Centre for Internet and Society

Messaging apps find another foe in India’s market regulator

praskrishna — 2013-06-05T10:46:32Z

Paranoid governments and mobile operators aren’t the only one that dislike messaging apps. Regulatory bodies aren’t crazy about them either. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is worried that attempts to pass on confidential information or manipulate markets are originating from within services like WhatsApp and Blackberry Messenger.

This blog post was published in Quartz on May 8, 2013. Elonnai Hickok is quoted.

The regulator already analyzes data from trades for irregularities through its “integrated market surveillance system”. That gives it an idea of what stocks are being manipulated. Now it wants to expand its horizons. The Press Trust of India reports that SEBI has looked into tracking Twitter and Facebook and is grappling with messaging apps—though as yet it has no systems in place for doing either, according to Elonnai Hickok of the Center for Internet Studies in Bangalore. A SEBI spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

Even if SEBI did start following you on Twitter, it cannot snoop on your WhatsApp messages. That sort of power is the preserve of intelligence and police authorities. And there is good reason for SEBI’s restricted powers. Keeping the markets clean may be an honorable pursuit, but the regulator hasn’t always used honorable means.

India’s finance minister last year said that SEBI would be allowed to request call records, which are the data kept by operators about who called whom, for how long and from where. Such information can help investigators discover sources of leaked information. It can also be used to figure out whether traders are trying to influence other investigators. But a freedom-of-information request recently revealed that SEBI had been requesting—and receiving—such data from carriers at least since 2009, well before it was supposedly allowed to do so.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/quartz-may-8-2013-leo-mirani-messaging-apps-find-another-foe-in-indias-market-regulator

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

praskrishna — 2013-06-11T06:21:31Z

This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ಈ ತಿಂಗಳು ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ

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ಮೇ ೭, ೨೦೧೩ , ರಾತ್ರಿ ೯:೩೦ ರಿಂದ ೧೧:೩೦

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ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಸಾರಾಂಶ

[20:48:59] * Topic set by techfiz on 2012-03-06 04:07:36 UTC

[20:48:59] [ChanServ] 'ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಚಾನೆಲ್‌ಗೆ ಸ್ವಾಗತ - #wikipeida-kn'

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[21:11:58] <cvg-89> hi

[21:14:30] <shankar> hi

[21:15:07] <cvg-89> You all experience ppl in Wiki; I am newbie

[21:15:10] <cvg-89> ?

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[21:16:47] <cvg-89> Can you tell me how to contribute to wikibooks?

[21:17:58] <shankar> I too haven't contributed any thing to wiki yet

[21:19:17] <kiranravikumar> @cvg-89: May be this 'll help you - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Contributing

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[21:20:45] <cvg-89> @kiranravikumar; Thanks for the info. But I have already gone through that page.

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[21:21:34] <cvg-89> I can type out the scanned pages of the copyleft books and help in contributing to wikibooks

[21:23:06] <kiranravikumar> Oh ok, may be someone with proper knowledge can help this out. Anyone?

[21:29:22] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:29:31] <techfiz> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:29:40] <Pavanaja> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:30:35] <shankar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

[21:30:36] <techfiz> cvg-89: ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು

[21:30:54] <techfiz> ನಾನು ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಕೆದಾರ : Omshivaprakash

[21:32:18] <techfiz> ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬಂದರೆ ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ... ಕೆಲಸದ ನಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:32:50] <cvg-89> Nanu Chaitanya

[21:33:00] <kiranravikumar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ , ನಾನು ಕಿರಣ್ ಸದಸ್ಯ: kiranravikumar

[21:34:01] <shankar> ನಾನು ಶಂಕರ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್: ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಸುವವ, ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಖಾತೆಯನ್ನು ತೆರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:34:15] <kiranravikumar> ಇಂದಿನ agenda ಎನು?

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[21:35:52] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:36:20] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%A6

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ'

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ನಾವು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಇಂದಿನ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆಯ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> [ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ]

[21:39:17] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ವರೆಗಿನ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆಯ ದತ್ತಾಂಶ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ

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[21:39:41] <techfiz> ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುತ್ತಿದೆ

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[21:40:33] <techfiz> ಒಂದರ ನಂತರ ಒಂದರಂತೆ ನೆಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರ/ಕಮ್ಮಟಗಳು ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತಿವೆ

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[21:41:02] <techfiz> ಇವರನ್ನು ವಿಕಿ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರವೀಣರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಕೆಲಸ ಬಾಕಿ ಇದೆ

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[21:41:19] <cvg-89> Congratulations to the editors. What an awesome accomplishment

[21:41:35] <techfiz> 14,255 ಸಧ್ಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ

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[21:42:13] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯು ೧೨,೯೯೩ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಕುರಿತಾದ ಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ

[21:42:31] <techfiz> ಕಳೆದ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಲಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಈ ವರ್ಷದ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಶೇ ೧೮ ರಷ್ಟು

[21:42:31] <Pavanaja> ಅದನ್ನು ಬದಲಿಸಬೇಕು. ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:42:51] <techfiz> mgharish: ಅದು ತಾನಾಗೇ ಬದಲಾಗಬೇಕು ಅಲ್ವೇ?

[21:43:04] <mgharish> ಆಗುತ್ತೆ

[21:43:13] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ೧೪,೨೫೫ ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಸಿಕ್ತು?

[21:43:35] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Statistics

[21:44:12] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:13] <Pavanaja> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:42] <mgharish> ಓಕೆ.

[21:45:09] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಎಷ್ಟು ಜನ admins ಇದ್ದಾರೆ?

[21:45:57] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

[21:48:21] <kiranravikumar> @pavanaja sir: https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

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[21:50:43] <techfiz> shankar: namaste

[21:50:54] <shreekant> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:11] <Pavanaja> Shreekant: ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:27] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದು ಸಂತೋಷ :)

[21:51:28] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ಏನೇನು ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು?

[21:51:53] <techfiz> ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ವಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಸುತ್ತ ಮಾಡಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳ ಯೋಜನಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ.

