Open Standards
'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community'
— by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AMRohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
Indian government includes open source in RFPs
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:18 PMThe Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.
Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:33 AMOn May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.
Second International e-Governance Conference
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 11, 2012 10:50 AMThe second international conference on governance and electronics which is held under the motto "Together Toward Digital Inclusion" is organized by the National Committee for Corporate Governance Electronic Iraq and the United Nations Development Programme at Rashid Hotel in Baghdad from December 2-3, 2012. The event aims to review the achievements of the program e-governance Iraqi national, and discuss the challenges of applying e-governance as a tool to achieve public sector reform and digital inclusion.
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— by admin — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:06 AMComments on the draft National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 24, 2011 06:32 AMA draft of the 'National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy', which some hope will be the open data policy of India, was made available for public comments in early May. This is what the Centre for Internet and Society submitted.
CIS Comments on the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I)
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified May 22, 2013 10:48 AMIn November 2010, the Central Government released the Draft 0.6 of the Technical Standards for the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I), requesting comments by January 27, 2011. Here are the comments that CIS submitted.
CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AMThe Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. Organised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, the event builds on the debates and discussions initiated at the WikiWars that launched off the knowledge network in Bangalore in January 2010. Follow the Live Tweets at #CPOV
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