Nitika Vishnu and the whole team Delighted to hear this.
I am currently in NYC and will be back in India in early December. Will pass the word around to Konkani speaking friends out if India! My next goal is working in an offline wiki for school kids in Goa. Warm regards Harriet Harriet Vidyasagar 2033 Westchester Drive SIlver Spring MD 20902 USA Cell: 1-301-442-8991 Home:1-301-649-2240 Sent from my iPhone On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Nitika Tandon <nit...@cis-india.org> wrote: > Dear All, > > Konkani Vishwakosh is now freely available to download on Goa University's > website under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. [1] > > As many of you know CIS-A2K has been following up with the University for the > past couple of months to re-relase the encyclopedia under CC. Upon CIS-A2K' > explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release to make it > freely available to public and thus preserve Konkani language and culture in > the digital era. > > This is a great achievement for the CIS-A2K Programme and we are extremely > thankful to Dr. Satish Shetye (Vice-Chancellor, Goa University) for seeing > the significance of growing open knowledge movement in Goa and Konkani. > Thanks are due to the GU faculty, specifically Prof. Alito Sequeira; Prof. > Madhavi Sardesai; Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar; and Dr. Gopakumar. A special > thanks goes to Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar, Frederick Nooronha and Seby > Fernandes for their constant support. > > If anyone would like to receive a copy of the Vishwakosh please send us a > mail off list and we'll courier a CD your way. > > Thanks > Nitika Tandon > > > [1] http://library.unigoa.ac.in/?q=node > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Konkani_Vishwakosh_CC
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