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.
Follow us elsewhere
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CISA2K
CIS group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
Visit us at:
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