Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (Announcement) Recruitment of Programme Officer, CIS-A2K

Just a comment . "free knowledge" or "free and open knowledge" are the usual terms used by wmf and movement in general . the term open knowledge movement may be misleading because it is the current legal name of open knowledge foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge OKF or okfn.org have an Indian consultant and plans to set up an india office soon. Anivar On 01-Nov-2014 3:20 pm, "Vishnu" <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > Sorry for cross-posting. > > The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the > post of Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships) for its Access to > Knowledge (A2K) Programme. The position will be based in its Bangalore > office. Programme Officer will collaboratively work with the A2K Team and > would report to the Programme Director, Access to Knowledge at CIS. > > Position Summary: > > As Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships) your job will be to > collaborate with institutions especially in the higher education sector to > drive and support the growth of open knowledge movement in India and Indian > language Wikipedias and its sister projects. Your primary responsibility > will be to assimilate the work started by CIS-A2K through various > institutional partnerships during the last 15 months. You are also expected > to research, design and implement different pilot projects with an aim to > create high quality content and cultivate new editors on different language > Wikipedias in a time bound manner. > > In addition to this you will be anchoring the development and growth of > at least one Indian language Wikipedia and its sister projects. You are > encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K Work Plan before making the > application. > > You will work cohesively with the Wikimedia community, the Wikimedia > India Chapter, the Wikimedia Foundation and like-minded institutions to > meet specific goals of each language Wikimedia community in India. You will > be a part of a small team of 5 to 6 doing high visibility and high impact > work. You should be open to work in a highly transparent and accountable > environment. > > For more details see this link [1]. The last date of submitting > applications is November 14, 2014. > > Best, > Vishnu > CIS-A2K > > [1] http://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >