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Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization System: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:56 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Workshop
On Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to Innovate South Africa, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, Ashish Gautam of IBM India, and Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Government IT Officers' Council, OSS Working Group, Republic of South Africa, who moderated the session.
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Report on Open Standards for GISW2008: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM — filed under: Open Standards, FLOSS
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Standards
Report on Open Standards for GISW 2008: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 07, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:57 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Publications
A report on Open Standards prepared by Sunil Abraham, for the Global Information Society Watch 2008. As on their site, GISWatch focuses on monitoring progress made towards implementing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) action agenda and other international and national commitments related to information and communications. It also provides analytical overviews of institutions involved in implementation.
Located in Publications (Automated) / CIS Publications / Sunil Abraham
DCOS Agreement on Procurement: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:58 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Internet Governance Forum, Workshop
On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
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Response to the Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:05 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Publications
Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, authored a response to the draft Open Standards Policy document published by the National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Standards

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