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Anonymity and Privacy
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Jan 26, 2009 09:42 AM
Located in About Us / Substantive Areas / New Pedagogies
Substantive Areas
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Dec 04, 2011 03:26 PM
Located in About Us
Open Access Day
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:45 AM — filed under:
October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this Day are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Open Standards
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 10:52 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society promotes Open Standards, i.e., standards that are technically and legally free to study, free to use, developed and managed in an open manner, with a complete implementation available to all. Open standards help all -- government and citizens, industry and consumers -- by allowing greater interoperability and choice (since they are necessary for free and open source software), greater competition, reduction in costs, and greater long-term reliability. As part of our work on Open Standards, we have been providing the comments to the Indian government's Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, and have been working as a member of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forums.
Located in Openness / Publications
Open Content and Open Access
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Oct 08, 2009 02:54 PM
Open Content (of which Open Access can be thought of as a subcategory) is that content which is freely available on the Internet with or without rights to modify or re-use it. Open content can take many manifestations from openly-licensed materials (Creative Commons, etc.), open access to scholarly literature (scientific, legal, etc.), open educational resources, to open access to the law (particularly legislations and judgments). We at CIS believe that sharing of knowledge and culture is only human.
Located in Openness / Publications
Software Patents
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 09:51 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") is not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office sometimes incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law.
Located in Openness / Publications
Essay Competition
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Sep 23, 2009 10:02 AM — filed under:
In partnership with Free Software User Group - Bangalore, the Centre for Internet and Society is organising a essay competition for school and college students from Bangalore. The last date for submitting entries is 8th November 2008. Three prizes of Rs. 3,000/- each are available for college students, and three 3 prizes of Rs. 1,000/- each are available for school students.
Located in Openness / Blog / Uploads
Members
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Jun 19, 2009 02:16 PM
The members of the Society registered under Karnataka Societies Act are Vibodh Parthasarathi, Atul Ramachandra, Achal Prabhala, Lawrence Liang, Subbiah Arunachalam, Nishant Shah, and Sunil Abraham.
Located in About Us / People
Distinguished Fellows
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Jul 27, 2020 12:50 PM
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam is based in Chennai. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh is based at UNU-MERIT at Maastricht. Hans Varghese Mathews is based in Bangalore. Shyam Ponappa is based in New Delhi. Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana is based in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Located in About Us / People
People
by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 17, 2008 — last modified Dec 04, 2011 03:26 PM
Located in About Us
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