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Open Educational Resources
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No publishersumandro2015-11-16T13:22:40ZCollectionOpen Standards
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No publishersumandro2015-11-16T13:20:15ZCollectionOpen Access
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No publishersumandro2015-11-16T13:18:23ZCollectionCIS-A2K Logo
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No publishersumandro2015-11-16T13:05:52ZImageCIS-A2K
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<b>The key mandate of the Access to Knowledge project at CIS (CIS-A2K) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in south Asia and in Indic languages. From September 2012, CIS has been actively involved in growing the open knowledge movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). The current focus of the CIS-A2K team spans over 5 language areas (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu), 2 community strengthening initiatives, and 6 stand-alone Wikimedia projects.</b>
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<h2>Mission</h2>
<p>The mission of CIS-A2K is to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages. Within the Wikimedia universe CIS-A2K specifically strives to further grow the Indic and English Wikimedia projects and communities by:</p>
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<li>supporting and serving the Indian Wikimedia communities in all possible ways;</li>
<li>building institutional partnerships;</li>
<li>bringing more content under free license;</li>
<li>designing and executing projects with community participation;</li>
<li>strengthening the Wikimedia volunteers; and</li>
<li>fostering and enabling an appropriate legal and technological ecosystem.</li></ul>
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<h2>Work Plans</h2>
<p>Work plans and other programme documents can be accessed here:</p>
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<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015" target="_blank">Work Plan July 2014 - June 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014" target="_blank">Work Plan April 2013 - June 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan" target="_blank">Work Plan 2012 - 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/old" target="_blank">Work Plan 2011 - 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/old1" target="_blank">Details of Programs run on English and Indian language Wikipedias since 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/India_Program_Announcement_and_FAQ_-_30_July_2012" target="_blank">Access To Knowledge Announcement and FAQ - 30 July 2012</a></li></ul>
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<h2>Activities and Feedback</h2>
<p>If you have a general proposal/suggestion for Access to Knowledge team you can write on the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests" target="_blank">requests</a> page. If you have appreciations or feedback on our work, please share it on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Appreciations_and_Feedback" target="_blank">feedback</a> page.</p>
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<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Activities" target="_blank">Workshops, Meetups, Edit-a-thons and other Events</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/search?Subject=Wikipedia" target="_blank">Blog Entries</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports" target="_blank">Newsletters, Reports, and Bulletins</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC" target="_blank">IRC</a></li></ul>
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No publishersumandro2015-12-15T07:42:37ZCollectionRAW Blog
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No publishersumandro2015-11-16T12:23:49ZCollectionCSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF)
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<b>The CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) has been set up by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The Fund’s priorities have been shaped by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Sitharamam Kakarala, S.V. Srinivas, and Tejaswini Niranjana; and it is administered by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS.</b>
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<p>A fundamental challenge has emerged in arts, humanities, and social science research with the coming of digital media. The challenge is of at least two kinds: 1) the ways in which we access our primary materials have changed, opening up the possibility of formulating new problems as well as conducting our research, and 2) additionally, the digital networks and objects that facilitate research are themselves becoming part of the phenomena we document and analyse. While the contexts under investigation are rich and diverse, the digital tools and methods by which to explore them are not readily available, especially in India.</p>
<p>CDIF uses the terms <strong>tools</strong> and <strong>infrastructure</strong> to respectively refer to autonomous software programmes and hardware devices, and platforms for collective use. A software to enable capturing of comments posted on a news website will be an example of the former, while an archive to be populated and annotated by a number of users will be an example of the latter.</p>
<p>The core mandate of CDIF is as follows:</p>
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<li>Identifying digital tools and infrastructure needed by researchers and practitioners in arts, humanities, and social science fields. This is clearly not a one-time exercise, but a continuous one.</li>
<li>Promote, support, and fund the development of new digital tools and infrastructure, as well as revision and expansion of existing ones.</li>
<li>Creating focused conversations and materials around teaching of, and teaching through, digital tools and infrastructure across the arts, humanities, and social science disciplines.</li></ul>
<p>During 2015-2017, CDIF has a specific interest in supporting efforts that engage with questions of the digital futures of Indian languages, needs and forms of archive-building, and tools and infrastructure of academic collaboration, among learners and among researchers.</p>
<p>CDIF will periodically announce open calls for project proposals related to development of digital tools and infrastructure for research. To receive these announcements, please subscribe to the <a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/cdif" target="_blank">cdif@cis-india.org</a> mailing list. In exceptional cases, we may also consider directly supporting a project.</p>
<p>For any clarification, including sharing of project ideas, please write to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org.</p>
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No publishersumandroCDIFResearchers at WorkLearning2018-05-14T07:25:49ZBlog EntryCDIF
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No publishersumandro2019-03-16T04:40:12ZCollectionIRC16 - Studying Internet in India - Banner
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No publishersumandro2019-03-16T04:43:56ZCollectionEvents
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No publishersumandro2015-10-25T04:16:13ZCollectionPublications
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No publishersumandro2015-10-25T03:49:47ZCollectionCrowdsourcing Incidents of Communication Privacy Violation in India
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<b>In the context of several ongoing threads of debates and policy discussions, we are initiating this effort to crowdsource incidents of violation of digital/online/telephonic privacy of persons and organisations in India. The full list of submitted incidents is publicly shared, under Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Please contribute and share with your friends and colleagues.</b>
