Content release by Odisha Government under Creative Commons license (by Sailesh Pattanaik)
Channel: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ Odia Wikipedia
Date: 2018-09-10

#Wikimania 2018 talk "One Image at a time - How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia" by Sailesh Pattanaik. This was broadcast live on Facebook from Wikimania 2018, Cape Town, South Africa. The Odisha government’s portals and social media accounts were relicensed to CC licenses because of the effort of  Odia Wikimedian’s User Group, the Centre for Internet and Society, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Manoj Kumar Mishra, Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister’s Office, made the initial effort in September 2017 which resulted in relicensing of as many as 7 websites and 8 social media accounts managed by the Odisha government under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license. Furthermore, on the Public Domain Day, a worldwide annual advocacy event to promote Public Domain, on January 1, 2018, Surendra Kumar, the principal secretary to the Odisha government released a public statement to relicense the SC & ST department website and social media content under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Over a dozen websites and verified social media accounts including the chief minister’s social media accounts are enriching Wikipedia articles with images of noted people and events that are otherwise owned by the government and shared on different platforms.

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