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- Google, Facebook will not place ads on sites distributing fake news — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 15, 2016 01:59 PM
- Google plans to update its AdSense program policies to prevent placement of its ads on sites distributing fake news.
- 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 AM
- Dr. 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.
- Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights - Workshop Report — by Vidushi Marda, Akash Deep Singh and Geethanjali Jujjavarapu — last modified Nov 18, 2016 12:58 PM
- The Centre for Internet and Society held a one-day workshop on “Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms and Human Rights” at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on the 1st of October, 2016. This report is a compilation of the the issues discussed, ideas exchanged and challenges recognized during the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to discuss aspects of big data technologies in terms of harms, opportunities and human rights. The discussion was designed around an extensive study of current and potential future uses of big data for governance in India, that CIS has undertaken over the last year with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
- Privacy after Big Data: Compilation of Early Research — by Saumyaa Naidu — last modified Nov 12, 2016 01:37 AM
- Evolving data science, technologies, techniques, and practices, including big data, are enabling shifts in how the public and private sectors carry out their functions and responsibilities, deliver services, and facilitate innovative production and service models to emerge. In this compilation we have put together a series of articles that we have developed as we explore the impacts – positive and negative – of big data. This is a growing body of research that we are exploring and is relevant to multiple areas of our work including privacy and surveillance. Feedback and comments on the compilation are welcome and appreciated.
- ICANN Begins its Sojourn into Open Data — by Padmini Baruah and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 12, 2016 01:17 AM
- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently announced that it will now set up a pilot project in order to introduce an Open Data initiative for all data that it generates. We would like to extend our congratulations to ICANN on the development of this commendable new initiative, and would be honoured to support the creation of this living document to be prepared before ICANN 58.
- How Workstream 2 Plans to Improve ICANN's Transparency — by Asvatha Babu — last modified Nov 11, 2016 10:05 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society has worked extensively on ICANN’s transparency policies. We are perhaps the single largest users of the Documentary Information Disclosure Policy. Our goal in doing so is not to be a thorn in ICANN’s side, but to try and ensure that ICANN, the organisation, as well as the ICANN community have access to the data required to carry out the task of regulating the global domain name system.
- Digital Native: Mind Your Language — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 09, 2016 04:10 PM
- The lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem. It has been a festive season. Greetings are in the air. Well, realistically speaking, smoke-filled smog is in the air and greetings are all on social media. In a flood of messages — gifs, animated icons, poetic snippets, messages written in a script that looks vaguely Devanagari, and quotations that bestow glee and gladness upon all — that made their way into my social media feed, there was one that stood out.
- Internet's Core Resources are a Global Public Good - They Cannot Remain Subject to One Country's Jurisdiction — by Vidushi Marda — last modified Nov 14, 2016 06:39 AM
- This statement was issued by 8 India civil society organizations, supported by 2 key global networks, involved with internet governance issues, to the meeting of ICANN in Hyderabad, India from 3 to 9 November 2016. The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 8 organizations that drafted this statement.
- ICANN 57 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 08, 2016 01:14 AM
- ICANN 57 is being hosted by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India from November 3 to 9, 2016 in Hyderabad at Hyderabad International Convention Centre. Vidushi Marda participated in the event as a speaker.
- Where Are There So Few Books For The Print-Impaired? — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Nov 04, 2016 01:20 AM
- India publishes approximately 90,000 books each year in 24 different languages. We have over 16,000 publishers, and are one of the top nations for English book publishing in the world. Clearly we are a nation which values and fosters a culture of reading and passing on knowledge in different domains ranging from literature, to yoga, language, education, science, fiction and many others.
- If the DIDP Did Its Job — by Asvatha Babu — last modified Nov 07, 2016 12:57 PM
- Using Kannada in technology made easier with smartphones — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 01, 2016 05:19 AM
- With the IT revolution, many believed that the younger generation would prefer to type and communicate in English than Kannada.
- Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far — by Ananth Subray — last modified Nov 18, 2016 02:45 AM
- As you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons learned from the earlier intervention.
- Behind Modi’s Heartwarming Diwali Ad for Soldiers, An App That’s Primed for Political Messaging — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 30, 2016 07:33 AM
- The campaign, which allows users to send Modi quotes on themes like Ayodhya and the perfidy of the Opposition, raises questions about the boundaries between government, party and personal promotion.
- Bridging the gap: Tech giants bring the internet to women in rural India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 30, 2016 07:23 AM
- This Diwali is going to be a cracker of a festival for Nisha Chanderwal, a second year BA student.
- Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November — by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:05 AM
- The 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.
- Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published — by Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam — last modified Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PM
- We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
- Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication — by Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan — last modified Oct 28, 2016 04:28 PM
- ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
- Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 27, 2016 01:07 AM
- The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
- How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 25, 2016 01:39 AM
- Mobile 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.
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