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<h3>Report an incident: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/8Xcf0zcWZW">http://goo.gl/forms/8Xcf0zcWZW</a></h3>
<h3>Collected incidents: <a href="http://bit.ly/privacy-violation-india">http://bit.ly/privacy-violation-india</a> (CC BY-SA 4.0)</h3>
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<p>You are welcome to cross-post this to your website or other online forum. Please provide attribution, and link back to this page. For any clarification, write to Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, CIS, at sumandro[at]cis-india[dot]org.</p>
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No publishersumandroFeaturedHomepagePrivacy2015-10-16T10:49:17ZBlog EntryStrategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final Report
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<b>A series of discussions - on the Chat Literacy forum of ELDIS and on Twitter - was organised during November 2012 to March 2013 to identify the global challenges in 'Navigating the Complexities of Open Access'. The discussions were facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), through support from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. On behalf of CIS, Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-coordinated and contributed to these discussions.</b>
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<p>The final report of the Open Access Dialogues was published by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and can be accessed <a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/OpenAccessDialoguesReport.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<p>A sub-report summarising the experiences and arguments expressed by the Indian participants in the Dialogues was prepared by Sumandro, which can be read below or downloaded <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/sumandro-c-open-access-dialogues-2013/at_download/file">here</a>.</p>
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<h2>Strategic issues emerging from the comments of Indian participants</h2>
<h3>1. Lacking OA awareness, even among scholarly communities</h3>
<p>Many, if not all, commentators emphasised the unfortunate lack of awareness about the notion and possibilities of Open Access across India, including among the scholarly and/or higher education related communities. Often the notion of Open Access is quite familiar, especially among scholars, but without a clear understanding of its benefits and how to make one's scholarly works openly accessible.</p>
<h3>2. Uneven geography of OA success stories</h3>
<p>The above point must be read along with strong success stories emerging from Indian OA journals, mostly from science disciplines. A recent study reveals that 970 Indian OA journals are included in the 'Journals Citation Report 2011' (science), and the Impact Factors of these journals are on the rise. This indicates towards a very uneven geography of OA awareness and adoption in India, with the OA agenda being pursued successfully by specific scholarly communities but not translating into widespread support across the higher academia landscape.</p>
<h3>3. Global businesses of scholarly works and complicity of Indian researchers</h3>
<p>The role of global businesses of scholarly works in impending the Open Access agenda in the India was mentioned by most of the commentators. The publication, and especially distribution, of publicly funded research is dominated by global publication houses. Additionally, the complicity of Indian researchers in reinforcing the culture of exclusive and 'prestigious' journals published by global publishers is also well understood and criticised.</p>
<h3>4. Citation Indexes as necessary evil</h3>
<p>While the discussants argued against an over-emphasis on Impact Factors in judging a quality and success of journals, especially for IF being biased against new journals, and thus against newly started OA journals. At the same time, measurement of citations remains a crucial way of understanding readership and impact of scholarly works. There was a strong recommendation of article-level metrics as opposed to journal-level ones. Studies were suggested to argue that article-level impact increases with OA journals. Another concern is bibliographic malpractices, including biases against citing works from Indian (or, developing world) scholars and against citing works published in non-'prestigious' journals.</p>
<h3>5. Open Access must not only be about access to journals</h3>
<p>A strongly expressed opinion was that the OA agenda must move beyond journal publications. The journal-centric approach emphasises the supply side of knowledge but fails to appreciate the demand of knowledge, especially in a country like India where primary and secondary education remain vital challenges. Further, even within higher academic circles, OA agenda must expand into other forms of scholarly works beyond journal essays, such as primary data and other research materials, especially since all such forms are also produced by public funds. Open Access to 'gray literature' (produced by private and non-profit research organisations) is also crucial, as much policy-making tends to be shaped by such works.</p>
<h3>6. Open Access and the consumers of knowledge</h3>
<p>The commentators emphasised the nature of OA to knowledge as a public good. The OA agenda must address the consumers of knowledge outside the university system, and especially across socio-economic classes. While open university education and participation in MOOC-models of learning are on the rise in India, there is a threat that this digital-centric approach reinforced existing digital divides in access to knowledge.</p>
<h3>Policy Suggestions</h3>
<p><strong>1.'Mainstreaming' the OA agenda:</strong> Instead of locating OA as a separate agenda, it will be useful to 'mainstream' it within larger development/research related funding initiatives by making OA publications of research outcomes a necessary grants condition.</p>
<p><strong>2.OA as the entry point to a broader 'open' agenda:</strong> The OA agenda can build upon its existing institutional and governmental acceptance and implementation to promote a broader 'open' agenda, including open sharing of research data, open formats for and sharing of bibliographic data etc.</p>
<p><strong>3.Moving the OA discussion and knowledge organisation beyond higher education communities:</strong> Addressing non-university circuits of learning, of both institutional (primary and secondary education) and non-institutional (informal learning groups around MOOC courses) varieties, is a crucial challenge for the OA agenda in the developing world. Another crucial community of potential OA supporters would be the non-governmental and non-profit organisations working in the field of education in particular, and development in general.</p>
<p><strong>4.Removing policy biases against Open Access journals in academic administration:</strong> Combined global and local efforts remains important to reshape national academic administration policies to stop discrimination against OA publication of scholarly works, such as higher academic benefit for publication in closed 'prestigious' journals.</p>
<p><strong>5.Encouraging and supporting scholarly communities (often with a disciplinary and/or thematic common ground) to undertake OA knowledge production:</strong> Promoting the OA agenda must also adopt a bottom-up strategy in the developing world, and this would require capacity and community building exercises involving local and global scholarly colleagues and enthusiasts gathered around thematic and/or disciplinary focii, as well as institutional and governmental recognition and support.</p>
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No publishersumandroOpennessOpen Access DialoguesOpen Access2015-10-11T04:39:10ZBlog Entry Sumandro C - Open Access Dialogues - Strategic Issues Emerging from the Comments of Indian Participants
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