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- Why India snubbed Facebook's free Internet offer — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:49 AM
- The social media giant wanted to give the people of India free access to a chunk of the Internet, but the people weren't interested.
- Netizen Report: The EU Wrestles With Facebook Over Privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:39 AM
- Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world.
- Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articles — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 27, 2016 06:30 AM
- Community digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada Wikipedian Vasanth S.N. The two blogs on creating Odia-language character encoding converters I had written before in the Huffington Post and the DNA are also featured in the digest.
- International Mother Language Day — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2016 06:17 AM
- On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015.
- Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 27, 2016 06:00 AM
- My submission titled "Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER" under the theme of "Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education" has been selected for the OER16 conference to be held in Edinburg, Scotland from 19 to 20 April 2016.
- କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଯୁଗରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Mar 14, 2016 07:27 AM
- In 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society commissioned a project to create a typeface and input methods for for Ol chiki script that is used to write in the Santali language. Santali is one of the many victims that has large number of native language speakers but really low activism to preserve the language though it is not yet among the 196 endangered languages as identified by UNESCO.
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ଅନୁଶୀଳନ — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 27, 2016 04:28 AM
- On the day of the International Mother Language Day, it is important to look outside and draw inspirations from several success stories of digital activism for languages. Hebrew, an ancient language that was almost dead for over 1500 years was revived from ashes like phoenix. Even after being honoured with the classical language status in the same category of Sanskrit and Tamil, Odia has not seen much progress in the digital sphere.
- ମାତୃଭାଷା ଦିବସ: ଆଜିର ସମସ୍ୟା ଓ ଆହ୍ୱାନ — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 26, 2016 04:52 PM
- The article was published in the editorial section of Odia newspaper the Sambad on February 21, 2016. This piece explains about the challenges of expanding a knowledge base in Odia language and helping it grow beyond just the literature and to a language of knowledge.
- The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM
- The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
- Standard Essential Patents on Low-Cost Mobile Phones in India: A Case to Strengthen Competition Regulation? — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Apr 24, 2016 04:42 AM
- The realization of the promise of the sub hundred dollar mobile device as a facilitator of access to knowledge is contingent inter alia on its availability in the market place. In turn, the market availability of the sub hundred dollar mobile device is influenced by the existence of an enabling environment for producers to produce, and consumers to consume. From a regulatory perspective, the enabling environment itself is a function of existing laws and policies, and the ‘developmental effects’ of certain laws and policies (Saraswati, 2012).
- ‘A Good Day for the Internet Everywhere': India Bans Differential Data Pricing — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 25, 2016 01:21 AM
- India distinguished itself as a global leader on network neutrality on February 8, when regulators officially banned “differential pricing”, a process through which telecommunications service providers could or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services offered based on content.
- The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India! — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM
- India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
- Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 23, 2016 02:10 AM
- India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
- MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Bombay — by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 22, 2016 02:34 PM
- This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Bombay.
- Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part I) — by Kiran AB — last modified Jan 02, 2017 02:12 PM
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, and each target is mapped to one or more indicators as a measure of evaluation. In this and the next blog post, Kiran AB is documenting the availability and openness of data sets in India that are relevant for monitoring the targets under the SDGs. This post offers the findings for the first 7 Goals, while the next post will cover the last 10.
- MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Delhi — by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 22, 2016 02:46 AM
- This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Delhi.
- ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವನ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 20, 2016 04:32 AM
- ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ
- MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from Cochin University of Science and Technology — by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 21, 2016 04:09 PM
- This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in Cochin University of Science and Technology.
- 2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") Colloquium — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 20, 2016 05:10 AM
- Prof. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by School of Law, University of Washington.
- National Koha Conclave — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 19, 2016 04:20 PM
- Informatics Publishing organized an event at Fortune Park JP Celestial in Bangalore on February 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham delivered the inaugural address on the occasion.
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