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- The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop — by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 04, 2012 12:16 PM
- For those who might not be aware, Punjabi Wikipedia is one of the first Indic Wikipedias where community started editing way back in 2002. However, after the initial few edits all activities got stopped and it was inactive over the last decade. Recently we conducted a few workshops that led to the revival of Punjabi Wikipedia. This post is about the first Punjabi Wikipedia workshop held in Ludhiana, Punjab on July 28, 2012.
- Pitroda seeks to put govt information in public domain — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2012 05:13 AM
- In the first-ever Indian government press conference on Twitter, Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovations, championed the cause of putting government information in the public domain to usher in openness and empowerment.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: Globalising Lady GaGa — by Alok Vaid-Menon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 05:02 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The workshop aims to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: PechaKucha — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 10, 2012 07:15 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The workshop aims to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 1 Live Blog: Introduction — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 04:38 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The workshop hopes to generate dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become the visible landmarks of contemporary life, and produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- The Five Monkeys & Ice-cold Water — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 30, 2012 10:43 AM
- The Indian government provides leadership, both domestically and internationally, when it comes to access to knowledge.
- Accessibility of Government Websites in India: A Report — by Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal — last modified Sep 26, 2012 08:16 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the publication of a report on the accessibility of government websites in India. The report is published in cooperation with the Hans Foundation. Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal are the authors.
- An Introduction to the Issues in Internet Governance — by Smarika Kumar — last modified Apr 22, 2014 02:47 AM
- That the internet cannot be governed was a central conviction of the early architects of the internet. In many ways it proved true when a majority of nation-States were kept off interference with the functioning of the internet. However with growing popularity of the internet, countries of the world are increasingly vying for control over it. This has become especially significant with the involvement of developing nations into the power struggle.
- Govt plans inter-ministerial panel on Internet policy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 25, 2012 10:28 AM
- The government may set up an inter-ministerial panel to improve coordination among the various arms of the government on Internet-related issues such as governance, commerce and security, according to a senior government official who didn’t want to be named.
- Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report: January – June 2012 — by Shiju Alex — last modified Sep 28, 2012 03:41 PM
- The following is a compilation of the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias from January to June 2012. The author provides perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language Wikipedias during the period.
- Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University — by Shiju Alex — last modified Oct 16, 2012 12:35 PM
- Tumkur University, Karnataka hosted a Kannada Wiki Workshop on September 15, 2012. This was the first Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Tumkur.
- Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II — by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Sep 27, 2012 10:42 AM
- Snehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”).
- Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace — CIS’s Upcoming A2K Research Initiative — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 30, 2012 06:23 AM
- Pervasive technologies have flooded the Indian market and are changing the ways in which the average Indian accesses knowledge but very little is understood about these technologies, particularly when it comes to their legality. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) plans to begin a research project that aims to understand how pervasive technologies interact with Intellectual Property laws and what can be done to protect these technologies from being labelled “illegal” and eradicated from the Asian market.
- ಭಾರತೀಯ ಡಿಎನ್ಎ ಪ್ರೊಫೈಲಿಂಗ್ ಮಸೂದೆಯ ಸೀಳುನೋಟ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 03, 2012 03:42 PM
- ಭಾರತೀಯ ದಂಡಸಂಹಿತೆಯನ್ನು ೨೦೦೫ರಲ್ಲಿ ತಿದ್ದುಪಡಿ ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಇದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಆಪಾದಿತರನ್ನು ಬಂಧಿಸಿದಾಗ ಅವರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವಿಧ ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸಲು ಕಾನೂನುರೀತ್ಯಾ ಅವಕಾಶ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸುವುದು.
- Mind of the millennium teen — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2012 08:34 AM
- Say mom, did you have electricity when you were growing up?" Twelve-year-old Aditya throws a casual query at his 38-year-old mother during a power cut.
- Entertainment industry and Internet piracy in focus — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 17, 2012 10:00 AM
- The first-of-its-kind initiative by the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police to register cases against 1,010 Internet users for uploading or downloading the Malayalam film Bachelor Party has sparked a debate between social media experts and legal puritans on what the law actually says.
- A multistakeholder discussion on India’s Position in the UN for Internet Governance UN Committee for Internet Related Policies (UN-CIRP) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 17, 2012 09:49 AM
- The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is hosting this event in New Delhi on September 19, 2012 from 10.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Sunil Abraham has been invited as a panelist.
- One. Zero. — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM
- The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
- Meeting of the Global Network on Flexible Limitations and Exceptions — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 04, 2012 05:59 AM
- American University Washington College of Law organized a meeting of the Global Network in Washington D.C., on September 12 to 15, 2012. Pranesh Prakash was one of the 25 participants.
- 'Sops can boost jobs for disabled persons' — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 12, 2012 03:51 AM
- A recent report commissioned by the government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for greater incentives to the private sector to boost employment for persons with disabilities (PWDs). Incentives such as grants can be used by the employer to make the workplace more accessible and for providing assistive technologies such as voice software or training.
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