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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze

Posted by Nishant Shah at Apr 28, 2019 04:12 AM |

In the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.

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CIS Response to ICANN's proposed renewal of .org Registry

Posted by Akriti Bopanna at Apr 28, 2019 02:16 AM |

We thank ICANN for the opportunity to comment on this issue of its proposed renewal of the .org Registry Agreement with the operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR). Supporting much of the community , we too find severe issues with the proposed agreement. These centre around the removal of price caps and imposing obligations being currently deliberated in an ongoing Policy Development Process (PDP).

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Indic Wikisource speak : Shubha

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 25, 2019 03:30 PM |

As the texts are in the searchable format, many students and research scholars can make use of Wikisource. As we all know, Samskrit is a treasure trove of knowledge. There are many such books that can be uploaded and utilised by the public. For this, we are putting effort to upload more and more books and make our Wikisource a rich one. -- Shubha, a Samskrit Wiki-librarian share her experience

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Indic Wikisource Speak: J. Balaji

Indic Wikisource Speak: J. Balaji

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 25, 2019 03:21 PM |

To perfectly proofread the content with matching styles it takes a lot of effort. Patience is the key. The formatting methods are in wikisource are different from Wikipedia. So wikipedians are finding it difficult to edit in wikisource without an introduction.The young generation are accessing the internet through Mobile. They don’t use laptops and computers much. Though mobile is good medium for creating multimedia content, they are poor in creating text. It is difficult to proofread wikisource using a mobile phone. The challenge is bringing the next generation proofreaders - Wiki-librarian J. Balaji share his experience.

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To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT Act

To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT Act

Look into the mechanisms that allow the government and ISPs to carry out online censorship without accountability.

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CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020

Posted by Ananth at Apr 15, 2019 08:05 AM |

The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for drafting this proposal.

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Programme Officer - Privacy

Posted by Amber Sinha at Apr 15, 2019 06:50 AM |

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to undertake public policy research on privacy and related themes. For this position, we will hire one full time researcher, to be based in the Delhi office of CIS, for the duration of one year.

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Indic Wikisource speak: Info-farmer

Indic Wikisource speak: Info-farmer

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 11, 2019 07:55 AM |

Indic Wikisource movement needs more simplification of interface and also unification of existing interfaces. Let us develop new tools for wikisource. Give fund to developers like Shrinivasan. Understand the results of OCR4wikisource which is by self funded. - Info-farmer, Tamil Wiki-librarian share his experience and journey to Tamil wikisource.

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Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari

Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 11, 2019 07:55 AM |

"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.

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CIS Response to Call for Stakeholder Comments: Draft E-Commerce Policy

Posted by Arindrajit Basu, Vipul Kharbanda, Elonnai Hickok and Amber Sinha at Apr 10, 2019 12:15 PM |

CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion comments to the ​draft National e-commerce policy.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla

Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla

Future is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen

Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 10, 2019 03:10 AM |

There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi

Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi

"People are more aware of Wikipedia than Wikisource." - Gitartha Bordoloi from Assamese Wikisource community, share his experience with CIS-A2K team.

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SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University

SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University

Posted by Subodh Kulkarni at Apr 10, 2019 01:45 AM |

The Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31 March 2019.

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Content Donation Sessions with Authors

Posted by Subodh Kulkarni at Apr 10, 2019 01:28 AM |

CIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, designers and writers on 7 September 2018.

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Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation

Posted by Subodh Kulkarni at Apr 09, 2019 12:56 AM |

Researchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.

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Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report

Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report

Posted by Gopala Krishna A at Apr 05, 2019 09:00 PM |

CIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.

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DIDP #33 On ICANN's 2012 gTLD round auction fund

Posted by Akriti Bopanna at Apr 04, 2019 02:10 AM |

This DIDP was filed to inquire about the state of the funds ICANN received from the last gTLD auctions.

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Indic Wikisource- The Iceberg.

Posted by Jayanta Nath at Apr 01, 2019 12:20 PM |

Indic Wikisource- The Iceberg.

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CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy

Posted by Amber Sinha at Apr 01, 2019 12:05 PM |

CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.

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