[21:51:54] <techfiz> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86

[21:52:10] <techfiz> ಇದರ ಸುತ್ತ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವವರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚ ಬೇಕು

[21:52:38] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವದ ಆಚರಣೆ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಒಂದು ಗುರಿಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವಾದರೆ ಸಮುದಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಉತ್ತಮ

[21:52:44] <shreekant> ನಾನು ಆಗಾಗ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನಿಂದ ಅನುವಾದಿಸುತ್ತೀನಿ ಅಷ್ಟೇ

[21:53:10] <shreekant> ಅದೂ ಸುಲಭ / ಸರಳ ಇರುವಂತಹ ಬರಹಗಳು

[21:53:20] <techfiz> ಒಂದು ದಿನ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಬದಲು ತಿಂಗಳು ಪೂರ ಒಂದಲ್ಲಾ ಒಂದು ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಅರ್ಥ ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:53:35] <shreekant> ಸರಿ

[21:54:01] <techfiz> ಆ ತಿಂಗಳು ಎಲ್ಲ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ವಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ಮಾಸಿಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಸುವ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ನೀಡುವಂತಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:54:45] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರಿಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಹೊರಿಸಲು ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:55:00] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ವಿವರಿಸುವ ಪುಟಗಳ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:55:28] <Pavanaja> ನಾನು ಅದನ್ನೇ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು -advanced user training ಎಂದು

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[21:56:00] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:56:02] <techfiz> ಸಮುದಾಯ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣದಿರುವ ಅನೇಕ ಮುರಿದ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಬೇಕು

[21:56:17] <kiranravikumar> Registered users: ೧೪,೯೪೮, ಅದರ ಶೇಕಡ ೧೦ ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು, ನಮ್ಮ ಗುರಿ ಮುಟ್ಟ ಬಹುದು.

[21:56:33] <techfiz> ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ... ಆದರೆ ಸ್ವತ: ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸದ ವಿನ: ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನವಿಲ್ಲ

[21:57:18] <Pavanaja> ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಶ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿಯನ್ನೆ ಅಲ್ಪ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಿಸಬಹುದು

[21:57:28] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ವೀಡಿಯೋ ಕೂಡ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[21:57:52] <techfiz> kiranravikumar: ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಗಳ ಬೆನ್ನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಓಡುವುದು ಅಷ್ಟೇನೂ ಸಮಂಜಸವಲ್ಲ...

[21:58:21] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರನ್ನು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ನೆಲೆಯೂರುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಸಮಯ ವ್ಯಯಿಸಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:00:11] <kiranravikumar> ಖಂಡಿತ ...

[22:00:44] <techfiz> ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಅನುಭವೀ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಬಹಳ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇರುವುದರಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸಿ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಒಬ್ಬರನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರು ಅರಿಯುವ ತಂಡ ಕಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

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[22:02:09] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಿರುವ ಭೂಪಟಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಓಪನ್‌ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾಪ್ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಬಗೆ ಕೂಡ ಅರಿತು ಅದನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು

[22:02:24] <Pavanaja> editathon ಯಾವ ವಿಷಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ?

[22:03:17] <techfiz> editathon ಗೆ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದನ್ನು ವಿಚಾರವಾಗಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:03:25] <techfiz> ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸೇರಿಸಿ

[22:03:34] <techfiz> ಹ್ಯಾಕಥಾನ್ ಅಥವಾ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್

[22:03:40] <techfiz> ಏನಾದರೂ ಕರೆಯಿರಿ

[22:03:55] <Pavanaja> ವಿಕಿಥಾನ್ :-)

[22:04:02] <techfiz> ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಪ್ಲಗಿನ್‌ಗಳು (hotcat ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)

[22:04:14] <techfiz> ಇತರರೂ ಈ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿ :)

[22:04:24] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಲ್ಲರದ್ದೂ,

[22:04:37] <techfiz> ನನಗೆ ಅನಿಸಿದ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನಷ್ಟೇ

[22:04:37] <Pavanaja> ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ನಾನು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ advanced trainingನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಬಹುದು

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[22:05:57] <Pavanaja> ಅಂದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕೆಲವು ಪಾಲಿಸಿಗಳನ್ನು ತೀರ್ಮಾನ ಮಾಡಲೂ ಒಂದು ಐಆರ್‌ಸಿ ಸಭೆ ಮಾಡೋಣವೇ?

[22:06:33] <kiranravikumar> ಏನು edit ಮಾಡುವುದು ಅಂತ ಹೇಳುವುದಕಿಂತ, ಏನನ್ನು - ಏತಕ್ಕೆ ಅಂತ ತಿಳಿಸಬೇಕು ...

[22:08:26] <kiranravikumar> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಂದು? ಯಾವ ದಿನಾಂಕ?

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[22:11:50] <techfiz> June 12

[22:12:11] <kiranravikumar> ok

[22:13:15] <techfiz> mgharish:

[22:13:19] <shankar> ಎಲ್ಲಿ?

[22:13:32] <mgharish> ?

[22:14:27] <techfiz> shankar: ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನನ್ನೂ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ... ಅದಕ್ಕೇ ಮೇಲೆ ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು ಎಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆ

[22:14:28] <techfiz> :)

[22:14:46] <techfiz> mgharish: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದನಿ ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.. ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಕೂಡ :)

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[22:15:16] <mgharish> ನಿಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಮಾತು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದೀನಿ.. ಹೇಳೋದೇನೂ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು.. ಸುಮ್ನಿದ್ದೆ :)

[22:15:53] <techfiz> :)

[22:16:21] <techfiz> mgharish: ವಿಕಿಸೋರ್ಸ್, ವಿಕಿಕೋಟ್ಸ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಟ್‌ಕ್ಯಾಟ್ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು

[22:16:29] <techfiz> ಸರಿಪಡಿಸುವಿರ?

[22:16:50] <mgharish> ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ಸ್ ಬೇಕು

[22:16:55] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:17:03] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ಕೊಡೋದಕ್ಕೆ ನನ್ನ ಸಮ್ಮತಿ ಇದೆ ಅಂತ ಹಾಕಿದ್ನಲ್ಲ..

[22:17:16] <techfiz> ಓ ನೋಡ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ್... ಚೆಕ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ

[22:17:17] <mgharish> ನನಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ ಇದೆ..

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[22:18:04] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಜೆಕ್ಟ್‌ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಅದರ ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಅನುವಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ.. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಕರಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ

[22:18:26] <techfiz> http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=codelookup&code=kn

[22:19:28] <techfiz> ೧೨೦೦ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಣ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ ಮೀಡಿಯ ವಿಕಿಯಲ್ಲಿ...

[22:19:41] <techfiz> translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?task=untranslated&limit=2000&language=kn&group=core

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[22:22:32] <mgharish> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಸಿದ್ದೇ ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಉಪಯೋಗ ಆಗುತ್ತೆ ಅಲ್ವಾ?

