 118 of them saw images being added. Though it was challenging for me to manage so many participants, I was partly successful in mentoring some of the students who in turn helped their friends with basic editing.</p>
<p>Apart from educating the students about editing Wikipedia, I demonstrated about digitising “Kavitvatattva Vicharam”, a book authored by by Kattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy in 1913 and is considered as the first modern literary criticism in Telugu literature, on Telugu Wikisource. Some of the students tried to proof-read the book for the first time.</p>
There is a plan laid out to work with a small subset of these participating students again for different kind of academic-centric projects like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia">QRpedia</a> project. To keep the activity more regular, the students are are creating the missing Botany-related articles. We are hoping to work with remaining students at least once in every quarter.
A few recommendations for bettering the students’ understanding of Wikipedia and the community that Telugu Wikipedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chaduvari">User:Chaduvari</a> had shared earlier came quite useful during this event. Based on his inputs I did my best elaborating the [Wikipedia] project structure and community dynamics to the new editors. Another long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> followed up on the Wikisource activity remotely. B. Manikantha, a students from the Arts department shares, “Until now I always had a notion that Wikipedia might be some sort of entertainment website where we can listen to music and play games. But after attending this workshop I could understand how great it is as a learning platform. Also I learnt about one of our professors<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"> Dr. Gumma Sambashivarao</a> who is a noted author, and how the articles about more such authors could be made available online in our language.” “It was fun translating articles in my favourite subject—war. I’m hoping to continue my contributions further”, he adds.
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More details in the <a href="http://goo.gl/8EjA1C">event page</a> on Telugu Wikipedia.
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopTelugu Wikipedia2016-09-12T15:01:15ZBlog Entry