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- Enabling Elections: (Coverage in Vijay Karnataka) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 09, 2014 02:37 PM
- Vijay Karnataka published about the Enabling Elections report from CIS. Nirmita Narasimhan is quoted.
- Online Survey for Indian Mobile App Developer Startups & Enterprises — by Samantha Cassar — last modified Apr 15, 2014 08:33 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) recently released an online survey for mobile app developers to respond on their legal practices within their work, as well as their business models and familiarity with India's laws. Through this research initiative, CIS hopes to better understand the dynamics of India's mobile app ecosystem amongst stakeholders, and how developers are directly or indirectly affected by the laws in place governing this ecosystem.
- Are Elections Fair to People With Special Needs? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 09, 2014 06:37 AM
- City-based think tanks have submitted a report to the Election Commission saying elections in India are unfriendly to people with disabilities.
- ଓଡ଼ିଅା ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified May 06, 2014 06:50 AM
- This article was published in Odia magazine "The Kadambini". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiatives in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
- Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 08, 2014 01:48 AM
- The blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
- AIKWO Holds Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani Writers — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 04:22 AM
- A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia at Kalaangann Shaktinagar here on April 6.
- Tulu Wikipedia Workshop: Report in Prajavani — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 04:15 AM
- Prajavani published a report of the Tulu workshop on April 6, 2014. A scanned version is below:
- Global Knowledge Can Only Save a Language: Pavanaja — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 04:09 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society, a NGO funded by Wikimedia Foundation has started a mission for the revival of Wikipedia sites of Tulu and Konkani under its "Access to Knowledge" project. As a part of it the NGO had organised a demonstration on the use of wikipedia, here on Saturday.
- The Take Down of Free Speech Online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 06, 2014 05:19 AM
- As part of a study to access rate of compliance, in 2011, the Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore sent frivolous “take down” requests to seven prominent intermediaries. The study showed exactly how easy it is to take down online content.
- ୭୯ ବର୍ଷରେ ସ୍ୱତନ୍ତ୍ର ଓଡ଼ିଶା: ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାର — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified May 06, 2014 05:18 AM
- This article was published in online Odia magazine "The Amalekha". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiates in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
- Odia Wikipedia celebrates Odisha Day, brings 14 copyright-free Odia books and a free Odia font! — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 06:16 AM
- Odisha Day 2014 was celebrated on March 29, 2014. Brokenscooter.com has published a report of the event in its website.
- Who Governs the Internet? Implications for Freedom and National Security — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 05, 2014 04:23 PM
- The second half of last year has been quite momentous for Internet governance thanks to Edward Snowden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became aware that they were targets of US surveillance for economic not security reasons. They protested loudly.
- Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 04, 2014 03:49 AM
- This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
- Should Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar project, for identity proof and welfare delivery, exist at all? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 14, 2014 10:27 AM
- The foundation of Aadhaar—a Congress flagship project to give every Indian a unique identity number and then use it to deliver services—has been under assault in the past three months.
- AIKWO to organize Wikipedia Workshop — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 03:49 AM
- All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia is organising a one-day Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script on Sunday, April 6 at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
- The politics of Facebook — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 11:30 AM
- With the social media becoming an important political battleground, is Facebook affecting friendships and trying to influence our political leanings?
- New privacy Bill more refined & has wider ambit, say experts — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 11:06 AM
- But creates wide exceptions for government agencies.
- Marco Civil da Internet: Brazil’s ‘Internet Constitution’ — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 19, 2014 10:38 AM
- On March 25, 2014, Brazil's lower house of parliament passed bill no. 2126/2011, popularly known as Marco Civil da Internet. The Marco Civil is a charter of Internet user-rights and service provider responsibilities, committed to freedom of speech and expression, privacy, and accessibility and openness of the Internet. In this post, the author looks at the pros and cons of the bill.
- Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated Odisha day — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 06:21 AM
- Odisha Day 2014 was held on March 29, 2014. A report was published in FullOrissa News on April 2, 2014.
- Two Indians in Global Commission on Web Governance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:56 AM
- Two Indians are among 25 internationally recognised experts named to assist a global body in identifying and prioritising web governance and Internet policy-related issues.
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