Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February, 2013.
Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi [6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8] who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here [9].
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10].
# New Team Member
* Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current).
# Events Organised by CIS
* Creative Commons comes to India [12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013). Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore. * Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. * Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14] (co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group, Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event.
# Event Participated
* GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
# Education Program
* Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).
# Event Reports CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:
* Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast. * Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).
# Media Coverage
* ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013). * ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013). * Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013). * Odia Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013). * Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted. * Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media [24] (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
# Ongoing Events
* Wikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa [25] (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.). * A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa [26] (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
# Announcement
* Sanskrit Wikiquote -- Now Available [27]!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [28].
*About CIS [29]* CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [30] with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [31], Thinkathon Position Papers [32] and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [33] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties [34], Copyright Bill [35], NIA Bill [36], etc.
CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities [37] from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award [38].
*Follow us elsewhere*
* Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [39] * Join the CIS group on Facebook [40] * Visit us at http://cis-india.org [41]
*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@cis-india.org [42] or Nishant Shah, Director - Research, at nishant@cis-india.org [43]
_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._
Thank you,
Noopur Raval __
Links: ------ [1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [4] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [5] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [6] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [7] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [8] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [9] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [10] http://bit.ly/TOcXId [11] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [12] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india [13] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam [14] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup [15] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify [16] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhe... [17] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniver... [18] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop [19] http://odishan.com/?p=2534 [20] http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437 [21] http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary... [22] http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/ [23] http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485 [24] http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversa... [25] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa [26] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa [27] http://cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote [28] http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [29] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/ [30] http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handb... [31] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook [32] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers [33] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-w... [34] http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disab... [35] http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012 [36] http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-... [37] http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award [38] http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award [39] https://twitter.com/cis_india [40] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [41] http://cis-india.org [42] mailto:sunil@cis-india.org [43] mailto:nishant@cis-india.org
It is a happy news that Wikimedia has granted some fund for development of Indian language wikis.
You might be thinking how best to spend this money. I would like to mention one such venue. It is this: Let us make 1000 o 5000 DVDs of Indian language wikis which have more than 5000 articles in Kiwix format. let us distribute it for Rs 20/- in different cities/towns/villages.
This will have a multiplying effect on development of wikis. people will see wikis in action and understand their importance. Thus many new people will join creation and development of these wikis.
We can also include some other language softwares with it such as Dictionaries, IMEs, language editors, open source word processors, font converters, font files etc.
-- ANUNAD
Dear all,
Correction: There is a mistake in the newsletter in the Events Organized section. The Creative Commons event in Bangalore was not organized by A2K team. It was organized by members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and A2K team members, Nitika and Subhashish attended it and helped with documentation only.
Apologies for the error. We are working to fix it in the main newsletter as well.
Thank you,
Noopur
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:18:39 +0500, noopur wrote:
Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February, 2013.
Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi [6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8] who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here [9].
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10].
# New Team Member
- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme Officer,
India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current).
# Events Organised by CIS
- Creative Commons comes to India
[12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013). Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore.
- Knowledge Sharing through GLAM
at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
- Fifty-fourth
Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14] (co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group, Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event.
# Event Participated
GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
# Education Program
- Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to
IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).
# Event Reports
CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of
February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:
- Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth
Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.
- Digital
Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).
# Media Coverage
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013).
- ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ
ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013).
- Odisha: Workshop
organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013).
- Odia
Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013).
* Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
- Odia language
workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media [24] (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
# Ongoing Events
- Wikipedia
Workshop @ BITS Goa [25] (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.).
- A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
[26] (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
# Announcement
- Sanskrit Wikiquote -- Now Available
[27]!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [28].
*About CIS [29]* CIS was registered
as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [30] with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [31], Thinkathon Position Papers [32] and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [33] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties [34], Copyright Bill [35], NIA Bill [36], etc.
CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in
the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities [37] from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award [38].
