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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation registered in India that works in different areas such as accessibility, openness, internet governance, telecom, research, Etc. The organisation's official website may be seen at cis-india.org. Annual reports of the Centre for Internet and Society may be seen here.
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS[1] is dedicated to supporting and serving Indian Wikimedia projects and the communities. In the last few years CIS-A2K has worked towards creating sustainable programs and building community capacity. The primary objectives of CIS-A2K are:
- supporting and serving the Indian Wikimedia communities in all possible ways
- building institutional partnerships.
- bringing more content under free license
- designing and executing projects with community participation.
- strengthening the Wikimedia volunteers.
- fostering and enabling an appropriate legal and technological ecosystem.
Proposal overview edit
1. Please provide a brief description of your organisation's work in the upcoming funding period.
The Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge is submitting the work-plan for the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020. Our plans and programs may be divided into the following verticals:
- in Content Enrichment, we are proposing activities like Edit-a-thons, Wikisource activities, Wikidata workshops, Photowalks etc,;
- in Skill Development Initiatives, we are proposing activities like Train-the-Trainer, MediaWiki Training, and Wikidata workshop;
- In Partnership, we are proposing activities like content donation, Global engagement-related activities, bridging gender gap initiatives and
- In Leadership, we are proposing activities like Wikisource Conference, Wikimedia Summit India, Intensive Personal Wiki Training etc.
In this work-plan year CIS-A2K will continue its transition from Focused Language Area (FLA) to Focused Project Area (FPA).
- Focused Language Area: Focused Language Area is an approach of CIS-A2K, where we work with a community with all its projects and activities. In other words, CIS-A2K supports all wiki-activities of particular language community. So far Kannada, Konkani, Odia, Marathi, Tulu, Telugu have been our FLAs.
- Focused Project Area: Focused Project Area or FPA is an approach of CIS-A2K introduced in 2018–2019 work-plan where CIS-A2K mainly focuses on projects. In 2018–2019 CIS-A2K collaborated with Punjabi Wikimedians, and our focused projects for Punjabi Wikimedians were Punjabi mostly Wikisource and Institutional Partnership. In the same year, we increased our support towards Wikisource communities in India, appointed a Wikisource project advisor, and conducted and supported several Wikisource project events.
In addition to our activities this year our focused projects will be
- Wikisource and
- Wikidata
and we'll plan programs and activities accordingly. We will focus on these two projects as based on our interaction with Indian Wikimedia community members, we have found several Indic Wikimedia communities want further support and focus in these projects. CIS-A2K earlier put some effort to support these projects, and this work-plan year we will put more effort.
CIS-A2K will continue working towards creating an inclusive Wiki atmosphere in the Indian sub continent. With emphasis on creating safe spaces, promoting gender gap bridging activities A2K team would like to work with all the Indian communities, projects and individuals with interesting ideas and for the overall development of Wikimedia movement. Bridging gender gap will remain as a primary focus of CIS-A2K. We'll try ensure at least 25% female participants in all the events conducted by CIS-A2K. We'll conduct a quarterly audit, and present the report in our newsletters.
2. Name, fiscal year, and funding period
- Legal name of organisation: The Centre for Internet and Society
- Organisation's fiscal year: 1 April – 31 March
- 12-month funding period requested: 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020
- Currency requested: Indian rupee (INR)
- Name of primary contact: User:Tito (CIS-A2K) (tito
cis-india.org) - Executive director of the organisation: Sunil Abraham (sunil cis-india.org)
3. Amount requested
| Currency requested (INR) | US$ | |
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| Total expenses for the upcoming year | Example | |
| APG funding requested for the upcoming year | 15,042,000 | to be converted |
| Amount of funding received from WMF for the current year | 14,888,963 | 223,334.445 |
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4. How does your organization know what community members and contributors to online projects need or want? Does your organization conduct needs assessments or consult the contributors and volunteers most involved with its work?
CIS-A2K conducts an extensive community consultation before writing a work-plan. This year CIS-A2K conducted a community consultation, in which 56 Indian Wikimedians shared their views and suggestions. Apart from this Needs Assessment conducted by CIS-A2K other mechanisms to collect suggestion from Indic Wikimedians:
- IRC, national-level or language/project IRC's conducted by CIS-A2K (Examples: 1, 2)
- Feedback forms specific to initiatives and events organised by CIS-A2K
- Community evaluation, detailed community evaluations submitted by community members
- 1-to-1 conversation with Indic Wikimedians, our program person are in regular contact with Indic Wikimedians and the interactions help to understand the need of the communities
5. Please provide a link to your organization's strategic plan, and a link to your separate annual plans for the current and upcoming funding periods if you have them.
