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SC seeks govt reply on PIL challenging powers of IT Act
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 31, 2014
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last modified
Sep 08, 2014 04:45 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance
Section 66A of the IT Act punishes sending offensive messages through communication services, including posts on social media websites like Facebook.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 27, 2014
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last modified
Oct 06, 2014 05:09 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
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Openness
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Blog
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CIS' Comments on the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Aug 22, 2014
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last modified
Aug 22, 2014 03:46 PM
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filed under:
Openness
In July 2014, the Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India released a draft Open Access Policy. CIS participated in discussions along with experts brought on board by the Drafting Committee to develop and review the open access policy. As a follow-up, CIS prepared comments to the draft Policy. This post makes available CIS' comments to the draft Policy.
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Openness
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CIS Comments to the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Aug 22, 2014
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Openness
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Blog
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Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 22, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness,
Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the School of Cultural Texts and Records, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is organizing a two-day workshop for students at Jadavpur University on August 25 and 26, 2014.
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Openness
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Events
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Dot Bharat domain to roll out on August 21
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 19, 2014
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last modified
Sep 08, 2014 07:08 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
Web addresses are set to get multilingual in India. Soon you will be able to type in addresses in a web browser in the Devnagri script – with “dot bharat” standing in for the currently common “dot in” domain to begin with. The roll-out of the same begins on August 21.
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Access to Knowledge
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News & Media
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Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Aug 19, 2014
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research and pedagogy. This blog post examines the emergence of the phenomenon of the alt-academy in the West, and examines the nuances and possibilities of such a space in the Indian context.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
Aug 19, 2014
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last modified
Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
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Openness
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Blog
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Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part II
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Aug 14, 2014
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last modified
Aug 19, 2014 03:51 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Pervasive Technologies,
Research,
Patents
The following is a second post within a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Within this research, CIS attempts to understand how they engage with the law within their practice, particularly with respect to IP. Here we examine how these developers responded to a question on legal protection for their works.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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“OTTs Eating Into Our Revenue”: Telcos in India
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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published
Aug 07, 2014
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last modified
Sep 10, 2014 05:36 AM
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filed under:
Telecom,
TRAI, OTT
On August 5, 2014, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India organised a seminar on a regulatory framework for Over-The-Top services. This is a lay discussion of the Seminar and its focus on matters crucial to telecom, the Internet and the existing regulatory framework.
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Telecom
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Blog