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File Annexure 9
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2015
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
File Annexure 5
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2015
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 22, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society in association with the Wikimedia Foundation has produced a documentary film "People are Knowledge". The film evolved out of a project on Oral Citations in India and South Africa funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship, to help overcome a lack of published materials in emerging languages on Wikipedia. New Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen has directed the film, with additional assistance from Zen Marie who handled the shooting in South Africa. The film explores how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Wikipedia, documenting a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and subsequently, with oral citations.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Impaired Social Mobility
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: ,
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Open Access to International Agricultural Research
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2010 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:13 AM — filed under: ,
Open access advocates have urged the top management of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to give open access to its research publications. A report by Subbiah Arunachalam on 3 June, 2010 was also circulated to all the signatories of the letter.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Open Access to Science and Scholarship - Why and What Should We Do?
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 10, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:13 AM — filed under: ,
The National Institute of Advanced Studies held the eighth NIAS-DST training programme on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science, Technology and Society” from 26 July to 7 August, 2010. The theme of the project was ‘Knowledge Management’. Dr. MG Narasimhan and Dr. Sharada Srinivasan were the coordinators for the event. Professor Subbiah Arunachalam made a presentation on Open Access to Science and Scholarship.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Wikipedia Meet-up in TERI
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2010 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:21 PM — filed under: ,
The Wikipedia Bangalore meet-up is a monthly get-together of Wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation, Erik Möller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation and Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member attended the meeting. The Centre for Internet and Society made arrangements for this event.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Call for Comments for Report on Open Government Data in India
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 24, 2010 — last modified Mar 01, 2013 05:50 AM — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce a public call for comments on the Report on Open Government Data in India prepared by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2011 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:04 AM — filed under:
There is growing recognition that the capacity to conduct research and to share the resulting knowledge is fundamental to all aspects of human development, from improving health care delivery to increasing food security, and from enhancing education to stronger evidence-based policy making. This article by Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam was published in PLoS (Public Library of Science) on March 29, 2011.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry E-Governance Interoperability Framework — Meeting in Iraq
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2011 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:04 AM — filed under:
A meeting to create a plan of action for the development of e-Governance Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) in Iraq and include formulation of an e-GIF policy and technical document within the larger framework of public sector modernization, was held from 25 to 27 January 2011. Sunil Abraham was the main resource person for this meeting.
Located in Openness / Blog
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