CIS-A2K's strategy for 2018–2020 may be seen here (and strategy for 2016–2018) may be seen CIS-A2K/Strategic plan June 2016 - July 2018. CIS-A2K's 2018–2019 work-plan may be seen here (and community discussion around annual plan)
Annual plan summary edit
1: CIS-A2K strategy CIS-A2K's strategy for 2018–2020 may be seen here (and strategy for 2016–2018) may be seen here). CIS-A2K's 2018–2019 work-plan may be seen here (and community discussion around annual plan)
CIS-A2K will continue to serve Indian Wikimedia communities following our strategy plan of 2018–2020. Our main strategies to engage Wikimedia and other free knowledge communities in India:
- Content Enrichment: Content in Indian languages is directly proportional to the popularity of the subject. As popularity drives the content there is inherent bias, lack of rigour and easy assumptions. A2K would aim to work towards defining and developing strategies that embody the values of NOPV, Verifiability and is of help to readers.
- Sustainable Partnerships: While there have always been champions who have tirelessly espoused a cause, these initiatives are often one time movements and lose steam due to the apathy of general public and non-cooperation of the civil society. A2K team would like to establish partnerships with educational and research institutions and developmental organisations which will provide anchor, leadership and support for the Wikimedia movement in the Indian subcontinent.
- Create Inclusive movement practices: While the internet is still to be democratised in a real sense, the politics of access to internet is already visible in the Indian subcontinent. It is also visible in the way Open Knowledge Networks are operational and influenced in the Indian context. A2K would like to play a lead role in creating inclusive spaces for all contributors celebrating diversity.
Wikimedia Strategy 2030 and CIS-A2K Strategy 2020–2022: In this work-plan year CIS-A2K would conduct a detailed needs-assessment involving participants from all Indic Wikimedia communities, and like-minded organisation before preparing CIS-A2K strategy 2020–2022. CIS-A2K will also closely follow the development in the Wikimedia movement strategy 2020–2022. Our next strategy document will surely reflect the recommendations and activities of the larger Wikimedia movement vision and program strategy.
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2: Programme Overview
Introduction
India is a culturally diverse country with over 122 major languages and 1,599 other languages. With the country’s ancient history and world class cultural values we believe that we have a responsibility to grow our languages digitally, and reanimate cultural heritage for new and diverse people. In India there are more than 23 languages Wikimedia communities. CIS-A2K is committed to serve Indic-language Wikimedia communities in all possible ways (financial, non financial and tech support).
Priorities for 2019–2020
CIS-A2K priorities for 2019–2020 work-plan year are:
- Build on our earlier works: In the previous years CIS-A2K has conducted and supported several programs and initiatives which are well-received by the communities. This year we'll continue programs such as Train-the-Trainer, MediaWiki Training, Wikimedia Summit (India), regional workshops on different Wikimedia projects.
- Focus Project Area: Doing the analysis of the needs-assessment we conducted before writing this work-plan, and also from our interactions with the members of different Indic Wikimedia communities, we have understood the importance of provide dedicated support to Wikidata and Wikisource. In the past couple of years we saw rapid and consistent growth in these two projects in India. Wikisource and Wikidata will be our focused project area in this year.
- Invest on Ideas: In the previous years CIS-A2K has collaborated with different Indic Wikimedians and supported interesting programs and activities with long-lasting impact such as Bengali proofreading contest, Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2018, Women's TTT 2019, SVG Translation Campaign 2019 in India, Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India), TWLCon (2019 India. CIS-A2K will continue investing in such ideas which help to improve Wikimedia projects, strengthen communities, boost reach/readership and improve retention.
- Events with followup plans: Following Wikimedia Foundation's guidelines and CIS-A2K's strategy, we'll discourage one-time event/interventions. We'll give more priority the plans and programs which have detailed followup plans.
- Global engagement: CIS-A2K will support and promote the important global initiatives which are crucial in the Indian context such as Wikipedia Asian Month, Women in Red, Wiki Loves Monument etc.
