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Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019

Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Jul 04, 2019 02:48 AM

Christ University in association with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a conference, from 20 - 22 June 2019, at Christ University, Bengaluru. Forty-nine Wikimedians from four countries (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India) participated in the event.

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SVG translation workshop Kannada

by Gopala Krishna — last modified Jun 29, 2019 07:21 AM

The Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) organized a SVG translation workshop for Kannada Wiki community on 23-24 February 2019 in Bengaluru. The workshop was a part of SVG Translation Campaign 2019 in India. Total 10 Wikipedians participated in the workshop and contributed to Wikimedia Commons.

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Wikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal

Wikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Jun 23, 2019 03:26 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The basic skills in digitisation, uploading on Commons and Wikisource process were imparted in the workshop. Jayanta Nath was the facilitator.

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Wikipedia assignments workshop for Post Graduate students in PAH Solapur University

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Jun 22, 2019 03:21 AM

On May 3, 2019, Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) along with PAH Solapur University conducted a Wikipedia workshop for students from the post-graduate stream in PAH Solapur University. Ten students from Mass Communication department and three faculty members participated in the workshop. Prof. Ravindra Chincholkar and Subodh Kulkarni were the facilitators for the workshop.

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Karavali Wikimedians at All India Radio, Mangaluru

by Bharathesha Alasandemajalu — last modified Jun 13, 2019 08:54 AM
June 13, 2019

This blog is about the experience of visiting All India Radio Mangaluru station as a part of the Karavali Wikimedians outreach program.

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What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?

by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:37 AM

The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.

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MoU between PAH Solapur University & CIS-A2K

MoU between PAH Solapur University & CIS-A2K

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Jun 05, 2019 06:21 AM

CIS-A2K is working in collaboration with PAH Solapur University, Solapur in Maharashtra on Wikimedia projects. The Mass Communication and Journalism departments are involved in content generation on Marathi Wikipedia & Commons.

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Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?

by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jun 05, 2019 01:19 PM

Timely and affordable access to scientific research remains a problem in this digital day and age. Around three decades ago, the radical response that emerged was making public-funded scientific research “open access”, i.e. publishing it on the Web without any legal, technical or financial barriers to access and use such research. Several Indian public research institutions also adopted open access mandates and built self-archiving digital tools, however, the efforts haven’t yielded much. Most countries including India, continue to struggle with implementing open access. The latest international initiative (created in Europe) to remedy this problem is Plan S. Plan S is has been positioned as a strategy to implement immediate open access to scientific publications from 2021 – which India is considering adopting. This article unpacks the disorderly growth of open access in India, and discusses the gap between the Plan's vision and current Indian scenario in some respects.

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Project Tiger 2019 Coordinator position open

by Gopala Krishna — last modified Jun 10, 2019 03:29 PM
May 21, 2019
Jobs,

To contribute to support, and coordinate of the work of the Project Tiger, we are looking for a creative, dedicated individual to join the team as a coordinator. Please note that women, especially those from socioeconomically marginalized communities, and women who are returning to work after a hiatus will be given preference.

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CIS-A2K Communication Officer position

by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 04, 2019 06:45 AM
May 19, 2019
Jobs,

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications only from prospective candidates who identify themselves as women, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications, the position is also known as Communication Officer), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team.

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