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To embed a tweet or not?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Experts say it would amount to copyright infringement if the fair use clause is exploited.
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News & Media
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Law and Economy Policy Conference 2016 (LEPC - 2016)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 22, 2016
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) is organising India’s first “Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC-2016)”. The aim is to bring together legal, economic and policy thinkers to consider policy issues in a holistic manner.
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News & Media
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Tulu Wikipedia Goes 'Live' after 8 Years on Incubator
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 22, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language.
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News & Media
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“Made in India” Innovation Policy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 22, 2016
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filed under:
Patents,
Access to Knowledge
In this post they emphasize upon the need for data-driven IP policy making in India.
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 07:54 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries in Wikipedia gender gap narrowing on both local (India) and global scales.
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Blogs
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 07:55 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 21, 2016 10:13 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
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Openness
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant social change. I have also shared how anyone can contribute to the FOSS movement in different ways and celebrate SFD.
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Openness
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ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବା
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
I authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference in our lives. I have also shared a little bit about how anyone can celebrate the Software Freedom Day today by contributing to and sharing about to FOSS.
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