[22:23:37] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:23:48] <techfiz> ಆದರೆ ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಇನ್ನೂ ಅನುವಾದಗೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲ

[22:24:13] <techfiz> ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಆ ೧೧೫೦ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಅನುವಾದ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:24:29] <techfiz> ನಂತರ ನಾನು ವಿಕಿಪುಸ್ತಕ ದ ಮರುಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಕೇಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:25:39] <Pavanaja> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ .... ಏನೇನು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು?

[22:29:21] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಚಾರ

[22:38:31] <shankar> ಮುಂದೆ?

[22:38:49] <mgharish> ಇವತ್ತು ಯಾಕೋ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಡಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ..

[22:38:54] <mgharish> ನಿದ್ದೆ ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದೆ!

[22:39:03] <shankar> :)

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[22:41:07] <mgharish> techfiz: ಮುಂದೇನು?

[22:46:14] <techfiz> Zzzzz :)

[22:47:04] <techfiz> shreekant: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ

[22:47:13] <techfiz> ಅದನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು

[22:47:31] <shreekant> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದಿರಲ್ಲ .. ಅಂದರೇನು ಅಂತ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ನೋಡಿ /ಟ್ಯುಟೊರಿಯಲ್ ಪುಟ ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ಎ ಇದೇ ಈಗ!

[22:48:02] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು --- ಅಂದರೇನು ? ಹೇಗೆ?

[22:48:20] <techfiz> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯ ಇದೆ ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತೆ ಈಗಾಗ್ಲೇ

[22:48:30] <shreekant> ನನಗೆ ಸಿಗಲಿಲ್ಲ

[22:48:34] <shreekant> ಸೇರಿಸ್ದೆ

[22:48:54] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF

[22:49:51] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86 - ಇಂತಹದ್ದೊಂದು ಪುಟವನ್ನು ನುರಿತ ಸಂಪಾದಕರಿಗೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುವಂತೆ ಸಿದ್ದಪಡಿಸ್ಬೇಕು ಎಂದದ್ದು

[22:49:57] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?

[22:50:35] <techfiz> ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳೂ ಮುರಿದಿವೆ.. ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ಪ್ರತಿ ದಶಕಕ್ಕೂ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ವಿಕಿಪುಟಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುವಂತಾದರೆ ಚೆನ್ನ

[22:50:48] <techfiz> ವರ್ಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ರೀಡೈರೆಕ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[22:50:52] <techfiz> mgharish: ಏನಂತೀರಿ

[22:51:46] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯೂತೋರಿಯಲ್ ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕು ನಿಜ ... ಆದರೆ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದರೆ ಏನು ? ಬೇಕಲ್ಲವೇ? ಅದನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D

[22:52:22] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಪ್ರಯ್ಸ್ತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ

[22:53:18] <shreekant> ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ . ಬೇರೆ ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಅದನ್ನು ಮಾಡಲಿ

[22:53:45] <techfiz> shreekant: ವಾರಾಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೇನೆ.. ಬಹಳ ದಿನ ಆಯ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ

[22:53:47] <techfiz> :)

[22:53:54] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಹೇಳಿದ "ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?" ಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ . ಓಕೆ

[22:54:02] <shreekant> ಗುಡ್ ನೈಟ್

[22:54:32] <techfiz> ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

[22:58:04] <kiranravikumar> GN

[23:03:42] <shreekant> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ಇದರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದ ಬೇಕಿದೆಯೇ ?

[23:05:13] <shreekant> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%BF ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ್?

[23:05:30] -*- shankar clicks

[23:06:14] <shankar> ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಅನುವಾದ ಹೊಸಬರಿಗೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

[23:06:39] <shreekant> ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ ?

[23:07:17] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ದಿಕ್ಸೂಚಿ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ

[23:07:44] <shankar> ಓಹ್.. ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ವೀಡಿಯೊ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಉತ್ತಮ

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[23:12:46] -*- shankar ತೆರಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ... ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

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[23:24:48] <mgharish> techfiz: ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ

[23:24:55] <mgharish> bot run ಮಾಡಿ ಮಾಡ್ಬಹುದು

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-irc-meet-may-7-2013

A Privacy Round Table in Chennai

praskrishna — 2013-05-06T10:01:45Z

The Centre for Internet and Society, Data Security Council of India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry cordially invite you to a "Privacy Round Table" at the Residency Towers in Chennai on Saturday, May 18, 2013, 10.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

To discuss the "Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy" by the Justice AP Shah Committee, the text of the "Citizens' Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013", drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society, and "Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-regulation" by DSCI.

The discussions and recommendations from the meeting will be published into a compilation, and presented at the Internet Governance meeting planned for October 2013.

Draft Agenda for the Roundtable Discussion

Time	Detail
10.30 a.m.	Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy
11.30 a.m.	Overview, explanation, and discussion: Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-regulation
12.15 p.m.	Tea
12.30 p.m.	Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013
1.15 p.m.	Lunch
2.15 p.m.	In depth discussions: The Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013
4.15 p.m.	Tea

Confirmations and RSVP

Please send your email confirmations for attending the Chennai Privacy Roundtable on May 18th, 2013, to Snehashish Ghosh at snehashish@cis-india.org, mobile no. +91- 9902763325,latest by end-of-business 5:30 p.m. on Monday May 13, 2013. As the conference is a roundtable dialogue, we request that attendees submit a brief introduction about themselves and their interest in the topic.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-chennai

Privacy Round Table (Chennai Invite)

praskrishna — 2013-05-06T08:15:29Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-round-table-chennai-invite.pdf

CIS anniversary

praskrishna — 2013-05-06T07:28:07Z

The Centre for Internet and Society will celebrate five years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its works and accomplishments.

This was published in Hindu Business Line on May 5, 2013

The exhibition will be held concurrently at both Bangalore and Delhi offices from May 20 to 24, 2013, said a press release.

“To promote transparency, we're getting the general public to be our auditors by throwing open our account books and contracts which show how we have spent the Rs 8.3 crore received from our donors.”

The exhibition will also see artists like Kiran Subbaiah, Tara Kelton, Navin Thomas, Abhishek Hazra, among others exhibiting their works, as well as lectures.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-business-line-may-5-2013-cis-anniversary

CIS Logos

praskrishna — 2013-05-06T05:38:27Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-logos.zip

Rajasthan Chapter

praskrishna — 2013-05-05T07:22:31Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/rajasthan-chapter.pdf

Celebrating 5 Years of CIS

praskrishna — 2014-02-25T09:15:58Z

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is celebrating 5 years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its activities and accomplishments. The exhibition will be held at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, 2013.

