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- Foreign Funding of NGOs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 04, 2013 11:52 PM
- Should FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
- Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 21, 2013 03:56 AM
- A group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
- Creative Commons comes to India — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AM
- Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
- Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore — by Noopur Raval — last modified Mar 06, 2013 09:09 AM
- The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.
- FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:55 AM
- GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.
- Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM
- The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.
- Don’t SLAPP free speech — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Feb 28, 2013 11:22 AM
- IIPM is proving adept at the tactical use of lawsuits to stifle criticism, despite safeguards. THE DEPARTMENT of Telecommunications, on 14 February, issued orders to block certain web pages critical of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM).
- Open DataCamp - 2013 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2013 11:08 AM
- A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University Campus), Dairy Circle in Bangalore.
- Women in the IT Industry: Request for Data — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:52 AM
- For CIS's research on indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India, we have sent formal request for participation in a short survey to the six largest IT companies based in India. A copy of the letter of request and survey as well as some details of the request for data can be found in this post.
- "All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and Society — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2013 09:21 AM
- The DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
- Research Initiative: Women in India's IT Industry — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:31 AM
- CIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software companies, we hope to provide insight into state of female employment in one of the most important and rapidly growing economic sectors in the country.
- National Resource Kit : The West Bengal Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:19 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 West Bengal.
- Video Vortex # 9 Re:assemblies of Video — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 04, 2013 03:44 AM
- Nishant Shah is a speaker at this event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Post Media Lab, Moving Image Lab, Leuphana, et.al. The event is being held at Luneberg from February 28, 2013 to March 2, 2013.
- Who Minds the Maxwell's Demon (Revisiting Communication Networks through the Lens of the Intermediary) — by Sharath Chandra Ram — last modified Mar 05, 2013 07:37 AM
- A holistic reflection on information networks and it’s regulatory framework is possible only when the medium-specific boundary that has often separated the Internet and Telecom networks begins to dissolve, to objectively reveal points of contention in the communication network where the dynamics of network security and privacy are at large – namely, within the historic role of the intermediary at data/signal switching and routing nodes.
- D:coding Digital Natives - Seminar with Nishant Shah — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2013 05:21 AM
- Nishant Shah gave a talk on D:coding Digital Natives at Samhällsvetarhuset on February 26, 2013, from 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. The event was organized by HUMlab.
- BigDog is Watching You! The Sci-fi Future of Animal and Insect Drones — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:38 PM
- Do you think robotic aeroplanes monitoring us are scary enough? Wait until you read about DARPA´s new innovative and subtle way to keep us all under the microscope! This blog post presents a new reality of drones which is depicted in none other than animal and insect-like robots, equipped with cameras and other surveillance technologies.
- International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, Methodology — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 05, 2013 09:28 AM
- The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford Foundation and ICSSR.
- Stop Press Carousel — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2013 04:27 AM
- The silent blocking of URLs by the DoT assaults freedom of expression.
- Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 28, 2013 04:32 AM
- Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.
- National Resource Kit: The Andaman & Nicobar Chapter (Call for Comments) — by CLPR — last modified Mar 06, 2014 04:21 PM
- 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 Andaman and Nicobar.
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