Dear Nitika,
Wikipedia Workshop Pune is also missing, it was on 18th January 2014.
Regards,
Nikhil Kawale
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Thanks for pointing that Jayanta da. Will add it to the newsletter.
Thanks
Nitika
On 24-Feb-2014, at 6:52 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
Kolkata book fair event Missing , it was stated on 19th Jan 2014 .
Jayanta
On Monday, February 24, 2014, Nitika Tandon <nitika(a)cis-india.org>
wrote:
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 Sy