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- India's Obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties (Part A): “Bilateral Inhibiting Treaty?” — Investigating the Challenges that Bilateral Investment Treaties pose to the Compulsory Licensing of Pervasive Technology Patent Pools — by Gavin Pereira — last modified Sep 02, 2013 02:45 PM
- In this blog post, the first of a series of three, Gavin Pereira attempts to address the challenges that India's obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties may pose to the establishment of a patent pool in the country. The author thanks Puneeth Nagaraj for his guidance and inputs on this paper.
- National Resource Kit: The Puducherry Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:12 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 Puducherry.
- TRAI Consultation Paper on Spectrum — by Shyam Ponappa and A.B. Beliappa — last modified Sep 18, 2013 06:36 AM
- Shyam Ponappa and A.B.Beliappa worked on this submission to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on their spectrum consultation paper. The submission was made on August 21, 2013.
- Indian government to bar politicians from using Gmail for official business — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 05, 2013 09:52 AM
- US-based email services seen as too risky.
- Report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable Meeting, New Delhi — by Prachi Arya — last modified Aug 30, 2013 03:04 PM
- In 2013 the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India. The following is a report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable held in New Delhi on August 24, 2013.
- National Resource Kit: The Manipur Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:12 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 Manipur.
- వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాద్/ఆగష్టు — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 29, 2013 06:24 AM
- T.Vishnu participated in the Telugu meet-up held in Hyderabad on August 25, 2013, via Skype.
- National Resource Kit: The Assam Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Sep 30, 2013 04:06 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 Assam.
- International Summer School: "Digitization and its Impact on Society" — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 20, 2013 10:00 AM
- Dr. Nishant Shah will be the key note speaker in the session "Social Networks and the Revolution of Political Communication". The event is being hosted by the Dresden Center for Digital Linguistics from September 29 to October 5, 2013.
- The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs at World Social Science Forum 2013 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2013 09:19 AM
- The World Social Science Forum 2013 organized by International Social Science Council will take place in Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada from October 13 to 15, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah is participating in the event as a panelist and will speak on "The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs".
- Mixed signals? Supreme Court notices to states on Facebook arrests — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2013 08:42 AM
- In wake of the recent arrests of UP-based scholar Kanwal Bharti and Andhra-based PUCL activist Jaya Vindhyala over their Facebook posts, NDTV aired a discussion on the grey areas of the IT Act. Pranesh Prakash, Shreya Singhal and Faizal Farooqui
- An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Sambalpur — by Gorvachove Pothal — last modified Aug 27, 2013 12:09 PM
- A training workshop for Odia Wikipedians was held in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur on July 26 and 27, 2013. The workshop was organized by Odia Wikipedian Gorvachove Pothal, with financial support from CIS-A2K programme. It was a part of the Access To Knowledge - Outreach Programs.
- Dictionary words in software patent guidelines puzzle industry — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2013 06:20 AM
- Terms not defined in draft guidelines on patents for computer-related inventions leaves room for misinterpretation
- Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM
- Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
- India's Internet Privacy Woes — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 05, 2013 11:09 AM
- “For the sake of national security and to protect the privacy of its citizens, India should develop its own social media platforms,” says Dr Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO of Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a Nasscom-promoted ‘self-regulatory’ organisation on data protection and privacy in India, in a blog post dated August 13.
- Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 05, 2013 09:24 AM
- Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.
- Election campaign: parties draw battle lines on media platforms — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 05, 2013 10:23 AM
- In the run-up to the 2014 polls, parties are drawing up media strategies that have a focus on young voters.
- Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 29, 2013 06:30 AM
- Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
- Out of the Bedroom — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 06, 2013 08:32 AM
- We have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
- WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 in Hong Kong — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 29, 2013 05:31 AM
- WikiSym + OpenSym took place in Hong Kong on August 5-7, 2013. The event emphasized the open collaboration aspect of WikiSym both for researchers as well as practitioners. The event was organized by the International Symposium on Open Collaboration. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, Access to Knowledge and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.
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