*Follow us elsewhere*
- Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [39]
- Join the CIS
group on Facebook [40]
- Visit us at http://cis-india.org [41]
*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@cis-india.org [42] or Nishant Shah, Director - Research, at nishant@cis-india.org [43]
_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._
Thank you,
Noopur Raval
__
Links: ------ [1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [4] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [5] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [6] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [7] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [8] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [9] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [10] http://bit.ly/TOcXId [11] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [12] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india [13] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam [14] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup [15] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify [16] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhe... [17] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniver... [18] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop [19] http://odishan.com/?p=2534 [20] http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437 [21] http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary... [22] http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/ [23] http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485 [24] http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversa... [25] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa [26] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa [27] http://cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote [28] http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [29] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/ [30] http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handb... [31] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook [32] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers [33] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-w... [34] http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disab... [35] http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012 [36] http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-... [37] http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award [38] http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award [39] https://twitter.com/cis_india [40] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [41] http://cis-india.org [42] mailto:sunil@cis-india.org [43] mailto:nishant@cis-india.org
Actually speaking I started contributing on wikipedia with an intention to share whatever the knowlege I have. But I am sorry to say here that some of the people could not digest my edits/contributions. They started a conspiracy against Mayur, Me and some others. I have been indefeinitely blocked on English Wikipedia and a notice against me have also been posted on Hindi Wikipedia. Any one can very well see my User talk page. No body came to shield me. In such an unhuman atmosphere I am really frustrated. Hence I have stopped editting from February 2013 onward. Please forgive me for god's sake. Yours Krantmlverma Mobile No +919811851477 On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, noopur noopur@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear all,
Correction: There is a mistake in the newsletter in the Events Organized section. The Creative Commons event in Bangalore was not organized by A2K team. It was organized by members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and A2K team members, Nitika and Subhashish attended it and helped with documentation only.
Apologies for the error. We are working to fix it in the main newsletter as well.
Thank you,
Noopur
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:18:39 +0500, noopur wrote:
Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February, 2013.
Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi [6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8] who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here [9].
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10].
# New Team Member
- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme Officer,
India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current).
# Events Organised by CIS
- Creative Commons comes to India
[12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013). Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore.
- Knowledge Sharing through GLAM
at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
- Fifty-fourth
Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14] (co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group, Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event.
# Event Participated
GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
# Education Program
- Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to
IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).
# Event Reports
CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of
February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:
- Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth
Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.
- Digital
Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).
# Media Coverage
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013).
- ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ
ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013).
- Odisha: Workshop
organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013).
- Odia
Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013).
- Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language:
Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
- Odia language
workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media [24] (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
# Ongoing Events
- Wikipedia
Workshop @ BITS Goa [25] (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.).
- A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
[26] (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
# Announcement
- Sanskrit Wikiquote -- Now Available
[27]!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [28].
*About CIS [29]* CIS was registered
as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [30] with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [31], Thinkathon Position Papers [32] and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [33] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties [34], Copyright Bill [35], NIA Bill [36], etc.
CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in
the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities [37] from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award [38].
