New subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signs an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy

13 Jan 2016

Hi,

On 09th January 2016, WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community,
signed an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai.

We will collaborate with or seek support from Tamil Virtual Academy under
various domains including and starting with the following:

   - Policy initiatives for adoption of free content licenses in public
   institutions
   - Infrastructure support
   - Capacity building programs
   - Digitization of Galleries, Archives, Museums, Libraries in Tamil Nadu
   - Access to information for writing Wikipedia articles
   - Wikipedia content improvement
   - Outreach
   - Wikipedia in Education

Global Tamil Wikimedia Community approved this collaboration with
unananimous support. Full text of this MoU <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4o7x>
can be seen here.
*Tamil Virtual Academy* (TVA) is a high-profile
<http://tamilvu.org/tvateam/html/board_membersen.htm> autonomous
institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under its
Information Technology Department. TVA aims at providing Internet-based
resources and opportunities for the Tamil communities living in different
parts of the globe as well as others interested in learning Tamil, Science,
Technology, Tamil Computing software and acquiring knowledge of the
history, art, literature and culture of the Tamils and to identify,
establish, maintain and promote the solutions for the Tamil computing
requirements of Tamil Diaspora, Government, Educational, Media and Business
institution.

We believe that collaborations like these will help us set the precedent to
engage in free content advocacy works in other parts of the country.

Thanks,

Ravi