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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Dear all,</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan"><span style="color: #000000;">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</span></a> of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). In this issue we bring you updates from the Kolkata wiki community, the Odia wiki community, a report of a workshop organized exclusively for women in Mumbai, Wikipedia hackathon organised in Delhi and Hyderabad, and the recent news and media coverage. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId"><span style="color: #000000;">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</span></a>.</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># <span style="text-decoration: underline;">CIS Office in Delhi</span></span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;">The <a title="Access To Knowledge/Team" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team"><span style="color: #000000;">A2K team</span></a> consists of three members: <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span style="color: #000000;">Nitika Tandon</span></a>, <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span style="color: #000000;">Subhashish Panigrahi</span></a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span style="color: #000000;">Noopur Raval</span></a>. <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span style="color: #000000;">Shiju Alex</span></a> left the organisation. November 16 was his last working day.</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Education Program</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-to-be-rolled-out-at-iimc-dhenkanal"><span style="color: #000000;">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out</span></a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 30, 2012). The program was initiated at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012.</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Workshops Organised by CIS:</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wiki-workshop-at-aml"><span style="color: #000000;">Odia Wikipedia Workshop at AML</span></a> (Academy of Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, November 10, 2012).</span></li>

<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/follow-up-to-wikipedia-introductory-session-at-bharati%20vidyapeeth"><span style="color: #000000;">Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session</span></a> (Bharati Vidyapeeth, Delhi, November 19, 2012).</span></li>

<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar"><span style="color: #000000;">An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB</span></a> (KMBB College, Bhubaneswar, November 19, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Workshop Organised by Wiki Community</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-womens-workshop-in-mumbai"><span style="color: #000000;">Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai</span></a> (by Noopur Raval, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala, Mumbai, November 4, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Meetup Organised by CIS</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia"><span style="color: #000000;">Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!</span></a> (Kolkata, November 3, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Hackathon organised by CIS</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi"><span style="color: #000000;">A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi</span></a> (CIS, New Delhi, November 11, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"> # Hackathon Participation</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hackathon-hyderabad"><span style="color: #000000;">Wikipedia Hackathon</span></a> (organised by BITS, Hyderabad, October 25 – 27, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># News and Media Coverage</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;">‘<a href="http://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-article-kalyan-subramani-nov-15-2012-some-indian-laws-could-be-challenging"><span style="color: #000000;">Some Indian laws could be challenging</span></a>’ (by Kalyan Subramani, Bangalore Mirror, November 15, 2012)</span></li>

<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad"><span style="color: #000000;">A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar</span></a> (Sambad, November 19, 2012).</span></li>

<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-november-23-2012-pravuprasad-routray"><span style="color: #000000;">OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team</span></a> (by Pravuprasad Routray, Orissa Diary, November 23, 2012).</span></li>

<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar"><span style="color: #000000;">વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે</span></a> (by Harsh Kothari, Cybersafar, November 28, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"># Blog Entry</span></p>

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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles"><span style="color: #000000;">Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!</span></a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 19, 2012).</span></li>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/"><span style="color: #000000;">About CIS</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programs such as <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility"><span style="color: #000000;">Accessibility</span></a>, <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k"><span style="color: #000000;">Access to Knowledge</span></a>, <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness"><span style="color: #000000;">Openness</span></a>, <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance"><span style="color: #000000;">Internet Governance</span></a>, and <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom"><span style="color: #000000;">Telecom</span></a>.</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>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.</em></span></p>

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<div style="text-align: justify;">Programme Officer,</div>

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