Train-the-Trainer Programme

CIS-A2K organised a four day long Train-the-Trainer programme in which Wikimedians from the South Asian Indic Language communities participated. The TTT provided much needed inter wiki connect to the Wikimedians and resulted in many interesting multilingual Wikipedia projects in Indic languages. TTT Participants were taken to Janapada Loka an organisation that serves as a museum, archive, library and as a live performance centre. This visit encouraged TTT participants to pursue similar GLAM partnerships in their own regional and cultural context.

Access to Knowledge Work Plan

CIS has prepared the India Access to Knowledge work plan (July 2015 to June 2016). The work plan consists of 18 programs across 6 verticals. These include eight programs in five language areas, two community strengthening initiatives, five stand-alone Wikimedia projects, creating movement resources, publicity, research and documentation, and general support and service to the movement.

Media Coverage

1. Train the Trainer Udayavani 2 March 2015.
2. More articles for Tulu Wikipedia Hindu 10 March 2015.
3. GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts Medianama 13 March 2015.
4. Netizens Rejoice Over SC Ruling to Keep the Net Free The New Indian Express 25 March 2015.
5. 66A DEAD. LONG LIVE 66A! The Week 28 March 2015.
6. Bangla Wiki turns 10 The Telegraph (Calcutta) 29 March 2015.

Participation in Event

1. 2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar (Organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research; Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; March 30 – April 2, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing.
2. Women’s History Month - India (Organized by CIS-A2K and Wikimedia India; India, March 2015). March 8 is International Women’s Day, and to celebrate this women in India organized edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. Online events were organized for these Wikipedias: Bengali, Punjabi, Odia, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam.

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

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 research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org.

CIS is grateful to its primary donor, Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.

This bulletin is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/March_2015

Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration,

Regards,