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SC seeks govt reply on PIL challenging powers of IT Act
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 31, 2014 last modified Sep 08, 2014 04:45 AM — filed under: ,
Section 66A of the IT Act punishes sending offensive messages through communication services, including posts on social media websites like Facebook.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Aug 27, 2014 last modified Oct 06, 2014 05:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry CIS' Comments on the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy
by Anubha Sinha published Aug 22, 2014 last modified Aug 22, 2014 03:46 PM — filed under:
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.
Located in Openness
File CIS Comments to the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy
by Anubha Sinha published Aug 22, 2014
Located in Openness / Blog
Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 22, 2014 — filed under: , , , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / Events
Dot Bharat domain to roll out on August 21
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 19, 2014 last modified Sep 08, 2014 07:08 AM — filed under: , ,
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.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy
by Sneha PP published Aug 19, 2014 last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Blog Entry Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh published Aug 19, 2014 last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM — filed under: , , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part II
by Samantha Cassar published Aug 14, 2014 last modified Aug 19, 2014 03:51 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry “OTTs Eating Into Our Revenue”: Telcos in India
by Geetha Hariharan published Aug 07, 2014 last modified Sep 10, 2014 05:36 AM — filed under: ,
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.
Located in Telecom / Blog