Download all the posters exhibited during the recent exhibition here.

As a move to promote transparency, CIS is inviting the general public to be its auditors by throwing open its account books and contracts which show how it has spent the Rs. 13.13 crores received from its donors. The four-day event will see renowned artists like Kiran Subbaiah, Tara Kelton, Navin Thomas and Abhishek Hazra featuring their work and also giving live demonstrations.

Agenda

Open exhibition on all the 4 days from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m., in Bangalore and Delhi. The evening programmes will be held in Bangalore. Dinner will be served right afterwards.

Evening Programmes

May 20, 2013

18.00 19.00	Why did I buy a set-top box?: What we know, don't know and need to know about Digitalisation — A Talk by Vibodh Parthasarathi Why are we being asked to install set-top boxes? How will this change what we want, and pay for, on TV? Grappling with these questions, the talk will evaluate the rationale of the digital migration in cable currently underway, and the less talked about digital migration being planned for the public broadcaster. These scarcely debated and often contentious issues form the core of a recent Country Report on the Media in India, anchored by the speaker. The India Country Report, the first inter-sectoral and policy oriented study of our electronic media landscape, finds the ongoing digitalisation of cable, the infusion of digital tools in the press and the proposed digital switchover of the public broadcaster, posing varied challenges not only to journalism but to public interest at large. This report is part of a global initiative, Mapping Digital Media, examining opportunities and risks amidst the transitions to a digital media ecology across 50 countries. Video
19.00 19.30	Film Screening on Cyber Cafes of Rural India by Video Volunteers Video Volunteers in partnership with CIS have been documenting the cyber cafes of rural India. Kamini Menon and Christy Raj will do the screening of seven 2-minute films: Cyber Cafe Trends Slowly Changing in Imphal by Achungmei Kamei (Manipur) Transgender Interaction with Cyber Cafes by Christy Raj (Karnataka) Cyber Cafes Prevail Over Mobile Phones in Nagaland by Meribeni Kikon (Nagaland) Mobile Technology Threatens Cyber Cafes in HP by Avdhesh Negi (Himachal Pradesh) Cyber Cafe Visit - A Day's Journey by Saroj Paraste (Madhya Pradesh) The Challenges of Establishing Cyber Cafes by Rohini Pawar (Maharashtra) The Community Service Centre - Myth or Reality? by Neeru Rathod (Gujarat) Video
19.30 20.00	Hindustani Classical Performance by Aditya Dipankar
20.00	Dinner
RSVP: Bernadette Längle (bernadette@cis-india.org), Ph: +91 80 4092 6283 Prasad Krishna (prasad@cis-india.org).

May 21, 2013

18.00 19.00	Screening of Sabaka A young elephant trainer in India vows revenge against the cult that killed his family. He seeks help from the local Maharajah who refuses, and he sets out alone to battle the enemy... Sabaka is a 1954 film produced and directed by Frank Ferrin starring Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, June Foray, et.al.
19.00 20.00	Slouching towards Tlön: An Encyclopedia for the 2nd century of Indian cinema — A Talk by Lawrence Liang Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen’s Encyclopedia of Indian cinema (1994) marked an important moment for the study of Indian film history. In the two decades since its publication we have seen a rise in the academic community working on Indian film history along with the rise of various new archival initiatives online. Materials that were hitherto unavailable have also made their way into the public domain via the efforts of film historians, cinephiles and other enthusiasts. It is perhaps fitting to think about what a collaborative encyclopedia of Indian cinema for the 21st century may look like. Using Rajadhayksha and Willemen’s Encyclopedia as a base, Lawrence has been working on an online version that incorporates moving images, photographs and archival materials and his presentation will open up questions of how one thinks of an online encyclopedia as well as larger conceptual questions of the relationship between the encyclopedias, the internet and moving image archives. Video
20.00	Dinner
RSVP: Bernadette Längle (bernadette@cis-india.org), Ph: +91 80 4092 6283, Prasad Krishna (prasad@cis-india.org).

May 22, 2013

Cybersecurity, Privacy and Surveillance

18.00 18.30	“The Indian Surveillance State”— A Talk by Maria Xynou The Central Monitoring System confirms that, starting from last month ‘Big Brother’ is a reality in India. But how do authorities get the tech to spy on us? Maria has started investigating surveillance technology companies operating in India. So far, 76 companies have been detected which are producing and selling different types of surveillance gear to Indian law enforcement agencies. Join us to see India´s first investigation of who is aiding our watchers! Video
18.30 19.00	Why Privacy and How? A Talk by Bernadette Langle "But I have nothing to hide!" That's what most people think. Are you sure? What about all the services you use for free, don't you think the service provider has to spend money on that, and that he needs to earn it somehow? Bernadette will show some alternatives and also how easy it can be, to put your messages in a virtual private envelope as you use to do with messages on paper. Video
19.00 19.45	Cyber Security Preview — Presentation by Laird Brown and Purba Sarkar CIS in cooperation with Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, is developing a film project on cyber security in India from a civil society perspective. Laird will show the preview of the project. The preview will include an overview of the project along with a video footage from the first series of interviews. Video
19.45 20.00	Faking of Fingerprints: A Presentation by Bernadette Langle Bernadette will give a brief presentation on how easy it is to fake a fingerprint. Afterwards you can get hands-on. Fake a fingerprint yourself and take it with you to your home. Video Video
20.00	Dinner
RSVP: Bernadette Längle (bernadette@cis-india.org), Ph: +91 80 4092 6283, Prasad Krishna (prasad@cis-india.org).

