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September 2016 Newsletter
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 01, 2016
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last modified
Feb 06, 2017 12:51 PM
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Newsletter
Welcome to the September 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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September 2017 Newsletter
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by
Admin
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published
Sep 30, 2017
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last modified
Nov 21, 2017 03:19 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
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September 2018 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 15, 2018
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last modified
Oct 16, 2018 06:28 AM
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Internet Governance
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September 2019 Newsletter
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 30, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 04:53 AM
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Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
The newsletter for the month of September 2019.
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Services like TwitterSeva aren’t the silver bullets they are made out to be
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Sunil Abraham
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Oct 06, 2016
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Oct 06, 2016 04:31 PM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
TwitterSeva is great, but it should not be considered a sufficient replacement for proper e-governance systems. This is because there are several serious shortcomings with the TwitterSeva approach, and it is no wonder that enthusiastic police officers and bureaucrats are somewhat upset with the slow deployment of e-governance applications. They are also right in being frustrated with the lack of usability and scalability of existing applications that hold out the promise of adopting private sector platforms to serve citizens better.
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Sexual Rights, Openness and Regulatory Systems
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 19, 2010
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Apr 05, 2011 03:59 AM
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Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society is co-organising a workshop on Sexual Rights, Openness and Regulatory Systems at the Internet Governance Forum on 14 September, 2010.
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Sharing in the time of Facebook, or Why I’m not a Pirate
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Nishant Shah
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Apr 10, 2012
It is now over a month that my favourite network has been dead. Library.nu the rare space for sharing of academic resources to a free and open community has succumbed to the pressures of publishing industry stalwarts who, in their quest for promoting the knowledge industry, are killing sources through which knowledge survives.
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Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?
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Anubha Sinha
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May 29, 2019
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Jun 05, 2019 01:19 PM
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Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Timely and affordable access to scientific research remains a problem in this digital day and age. Around three decades ago, the radical response that emerged was making public-funded scientific research “open access”, i.e. publishing it on the Web without any legal, technical or financial barriers to access and use such research. Several Indian public research institutions also adopted open access mandates and built self-archiving digital tools, however, the efforts haven’t yielded much. Most countries including India, continue to struggle with implementing open access. The latest international initiative (created in Europe) to remedy this problem is Plan S. Plan S is has been positioned as a strategy to implement immediate open access to scientific publications from 2021 – which India is considering adopting.
This article unpacks the disorderly growth of open access in India, and discusses the gap between the Plan's vision and current Indian scenario in some respects.
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
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Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam
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Oct 29, 2016
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Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PM
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Openness,
Open Science,
Open Content,
Open Access
We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
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Should Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar project, for identity proof and welfare delivery, exist at all?
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 04, 2014
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Apr 14, 2014 10:27 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
The foundation of Aadhaar—a Congress flagship project to give every Indian a unique identity number and then use it to deliver services—has been under assault in the past three months.
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