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Blog Entry Letter to Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Advocating Adoption of FOSS in State IT Academies
by Sanchia de Souza published May 19, 2009 last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society is a signatory to a letter being sent to the Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, advocating the adoption of FOSS at state IT academies.
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Blog Entry The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
by Pranesh Prakash published Oct 04, 2008 last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:02 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
On Saturday, October 4, 2008, the Centre for Internet and Society, with the support of eighteen other organization, held a meeting on the National Public Meeting on Software Patents in the United Theological College campus. The aim of the event was to explore various issues surrounding software patents, especially from the perspective of the draft Patent Manual.
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Blog Entry Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09
by Pranesh Prakash published Nov 30, 2009 last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.
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Blog Entry Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net
by Radha Rao published Dec 08, 2009 last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM — filed under:
The Centre For Internet and Society and JAAGA organised a CC Salon on 02nd December, 2009 at 7.30pm.
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Blog Entry Openness, Videos, Impressions
by Nishant Shah published Dec 28, 2009 last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of Open Video. Nishant Shah, who participated in the conversations, was invited to summarise the impressions and ideas that ensued in the day.
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Blog Entry Impaired Social Mobility
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 22, 2010 last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: ,
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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Blog Entry Open Access to International Agricultural Research
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 15, 2010 last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:13 AM — filed under: ,
Open access advocates have urged the top management of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to give open access to its research publications. A report by Subbiah Arunachalam on 3 June, 2010 was also circulated to all the signatories of the letter.
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Blog Entry Civic Hacking Workshop
by Pranesh Prakash published Jul 28, 2010 last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:14 AM — filed under: , , ,
CIS, with the UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement, and Google India, is organizing a workshop on open data (or the lack thereof) and 'civic hacking'.
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Blog Entry Open Access to Science and Scholarship - Why and What Should We Do?
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 10, 2010 last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:13 AM — filed under: ,
The National Institute of Advanced Studies held the eighth NIAS-DST training programme on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science, Technology and Society” from 26 July to 7 August, 2010. The theme of the project was ‘Knowledge Management’. Dr. MG Narasimhan and Dr. Sharada Srinivasan were the coordinators for the event. Professor Subbiah Arunachalam made a presentation on Open Access to Science and Scholarship.
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Blog Entry Call for Comments for Report on the Online Video Environment in India
by Pranesh Prakash published Dec 21, 2010 last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:12 PM — filed under: , ,
The Open Video Alliance, the Centre for Internet and Society and iCommons are pleased to announce a public call for comments on version 1 of "Online Video Environment in India: A Survey Report".
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