May 23, 2013

Kannada Language and IT

18.00 18.15	Kannada in Modern Era: A Guest Talk by Dr. Chandrashekhara Kambara Dr. Chandrashekhara will be the chief guest for this session and will give a guest lecture. Video
18.15 19.30	From Palm Leaf to Tablet – Journey of Kannada: A Talk by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Kannada language which has a history of 2000 years and quite rich in literature started on palm leaves. Kannada advanced with modern times adopting the marvels of Information Technology. This is accomplished by successfully implementing Kannada in various facets of IT. It is being used everywhere from data driven applications to websites to hand held devices like tablets. These aspects will be brought out during the talk. Summary in Kannada: ತಾಳೆಗರಿಯಿಂದ ಟ್ಯಾಬ್ಲೆಟ್ ತನಕ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪಯಣ ಸುಮಾರು ಎರಡು ಸಾವಿರ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಭವ್ಯ ಇತಿಹಾಸವಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಉಗಮ ತಾಳೆಗರಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಆಯಿತು. ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯು ಆಧುನಿಕ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಕೊಡುಗೆಗಳನ್ನು ತನ್ನದಾಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಬೆಳೆಯಿತು. ಮಾಹಿತಿ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಎಲ್ಲ ಅಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಅಳವಡಿಸಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ಇದು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಯಿತು. ಆನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶವಿರಲಿ, ಪ್ರತಿಸ್ಪಂದನಾತ್ಮಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣವಿರಲಿ, ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಡಿದು ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಟ್ಯಾಬ್ಲೆಟ್ ಇರಲಿ –ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಡೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಬಳಕೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಕಡೆ ಒಂದು ಪಕ್ಷಿನೋಟವನ್ನು ಈ ಭಾಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀಡಲಾಗುವುದು. Video
19.30 20.00	Carnatic Music Performance by Nirmita Narasimhan Video
20.00	Dinner
RSVP: Bernadette Längle (bernadette@cis-india.org), Ph: +91 80 4092 6283 Prasad Krishna (prasad@cis-india.org).

About the Speakers

Vibodh Parthasarathi	Vibodh Parthasarathi works with the Centre for Culture and Media Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is also a Board Member at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. He maintains a multidisciplinary interest in media and development policy, business history of creative industries, and governance of media infrastructure. At the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, his ongoing research addresses media policy literacy, the TV news industry and the digital switchover in India. He is the co-editor of the critically acclaimed tri-series on Communication Process (Sage).
Lawrence Liang	Lawrence Liang is the Chairman of the Board at the Centre for Internet and Society. He is a graduate of the National Law School. He subsequently pursued his Masters degree in Law and Development at Warwick, on a Chevening Scholarship. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture, the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. A keen follower of the open source movement in software, Lawrence has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain. He has written extensively on these issues and is the author of The Public is Watching: Sex, Laws and Videotape and A Guide to Open Content Licenses. Lawrence has taught at NLS, the Asian College of Journalism, NALSAR, etc., and is currently working on a Ph.D. on the idea of cinematic justice at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Maria Xynou	Maria Xynou is a Policy Associate on the Privacy Project at the CIS. She has previously interned with Privacy International and with the Parliament of Greece. Maria holds a Master of Science in Security Studies from the University College London (UCL).
Bernadette Langle	Bernadette Längle recently graduated in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and computer science. She is also a so-called hacktivist together with one of the oldest hacker associations of the world, the Chaos Computer Club, having a lot of influence in German politics. As one of the core-team organizer of Chaos Communication Congress in Germany she also has a lot of experience in organizing events.
Laird Brown	Laird Brown is a strategic planner and writer. His core competencies are brand analysis, public relations, and resource management. Laird has worked at the United Nations in New York; high-tech ventures in North America, Europe, and India; and, is a guest speaker at ICT conferences internationally. He is currently working on a film project for CIS on cyber security in India with Purba Sarkar.
Purba Sarkar	Purba Sarkar is an associate producer with the cyber security film project. She holds a Bachelor in Technology degree from West Bengal University of Technology. Purba worked as a strategic advisor in the field of SAP Retail for 4 years before joining CIS in January, 2013.
Dr.Chandrashekhara Kambara	Dr. Chandrashekhara Kambara is a prominent poet, playwriter, folklorist, film director in Kannada language. He is also the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He is known for his effective usage of North Karnataka dialect of Kannada language in his plays and poems and is often compared with D.R. Bendre. He has been conferred with many prestigious awards including the Jnanpith Award (the highest literary honour conferred in India) in 2011 for the year 2010, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Shri by Government of India, Kabir Samman, Kalidas Samman and Pampa Award. After his retirement, Kambara was nominated Member of Karnataka Legislative Council, to which he made significant contributions through his interventions.
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja	Dr U B Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current).

The Artists

Kiran Subbaiah	Kiran Subbaiah studied sculpture at Santiniketan, MSU Baroda and the RCA London. He was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam where he worked on art that incorporated informatics and electro-mechanics. He is also known for making videos using custom-built tools that enable him to perform multi-person film-making tasks single-handed. His art is shown extensively in India and abroad. Subbaiah is based in Bangalore and is represented by the Chatterjee and Lal gallery in Mumbai. Kiran will present the Spectator, a robot that can sense the presence of human beings around it. It tries to appreciate them as works of art.
Tara Kelton	Tara Kelton is an artist and designer. She has been living in Brooklyn, USA and Bangalore, India for the last three years. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2009. Kelton’s video, print, and web-based works investigate moments in which technology alters our perception of the physical world. Kelton has taught at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology and has recently exhibited her work at Vox Populi (USA), Franklin Street Works (USA), GALLERYSKE (Bangalore) and the India Design Forum (Mumbai). Tara will present Trace, a surveillance camera feed drawn in real-time by anonymous online workers.
Navin Thomas	Navin Thomas is a multimedia artist and a professional scrap market junkie, he spends a good quality of his precious time looking for obscure cultural misfits... after destroying most of himself in the 90's, he now spends his time restoring your mother's brother’s tin space toys and other unusual situations.
Abhishek Hazra	Abhishek Hazra approaches his art with a particular emphasis on the study of the historiography of science. He uses videos and prints that often integrate textual fragments drawn from real and fictional scenarios. He has previously exhibited and performed at Science Gallery, Dublin, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum and Kunstmuseum Bern. Abhishek was most recently an artist in residence at SymbioticA, the Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth. It was first performed as part of Beam Me Up, curated by Reinhard Storz and Gitanjali Dang, which was acknowledged by Pro Helvetia, New Delhi and German Book Office, New Delhi. Abhishek will be presenting #cloudrumble56 (attempted to re-animate sections of the Indian parliamentary archives — specifically, the transcripts of the scientist M.N. Saha's (1893-1956) interventions — through a performance that was transmitted only through live tweets on Twitter).
Aditya Dipankar	Aditya Dipankar started fiddling with music at the age of 4 when he started learning the tabla and then went on to play it for a long time. Years later, he discovered his strong inclination towards singing. Now, under the noble guidance of Pandit Vijay Sardeshmukh (Senior disciple of Pandit Kumar Gandharva), he is trying to understand the simplicity and spontaneity in the rich tradition of Hindustani classical music.
Nirmita Narasimhan	Nirmita Narasimhan is a Policy Director at CIS and works on accessibility for persons with disabilities. She was awarded the national award for empowerment of persons with disabilities by the President of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award. Nirmita Narasimhan is a disciple of Dr. Radha Venkatachalam and renowned maestro Prof. T.R. Subramanyam. She began learning music at the age of 5 and went on to complete her Ph.D. in this subject from the Delhi University. Nirmita has been performing since 1995 and received several accolades such as the Sahitya Kala Parishad Scholarship and prizes in several competitions. She received the Gold medal in MA for standing first in the University and also stood first in MPhil. She has released a CD on Ponnayya Pillai compositions and also sung in an album of varnams. Nirmita has performed in different places in India such as Delhi, Chennai, Tirupathi and Bangalore as well as in Singapore and has also given several thematic concerts such as Eka Raga Sandhya and Pallavi concerts.
Sharath Chandra Ram	Sharath Chandra Ram (Sharathchandra Ramakrishnan) has interests in multimodal art, cognitive science, accessibility, digital humanities and network cultures. He is a faculty at the Centre for Experimental Media Arts at the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology. At the Centre for Internet and Society he helped set up and manage activities at the Metaculture Media Lab : an open hackerspace and alternative platform for research and exchange. His writings and musings at CIS maybe found here: http://cis-india.org/author/sharath He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Artificial Intelligence specializing in interactive virtual environments. Previously as a Research Associate at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences he received a special mention award at the International Conference on Consciousness (2012) held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies for his work on ‘Cross modal Integration’. As an amateur radio broadcaster, he is a proponent of the free use of airwaves for relief work, education and transmission art. He has also been a development related radio journalist (PANOS @ Nepal, Voices UNDP@Bangalore), speaker at the International Ham Radio Convention (Port Blair, 2006) and as a film enthusiast has been a Press Reviewer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Locations

