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Report from India: Relicensing books under CC
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 19, 2014
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last modified
May 05, 2014 09:13 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
My name is Subhashish Panigrahi. I am an educator currently working in the community and communication front at The Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K), an India-based catalyst program to grow Indic language communities for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Prior to my work at CIS, I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program, a predecessor to the current CIS-A2K project.
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Openness
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Blog
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South African Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013
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by
Divij Joshi
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published
Apr 16, 2014
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last modified
May 05, 2014 06:59 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
As the rapid spread of technology in developing countries allows exponentially increasing availability of and access to personal data through automatic data processing, governments are beginning to recognize the necessity to evolve policies addressing data security and privacy concerns.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Multimedia Storytellers: Panel Discussion
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Apr 16, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:26 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work
This post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it features: Arjun Srivathsa from Pocket Science India, Ameen Haque from the Storywallahs, and Ajay Dasgupta from The Kahani Project. They discuss technology, interpretation and action in storytelling.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
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Openness
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Blog
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Odia Loves Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odia is a 2,500 year old language native to the area of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The language has recently gained the status of an Indian classical language.
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News & Media
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‘Doing’ Digital Humanities: Reflections on a project on Online Feminism in India
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digital Humanities
A core concern of Digital Humanities research has been that of method. The existing discourse around the field of DH assumes a move away from traditional humanities and social sciences research methods to more open, collaborative and iterative forms of scholarship spanning some conventional and other not so conventional practices and spaces. In this guest blog post, Sujatha Subramanian reflects upon her experience of undertaking a research study on online feminist activism in India and its various challenges.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Animating the Archive – A Survey of Printed Digitized Materials in Bengali and their Use in Higher Education
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Digital Humanities
With the advent of digital technologies and the internet, archival practice has seen much change in its imagination and function, such as to extend its scope beyond preservation to a collaborative, open source model which facilitates new modes of knowledge production. In this blog post, Saidul Haque reflects upon his research project on a survey of digitized materials in Bengali, and some of the impediments to their use in higher education and research.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Net Neutrality, Free Speech and the Indian Constitution - I
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by
Gautam Bhatia
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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last modified
Apr 29, 2014 08:03 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
In this post, I will explore net neutrality in the context of Indian law and the Indian Constitution.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Parties give short shrift to privacy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 12, 2014
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last modified
May 05, 2014 05:54 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Both the Congress and BJP vision documents disappoint, but the real surprise is the CPI-M document that deals with cyber issues in a substantial manner.
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News & Media