[Wikipedia-PA] [A2K]:The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - November '12

noopur noopur at cis-india.org
Mon Dec 10 05:12:28 UTC 2012


   

Dear all, 

Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation
has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and
develop free knowledge in India. The Wikimedia Foundation's India
Program has become the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of the
Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). In this issue we bring you updates
from the Kolkata wiki community, the Odia wiki community, a report of a
workshop organized exclusively for women in Mumbai, Wikipedia hackathon
organised in Delhi and Hyderabad, and the recent news and media
coverage. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach
programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public
relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [2]. 

# CIS Office
in Delhi 

 	* The A2K team [3] consists of three members: Nitika Tandon
[4], Subhashish Panigrahi [5] and Noopur Raval [6]. Shiju Alex [7] left
the organisation. November 16 was his last working day.

# Education
Program 

 	* First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out
[8] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 30, 2012). The program was
initiated at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on
November 8, 2012.

# Workshops Organised by CIS: 

 	* Odia Wikipedia
Workshop at AML [9] (Academy of Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, November
10, 2012).
 	* Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session [10] (Bharati
Vidyapeeth, Delhi, November 19, 2012).
 	* An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at
KMBB [11] (KMBB College, Bhubaneswar, November 19, 2012).

# Workshop
Organised by Wiki Community 

 	* Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai
[12] (by Noopur Raval, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala,
Mumbai, November 4, 2012).

# Meetup Organised by CIS 

 	* Kolkata:
Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia! [13] (Kolkata, November 3, 2012).

#
Hackathon organised by CIS 

 	* A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
[14] (CIS, New Delhi, November 11, 2012).

 # Hackathon Participation 


	* Wikipedia Hackathon [15] (organised by BITS, Hyderabad, October 25 -
27, 2012).

# News and Media Coverage 

 	* 'Some Indian laws could be
challenging [16]' (by Kalyan Subramani, Bangalore Mirror, November 15,
2012)
 	* A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College
of Engineering, Bhubaneswar [17] (Sambad, November 19, 2012).
 	*
OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to
Odia Wikipedia team [18] (by Pravuprasad Routray, Orissa Diary, November
23, 2012).
 	* વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે [19] (by Harsh Kothari,
Cybersafar, November 28, 2012).

# Blog Entry 

 	* Typing in Indic
Languages from Mobiles made Easy! [20] (by Subhashish Panigrahi,
November 19, 2012).

About CIS [21]
CIS was registered as a society in
Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation,
it runs different policy research programs such as Accessibility [22],
Access to Knowledge [23], Openness [24], Internet Governance [25], and
Telecom [26]. 

_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._ 

FOLLOW US ELSEWHERE

 	* Get short, timely
messages from us on Twitter [27]
 	* Join the CIS group on Facebook
[28]
 	* Visit us at http://cis-india.org [29]

*SUPPORT US* 

 	*
Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a
cheque in favour of 'The Centre for Internet and Society' and mail it to
us at No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru - 5600
71.

-- 
Thank you, 
Best 
Noopur Raval, 
Programme Officer, 
Centre for
Internet & Society 

  

Links:
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[1]
http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan
[2]
http://bit.ly/TOcXId
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team
[4]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[5]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[6]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[7]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[8]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-to-be-rolled-out-at-iimc-dhenkanal
[9]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wiki-workshop-at-aml
[10]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/follow-up-to-wikipedia-introductory-session-at-bharati%20vidyapeeth
[11]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar
[12]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-womens-workshop-in-mumbai
[13]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia
[14]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi
[15]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hackathon-hyderabad
[16]
http://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-article-kalyan-subramani-nov-15-2012-some-indian-laws-could-be-challenging
[17]
http://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad
[18]
http://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-november-23-2012-pravuprasad-routray
[19]
http://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar
[20]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles
[21]
http://cis-india.org/
[22] http://cis-india.org/accessibility
[23]
http://cis-india.org/a2k
[24] http://cis-india.org/openness
[25]
http://cis-india.org/internet-governance
[26]
http://cis-india.org/telecom
[27] https://twitter.com/cis_india
[28]
http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/
[29]
http://cis-india.org/about/
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