Wikisource, Wikipedia’s free library, has launched a new language database that collects public domain books for odia speakers. Supporters are promoting the initiatives among authors and publishers, trying to engage them and contribute to expand this archive of education resources. Although odia counts, more than 40 million speakers - the majority living in the state of Odisha, India - online it’s an underrepresented language; indeed, odia’s alphabet is composed by characters that haven’t been digitized in unicode text and this is why search engines are not able to find related content online and why the project is unique. Many hard-working local volunteers of Wikisource community patiently transcribes word after word all books content, sometimes relying on optical character recognition (OCR) tools to speed their job up. Partnering with local ONG such as Pragati Utkal Sangha and the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, many volumes are already available online, but unfortunately they consist of scanned pages that prevent users from completely enjoy many features. This is what encouraged Wikisource to test this project for two years that involved important collaborations with the Wikimedia-funded Centre for INternet and Society’s Access to Knowledge and the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) to guarantee quality results. Odia Wikisource is not only a way to protect local culture; it will also allow basic education granting free access to knowledge which, together with government reform, could effectively boost Indian economy. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Tuesday, 28 October 2014 (Source: Global Voices) This news has been realized by gLAWcal—Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy and the University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy which are both beneficiaries of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) coordinated by Aix-Marseille University (CEPERC). This work has been realized in the framework of Workpackages 4, coordinated by University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy.