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Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
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Nitika Tandon
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published
Aug 31, 2013
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last modified
Sep 03, 2013 10:37 AM
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Wikipedia,
Featured,
Workshop,
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There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
Oct 22, 2012
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last modified
Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Video,
Openness
The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 29, 2012
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Jul 25, 2012 10:22 AM
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Video,
Internet Governance
Digital Empowerment Foundation, Association for Progressive Communications, Department of Information Technology and National Internet Exchange of India came together to organize an event on "Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics". This was held at Mirza Ghalib Hall, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on May 3, 2012. Pranesh Prakash was a speaker.
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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 22, 2014
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last modified
Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Video,
Openness,
Odia Wikipedia
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Dec 30, 2014
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Dec 30, 2014 01:08 AM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
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Odia Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
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Open letter to Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jul 17, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 08:28 AM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Video,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
Last month I wrote an open letter to Hillary Clinton. It was based on a presentation I that I made during a panel discussion at a Google sponsored conference titled Internet at Liberty 2012 in Washington DC on May 24, 2012.
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Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
Dec 17, 2013
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last modified
Dec 31, 2013 11:04 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Video,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
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Pranesh Prakash on the US snooping into Indian cyber space
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 15, 2013
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last modified
Jul 02, 2013 04:19 PM
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Video,
Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash, Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society, talks about the ramifications of US incursion into the privacy of Indians through cyber space. He says that Indian laws on privacy and free speech shall be applied to the web companies in India so that they actually not surrender the privacy of Indian citizens just because American law requires them to.
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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the "Right to Privacy Bill"
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by
Natasha Vaz
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published
Dec 05, 2011
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last modified
Apr 28, 2012 04:10 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Privacy India in partnership with International Development Research Centre, Canada, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the Godrej Culture Lab, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is organising "Privacy Matters", a public conference at IIT, Bombay on 21 January 2012.
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Privacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Nov 14, 2014
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last modified
Mar 08, 2015 06:26 AM
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Privacy,
Featured,
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Aadhaar,
Openness,
Open Access
The right to privacy has been articulated in international law and in some national laws. In a few countries where the constitution does not explicitly guarantee such a right, courts have read the right to privacy into other rights (e.g., the right to life, the right to equal treatment under law and also the right to freedom of speech and expression).
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