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Blog Entry Human Machine Interfaces: The History of an Uncertain Future
by Sharath Chandra Ram published Nov 30, 2012 last modified Jan 04, 2013 11:30 AM — filed under:
"Multimodal interfaces maybe re-engineered much more easily now and can transform the ways in which the physically,cognitively and sensorially disabled can access information and interact with the digital world", says Sharath Chandra Ram.
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Blog Entry Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices — Report from a One-day Workshop at TERI
by Jadine Lannon published Nov 30, 2012 last modified Dec 01, 2012 05:57 AM — filed under: ,
On October 27, 2012, the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) organised a one-day workshop on exploring the internals of mobile technologies at the TERI Southern Regional Centre in Bangalore. The workshop received more than 140 registrants, of which approximately 40 attended. In this post, Jadine Lannon explores the discussions and the developments that took place at the workshop.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft)
by Snehashish Ghosh published Nov 26, 2012 last modified Dec 01, 2012 03:36 PM — filed under: ,
The Department of Science and Technology invited public comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft). Accordingly, the Centre for Internet and Society has made the following comments on the draft policy document.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Autonomy, Access, Infrastructure and Future — A Discussion with C S Lakshmi on the SPARROW Archive
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 26, 2012 last modified Dec 05, 2012 10:22 AM — filed under: ,
What does it take to build an archive? Why build archives in the first place? What kind of challenges do archives created through independent initiatives face in terms of infrastructure, autonomy, access and futures? On Thursday, November 29, 2012, the Centre for Internet and Society and HasGeek present a Q&A session with Dr. C S Lakshmi, founder of SPARROW in Mumbai.
Located in Openness
Blog Entry An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic Engagement
by Neeta Verma, Alka Mishra and D.P. Mishra published Nov 19, 2012 — filed under: , ,
If government could release these datasets in open format for people to use & reuse, a whole lot of new innovative apps could be built around these datasets to provide better, customized services to citizens.
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Blog Entry Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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Blog Entry Statement of Civil Society Members and Groups Participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012
by Pranesh Prakash published Nov 16, 2012 last modified Dec 07, 2012 08:06 AM — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories for this submission made to the ITU on November 16, 2012.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry ICOMM2012: International Communications and Electronics Fair
by Jadine Lannon published Nov 14, 2012 last modified Dec 04, 2012 06:37 AM — filed under:
The seventh India International Communications and Electronics Fair (ICOMM2012) organized by CMAI Association of India was held at the NSIC Expo Grounds in New Delhi from September 14 to 15, 2012. Jadine Lannon attended the event, and shares us with some interesting and exciting new developments in ICT.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
by Yuvraj Pandian published Nov 11, 2012 last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them.
Located in Openness / Blog