Dear All,
Institutional partnerships (especially in the higher education context) is a cross-cutting
activity across A2K's various language plans and also the pilot project. A2K Team is
happy to share with you an important outcome on this front.
CIS-A2K has signed an MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards
building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions. The
objective is to enhance digital literacy in the Indian languages and facilitate
collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination. A2K along with TISS will
co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this. Further,
within TISS campuses we will endeavour to bring teaching-learning processes onto free and
open digital platforms, including Indian language Wikipedias. The A2K team would like to
acknowledge the pivotal role played by our Adviser Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana in buildig this
collaboration.
We'll keep you posted as and when new developments shape up and would like to actively
involve Mumbai Wikipedians in planning, designing and rolling out Wikipedia training
programmes.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Program Manager
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society