Sending again. Just FYI
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SUBJECT:
[A2K]: Bulletin - September '12
DATE:
Tue, 23 Oct
2012 12:13:55 +0500
FROM:
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Dear all,
Here is the September bulletin with updates from
the Access to Knowledge programme supported by a grant from the
Wikimedia Foundation.
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:
# Access to Knowledge
Programme [1]
* The Wikimedia Foundation's India Program has become
the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme of CIS.
# CIS Office in Delhi
* The A2K team [2] consists of four members: Nitika Tandon [3],
Shiju Alex [4], Subhashish Panigrahi [5] and Noopur Raval [6].
#
Statistical Report
* Indic Language Wikipedias - Statistical Report
[7] (January - June 2012) (by Shiju Alex). The data for this report and
analysis are based on the statistical data published at
http://stats.wikimedia.org [8].
# Wikipedia Workshops
NOTE: Although
most of these workshops were conducted prior to the grant period, the
reports for all of these were written during September, hence we are
featuring these:
* The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop [9] (by
Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).
* Punjabi
Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala [10] (by Shiju Alex
and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 28, 2012).
* Punjabi Wikipedia
Workshop at Amritsar [11] (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi,
September 30, 2012).
* Wikipedia Workshop in British Library,
Chandigarh [12] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).
*
Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University [13] (Tumkur, Karnataka,
September 15, 2012).
* Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad! [14] (by Noopur
Raval, September 30, 2012). There was coverage in the Hindu [15] on
September 28, 2012.
# Blog Entry
* Editor Growth & Contribution
Program on Telugu Wikipedia [16] (by Nitika Tandon, September 29,
2012).
About CIS [17]
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 [18], Access
to Knowledge [19], Openness [20], Internet Governance [21], and Telecom
[22].
_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 [23]
* Join the CIS group on Facebook
[24]
* Visit us at http://cis-india.org [25]
Thanks & Regards
Noopur
Raval
Consultant - Communications
Access to Knowledge Team,
The Centre
for Internet & Society,
G 15, Top floor
Behind Hauz Khas, G Block
Market
Hauz Khas,
New Delhi 110016
Ph: + 91 11 26536425
Links:
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[1]
http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team
[3]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-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/openness/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-jan-june-2012
[8]
http://stats.wikimedia.org
[9]
http://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop
[10]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-punjabi-university-patiala
[11]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-amritsar
[12]
http://cis-india.org/openness/report-of-the-wikipedia-workshop-in-british-library
[13]
http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-tumkur-university
[14]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hyderabad-report
[15]
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece
[16]
http://cis-india.org/openness/editor-growth-and-contribution-on-telegu-wikipedia
[17]
http://cis-india.org/
[18] http://cis-india.org/accessibility
[19]
http://cis-india.org/a2k
[20] http://cis-india.org/openness
[21]
http://cis-india.org/internet-governance
[22]
http://cis-india.org/telecom
[23] https://twitter.com/cis_india
[24]
http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/
[25]
http://cis-india.org/about/
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