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- Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA — by Nitika Tandon — last modified Nov 30, 2013 10:47 AM
- Upon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. This is a huge step to help preserve Konkani language and culture in digital era and will also feed into building of Konkani Wikipedia.
- Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project — by Nitika Tandon — last modified Nov 30, 2013 10:49 AM
- Goa University in collaboration with the Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is digitizing Konkani Vishwakosh. In this project CIS-A2K will work with group of individuals who will help digitize the encyclopedia in a time bound manner. All 3632 pages of Konkani Vishwakosh will be digitized.
- National Resource Kit: The Tripura Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Nov 13, 2013 09:58 AM
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Tripura.
- National Resource Kit: The Nagaland Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Nov 13, 2013 09:58 AM
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Nagaland.
- History of Creative Commons in India — by Priyank Dwivedi — last modified Nov 13, 2013 04:20 AM
- This blog-post discusses the potential for Creative Commons in India, in light of imminent Creative Commons Re-launch, by highlighting the history of works licensed under Creative Commons in the country.
- eAccessibility Workshop 2013 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 26, 2013 10:47 AM
- Directorate of Information Technology (DIT), in association with Mahaonline Limited (MoL) and NIXI has organized a workshop on eAccessibility on November 19-20, 2013 at Mumbai and Pune. The Centre for Internet and Society is one of the trainer organisations for the event.
- Wikimedia Diversity Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 02, 2013 06:40 AM
- T.Vishnu Vardhan participated in the conference organized by the German Wikipedia community in Berlin (GLS Campus) on November 9 and 10, 2013. He presented on So Many Languages- Challenges and Opportunities for the Wikimedia Movement in India and also led a Round-up session on Geographic diversity and Language pluralism on Wikimedia.
- Human rights, freedom of expression and free flow of information on the Internet — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 09, 2013 03:38 AM
- This session will offer a multistakeholder overview of the current status of human rights, freedom of expression and free flow of information on the Internet. Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at this event.
- Conference on eGovernance for India: Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Alternatives — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 20, 2013 06:09 AM
- The OECD Korea Policy Centre in partnership with the Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad is organising an international conference on ‘eGovernance for India: Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Alternatives’ at Hyderabad during November 6-7, 2013.
- Interview with Caspar Bowden - Privacy Advocate and former Chief Privacy Adviser at Microsoft — by Maria Xynou — last modified Nov 06, 2013 08:16 AM
- Maria Xynou recently interviewed Caspar Bowden, an internationally renowned privacy advocate and former Chief Privacy Adviser at Microsoft. Read this exciting interview and gain an insight on India's UID and CMS schemes, on the export of surveillance technologies, on how we can protect our data in light of mass surveillance and much much more!
- Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 28, 2016 01:14 PM
- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was on RadioCity to talk about Kannada Wikipedia and its tenth anniversary. The programme was aired on November 2, between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
- Open Secrets — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:21 AM
- We need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
- From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 20, 2013 09:41 AM
- Nishant Shah is teaching a course on "From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque" and presenting on a panel on 'Secrets of Digital Culture' at the St. Gallen Business school in Switzerland in November 2013.
- EC guidelines on social media: Welcome move, but not enough — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 19, 2013 10:18 AM
- With election season close by and the growing ubiquity of social media, the Election Commission of India’s recent guidelines for how candidates and political parties must conduct themselves on social media are a well-intentioned step. But are these guidelines enough to regulate how online media is used by parties and candidates, given the kind of proxy wars that are played online? For now, not really.
- National Resource Kit: The Delhi Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Nov 12, 2013 10:07 AM
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Delhi.
- Mapping Digital Media: Broadcasting, Journalism and Activism in India: A Public Consultation — by Samantha Cassar — last modified Nov 07, 2013 03:38 AM
- Lawyers, researchers, journalists and activists gathered on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at the Bangalore International Centre in response to India’s country report on Mapping Digital Media, which examines citizen’s access to quality news and information across different industries, and impacts on media freedoms as a result of digitisation. Respondents examined themes related to regulation, journalism and activism, and engaging discussions took place among attendees.
- NSA leaks helping India become 'Big Brother' state? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 19, 2013 09:45 AM
- While the US and Britain fend off accusations of Big Brother-style spying, other countries are learning lessons from fugitive ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's leaks and, critics say, developing the same kind of mass-surveillance.
- Civil society and Internet Governance: practices from Southeast Asia and beyond — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 19, 2013 09:29 AM
- On 21 October, the day before the opening of the 2013 Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia, Hivos’ Southeast Asia Regional Office co-organised a pre-event workshop with ID-CONFIG, “Civil Society and Internet Governance: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Practices from Southeast Asia and Beyond,” at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre.
- National Resource Kit: The Madhya Pradesh Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Nov 07, 2013 08:51 AM
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
- National Resource Kit: The Arunachal Pradesh Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:48 AM
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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