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Withdrawal of Journal Access is a Wake-up Call for Researchers in the Developing World

Posted by Subbiah Arunachalam at Feb 18, 2011 10:50 AM |

Guest blog by Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam (Trustees for the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development). This article was published in Speaking of Medicine PLoS Medicine community blog on January 17, 2011.

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E-Governance Interoperability Framework — Meeting in Iraq

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Jan 29, 2011 05:00 AM |
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A meeting to create a plan of action for the development of e-Governance Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) in Iraq and include formulation of an e-GIF policy and technical document within the larger framework of public sector modernization, was held from 25 to 27 January 2011. Sunil Abraham was the main resource person for this meeting.

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The Online Video Environment in India - A Survey Report

The Online Video Environment in India - A Survey Report

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Jan 25, 2011 12:30 PM |

iCOMMONS, the OPEN VIDEO ALLIANCE, and the CENTRE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY have initiated a research project which seeks to survey the online video environment in India and the opportunities this new medium presents for creative expression and civic engagement. This report seeks to define key issues in the Indian context and begins to develop a short-term policy framework to address them.

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Call for Comments for Report on Open Government Data in India

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 24, 2010 11:50 AM |
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The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce a public call for comments on the Report on Open Government Data in India prepared by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah.

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Wikipedia Meet-up in TERI

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 21, 2010 09:55 AM |
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The Wikipedia Bangalore meet-up is a monthly get-together of Wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation, Erik Möller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation and Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member attended the meeting. The Centre for Internet and Society made arrangements for this event.

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Call for Comments for Report on the Online Video Environment in India

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Dec 21, 2010 07:50 AM |
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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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Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan Report

Posted by Rebecca Schild at Sep 04, 2010 04:35 PM |
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The following is a preliminary project report collaboratively collated by the researchers of the "Free Access to Law" research study. This report aims to highlight the trends, as well as the risks and opportunities, for the sustainability of Free Access to Law initiatives in each of the country examined.

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Open Access to Science and Scholarship - Why and What Should We Do?

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Aug 10, 2010 11:55 AM |
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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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Civic Hacking Workshop

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Jul 28, 2010 02:15 AM |

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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Open Access to International Agricultural Research

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Jul 15, 2010 07:10 AM |
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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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Research Project on Open Video in India

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Apr 05, 2010 06:00 PM |

Open Video Alliance and the Centre for Internet and Society are calling for researchers for a project on open video in India, its potentials, limitations, and recommendations on policy interventions.

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Does the Social Web need a Googopoly?

Posted by Rebecca Schild at Mar 02, 2010 10:35 AM |

While the utility of the new social tool Buzz is still under question, the bold move into social space taken last week by the Google Buzz team has Gmail users questioning privacy implications of the new feature. In this post, I posit that Buzz highlights two privacy challenges of the social web. First, the application has sidestepped the consensual and contextual qualities desirable of social spaces. Secondly, Google’s move highlights the increasingly competitive and convergent nature of the social media landscape.

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The (in)Visible Subject: Power, Privacy and Social Networking

Posted by Rebecca Schild at Feb 26, 2010 08:10 AM |

In this entry, I will argue that the interplay between privacy and power on social network sites works ultimately to subject individuals to the gaze of others, or to alternatively render them invisible. Individual choices concerning privacy preferences must, therefore, be informed by the intrinsic relationship which exists between publicness/privateness and subjectivity/obscurity.

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Impaired Social Mobility

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Jan 22, 2010 07:05 AM |
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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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Openness, Videos, Impressions

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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Open Content and Access in the Knowledge Society

Posted by Radha Rao at Dec 21, 2009 06:05 AM |

Open Content and Access: Democratising and Disruptive Impacts on the Knowledge Society - by Madanmohan Rao, Editor, The KM Chronicles - Bangalore; Dec 16, 09

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Open Video Summit

Posted by Radha Rao at Dec 10, 2009 05:30 AM |
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The Open Video Summit: A one-day workshop to explore issues of intellectual property and telecom policy for video is being organized by The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), iCommons, Open Video Alliance and Magic Lantern on December 15, 2009 at TERI, Bangalore, from 9am to 6pm.

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Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net

Posted by Radha Rao at Dec 08, 2009 09:40 AM |
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The Centre For Internet and Society and JAAGA organised a CC Salon on 02nd December, 2009 at 7.30pm.

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Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09

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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Is Copyright Law Censoring the Art World?

Posted by Rebecca Schild at Oct 31, 2009 10:00 AM |

Last week, ART and the Center for Law and Policy Research held a workshop on “Copyright, Censorship and the Creative Commons” for individuals interested in examining the art/law nexus, and exploring its broader implications for individual artists and the creative commons. While it appears that artists are becoming more rights conscious, the increasing copyrightability of art today is compelling many artists to critically rethink the role of law in the art world.

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