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The Hazards of a Non-neutral Internet
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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published
Apr 18, 2015
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last modified
May 27, 2015 04:07 PM
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filed under:
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
Spurred by recent events, India’s policy circles are dancing to the complex tunes of net neutrality. Airtel came under fire for pricing calls made over the Internet differentially; it has since withdrawn this plan. Airtel and Reliance Communications are caught in the storm as Airtel Zero and Internet.org, the Facebook-spearheaded product for low-cost Internet access, face stiff criticism for violating net neutrality. Companies like Flipkart, which earlier supported these products, have stepped back and are throwing their weight behind net neutrality. The Department of Telecommunications has set up a six-member panel to consult on net neutrality.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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The High Level Privacy Conclave
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by
Natasha Vaz
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published
Feb 22, 2012
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last modified
Mar 01, 2012 06:09 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
India in dire need of privacy law; experts say government is ironically creating huge national security risks in attempts to prevent crime and terrorism.
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Internet Governance
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The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 22, 2011
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filed under:
Openness
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News & Media
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The India Chronicles
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Oct 14, 2011 09:13 AM
Tory Read, a professional researcher, writer and journalist was commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation to create a vivid description of its work in India. This was done in the interest of transparency and to ensure that it captured lessons from this new approach. Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and some towns in Kerala — attending community meet-ups speaking with a host of individual community members in these cities. Tory has given a journalistic account and analysis, based on document review, interviews and observations conducted between November 2010 and June 2011, including 16 days in India in June 2011.The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wikimedia Foundation.
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Internet Governance
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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published
Sep 30, 2013
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filed under:
Openness
In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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Openness
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Blog
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The Infrastructure Turn in the Humanities
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 07, 2015
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 05:07 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' itself, as a 'found' name for which one needs to excavate some meaning, context, and location in India at the present moment. Instead of importing this term to describe practices taking place in this country - especially when the term itself is relatively unstable and undefined even in the Anglo-American context - what I chose to do was to take a few steps back, and outline a few questions/conflicts that the digital practitioners in arts and humanities disciplines are grappling with. The final report of this study will be published serially. This is the fourth among seven sections.
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RAW
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The International Copyright System and Access to Education: Challenges, New Access Models and Prospects for New Principles
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 01, 2012
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last modified
Jun 01, 2012 04:29 AM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
This event organised by Max Planck Institute was held in Munich, Germany on May 14 and 15, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated in this event.
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News & Media
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The Internet Has a New Standard for Censorship
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Jan 30, 2016
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect,
Censorship
The introduction of the new 451 HTTP Error Status Code for blocked websites is a big step forward in cataloguing online censorship, especially in a country like India where access to information is routinely restricted.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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The joys of being a Wikipedian
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 30, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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News & Media
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The Knowledge Base is Liberated
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by
Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil
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published
Aug 05, 2019
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
