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APC starts research into spectrum regulation in Brazil, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa
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Prasad Krishna
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Jun 01, 2010
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Apr 02, 2011 11:56 AM
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Telecom
Communication infrastructure is the foundation of the knowledge-based economy and while there has been a boom in the construction of undersea cables bringing potentially terabits of capacity to the African continent, the ability to deliver broadband to consumers is hampered by inefficient telecommunications markets and policies. Wireless connectivity offers tremendous potential to deliver affordable broadband to developing countries but inefficient spectrum policy and regulation means the opportunity to seize the advantages brought about by improvements in wireless broadband technologies are extremely limited.
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The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs at World Social Science Forum 2013
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2013
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last modified
Aug 28, 2013 09:19 AM
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filed under:
Habits of Living,
Digital Humanities
The World Social Science Forum 2013 organized by International Social Science Council will take place in Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada from October 13 to 15, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah is participating in the event as a panelist and will speak on "The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs".
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CIS_ODR Report_11/11/20
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by
Aman Nair
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published
Nov 11, 2020
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last modified
Mar 22, 2021 05:22 AM
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Internet Governance
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Indian surveillance laws & practices far worse than US
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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Jun 13, 2013
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 11:09 AM
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Surveillance,
Internet Governance,
Censorship,
SAFEGUARDS
Explosive would be just the word to describe the revelations by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Blog
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Announcing the dates, theme and tentative tracks for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015
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Anubha Sinha
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Mar 19, 2015
We are pleased to announce that the Global Congress will be held from 15th-17 December 2015. The theme of the 2015 Global Congress is Three Decades of Openness; Two Decades of TRIPS. The four tentative tracks include Openness, User Rights, Access to Medicines, and Intellectual Property and Development.
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Access to Knowledge
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
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by
Elisachang
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Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
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Blogs
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Rethinking Data Exchange & Delivery Models pdf
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by
Pranav M B
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published
Apr 08, 2021
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Internet Governance
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September 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2012
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last modified
Oct 09, 2012 06:48 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW,
Openness
Welcome to the newsletter of September 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features a second analysis by Snehashish Ghosh on the latest list of sites blocked by the Indian government from August 18, 2012 to August 21, 2012, a research on the issues of internet governance by Smarika Kumar, publication of a report on Accessibility of Government websites in India by Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal, the Access to Knowledge programme plan and updates from the Wikipedia community in India on Indic languages, updates from the Habits of Living workshop organised in Bengaluru, the events connected to the visits of international DNA experts, Helen Wallace and Jeremy Gruber in India, and introduce you to our Access to Knowledge team members.
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Newsletters
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Youths come forward to augment Assamese Wikisource project
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NE NOW NEWS
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published
May 21, 2019
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese Wikipedia, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available.
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News & Media
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Thank You To Our 2014 Sponsors
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Dec 22, 2014
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last modified
Dec 27, 2014 02:27 PM
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Internet Governance
Today’s the last day of work in 2014 for the editorial team at MediaNama, though we’ll run a Holiday Wire update intermittently this week, we’ll have a brief year end review for each major segment. Thank you for reading us in 2014, and have a great Christmas and New Year.
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