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About Open Access Day
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Sep 21, 2008 02:43 PM
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Agenda
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Oct 13, 2008 12:25 PM
The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, jointly organise the first Open Access Day on the 14th of October 2008 at Tagore Hall, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Open Content and Open Access
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Oct 08, 2009 02:54 PM
Open Content (of which Open Access can be thought of as a subcategory) is that content which is freely available on the Internet with or without rights to modify or re-use it. Open content can take many manifestations from openly-licensed materials (Creative Commons, etc.), open access to scholarly literature (scientific, legal, etc.), open educational resources, to open access to the law (particularly legislations and judgments). We at CIS believe that sharing of knowledge and culture is only human.
Located in Openness / Publications
Response to the Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:05 AM — filed under: ,
Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, authored a response to the draft Open Standards Policy document published by the National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Standards
Open Standards
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 10:52 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society promotes Open Standards, i.e., standards that are technically and legally free to study, free to use, developed and managed in an open manner, with a complete implementation available to all. Open standards help all -- government and citizens, industry and consumers -- by allowing greater interoperability and choice (since they are necessary for free and open source software), greater competition, reduction in costs, and greater long-term reliability. As part of our work on Open Standards, we have been providing the comments to the Indian government's Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, and have been working as a member of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forums.
Located in Openness / Publications
Software Patents
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 09:51 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") is not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office sometimes incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law.
Located in Openness / Publications
Blog Entry The Quixotic Fight to Clean up the Web
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 23, 2012 — last modified Jan 26, 2012 08:53 PM — filed under: , , ,
The ongoing attempt to pre-screen online content won’t change anything. It will only drive netizens into the arms of criminals, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 9, Issue 04, Dated 28 Jan 2012.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Do we need the Aadhar scheme?
by Sunil Abraham — published Feb 03, 2012 — filed under: ,
"Decentralisation and privacy are preconditions for security. Digital signatures don’t require centralised storage and are much more resilient in terms of security", Sunil Abraham in the Business Standard on 1 February 2012.
Located in Internet Governance
File ICANN Analysis
by Sunil Abraham — published Mar 15, 2018
Located in Internet Governance / Files
Blog Entry Cambridge Analytica scandal: How India can save democracy from Facebook
by Sunil Abraham — published Mar 28, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
Hegemonic incumbents like Google and Facebook need to be tackled with regulation; govt should use procurement power to fund open source alternatives.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
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