- Indian Wikimedians' Global Engagement: It is important that experienced and hard-working Indian Wikimedians participate in global and important Wiki-events. This does not only help the Wikimedians to improve their skill, they also get an opportunity to share their expertise with others in a global platform. This year CIS-A2K will continue to provide such support, specially in an attempt to ensure more Indian participation in Wikimania, we'll support 2 Indic Wikimedians' Wikimania participation. We'll ensure at least 1 of the participants is a female. The selection will be transparent way, for Wikimania we'll get the "waiting nominations from India" from Wikimania committee, and will select top 2 participants. Any other such support will surely be followed by detailed and open community discussion.
- Research work: The Centre for Internet and Society is an internet research organisation. A2K program has sometimes been criticised for not able to properly utilise the research expertise of CIS. Based on the feedback and suggestions we have received from WMF and CIS senior management team, this year we would like to dedicate more time, effort and resources on research work related to Indic Wikimedia projects, community health, and specially bridging gender gap. This will not only result in direct research papers, we'll also provide support Indic Wikimedians in their Wiki-research work.
Goals:
CIS-A2K's primary goals are:
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Program I: Content Enrichment
Creation of high-quality content has been a very top priority of CIS-A2K's work-plan and strategy. It is our responsibility to improve content on Indic Wikimedia projects. We will conduct and support a series of Wiki-events which will help to produce quality-content in different Indic Wikimedia projects. We will continue to scale up earlier initiatives and projects that resulted in improving content and quality on Wikipedia projects across the country and will collaborate with groups of varied backgrounds to encourage diversity. We will conduct at least 2 national-level edit-a-thons. We will also conduct/support project-specific edit-a-thons such as Karnataka Rajyotsava edit-a-thon.
We will continue and further improve Resource Exchange Program which has been helpful for Indic Wikimedians to create and improve Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content. We will collaborate with like-minded organisations and thematic groups working on various social, legal, and cultural aspects and conduct different events to generate content in order to bridge gender gap.
CIS-A2K will continue work with educational institutions such as Christ University, Bangalore, and VVIT, Andhra Pradesh and involve the students of the institutions in different Wiki-activities that will result in quality content-creation. In addition to the two mentioned institutions we'll collaborate with at least 2 more educational institutions.
Program II: Skill-development
Skill-development initiatives and activities are crucial to empower Wikimedia communities. CIS-A2K, on a regular basis receive a large number of requests to conduct and support skill development initiatives. In the upcoming year CIS-A2K will conduct events like:
- Train-the-Trainer, Train the Trainer (TTT) is a residential workshop that attempts to groom leadership skills among Indian Wikimedia community members. TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. This year in an attempt to further improve the event, at this iteration of the workshop, CIS-A2K would like to ensure participation of at least four Wikimedians from neighbouring countries, including Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. There will be around 25 participants in the workshop and in our continuous attempt to bridge the gender gap, we will ensure at least 25% participation of female Wikimedians.
- Zonal workshops: In the previous years, CIS-A2K has conducted several regional workshops with specific communities, on specific Wiki-related topics. Mini-TTT, and mini-MWT are follow-up events of TTT and MWT. We conducted focused regional workshops on copyright and free licenses in Delhi, and Bangalore (for Wikimedians in South India). We also conducted regional Wikisource training in Patiala, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore. In the upcoming year, CIS-A2K plans to continue organising such regional workshops. CIS-A2K will conduct four zonal workshops (North, East, West, and South zones), and we will include different topics related to Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Other than these main zonal workshops, CIS-A2K will conduct/support a minimum of six more workshops for different Wikimedia communities (state-level and language specific).
- Wiki Advanced Training, Wiki Advance Training (WAT) is a residential workshop with the goal of providing Advance training on specific Wikimedia projects. In July 2018, CIS-A2K conducted the first iteration of Wiki Advance Training in Ranchi, Jharkhand, with advanced training for Wikipedia (content creation). This year, CIS-A2K would like to conduct the second iteration of WAT with advance training for Wikisource. Different topics related to Wikisource editing, proofreading, templates, gadgets, and tools will be discussed during this workshop. We expect the participation of around 20 active Wikisource contributors, from different Indian communities.
- MediaWiki Training and Hackathon, MediaWiki Training is a training program that trains topics related MediaWiki environment, extensions, phabricator, bug fixes and patches etc. This year CIS-A2K will conduct MWT with more hackathon and hands' on component. CIS-A2K, is in communication with Wikimedia Foundation's technical team, and we will seek their input for this event.
