Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of April, 2013.
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 three members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan,
Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahiand one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is
working from Bangalore office. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer (Access to
Knowledge) has resigned. April 24, 2013 was her last working day. 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 athttp://bit.ly/TOcXId.
# Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project
Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project
Pages.
# Blog Entries
Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain, April 29,
2013).
Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges (by Nitika Tandon, April 30,
2013).
Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment (by Subhashish Panigrahi, April 30, 2013).
# Event Organised
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM
College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada
Wikipedia.
# Events Co-organised
The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were
written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held
meetings with wikipedians:
Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community,
March 14, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki
Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki
Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013).
The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing
the report soon:
Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS,
Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the
Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu
Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of
Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a
talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu
Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk
about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on
April 11, 2013.
*About CIS*
CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent,
non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes
such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and
Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the
e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilitieswith ITU and
G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause?,Thinkathon Position Papers and
the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report with Hivos, etc. We have conducted
policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on
WIPO Treaties, Copyright Bill, NIA Bill, etc.
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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*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 the research
collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at
su...@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nish...@cis-india.org
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
Nitika Tandon
Program Manager
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society
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