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Berlin 6 Open Access Conference
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Sanchia de Souza
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Nov 21, 2008
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The Berlin 6 Open Access conference was attended by Subbiah Arunachalam, Centre for Internet and Society Distinguished Fellow.
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Civic hackers seek to find their feet in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 03, 2011
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In 2006, when Sushant Sinha,who holds a doctorate in Internet security from the University of Michigan, tried to use the Indian government’s judicial rulings website, Judis.nic.in, he found it difficult to get the data he was looking for. “Judis.nic.in didn’t have a good text search or ability to sort results by relevance,” Sinha said. The lack of these two critical functions rendered the wealth of data on the site largely unusable.
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Cluster in collaboration with the Architects Association of Turin (FOAT) participates at the Democracy Biennial
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Sanchia de Souza
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Apr 10, 2009
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Sunil Abraham to speak at the conference 'Housing the Democratic City' in Turin, Italy
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New Project to Assess Potential of Creating Open Government Data Initiatives in Chile, Ghana and Turkey
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 13, 2010
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Steve Bratt, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation (founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee) has made an announcement on moving forward with a project to assess the potential of creating open government data initiatives in Chile, Ghana, and Turkey - the first step of what we hope to be a global initiative focusing on low- and middle-income countries.
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Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Oct 01, 2010
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Glover Wright of the Center for Internet and Society talks about Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School on 24 September 2010.
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Digitally Open: Innovation and Open Access Forum
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Prasad Krishna
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Oct 22, 2010
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Promoting Openness in Today's Digital World
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GCOS 2009
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Radha Rao
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Nov 04, 2009
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The Global Conference on Open Source, held on 26th and 27th of October, 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia was organized by AOSI (Asosiasi open Source Indonesia) and was supported by the State Ministry of Research and Technology and the Ministry Communication Information Technology.
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Highest wiki taker
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Radha Rao
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Sep 02, 2009
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Apr 02, 2011 03:04 PM
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Bangaloreans are beginning to debate if Wikipedia is a reliable source of info, reports Shweta Taneja.
TimeOut Bangalore, published an article on the upcoming WikiWars event that the Centre for Internet and Society is organising in January 2010. Nishant Shah, Director Research, was interviewed for his views and ideas about the event and the rise of Wikipedia as a global knowledge production system.
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The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad
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Prasad Krishna
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May 26, 2010
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IDRC held a panel discussion on 'The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad' on May 5, 2010 in Ottawa.
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Presentation at IDRC: ‘Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective’
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Sanchia de Souza
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Jul 03, 2009
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Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, CIS Distinguished Fellow, will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective' at IDRC, Ottawa, Canada, on 13 July 2009.
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