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Blog Entry Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part II)
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Apr 12, 2016 — filed under: , , , , ,
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, and each target is mapped to one or more indicators as a measure of evaluation. In this and the next blog post, Kiran AB is documenting the availability and openness of data sets in India that are relevant for monitoring the targets under the SDGs. This post offers the findings for the last 10 Goals. The first 7 has already been discussed in the earlier post.
Located in Openness
India's biometric database crosses billion-member mark
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 07, 2016 — filed under: , ,
India's biometric database notched up one billion members on Monday, as the government sought to allay concerns about privacy breaches in the world's biggest such scheme.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry Mapping MAG: A study in Institutional Isomorphism
by Jyoti Panday published Apr 03, 2016 last modified Mar 03, 2017 12:59 AM — filed under:
The paper is an update to a shorter piece of MAG analysis that had been conducted in July 2015. At that time our analysis was limited by the MAG membership data that was made available by the Secretariat. Subsequently we wrote to the Secretariat and this paper is based on the data shared by them including for the years for which membership details were previously not available.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry CIS - A2K Work Plan: July 2016 - June 2017
by Sunil Abraham published Apr 02, 2016 last modified Apr 29, 2016 09:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalyzing the growth of the free and open knowledge movement in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008. Since September 2012, we at CIS-A2K, have been actively involved in growing the movement in India through (i) a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for the period September 2012 - June 2014, (ii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2014 - June 2015 and (iii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2015 - June 2016. Based on the productive experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed this work plan for July 2016 to June 2017.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
File SSRN-id2756486.pdf
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 01, 2016 last modified Jun 20, 2016 01:51 AM
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Global Congress 2015 - A Collection of Resources
by Nisha S Kumar published Apr 01, 2016 last modified May 03, 2016 02:24 AM — filed under: ,
The 4th edition of the Global Congress 2015 was organized at the National Law School of India University in New Delhi from 15 - 17 December 2015. The largest ever in Asia, the Global Congress was jointly organized by the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) in association with National Law University, Delhi, Open A.I.R., CREATe, Columbia University and American University.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
File Nehaa Chaudhari - WIPO Initiatives - 05 March, 2016.pdf
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 31, 2016
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File Nehaa Chaudhari - NLSIU - 04 March 2016.pdf
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 31, 2016
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BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 31, 2016 last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
March 2016 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 31, 2016 last modified Apr 13, 2016 08:05 AM — filed under:
CIS Newsletter for the month of March 2016 is here.
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