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- Is India Prepared for a Cyber Attack? Suckfly And Other Past Responses Say No — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2016 12:57 AM
- From mandatory disclosures to improving CERT-IN’s functioning and transparency, there is much to be done in the event of future cyber attacks.
- Who Owns Your Phone? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 18, 2016 04:18 PM
- The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
- Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.) — by Ting-Yi Chang — last modified Sep 22, 2016 07:54 AM
- Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries in Wikipedia gender gap narrowing on both local (India) and global scales.
- Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2) — by Ting-Yi Chang — last modified Sep 22, 2016 07:55 AM
- Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
- Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1) — by Ting-Yi Chang — last modified Sep 21, 2016 10:13 AM
- Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
- Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 18, 2016 03:46 AM
- Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
- ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 18, 2016 03:33 AM
- Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant social change. I have also shared how anyone can contribute to the FOSS movement in different ways and celebrate SFD.
- Glaring Errors in UIDAI's Rebuttal — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 18, 2016 03:22 AM
- This response note by Pranesh Prakash questions Unique Identification Authority of India’s reply to Hans Verghese Mathews' article titled “Flaws in the UIDAI Process” (EPW, March 12, 2016), which found “serious mathematical errors” in the article.
- ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 17, 2016 04:04 PM
- I authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference in our lives. I have also shared a little bit about how anyone can celebrate the Software Freedom Day today by contributing to and sharing about to FOSS.
- It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 17, 2016 03:42 PM
- Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
- IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and Society — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Sep 17, 2016 02:40 PM
- A workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying relationships and impact of ICTs and Internet on society and the role that society plays in shaping them, particularly in India. The center will bring together faculty in various humanities and social sciences disciplines, and would also initiate interdisciplinary taught programme in IT and Social Sciences. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate in this workshop.
- Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016 — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Sep 17, 2016 01:39 PM
- Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an interface design or clickable prototype or a demo video. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate as a mentor for the information visualisation track.
- India's Aadhaar mandate for smartphone makers may rile global firms — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 15, 2016 02:25 AM
- They are unlikely to oblige to request to make changes in their operating system and devices to ensure Aadhaar authentication is done securely on smartphones.
- SpaceX Explosion Slows Facebook & Israeli Efforts To Control Online Content — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2016 11:24 AM
- In their ‘space race’ to expand internet access to remote, impoverished areas of the world, Facebook and Google are actually vying for control o fthe online experiences of millions of people.
- How does the government track all its legal cases? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2016 10:17 AM
- The Legal Information Management and Briefing System , an integral part of the digital India initiative, aims to be a database of all the ongoing cases with the government.
- Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device Patents — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Sep 10, 2017 03:19 PM
- In India, if a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a compulsory license, and if the patent is not adequately worked within two years of the grant of such a compulsory license, it may be revoked. In order to provide the public with information about patent working, India requires every patentee to file an annual statement on “Form 27” describing the working of each of its issued Indian patents. We conducted the first comprehensive and systematic study of all Forms 27 filed with respect to mobile devices. We tried to empirically establish the extent to which patentees and licensees comply with the statutory requirement to declare information about the working of their patents. Research assistance was provided by interns Anna Liz Thomas and Nayana Dasgupta.
- CYFY 2016 - The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 13, 2016 03:23 PM
- Sunil Abraham will participate as a panelist at CYFY 2016 event organized by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi from September 28 to 30, 2016.
- Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed? — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Sep 17, 2016 02:15 PM
- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted.
- The DigiLocker was supposed to cut down paperwork but less than 0.1% of Indians are using it — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 12, 2016 01:59 AM
- The official data shows that the platform has not enthused as many users as the government expected.
- Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM
- With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
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