Dear All,
Konkani Vishwakosh is now freely available to download on Goa University's website
under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. [1]
As many of you know CIS-A2K has been following up with the University for the past couple
of months to re-relase the encyclopedia under CC. Upon CIS-A2K' explicit request, Goa
University has approved the re-release to make it freely available to public and thus
preserve Konkani language and culture in the digital era.
This is a great achievement for the CIS-A2K Programme and we are extremely thankful to Dr.
Satish Shetye (Vice-Chancellor, Goa University) for seeing the significance of growing
open knowledge movement in Goa and Konkani. Thanks are due to the GU faculty, specifically
Prof. Alito Sequeira; Prof. Madhavi Sardesai; Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar; and Dr.
Gopakumar. A special thanks goes to Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar, Frederick Noronha and
Seby Fernandes for their constant support.
If anyone would like to receive a copy of the Vishwakosh please send us a mail off list
and we'll courier a CD your way.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
[1]
http://library.unigoa.ac.in/?q=node
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Konkani_Vi…