*Follow us elsewhere*
- Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [39]
- Join the CIS
group on Facebook [40]
- Visit us at http://cis-india.org [41]
*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@cis-india.org [42] or Nishant Shah, Director - Research, at nishant@cis-india.org [43]
_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._
Thank you,
Noopur Raval
__
Links:
[1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [4] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [5] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [6] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [7] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [8] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [9] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [10] http://bit.ly/TOcXId [11] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [12] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india [13] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam [14] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup [15] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify [16]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhe... [17]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniver... [18] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop [19] http://odishan.com/?p=2534 [20] http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437 [21]
http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary... [22] http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/ [23] http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485 [24]
http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversa... [25] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa [26] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa [27] http://cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote [28] http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [29] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/ [30]
http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handb... [31] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook [32] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers [33]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-w... [34]
http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disab... [35] http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012 [36]
http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-... [37] http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award [38] http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award [39] https://twitter.com/cis_india [40] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [41] http://cis-india.org [42] mailto:sunil@cis-india.org [43] mailto:nishant@cis-india.org _______________________________________________ Wikihi-l mailing list Wikihi-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikihi-l
Dear all, Hindi wiki *was *seen* *as the most desirable wiki for rapid upliftment of India's masses. But, sigh! Now Hindi wiki has really reached a point wherefrom only a miracle can save it. This is unfortunate. For example, the most judicious bureaucrat (user:Mayur) was rusticated in the name of performing unneeded admin actions, based purely on opinions from those users who never edited (and nor have read) Hindi Wikipedia. And now good editors are distracted by clear lack of judiciousness. Today's Hindi wiki's philosophy is- 'Delete *everything *so that there is no question of policy-violating content. Block *everybody *so that there is no question of vandalism.' Let us wait for some miracle... त्याज्यं न धैर्यं विधुरेऽपि काले.....।
- Hemant (user:Hemant wikikosh)
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Krant M.L.Verma krantmlverma@gmail.comwrote:
Actually speaking I started contributing on wikipedia with an intention to share whatever the knowlege I have. But I am sorry to say here that some of the people could not digest my edits/contributions. They started a conspiracy against Mayur, Me and some others. I have been indefeinitely blocked on English Wikipedia and a notice against me have also been posted on Hindi Wikipedia. Any one can very well see my User talk page. No body came to shield me. In such an unhuman atmosphere I am really frustrated. Hence I have stopped editting from February 2013 onward. Please forgive me for god's sake. Yours Krantmlverma Mobile No +919811851477 On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, noopur noopur@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear all,
Correction: There is a mistake in the newsletter in the Events Organized section. The Creative Commons event in Bangalore was not organized by A2K team. It was organized by members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and A2K team members, Nitika and Subhashish attended it and helped with documentation only.
Apologies for the error. We are working to fix it in the main newsletter as well.
Thank you,
Noopur
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:18:39 +0500, noopur wrote:
Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February, 2013.
Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi [6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8] who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here [9].
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10].
# New Team Member
- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme Officer,
India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current).
# Events Organised by CIS
- Creative Commons comes to India
[12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013). Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore.
- Knowledge Sharing through GLAM
at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
- Fifty-fourth
Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14] (co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group, Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event.
# Event Participated
GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
# Education Program
- Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to
IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).
# Event Reports
CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of
February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:
- Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth
Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.
- Digital
Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).
# Media Coverage
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013).
- ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ
ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013).
- Odisha: Workshop
organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013).
- Odia
Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013).
- Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language:
Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
- Odia language
workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media [24] (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
# Ongoing Events
- Wikipedia
Workshop @ BITS Goa [25] (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.).
- A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
[26] (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
# Announcement
- Sanskrit Wikiquote -- Now Available
[27]!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [28].
*About CIS [29]* CIS was registered
as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [30] with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [31], Thinkathon Position Papers [32] and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [33] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties [34], Copyright Bill [35], NIA Bill [36], etc.
CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in
the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities [37] from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award [38].
*Follow us elsewhere*
- Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [39]
- Join the CIS
group on Facebook [40]
- Visit us at http://cis-india.org [41]
*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@cis-india.org [42] or Nishant Shah, Director - Research, at nishant@cis-india.org [43]
_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._
Thank you,
Noopur Raval
__
Links:
[1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [4] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [5] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [6] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [7] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team [8] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [9] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [10] http://bit.ly/TOcXId [11] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [12] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india [13] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam [14]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup
[15] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify [16]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhe...
[17]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniver...
[18] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop [19] http://odishan.com/?p=2534 [20] http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437
< http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615%7C+%7Camp%7C+%7Cboxid=23625437
[21]
http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary...
[22] http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/ [23] http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485 [24]
http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversa...
[25] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa [26] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa [27] http://cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote [28] http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [29] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/ [30]
http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handb...
[31] http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook [32]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers
[33]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-w...
[34]
http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disab...
[35]
http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012
[36]
http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-...
[37] http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award [38] http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award [39] https://twitter.com/cis_india [40] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [41] http://cis-india.org [42] mailto:sunil@cis-india.org [43] mailto:nishant@cis-india.org _______________________________________________ Wikihi-l mailing list Wikihi-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikihi-l
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