Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the details of our
work in the month of October 2013.
Train the Trainer Program
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages,
joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program"
organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team
in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013. CIS-A2K organised the residency training program
to build capacities amongst different language Wikimedia communities. A good diversity of
Wikipedians from various language communities such as Bengali, Gujarati, Sanskrit,
Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Odia, came over for the event. Two prominent reasons
identified for organizing the event were the limitations of a virtual sphere and the
limited number of Wikipedians leading outreach activities. Seventeen people participated
in the event:
http://bit.ly/18hjw0n
► Events Organised
Workshop on Wikipedia in the Indian Undergraduate Language Classrooms (October 1, 203,
Christ University, Bangalore). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop:
http://bit.ly/HIiC30.
వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/బెంగుళూరు/అక్టోబర్ (UTC, Bangalore, October 12, 2013). T. Vishnu
Vardhan gave a talk:
http://bit.ly/1hpmXrt.
Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization (Goa University, October 19-20, 2013). CIS-A2K team
conducted the workshop. Thirty-seven people participated in the event:
http://bit.ly/1a9m8N2. Nitika Tandon shares a detailed blog post on the re-release of
Konkani Vishwakosh under CC License:
http://bit.ly/1cm9wBH.
► Event Participated In
Re-sourcing Indian Cinema: Humanities Research, New Archives and Collaborative Knowledge
Production (organised by the Centre for Contemporary Studies and the Centre for Study of
Culture and Society, October 29, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on “Let Cinephiles
Collaborate: Pleasures and Perils of Indian Film History on Wikipedia”:
http://bit.ly/18Obr2P.
► Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference (Daijiworld,
October 1, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1ek8AzW.
Wikipedia in Indian Languages on Mobile Phones (by Megha Prakash, Sci Dev Net, October 15,
2013):
http://bit.ly/Hfh7sI.
कोंकणी विश्वकोश ‘विकिपीडिया’वर (Navprabha Daily, October 22, 2013). A detailed article
about the digitalization of Konkani Vishwakosh:
http://bit.ly/18J3YlB.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India.
The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B.
Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi
and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here
(
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various communities can request
for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations
and communications at
http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on
policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with
disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government,
FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and
digital humanities.
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https://cis-india.org
Support Us
Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour
of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross,
Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as
individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our
understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil
Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research,
at nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to
T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu(a)cis-india.org
CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy
International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and
support for most of its projects.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon