“मूसलाधार बारिश से जूझ रही चेन्नई में तीसरा फ़्यूल ज़िल्ट कॉन्फरेंस 2015 सफलतापूर्वक रविवार 22 नवंबर को संपन्न हुआ। भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के लिए मानक भाषाई संसाधन और औज़ार बनाने में पिछले सात सालों से जुटी फ़्यूल परियोजना के द्वारा 2013 में आरंभ किए गए इस सम्मेलन के प्रायोजक और आयोजक दुनिया की जानी-मानी कंपनियां मोज़िला, सी-डैक और रेड हैट हैं। इसके पहले के दोनों सम्मेलन पुणे में आयोजित किए गए थे। यह सम्मेलन लोकलाइजेशन क्षेत्र का ओपन सोर्स का सबसे बड़ा सम्मेलन है।”

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja trained the people involved in the creation of the videos.

Tutorial video on starting with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubation:

Tutorial video explaining how to start with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubator:

Tutorial video explaining how to add new article to Tulu Wikipedia:

Tutorial video explaining how to type in Tulu Wikipedia:

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was invited to the office of Vijayavani, Kannada daily. Vijayavani runs a programme in which a celebrity will be invited to their office and have informal discussions with them. Later a lead article based on that discussions will be generated. The article which featured Dr. Pavanaja was published on November 16, 2015.

For more details visit http://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani

Lokmat (newspaper) covered Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha's Project news.

Read the original article in Lokmat here.

The twelfth Open Source India event organized by EFY Group was held at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore on November 19 and 20, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the event for the first day.

CIS-A2K Programme Officer Rahmanuddin Shaik visited Mangalore on October 28 and 29 and again on November 5 and 6, 2015. During his visit he interacted with Wikipedians for making the Tulu Wikipedia live.

Marathi Wikipedia media coverage in Sakaal newspaper.

 
Scanned version of the article published in Sakaal on October 28, 2015:

For more details visit http://cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1

Bloomberg News: “Besides facing hefty fines, criminal punishments and the possibility of closing, the worst emitters in China risk additional public anger as new smartphone applications and lower-cost monitoring devices widen access to data on pollution sources.

Shannon McHarg at User Experience: “Twenty years ago, Robert Putnam wrote about the rise of “bowling alone,” a metaphor for people participating in activities as individuals instead of groups that can lead to community. This led to the decline in social capital in America.

*** This blog post was written by Hazwany Jamaluddin from Sinar Project in Malaysia ***

Trade ministers from around the world are gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to work on an agreement to liberalise global trade and resolve the Doha round of trade talks.

New book byAlina Mungiu-Pippidi: “Why do some societies

The agreed text draft of the outcome document of the WSIS+10 Review has been released. The agreed text is a product of the final negotiations between Member States over the past few days. This draft will be adopted at the High Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Overall Review of the Implementation of […]

Keiran Hardy at the Mandarin (Australia): “…This post explains the open data movement and considers the benefits and risks of releasing government data as open data. It then outlines the steps taken by the Labor and Liberal governments in accordance with this trend.

Evan Hepler-Smith in the Wall Street Journal: “Sometime in the early 1950s, on a reservation in Wisconsin, a Menominee Indian man looked at an ink blot. An anthropologist recorded the man’s reaction according to a standard Rorschach-test protocol.

Anne-Marie Oostveen on 14 December 2015 at 12:46PM Apologies for this non-academic blog-post, but I wanted to thank all of my amazing colleagues, friends, and neighbours for helping out the refugees in Calais. The crowd-funding page reached over a £1000! People have also donated food and clothes, which we distributed in the camps last week. On te 7th of December I set off with 4 […] [...]

his post was written by Arianit Dobroshi

Kosovo is ranked 35th in the 2015 Open Knowledge Global Open Data Index , down from 31st place in last year’s measurement and marked as 43% open. In South East Europe, Albania ranked 37th and Macedonia, 69th. Others, such as Serbia and Bosnia, have not been scored since they did not submit all datasets to this year’s Index.

The drop in ranking is due to three reasons:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren wird im
Sommersemester 2016
gemeinsam mit Herrn RA Rüdiger Schäfer ein Seminar veranstalten zu dem Thema:
„Medienprivatrecht“
Die Vorbesprechung und Themenvergabe für das Seminar findet am 12.01.2016, 17.00 Uhr s.t. im Arbeitsraum des ITM (3. OG links) statt. Nur Teilnehmer der Vorbesprechung können als Teilnehmer für das Seminar berücksichtigt werden.
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DGPuK Award for Journal Article on Media Change

Am Mittwoch, den 9. Dezember 2015, besuchte der Abgeordnete des EU-Parlaments Jan Philipp Albrecht die Vorlesung Datenschutzrecht im Rahmen des Schwerpunktbereichs Internet-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht (ITM). Er folgte damit einer Einladung von Prof. Dr. Franziska Boehm. Albrecht sitzt seit 2009 für die Grünen im Europäischen Parlament und ist dort unter anderem als Berichterstatter für die Datenschutzgrundverordnung verantwortlich, die in Kürze verabschiedet werden soll.