Bangalore

Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, Second 'C' Cross, Domlur,
2nd Stage, Bangalore - 560071,
Karnataka, India
Ph: +91 80 4092 6283
Fax: +91 80 2535 0955

Delhi

Centre for Internet and Society
G 15, Top floor
Behind Hauz Khas, G Block Market
Hauz Khas,
New Delhi 110016
Ph: + 91 011 40503285

Event Brochure

Event Flier

Event Posters/Banners and Videos

Accessibility

National Resource Kit (PDF, PNG)
NVDA E-Speak (PDF, PNG)
International Collaborations (PDF, PNG)
Partners (PDF, PNG)
Publications (PDF, PNG)
Timeline (PDF, PNG)
Inclusive Planet (PDF, PNG)

In the below video Anandhi Viswanathan gives a demo of the National Resource Kit project and Rameshwar Nagar gives a demo of the NVDA and ESpeak (Text-to-Speech) project during the exhibition.

Access to Knowledge

Broadcast Treaty (PDF, PNG)
Copyright (PDF, PNG)
Software Patent 1 (PDF, PNG)
Software Patent 2 (PDF, PNG)
Pervasive Technologies (PDF, PNG)

Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia)

Factsheet (PDF, PNG)
Reaching Out (PDF, PNG)
Outreach (PDF, PNG)
Bridging Gender Gap (PDF, PNG)
Press Coverage (PDF, PNG)
Education Programmes (PDF, PNG)
Team Achievements (PDF, PNG)
Visualization (PDF, PNG)

Openness

Open Access to Scholarly Literature (PDF, PNG)
Open Access to Law (PDF, PNG)
Open Standards (PDF, PNG)
Free/Open Source Software (PDF, PNG)

Internet Governance (Free Speech)

Blocking of Websites (PDF, PNG)
Freedom of Speech (PDF, PNG)
Intermediary Liability (PDF, PNG)
Internet Governance Forum (PDF, PNG)

Internet Governance (Privacy)

Privacy Events (PDF, PNG)
Timeline (PDF, PNG)
UID (1) (PDF, PNG)
UID (2) (PDF, PNG)
DNA (1) (PDF, PNG)
DNA (2) (PDF, PNG)

Telecom

Institutional Framework for Indian Telecommunication (PDF, PNG)
Growth of Telecom Industry in India (PDF, PNG)
Delicensed Spectrum (PDF, PNG)
Spectrum Sharing (PDF, PNG)

RAW Monographs

Archives and Access (PDF, PNG)
Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities (PDF, PNG)
The Last Cultural Mile (PDF, PNG)
Porn, Law, Video Technology (PDF, PNG)
Re:Wiring Bodies (PDF, PNG)
Community Informatics and Open Government Data (Special Issue) (PDF, PNG)

News and Media

Media Coverage (PDF, PNG)
Organizational Chart (PDF)

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/celebrating-5-years-of-cis

Consilience – 2013

praskrishna — 2013-11-20T06:15:15Z

The Law and Technology Committee of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is organising ‘Consilience – 2013′, an annual conference on law and technology, to be held on May 25 and 26, 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is a co-partner for this event.

Theme: Data Protection and Cyber Security in India. Click to read the report here.

Topics:
Frameworks for Data Protection in India: The J. A.P. Shah “Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy”

a. What is the scope of the principles/framework?

b. What could be the strengths and limitation of their application?

c. How does Report define privacy for India?

d. Would an alternative framework for privacy in India be better? If so, what would this framework look like?

India and the EU: The Privacy Debate

a. How does the Indian data protection regime differ from the EU regime?

b. Was the EU is justified in not accepting India as a data secure country? Reason for or against.

c. In what way does the Indian regime on data protection not meet the requirements of EU’s data protection directive?

d. What changes need to be made in the Indian regime to become EU compliant? Are these changes feasible? Should India make these changes?

Governmental Schemes, Data Protection, and Security

a. In India, do private public partnerships between government and the private sector adequately incorporate data protection standards?

b. What have been concerns related to data protection and security that have arisen from government schemes? (Please use two governmental schemes as case studies)

c. Are these concerns related to the policy associated with the project – the architecture of the project as well as the implementation?

d. Should the larger question of data protection for governmental schemes be incorporated into a privacy legislation? If yes, how so?

Contracts and Data Protection in India

a. How are contracts used to ensure data protection in India? What actors use contracts?

b. Are there weaknesses in using contracts to ensure data protection standards?

c. Do contracts address questions brought about from technology like the cloud?

Cyber security in India

a. What are the perceived challenges and threats to cyber security in India?

b. Are these currently being addressed through policy/projects? If yes, how so?

c. How does India’s cyber security regime compare to other countries?

Surveillance and Cyber Security

a. Does policy in India enable the Government of India to surveil individuals for reasons related to cyber security?

b. If so – through what policy, projects, legislation?

c. Do the relevant policies, projects, and legislation impact privacy? How so?

