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33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Nov 18, 2016 03:28 PMAnubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment on behalf of CIS on Day 5, 18 November, 2016.
33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Nov 16, 2016 01:37 PMAnubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations on behalf of CIS on Day 3, 16 November, 2016.
33rd SCCR: Opening Statement by India on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Nov 14, 2016 11:04 AMDr. Sumit Seth(Economic Affairs) of the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva delivered the Opening Statement on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group at 33rd Session of the of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights on 14th November 2016.
Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November
— by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:05 AMThe second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of the event. We'll also talk to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation.
How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 25, 2016 01:39 AMMobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 22, 2016 04:12 AMThe number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
Querying Wikipedia Data
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PMRecently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 20, 2016 02:26 AMOne of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about some award for highest contribution.
(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
— by Harsh Gupta — last modified Oct 20, 2016 01:44 AMWorld Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media Extensions
— by Harsh Gupta — last modified Oct 20, 2016 12:16 AMThis post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along six dimensions are examined.
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