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Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
Jun 22, 2014
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last modified
Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
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Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 20, 2014
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last modified
Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
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WSIS+10 High Level Event: A Bird's Eye Report
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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published
Jun 20, 2014
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last modified
Jun 20, 2014 03:57 PM
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filed under:
WSIS+10,
Privacy,
Cybersecurity,
Human Rights Online,
Surveillance,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Facebook,
Data Protection,
Multi-stakeholder,
ICANN,
Internet Access,
ITU,
Internet Studies,
E-Governance,
ICT
The WSIS+10 High Level was organised by the ITU and collaborative UN entities on June 9-13, 2014. It aimed to evaluate the progress on implementation of WSIS Outcomes from Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005, and to envision a post-2015 Development Agenda. Geetha Hariharan attended the event on CIS' behalf.
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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 18, 2014
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last modified
Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
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Research Advisory Network Meeting
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 18, 2014
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last modified
Jul 03, 2014 06:39 AM
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Internet Governance
All sessions will take place at the OECD Headquarters, located at 2 Rue André Pascal, 75016, Paris, France. Sunil Abraham is participating in the event.
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Vodafone Report Explains Government Access to Customer Data
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by
Joe Sheehan
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published
Jun 16, 2014
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last modified
Jun 19, 2014 10:38 AM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
Vodafone Group PLC, the world’s second largest mobile carrier, released a report on Friday, June 6 2014 disclosing to what extent governments can request their customers’ data.
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May 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 12, 2014
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last modified
Jul 04, 2014 04:59 AM
Our newsletter for the month of May is below:
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Yogyakarta Meeting on Open Culture and Critical Making
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 12, 2014
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last modified
Jul 03, 2014 08:57 AM
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Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Sharath Chandra Ram will be part of the ASIA LABS theme panel and will also be doing community FOSS/FOSH workshops at the Maker events at the event organized by HONF Foundation, Catec, and r0g from June 12 to 15, 2014.
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Open Data in Cultural Heritage – OpenGLAM in Germany
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 10, 2014
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last modified
Jul 28, 2014 09:49 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Access to Knowledge,
Openness
Subhashish Panigrahi took part in this event as a member of the OpenGLAM Working Group.
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WSIS +10 High Level Event: Open Consultation Process Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform: Phase Six: Fifth Physical Meeting
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Jun 01, 2014
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last modified
Oct 12, 2014 05:31 AM
The fifth physical meeting of the Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP-WSIS+10), was held from 28-31 May 2014 in Geneva as part as part of the sixth phase of the WSIS +10 High Level Event Open Consultation process. The meeting was aimed at developing draft agreed texts for the WSIS+10 Statement on Implementation on WSIS Outcomes and the Vision Beyond 2015.
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