'Program III: Partnership
Program IV: Leadership
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3: Budget
Please see the last year's budget here
| Line item number | Budget Head | FDC(INR) | FDC(USD) | Comments/Explanation |
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Conversion rate:  1 → US$ 0.01408
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| 1.1 | Program Director | 192,000 | 2,703 | 20% of Program Director's remuneration has been shown in Program Expenses |
| 1.2 | Program Manager | 720,000 | 10,138 | 60% of Program Director's remuneration has been shown in Program Expenses |
| 1.3 | Program Officer (Communications & Documentation) | 540,000 | 7,603 | |
| 1.4 | Research officer | 840,000 | 11,827 | |
| 1.5 | Wikisource Advisor | 504,000 | 7,096 | |
| 1.6 | Wikidata Advisor | 456,000 | 6,420 | |
| 1.7 | Community Advocates | 1,480,000 | 20,838 | Community Advocates for Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu. This year CIS-A2K will further transit from FLA to FPA |
| 1.8 | Program Associate (Education program, cohorts, Metrics and Quarry Support) | 420,000 | 5,914 | |
| 1.9 | Research Intern (Bridging Gender Gap) | 336,000 | 4,731 | |
| 1.10 | Consultant: Tech Support | 540,000 | 7,603 | |
| 1.11 | Volunteer support | 1,200,000 | 16,896 | |
| 1.12 | Staff travel | 250,000 | 3,520 | |
| 1.13 | Events (includes Workshops and meet-ups) | 1,200,000 | 16,896 | |
| 1.14 | Digitization | 180,000 | 2,534 | |
| 1.15 | Skill building | 600,000 | 8,448 | |
| 1.16 | General Service & Support to the movement | 720,000 | 10,138 | |
| 1.17 | Creating movement resources | 200,000 | 2,816 | |
| 1.18 | Miscellaneous | 120,000 | 1,690 | |
| 1.19 | Indian Wikimedians' Global Engagement | 520,000 | 7,322 | |
| 1.20 | CIS-A2K members Global Engagement | 280,000 | 3,942 | |
| Program Expenses Sub-total | 11,298,000 | 159,076 | ||
| 2.1. | Program Director | 768,000 | 10,813 | 80% of Program Director's Salary has been shown in Operational Expenses |
| 2.2. | Program Manager | 480,000 | 6,758 | 40% of Program Manager's Salary has been shown in Operational Expenses |
| 2.3 | Finance Officer | 696,000 | 9,800 | |
| 2.4. | Institutional development | 1,500,000 | 21,120 | |
| 2.5 | Equipment's and consumables (with license) | 300,000 | 4,224 | |
| Operational Expenses sub-total | 3,744,000 | 52,716 | ||
| Total | 15,042,000 | 211,791 | ||
Metrics edit
Table 3
- Participants: The number of people who attend your events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.
- Newly registered: The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project. These include users who register up to two weeks before the start of the event.
- Content pages: A content page is an article on Wikipedia, an item on Wikidata, a content page on Wikisource, an entry on Wiktionary, and a media file on Commons, etc. This metric captures the total number of content pages created or improved across all Wikimedia projects.
- Footprint tracker: CIS-A2K team would like to continue withe the "Footprint tracker" metric. This metric is useful to understand active Wiki-communities, locations with frequent Wiki-engagements, and identify institutional partners for supporting active Wiki-communities. It helped CIS-A2K understand its reach over current plan period, and address concerns of not engaging non-FLA communities.
This metric will track the number of outreach events that are organised by Indic Wikimedians with our support. This metric will be able to provide insights to support Wikimedia projects by local bodies and interest shown by communities. Further this metric will help in devising efficient follow-up mechanisms and will avoid 'reinventing the wheel' regarding social events and needs assessment. A2K team would only count one footprint per city per project irrespective of the frequency of follow-up event or multiple venues for the event. This metric would utilise the geograpical distribution of Wikimedians in India and also provide an excellent opportunity for participants of TTT to expand the reach of Wikimedia projects in their communities. - Gender ratio or Diversity: CIS-A2K would like to introduce a new metric called Gender ratio or Diversity. This metrics calculates the ratio of male and female participation in the event conducted by CIS-A2K. Over-all CIS-A2K would like to ensure at least 25% female participation in total.
Program Participants Newly registered Content pages 'Footprint tracker' 'Gender ratio or Diversity' Content Enrichment 1,500 450 8,500 8 Skill Development 450 100 1,600 7 Partnerships Development 1,800 500 11,700 6 Leadership Development 550 250 2,500 2 TOTAL FOR ALL PROGRAMS 4,300 1,300 24,300 23
Table 3 notes:
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- ↑ The program is called CIS-A2K. Short form of The Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge.