Dear
all,
We
from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for
your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We
bring you the details of our work for the month of January 2014:
CIS-A2K,
KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs
KIIT
University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for
Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have
entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia
Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS
inaugurated both the collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani
Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating
Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS respectively whereas
T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there to sign in
both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi,
Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv.
Article
- Odia
Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten
Year Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31,
2014): http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r.
- WikiSangamotsavam
2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain and
Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited
by Rohini Lakshane: http://bit.ly/1jvynKP.
Blog Entries
- Wikipedia
Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom
(by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu
Vardhan, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD.
- Wikipedia
at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January 29,
2014): http://bit.ly/LTFA8E.
Events
Organised
- Odia
WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBkFJi.
- Introductory
talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of
Technology, Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f.
- Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, January 15, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK
- Odia
Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC.
- Odia
Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication,
Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014):
http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy.
Event Participated In
- The
Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and
Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk:
http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc.
Media Coverage
CIS
gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
- Digitising
contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4,
2014): http://bit.ly/NBtVgz.
- ‘With
Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep
Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ.
Shubhadeep interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social
media.
- ଆଦିବାସୀ
ଭାଷାର
ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
(Odishan.com,
January 12, 2014):
http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG.
- KIIT
University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative
(India Education Diary.com, January 20, 2014):
http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk.
- Odisha:
KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha
Diary Bureau, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB.
- FDC
recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia
Foundation, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz.
Wikimedia Foundation published a resolution declaring CIS eligible
for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.
- Tech-savvy
students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January
31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX.
- Odia
Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ePwAON.
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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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 or Nishant Shah, Director
– Research, at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on
Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme
Director, A2K, at vishnu@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