Dear Anivar, Noopur and the Wikipedia Community,

We are extremely sorry for sending a Word attachment. We will send this out as e-mail as we usually do, and additionally provide you a link of the newsletter uploaded on our website. Apologies once again for this mistake.

The newsletter can now also be accessed on our website (http://bit.ly/Zw6R0h).

Thanks,
Prasad

Dear All,

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 of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.

The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

# Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project

# Events Organised

 # Events Co-organised

# Upcoming Event (Co-organised)

# Events Participated In

# Event Report from Other Organisations

Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.

# Media Coverage

*About CIS*
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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 from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award.

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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
Prasad


On 15-04-2013 19:40, Anivar Aravind wrote:
Dear Noopur

I request you to not send documents encoded in secret proprietary format.  If you
want me to read the attached document, please resend it in a free document
standard such as txt, html, odf, rtf, pdf in that order of preference. We just
passed celebrating Document freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org/ )
 As a known endorser of Open standards and FOSS , I hope CIS will assure all its
employees will follow the same principles.

polluted digital environment with secret, private and proprietary digital
documents and force other people to live in a dangerous ecosystem.
I request you to please resend it in a free document format .
Thank you for understanding.  Join us in the campaign to create a humane
digital society.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html


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