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- Facebook's Fall from Grace: Arab Spring to Indian Winter — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Feb 11, 2016 03:51 PM
- Facebook’s Free Basics has been permanently banned in India! The Indian telecom regulator, TRAI has issued the world’s most stringent net neutrality regulation! To be more accurate, there is more to come from TRAI in terms of net neutrality regulations especially for throttling and blocking but if the discriminatory tariff regulation is anything to go by we can expect quite a tough regulatory stance against other net neutrality violations as well.
- India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poor — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 10, 2016 02:53 AM
- India’s telecom regulator said Monday that service providers cannot charge discriminatory prices for Internet services, a blow to Facebook’s global effort to provide low-cost Internet to developing countries.
- RAW Lectures #02: Anil Menon on 'Speculative Fiction and Freedom' - Video — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Feb 09, 2016 08:38 AM
- Anil Menon spoke on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom' at the second event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on January 13, 2016. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that followed.
- Open Data Hackathons are Great, but Address Privacy and License Concerns — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:37 PM
- This is to cross-publish a blog post from DataMeet website regarding a letter shared with the organisers of Urban Hack 2015, Bangalore, in response to a set of privacy and license concerns identified and voiced during the hackathon by DataMeet members. Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-authored and co-signed the letter. The blog post is written by Nisha Thompson.
- Bottled-Up National Assets — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Mar 02, 2016 02:21 AM
- Apply electronic toll collection systems to roads, and adapt road network concepts in organizing and managing communications networks.
- Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:01 PM
- Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016
- A Megacorp’s Basic Instinct — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 04, 2016 01:53 PM
- Bolstered by academia and civil society, TRAI stands its ground against FB’s Free Basics publicity blitz.
- This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM
- Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
- India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 03, 2016 01:49 AM
- ALWAR, India — Connecting people to the Internet is not easy in this impoverished farming district of wheat and millet fields, where working camels can be glimpsed along roads that curve through the low-slung Aravalli Hills.
- Youth is responsible for protecting Telugu — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM
- G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so.
- Facebook’s Fight to Be Free — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 31, 2016 09:11 AM
- In India, Mark Zuckerberg can’t give Internet access away.
- Wikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola College — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM
- Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity.
- Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 30, 2016 11:32 AM
- Who could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims Facebook’s Free Basics service “protects net neutrality”.
- WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals — by Subhashish Panigrahi and Nasim Ali — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM
- The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.
- #NetNeutrality, Data Protection Laws among topics at ITechLaw Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 30, 2016 09:21 AM
- The who’s-who of the technology law sector convened at the ITechLaw India International Conference held from January 27-29 in Bangalore.
- The Internet Has a New Standard for Censorship — by Jyoti Panday — last modified Jan 30, 2016 09:17 AM
- The introduction of the new 451 HTTP Error Status Code for blocked websites is a big step forward in cataloguing online censorship, especially in a country like India where access to information is routinely restricted.
- OER16: Open Culture — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 30, 2016 06:53 AM
- The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on April 19 and 20, 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. The event is organized by Association for Learning Technology.
- Books at a Click — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:52 PM
- The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
- Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:44 PM
- Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
- Data Privacy Day 2016 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:34 PM
- The Bangalore chapter of Data Privacy Day was organized by Data Security Council of India on January 28, 2016 at Electronic City in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham was a panelist.
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