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September 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 29, 2015
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last modified
Nov 25, 2015 01:55 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
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Facebook’s Free Internet Access Program in Developing Countries Provokes Backlash
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 29, 2015
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
In India and Indonesia, users criticize Internet.org initiative, saying it violates the principles of net neutrality.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 27, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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Blogs
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Ahead of hosting Modi, Facebook rebrands internet.org as Free Basics
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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last modified
Oct 18, 2015 02:21 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
Hinting at what could be vital points of discussion when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, the social media giant has rebranded its internet access enabling platform Internet.org as Free Basics.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
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Blogs
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Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World : Webinar
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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last modified
Oct 04, 2015 11:09 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
On 10th September 2015, the OGP Support Unit, the Open Government Guide, and the World Bank held a webinar on “Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World” presented by Carly Nyst, Independent consultant and former Legal Director of Privacy International and Javier Ruiz, Policy Director of Open Rights Group. This is a summary of the key issues that were discussed by the speakers and the participants.
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Blog
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OCR and OER – update
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
We welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
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Blogs
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Software Freedom Pledge
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 25, 2015 12:26 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Open Content,
FOSS,
Event,
Technological Protection Measures
On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
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Openness
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Open sesame
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The government’s email is shockingly vulnerable.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
