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- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶରେ ପ୍ରତିବନ୍ଧକ ଓ ସମ୍ଭାବନା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 13, 2014 05:19 AM
- I authored an editorial in today's Samaja (Odia daily). It talks about the hurdles Odia language has been facing and potential aspects of the language including it being used massively on the Internet in Wikipedia and other platforms.
- Barcamp Bangalore — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 13, 2014 04:43 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team participated in a Barcamp at SAP Labs, Bangalore on October 12, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in the event.
- Is India the next frontier for Facebook? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 05, 2014 12:43 AM
- Pushing to bring hundreds of millions of Indians into the online world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday called for expanding his pet project to provide free mobile Internet for developing countries into India.
- Training for Internet Governance Activists — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 07, 2014 12:38 AM
- Geetha Hariharan attended a training session for Internet rights activists in Cambridge, organised by Global Partners Digital, UK on September 23 and 24, 2014.
- Big Data and Positive Social Change in the Developing World: A White Paper for Practitioners and Researchers — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 01, 2014 03:52 AM
- I was a part of a working group writing a white paper on big data and social change, over the last six months. This white paper was produced by a group of activists, researchers and data experts who met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre to discuss the question of whether, and how, big data is becoming a resource for positive social change in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages — by Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan — last modified Oct 12, 2014 03:52 AM
- A two-day workshop for students was organized by Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune (KSPWSC), Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (CIS-A2K) on September 11 and 12, 2014 in Pune. Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan summarize the developments from the workshop in this report.
- Fab to Fabless: Understanding the Process of Chip Manufacturing (Interviews with Semiconductor Industry - Part 2) — by Maggie Huang — last modified Dec 26, 2014 12:06 PM
- This is the second of a four-part blog series highlighting findings from a small sample of interviews with fabless semiconductor industry professionals in Taiwan. These industry insiders was approached for the intent of understanding expert knowledge on the process of integrated circuit design. This post explores the process of chip manufacturing and the foundry business model.
- Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - Report — by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:37 AM
- The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on September 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
- CPDP 2015 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 09:52 AM
- The eighth international conference on computers, privacy and data protection will be held in Brussels from January 21 to 23, 2015. The Centre for Internet and Society is a moral supporter of CPDP.
- State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education" — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 08:51 AM
- Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014.
- Workshop on Enabling Information Systems for Local Governance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 08:18 AM
- This event was organized by Jamia Milla Islamia at Tagore Hall in New Delhi on September 18, 2014. Sunil Abraham was a participant.
- Publishing Next — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 07:50 AM
- T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at Publishing Next organized by CinnamonTeal Publishing, a Margao (Goa)-based publishing house that provides publishing services to authors and publishers. The event was held in Goa on September 19 and 20.
- National Consultation on Media Law — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 06:52 AM
- The Law Commission of India and the National University, Delhi have joined hands to organize the National Consultation on Media Law at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on September 27 and 28, 2014. Nehaa Chaudhari participated in this event.
- Implementation of IT in Kannada — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 10, 2014 09:39 AM
- Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted a Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Basaveshwara Science College, Bagalkot on September 20, 2014.
- 105 Kannada books released under Creative Commons — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 05:57 AM
- Contents will now be available in Wikisource for use by everyone.
- The Power of Communication: The Media, Public Space and Participatory Democracy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2014 05:49 AM
- Bhairav Acharya will be presenting a paper at this event to be held in the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla on October 13 and 14, 2014.
- Anvar v. Basheer and the New (Old) Law of Electronic Evidence — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Dec 04, 2014 03:53 PM
- The Supreme Court of India revised the law on electronic evidence. The judgment will have an impact on the manner in which wiretap tapes are brought before a court.
- Study on Budget Allocation and Expenditure by States on Schemes for Persons with Disabilities — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Oct 06, 2014 04:38 AM
- In a follow up to the ongoing project of compiling a National Compendium of Laws, Policies and Programmes for Persons with Disabilities, we are conducting a research to study the allocation in the budget for schemes for persons with disabilities, expenditures incurred for each scheme and total numbers of beneficiaries for all states and union territories.
- Changing Usage Models: Desktops to Ubiquitous Cloud-Based Mobile Computing (Interviews with Semiconductor Industry - Part 1) — by Maggie Huang — last modified Dec 26, 2014 12:08 PM
- This is the first of a four-part blog series highlighting findings from a small sample of interviews with fabless semiconductor industry professionals in Taiwan. These industry insiders was approached for the intent of understanding expert knowledge on the process of integrated circuit design. However, the conversations resulted in leanings far beyond that scope. This post explores the trends of personal computing technology, which provides the pretext for the narrowing of the Pervasive Technologies project scope to a focus on the mobile phone.
- Centre for Internet and Society joins the Dynamic Coalition for Platform Responsibility — by Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 07, 2014 10:54 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has joined the multistakeholder cooperative engagement amidst stakeholders towards creating Due Diligence Recommendations for online platforms and Model Contractual Provisions to be enshrined in ToS. This blog provides a brief background of the role of dynamic coalitions within the IGF structure, establishes the need for the coalition and provides an update on the action plan and next steps for interested stakeholders.
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