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Design and the Open Knowledge Movement
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Saumyaa Naidu
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published
Mar 31, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 12:13 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Featured,
Design,
Openness,
Education,
Homepage
With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.
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Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki Way
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Mar 07, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 01:18 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Homepage
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. The work was started by Jal Biradari, TBS’s Maharashtra based group, in Sangli district with the help of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team of CIS. Here is the report from the first pilot workshop conducted by CIS-A2K during 22-25 December 2018 at Tarun Bharat Sangh Ashram, in Alwar, Rajasthan.
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen
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by
Jayanta Nath
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published
Apr 10, 2019
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last modified
Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Featured,
Wiki-librarian speak,
Wikisource
There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.
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Privacy Protection Bill, 2013 (With Amendments based on Public Feedback)
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Jun 30, 2013
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 10:50 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
SAFEGUARDS,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
In 2013 CIS drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with FICCI and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India.
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Blog
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Framing the Digital AlterNatives
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by
Nilofar Ansher
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published
Apr 04, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:28 PM
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Featured,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
They effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native.
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Smart Cities in India: An Overview
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Dec 21, 2015
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last modified
Jan 11, 2016 01:30 AM
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Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance
The Government of India is in the process of developing 100 smart cities in India which it sees as the key to the country's economic and social growth. This blog post gives an overview of the Smart Cities project currently underway in India. The smart cities mission in India is at a nascent stage and an evolving area for research. The Centre for Internet and Society will continue work in this area.
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Blog
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National Compendium of Laws, Policies, Programmes for Persons with Disabilities
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by
Nirmita Narasimhan
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published
Jan 03, 2016
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last modified
Feb 05, 2016 02:16 AM
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Featured,
Accessibility
This compendium was compiled by the Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. Prasanna Kumar Pincha, Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, has written the Foreword.
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Blog
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Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
May 22, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:46 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2015_mhm). The first draft of the chapter will be shared by mid-August 2015.
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Joining the Dots in India's Big-Ticket Mobile Phone Patent Litigation (Updated)
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
May 31, 2015
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last modified
May 06, 2018 03:51 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
An analysis of the significant commonalities and differences in various big-ticket lawsuits in India over the alleged infringement of mobile device patents.
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Studying the Emerging Database State in India: Notes for Critical Data Studies (Accepted Abstract)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 02, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Research,
Featured,
Aadhaar,
Researchers at Work,
E-Governance
"Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by 'Big Data.' Rather than treat Big Data as a scientifically empirical, and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that data should be seen as always-already constituted within wider data assemblages." The Big Data and Society journal has provisionally accepted a paper abstract of mine for its upcoming special issue on Critical Data Studies.
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