Thanks for pointing that Jayanta da. Will add it to the newsletter. Thanks Nitika
On 24-Feb-2014, at 6:52 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > > Kolkata book fair event Missing , it was stated on 19th Jan 2014 . > > Jayanta > > On Monday, February 24, 2014, Nitika Tandon <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your > support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you > the details of our work for the month of January 2014: > CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs > KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for > Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a > memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta > Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS inaugurated both the > collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya > Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS > respectively whereas T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there > to sign in both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi, > Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv. > Article > > Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year > Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31, 2014): > http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r. > WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain > and Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited by > Rohini Lakshane: http://bit.ly/1jvynKP. > > Blog Entries > Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom > (by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan, January > 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD. > Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January > 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/LTFA8E. > Events Organised > > Odia WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBkFJi. > Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of Technology, > Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f. > Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, > January 15, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK > Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social > Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC. > Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, > Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy. > > Event Participated In > > The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges > (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, > February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc. > Media Coverage > CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage: > > Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4, > 2014): http://bit.ly/NBtVgz. > ‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep > Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ. Shubhadeep > interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social media. > ଆଦିବାସୀ ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odishan.com, January 12, 2014): > http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG. > KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative (India > Education Diary.com, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk. > Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha Diary > Bureau, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB. > FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia > Foundation, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz. Wikimedia Foundation > published a resolution declaring CIS eligible for funding through the Annual > Plan Grants program. > Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January > 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX. > Odia Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ePwAON. > > > Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia > movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in > Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and > Muzammiluddin Sy-------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20140224/adb4759c/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum
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