The Draft National Cyber Security Policy

a. What is the scope of the National Cyber Security Policy of India? Does the draft policy adequately address all of the concerns within the ambit of cyber security?

b. Would the Draft National Cyber Security Policy of India be effective in meeting the goal of enhancing cyber security levels in India?

c. How does the Draft National Cyber Security Policy compare to other countries cyber security policies?

Word Limit:

Abstract: 750-800 words

Paper: 2,500 words

Deadlines:

Abstract Submission: April 30, 2013

Paper Submission: May 15, 2013

Contact Details:

consilience2013[at]gmail[dot]com

Mohak Arora: +91-90359-21926

Shivam Singla: +91-99167-08701

Each participant is required to submit an abstract on any one of the seven topics above and can choose the specific issue within the selected topic to discuss.

For additional details, click here.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/consilience-2013-law-technology-committee-nls-bangalore

Goa chapter

praskrishna — 2013-05-02T06:33:24Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/goa-chapter.pdf

Access to Knowledge Bulletin — May 2013

praskrishna — 2013-07-04T04:17:49Z

In this issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates about the open exhibition held at our office for celebrating five years of our existence, Access to Knowledge work plan (2013-14), and the revised budget (September 2012 - February 2013).

Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In this newsletter, we are pleased to bring you updates about the recently concluded exhibition organised in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi and share with you the feedback to the Access to Knowledge work plan from the wikipedia community.

The A2K team consists of three members based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer left the organisation on April 24, 2013. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

Celebrating 5 Years of CIS
CIS is now 5 years old and we recently celebrated this by holding an open exhibition in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, showcasing our work and accomplishments over the five year period. We had about 170 visitors coming in to our office. Renowned artists like Tara Kelton, Kiran Subbaiah, Navin Thomas, Abhishek Hazra and Sharath Chandra Ram exhibited their work. The four-day event attracted press coverage: Bangalore Mirror (May 18, 2013), DNA (May 19, 2013), Hindu (May 22, 2013), Prajavani (May 23, 2013), Udayavani (May 25, 2013) and Bangalore Mirror (May 31, 2013). Download all the posters that were part of the exhibition here.

Announcements

Access to Knowledge Work Plan (April 2013 - June 2014): CIS has announced its detailed plan with projection of outcomes and expected impact of the A2K programme activities. The document has been made in consultation with various stakeholders and keeping in mind the objectives, opportunities and challenges faced by each of the Indian language Wikimedia projects. Feel free to share any feedback.
WMF-A2K Revised Budget (draft) and Utilization (September 2012 - February 2013): In our effort to increase transparency with the working of CIS-A2K programme, we are sharing with you the A2K Programme Budget along with the utilization for the above period. The proposed revisions to the budget along with some notes are here.
CIS Signs MOU with TISS: has signed a MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions.
India Access to Knowledge IRC can be accessed here: May 13, 2013 (All Language Discussion) and May 26, 2013 (Odia Language Discussion).

Blog Entries

Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 11, 2013).
Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians (by Nitika Tandon, May 20, 2013).
Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 30, 2013).
My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad (by T. Vishnu Vardhan, June 19, 2013).

Events Organised

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia

Event Participated

Kannada IRC Meet (organised by the Wikipedia Community, May 7, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.

Upcoming Event

Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education (co-organised in collaboration with HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS (IISc), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 13, 2013).

Press Coverage

Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration (Prajavani, May 23, 2013). Prajavani published a report of Dr. U.B. Pavanja’s talk “From Palm Leaf to Tablet – Journey of Kannada”.
Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration (Udayavani, May 25, 2013). Udayavani published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.
A Feature on Wikipedia and Telegu Wikipedians (HMTV, May 30 – 31, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted in this half an hour feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians.
Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme (HMTV, June 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan speaks about Telegu Wikipedia in the discussion that was telecasted live.

About CIS

CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause?, Thinkathon Position Papers and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties, Copyright Bill, NIA Bill, etc.

CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award.

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Request for Collaboration
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org

CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-may-2013

Is free speech an Indian value?

praskrishna — 2013-04-30T07:18:10Z

Is freedom of speech and expression deeply accepted in Indian society? Or is it merely a European cultural import that made its way along with the English language and appeared in the Constitution because of the founding fathers' genius? Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya reviews Freedom Song, a film and connects the dots.

Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya's blog post was published in India Together on April 27, 2013. Snehashish Ghosh is quoted.

Debates on freedom of speech can be traced back to the earliest evolutions of human society, but if there is a time which could be considered most apposite for this debate to come to the fore and dominate public thought and discourse, this surely would be it for Indian society.

From the banishment of literary icons such as Salman Rushdie to repeated assaults on artists and cartoonists seeking to express their viewpoints through their art, and even the gag on the common man’s voice in traditional and new media, freedom of speech and expression has found itself under fire increasingly and in the most alarming of ways.

Is India as a nation becoming more intolerant of contrarian perspectives, or is it merely that voices seeking to stifle dissent are now amplified, thanks to a greater number, as well as newer forms, of media covering this debate?

Can India really achieve free speech in the way that its founding fathers conceived of and constitutionalized it?

These are the questions probed in Freedom Song – a 52-minute documentary from the Public Services Broadcasting Trust, co-directed by veteran journalist, author and academic Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Professor Subi Chaturvedi.

Freedom Song, the film

Interestingly, since the time Freedom Song was conceived of and filmed, the clamp-down or attacks on free speech in India have only become more frequent and flagrant. This was made much before the time that Salman Rushdie, in almost a repeat of the 2010 Jaipur Lit-fest incident, was stopped by the state from attending the screening of Midnight’s Children in Kolkata; or when two young girls from Palghar in Maharashtra were arrested by the police merely because one of them had questioned on Facebook the derailment of normal life in Mumbai following Balasaheb Thackeray’s death and the other had ‘liked’ it; or even before the long-awaited Kamal Hassan film Vishwaroopam was banned for purportedly offending the sensibilities of a religious community in a few scenes, which the director eventually had to agree to censor in order to ensure that his creation could reach the audience.

Freedom Song, the documentary, chronologically precedes all of these as well as the debate and outrage over sociologist Ashish Nandy’s remarks on corruption and backward castes; yet, when one sees it now, recalls the numerous incidents highlighted in the film, and hears the debates that rage on, the larger context and culture that has facilitated the perpetuation of suppression become clearer. It also drives home, disturbingly, the alarming regularity with which speech and expression have been muffled. It can thus be seen as a commentary on the gradual but consistent build-up to the current climate where there is an almost systematic and continuous crackdown on free speech whenever it inconveniences the powers-that-be.

