CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March 2020

Centre for Internet and Society
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Newsletter

March 2020

Volume 3

Women's History Month events CIS-A2K facilitated three thematic workshops with Marathi community & various organisations. The events were conducted on 5,6,7 & 8 March, in which 40+ women contributed on women's biographies, laws for women and climate change. Four books on women's issues were re-licensed and uploaded by Lek Ladki Abhiyan read more... Wiki Loves Women Tamil Editathons Tamil Wikimedians organised a series of Wikipedia events with the association of CIS-A2K. These were about creating awareness Wikipedia and Gender Gap in Indian language Wikimedia communities. Also, a discussion on the challenges faced by the students(mostly women) in contributions to Wikimedia platforms was conducted read more... Wikisource Online Contest 2020 (Kannada) CIS-A2K conducted a Wikisource online contest for Kannada community members for 15 days from 15 - 30 March 2020. This was a contest conducted to create and correct new texts. In this contest, 1,015 pages were proofread and 683 pages were validated with the help of 16 student community members.  read more... Keep me updated! If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here.