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Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First Anniversary in Bhubaneswar
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:19 AMOdia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow i.e., 25th October, 2015.
National IPR Policy Series: Quick Observations on the Leaked Draft of the National IPR Policy
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Nov 19, 2015 05:13 AMEarlier this week, the “Don’t Trade Our Lives Away” blog leaked the supposed final draft of India’s National IPR Policy (“leaked draft”). This article presents quick comments on this leaked draft.
Transformaking 2015 : International Summit on Critical and Transformative Making, Yogyakarta
— by Sharath Chandra Ram — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:00 PMTransformaking 2015 brought together makers, scientist, hackers, bricoleurs, researchers, artists, designers and other interdisciplinary practitioners from across the globe in a series of Residency and Research Program, Symposium, Exhibition, Fair, and Satellite Projects. It was held from August 10 to September 20, 2015. Transformaking 2015 was organized by HONF Foundation & CATEC (Culture Arts Technoloy Empowerment Community) in partnership with the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Common Room, Crosslab, and Nicelab.
Comparison of National IPR Strategy September 2012, National IPR Strategy July 2014 and Draft National IP Policy, December 2014
— by Amulya Purushothama — last modified Mar 08, 2016 01:49 AMThis is an analysis of the first draft of India's National IPR Policy with an earlier document "India's National IPR Strategy".
Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India
— by Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:40 PMThe European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
CIS-India Projects: Overlaps with Digital India
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Oct 11, 2015 05:19 AMThis post documents the overlap of CIS India's work with the nine pillars of the Digital India campaign. The list reflects work completed/underway as of September 2015.
WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia Grow
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:06 AMIn 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they represent, were also unknown to the Wikimedia community and the outside world.
Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series – Updated Research Methodology – Applying the Actor Network Theory to Competition Law and Standard Essential Patent Litigation in India
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Oct 04, 2015 04:20 AMThis document lays out the updated research methodology for the paper on competition law issues around standard essential patent litigation in India.
OCR and OER – update
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PMWe welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PMComputers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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