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- Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka — by Ananth Subray — last modified Aug 22, 2016 10:58 AM
- A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.
- Legal Challenges to Mapping in India #1 - Laws, Policies, and Cases — by Adya Garg — last modified May 11, 2016 01:43 PM
- Responding to the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill and the draft National Geospatial Policy made public recently, this post provides an overview of the present configuration of laws, policies, and guidelines that provides the legal framework in India for governance of creation and sharing of geospatial data in India. The post also studies these policies in action by describing the key legal cases around the creation and use of geospatial data. The next post of this series will document the reflections and opinions of the key geospatial industry actors in India, as well as the free and open source mapping community.
- Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons — by Nahid Sultan and Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 09, 2016 12:10 PM
- Bangla-language Wikipedians translated about 600 articles for their language’s Wikipedia; Odia-language Wikimedians hosted their second annual Women’s History Month edit-a-thon.
- Indian Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified May 10, 2016 03:23 PM
- India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (“DIPP”) released in March, earlier this year, a discussion paper on standard essential patents and their availability on fair, reasonable and non discriminatory terms.
- Google, Apple and Microsoft may need licence for satellite mapping in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 10, 2016 03:20 PM
- Cold response from MNCs like Google to India's security concerns is seen as a prime reason for the proposed legislation to regulate mapping of the country, a move that critics call "return of the Licence Raj" and "digital nationalism".
- Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 09, 2016 12:51 PM
- The OER conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 19 and 20, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the event organised by the University of Edinburg.
- Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles — by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:03 AM
- Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia.
- Accessible ICT Procurement — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified May 09, 2016 02:48 PM
- Today in India there is an excellent opportunity to address the needs of persons with disabilities through accessible ICT procurement. There is a growing body of evidence globally to demonstrate that governments are successfully using accessible procurement as a means of ensuring the human rights of persons with disabilities,. They are amongst the largest purchasers of IT in any country and by requiring accessible products and services, ensure that all citizens with disabilities and government employees who are disabled are able to access and use public infrastructure and communication. CIS along with 20 other organisations petition the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information Technology to bring in accessibility considerations within the draft Procurement Bill.
- Identity of the Aadhaar Act: Supreme Court and the Money Bill Question — by Vanya Rakesh and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified May 09, 2016 11:52 AM
- A writ petition has been filed by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh on April 6 challenging the constitutionality and legality of the treatment of this Act as a money bill. The Supreme Court heard the matter on April 25 and invited the Union government to present its view. It is our view that the Supreme Court can not only review the Lok Sabha speaker’s decision, but should also ask the government to draft the Aadhaar Bill again, this time with greater parliamentary and public deliberation. Vanya Rakesh and Sumandro Chattapadhyay wrote this article on The Wire.
- Stats for March 2016 — by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jun 07, 2016 04:06 AM
- CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
- Why India’s attempt to police digital maps and satellite images is a ‘dumb’ idea — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2016 01:05 PM
- Are we back to the license raj?
- Facebook: A Platform with Little Less Sharing of Personal Information — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 02:38 AM
- As Facebook becomes less personal, what happens to digital friendship?
- Promoting Online Content Through 'Wiki Malayalam' — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 06, 2016 03:35 PM
- Practical sessions on using Wiki Malayalam as a medium to preserve the language and promote digital media were held on Thursday, the final day of the two-day workshop on ‘Wiki Malayalam.’
- Spread awareness through Malayalam Wikipedia: Gadgil — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2016 03:43 PM
- "Contribution of information by people of Rukadi village near Kolhapur to Marathi Wikipedia, by referring to media reports, helped spread the word about mass fish deaths in the region. Similar efforts should be initiated in Kerala so that information about local movements like Plachimada campaign would be available in the public domain," opined environmentalist Madhav Gadgil. He was speaking at the Malayalam Wikipedia workshop hosted by Swadeshabhimani Media Study Centre at Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Hall here on Wednesday.
- Images and links matter quality — by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jun 08, 2016 09:54 AM
- Wikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. Hence images and external links form a criterion for quality of articles on Wikipedias. This blog post tries to analyse the current scenario of CIS-A2K's Focus language areas with respect to images and links.
- Breakthroughs Needed For Digital India — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 04, 2016 02:34 AM
- It's time the government accepts that current policies are not enough to bring about Digital India.
- Shape of IPRs and Agriculture post the WTO Nairobi Ministerial — by Anubha Sinha — last modified May 05, 2016 07:11 AM
- CIS is running a series of meetups focused on intellectual property to bring folks interested in IP law to discuss developments in access to knowledge, climate change, health, trade, etc. At the first meet-up in February, Prof. Biswajit Dhar delivered a short talk on intellectual property rights and agriculture in a post-Nairobi Ministerial world. This post is a summary of his talk.
- Privacy Issues with DRM — by Jalaj Pandey — last modified May 03, 2016 02:41 AM
- This post has been written by Jalaj Pandey interning at CIS. It elaborates upon the various privacy issues with the Digital Rights Management. The author talks about the various ways in which content producers use DRM as a tool to infringe the privacy of the end users.
- Comments on Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and their Availability on Frand Terms — by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshane — last modified May 03, 2016 02:30 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The comments were prepared by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshané.
- T’puram to host Wikipedia workshop on May 4, 5 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 01, 2016 02:01 PM
- The workshop will be led by Prof. Madav Gadgil and a team of experienced Wikipedia editors.
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