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- Delhi gang rape: What Facebook, Twitter expose about govt — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 31, 2012 01:02 AM
- When constable Subhash Tomar collapsed during the anti-rape agitation in New Delhi, the government was keen to say he suffered injuries inflicted by the protesters. But the administration's version of events was challenged soon on social media, and the mainstream media latched onto the mystery and started pressurising the government to come clean.
- Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM
- Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
- Overview of Schemes and Notifications issued in Karnataka for the benefit of Persons with Disabilities — by Shruti Ramakrishnan — last modified Jan 05, 2013 04:17 PM
- The State of Karnataka has issued numerous notifications and schemes for the benefits of persons with disabilities. This is a brief overview of all these schemes, which are described thematically under the headings of education, employment, rehabilitation, social security and others.
- A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
- Tomorrow, Today — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:00 AM
- Our present is the future that our past had imagined. Around the same time last year, I remember taking stock of the technologies that we live with and wondering what 2012 would bring in.
- National Resource Kit: The Tamil Nadu Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Shruti Ramakrishnan — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:20 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 Tamil Nadu.
- Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 28, 2012 03:34 PM
- A symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.
- Comments and Feedback on the Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan with respect to Persons with Disabilities — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Dec 28, 2012 03:33 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the ten organizations representing people with disabilities that sent comments and feedback on the draft twelfth five year plan.
- New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups — by Noopur Raval — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM
- This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
- A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai — by Noopur Raval — last modified Dec 27, 2012 05:57 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.
- WIPO to Convene a Diplomatic Conference in Morocco to Finalise TVI — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Dec 24, 2012 06:18 AM
- In a landmark development, on December 18, 2012, the Extraordinary General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed to convene a diplomatic conference, likely to be in Morocco, in June of next year to finalise the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities.
- WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 21, 2012 11:50 AM
- In a swift 15 minute session this morning delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization extraordinary assembly agreed to convene a high-level meeting in Morocco in June to finalise a treaty on international exceptions to copyrights on books in special formats for visually impaired people.
- International treaty to make books accessible to the blind — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 21, 2012 11:36 AM
- It would make it legal to send accessible books across borders.
- Disability groups in India welcome progress on treaty for blind persons — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 31, 2012 01:40 AM
- Four years of struggle for a global treaty for the benefit of blind persons is finally bearing fruit. Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation have agreed to conclude a treaty for visually-impaired and print disabled persons by June 2013.
- ‘The IT Act is fine, but its interpretation is not’ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 21, 2012 10:08 AM
- Several organisations such as the Alternate Law Forum and Centre for Internet and Society are campaigning to amend the IT Act 2000. However, SV Raghavan, scientific secretary, office of PSA to the government of India, stated that the law in place is fine but the stakeholders need to be educated on implementing it better.
- Inflation Control Through Structural Reforms — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:55 AM
- Inflation will persist until supply increases. Policies must therefore address supply through structural reforms, e.g., in telecom and power.
- State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 21, 2012 07:19 AM
- A two-day conference was held in Rio on December 13 and 14 at Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event and made a presentation on MLATS and International Cooperation for Law Enforcement Purposes.
- Govt likely to issue guidelines to clarify IT rules soon — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 20, 2012 05:24 AM
- Norms relate to the role of intermediaries such as telcos, Web service providers, others on hosting content online, writes Surabhi Agarwal.
- Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now! — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM
- Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
- The Trouble with Hurried Solutions — by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Dec 20, 2012 04:23 AM
- The World Conference on International Telecommunication showed that countries are not yet ready to arrive at a consensus on regulation and control of the Internet
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