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Odia Wikisource Goes Live!

Odia Wikisource Goes Live!

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 07, 2014 01:30 PM

Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.

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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM

Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.

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Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 07, 2014 03:34 PM

Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.

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More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource

More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 04, 2014 01:58 PM

Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.

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Letter to the Prime Minister on Indo-US Bilateral Relations on Intellectual Property

by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Nov 03, 2014 02:58 PM
November 03, 2014

This is a letter that many organizations sent to the Prime Minister. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the signatories.

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ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

by Omshivaprakash and Tejas Jain — last modified Nov 03, 2014 03:04 PM

ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂಜನರ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆಯೆಂದು ಸಿಐಎಸ್-ಎ೨ಕೆಯ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಗವು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

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Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada

by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM

People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.

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Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi

by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PM

A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.

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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions: Mapping the Stakeholders' Response

by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jan 05, 2015 05:01 PM

The procedure and tests surrounding software patenting in India have remained ambiguous since the Parliament introduced the term “per se” through the Patent (Amendment) Act, 2002. In 2013, the Indian Patent Office released Draft Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, in an effort to clarify some of the ambiguity. Through this post, CIS intern, Shashank Singh, analyses the various responses by the stakeholders to these Guidelines and highlights the various issues put forth in the responses.

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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language

Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 24, 2014 03:32 PM

In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.

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