CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/September 2014
CIS-A2K (Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge) is a campaign to promote the fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part of the digital landscape.
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A two-day workshop for students was organized by Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune (KSPWSC), Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (CIS-A2K) on September 11 and 12, 2014 in Pune. Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan have summarised the developments from the workshop in this event report.
Announcement
[edit]- NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia (T.Vishnu Vardhan; September 6, 2014).
Blog entries
[edit]- Expanding the World of Telugu Wikipedia – CIS-A2K and ALC join hands (T.Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik; September 17, 2014).
The following was published in August but mirrored on our website in September:
- We are Wikipedia (Subhashish Panigrahi; Wikimedia Deutschland; August 25, 2014). Wikimedia Deutchland have included a paragraph about WeAreWikipedia on their blog.
Event organized
[edit]- Kannada Wikipedia Workshop. (Tumkur University; Tumkur; September 27, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop. Fifty people participated in the event.
Event co-organized
[edit]- Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (Organized by Basaveshwara Science College and CIS-A2K; September 20, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
News and media coverage
[edit]CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
- Implementation of IT in Kannada (Prajavani; September 21, 2014).
- 105 Kannada books released under Creative Commons (Shyam Prasad S; Bangalore Mirror; September 29, 2014).
Participation in events
[edit]- State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education(Co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan, Bhubaneswar; September 14, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event and discussed about the applied aspects of Odia language in the context of primary education and need for reforms in the total number and order in the character-set citing problems with computer and internet.
- Publishing Next (Organised by CinnamonTeal Publishing; Goa; September 19–20, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan was a panelist at the 5th edition of Publishing Next, the annual conference on the future of publishing. He spoke on Open Access, Copyright and Copyleft.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of the Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four of them being based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon has left the organisation—We wish Nitika all the best in her career. We also have one Advisor, Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us.
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About CIS
[edit]The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organisation 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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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 research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director at sunil@cis-india.org or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director at sumandro@cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor, Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.
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