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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Openness,
FOSS
Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
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Openness
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Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device Patents
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Sep 14, 2016
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last modified
Sep 10, 2017 03:19 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Patents,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
In India, if a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a compulsory license, and if the patent is not adequately worked within two years of the grant of such a compulsory license, it may be revoked. In order to provide the public with information about patent working, India requires every patentee to file an annual statement on “Form 27” describing the working of each of its issued Indian patents. We conducted the first comprehensive and systematic study of all Forms 27 filed with respect to mobile devices. We tried to empirically establish the extent to which patentees and licensees comply with the statutory requirement to declare information about the working of their patents.
Research assistance was provided by interns Anna Liz Thomas and Nayana Dasgupta.
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Blogs
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Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed?
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Sep 12, 2016
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last modified
Sep 17, 2016 02:15 PM
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filed under:
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership,
Access to Knowledge
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Making Telugu Suitable for Internet
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
Sep 06, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.
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Blogs
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Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 01, 2016
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last modified
Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Event
Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
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A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates
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by
Pavan Santhosh
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published
Aug 31, 2016
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last modified
Sep 12, 2016 03:01 PM
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filed under:
Telugu Wikisource,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Telugu Wikipedia
Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates.
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Openness
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3 Copyright Tips for Students and Educators
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 31, 2016
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last modified
Oct 07, 2016 12:42 AM
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Copyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy. How do you know what is copyrighted? Recently Frederico Morando (Creative Commons, Italy) and I presented a training session on understanding copyright policies at Wikimania 2016, which was originally proposed by Wikipedian User:Jim Carter. We covered topics such as fundamentals of copyright, exclusive rights, Berne convention, copyleft, Creative Commons licenses, Public Domain, fair use, and copyfraud.
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Blogs
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Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses
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by
Pavan Santhosh S. & Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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last modified
Sep 20, 2016 12:43 PM
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filed under:
Telugu Wikisource,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia
A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
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Openness
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Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email service
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Jaipur based Enterprise email provider Data Xgen Technologies has launched a paid email service in Hindi Devnagari script. This is especially for .bharat domain names, but can also be used for other domains. As of now, the company offers email packages starting at Rs 99, Rs 499, Rs 999 and Rs 1,499, which look like monthly plans.
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News & Media
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Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.
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