Gags on expression - recent incidents

In July 2010, when T.J. Joseph, a professor of Malayalam at the Newman College in Thodupuzha (Ernakulam district) in Kerala was arrested by police following a controversial examination question set by him, allegedly containing disparaging remarks about the Prophet Mohammad. He was released on bail but suspended from his post following protests by Islamic organizations. But suspension wasn’t the last of Joseph’s tribulations: he was brutally attacked by a gang of men who chopped off his hand at the wrist with an axe. He was also stabbed in the arms and legs. While Joseph’s hand was stitched back in a 16-hour-long operation, even as he was recuperating, his college terminated his services on grounds that he had offended the religious sentiments of students. He was also stripped of all benefits and pension.

Curiously, Joseph himself distances the entire incident from the issue of freedom of expression. In his conversation with the film-makers he says that whatever happened could be interpreted as attempts to meddle with and dilute academic independence in the state. “The incident is not related to the issue of freedom of expression...external attempts to break down communication between students and their teacher was at the core of the entire episode,” says Joseph. Even Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, who hails from the state himself, attributes this incident to the act of some anti-social fringe elements who masquerade as representatives of a particular community. But these arguments from the victim himself, and an eminent authority, cannot resolve the question of his expulsion from service. Nor can they address the fact that the atmosphere of tolerance in the country is such that anti-socials can hijack as simple an academic exercise as question-setting to their advantage and perpetrate such atrocities.

A more recent incident highlighted in the documentary is the arrest and detention of Ambikesh Mahapatra, a professor of Chemistry in Jadavpur University of West Bengal for forwarding a set of cartoons that allegedly defamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Shortly after the dismissal of Union Railway Minister, Trinamool’s Dinesh Trivedi, and his replacement by Mukul Roy, the widely-circulated cartoon showed Roy and the CM having a conversation along the lines of one in a very popular Satyajit-Ray film, conspiring to get rid of Trivedi.

Ambikesh was not the creator of this cartoon – as he himself says, he received it on a forwarded email. Amused by it, he wanted to share it with his friends. Thus he forwarded it again to over 60 members of his housing co-operative society, some of whom happened to have affiliations to the party in power. This action led to the professor being arrested and charged under IPC Sections 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman), Section 500 (defamation) and Section 66 A of the IT Act (causing offence using a computer). He had to spend a night in jail before he was released on bail the following afternoon.

However, charges against the professor have since been dropped and the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) ruled that the state police were indeed guilty of harassing the professor (and one of his colleagues, who had also been arrested).

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, co-director of Freedom Song

Muffling creativity

One thing that stands out pretty sharply in Freedom Song is the deep angst shared by the creative fraternity in the country over the assault on free speech. Perhaps, by dint of being that section of society which is most inclined to spontaneous and non-conformist expression, they also constitute one of the most vulnerable groups when it comes to being restrained or gagged.

One of the darkest chapters of suppression of artistic expression in India relates to the forced exile of iconic painter M F Hussain during the last days of his life, after being targeted for his nudist depictions of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Sadly, as artist Arpana Caur points out, such waves of intolerance or fanaticism fail to factor in either subjective value judgments (how deeply Hussain must have loved Hindu culture and mythology to actually apply his creative instincts to bring it alive) or objective facts (that the nudist paintings were actually done in the ancient Khajuraho tradition of figurative depiction, it was not something Hussain had developed).

Often, the gag on works by artists and writers has transcended to direct discrimination against the person himself. The state of West Bengal banned exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen’s book “Dwikhandito” in 2003 on fears that it would stoke communal disharmony. When human rights activists challenged the decision in Court and managed to win rulings on her behalf, the writer herself was banished from public life in the state. She was unceremoniously asked to leave the state in 2007, after violent protests against her by fundamentalists. Much later in 2012, even after the political reins in the state had changed hands, the launch of her book at the Kolkata Book Fair was cancelled upon threats of protest.

One of the most heart-rending is the story of Pakistani singer Ali Haidar, who confesses to being almost brainwashed, in one of his weakest moments, by radical elements into believing that the loss of his child was in fact a retribution for him having taken up music as a profession.

The feeling of anger, frustration and even a sense of bewilderment among the artists, writers and performers interviewed in the documentary is almost palpable. As Rajiv Lochan, Director of the National Gallery of Modern Art, says, “Freedom of expression, creative freedom…in simple words, that is the only freedom you are born with...” The unuttered question of how anyone can take that away from you hangs heavy in the silence.

If artists are the most vulnerable, they are also perhaps the most resilient. In the context of the various cartoon controversies that this nation has seen and the proscriptions of cartoonists from Shankar to Aseem Trivedi, eminent political cartoonist Sudhir Tailang says, “We cartoonists know only one way of protest, which is the most peaceful, Gandhian way…you do what you want, we’ll draw a cartoon…and more cartoons… we’ll flood you with cartoons.”

The defiance and rejection of censorship is also strongly voiced by noted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai, who talks of the various forms of attack and insult that she has been subjected to for her unconventional presentations and activism, but asserts that despite all of it, she feels it is her “dharma to go on.”

The language barrier

Perhaps unwittingly, Freedom Song tends to favour the premise that freedom of speech as a principle in India is largely a preoccupation among the English-educated, intellectual and creative segments of the populace. Even the musical score that has played such a dominant part in invoking the spirit of freedom throughout the film seems to underline that - from the refrains of Bob Marley’s ‘Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom,’ to the remixed pop version of ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ that one hears in parties and joints in India’s westernized urban landscape.

How attuned to the issue of free speech is the wide majority of India, the section that still follows vernacular media and are relatively distanced from the constructs of Anglo-Saxon influence? The verdict on the linguistic divide does not emerge with clear certainty when we talk to intellectuals or thought leaders from various parts of the country.

In the words of academic Subhoranjan Dasgupta, a professor at the Kolkata-based Institute of Development Studies, mainstream Bengali media has played a big role in highlighting transgressions of freedom of speech and expression every time it has occurred, irrespective of the political regime in power at the time.

"Whether in the case of the ban on Taslima Nasreen or the arrest of Professor Mahapatra, local media - and especially two widely-followed dailies, the Anandabazar Patrika and Ei Shomoy - have been audibly vocal and consistent in their coverage of these incidents," says Dasgupta. "Irrespective of political ideologies, the common man in Bengal knows that Taslima Nasreen got a raw deal or that what happened to the professor was not acceptable," he adds. Ostensibly, the role of local media in such public consciousness cannot be written off. In a way, it might not be an exaggeration to say that the voices of these publications have been instrumental, to a large extent, in ensuring that these issues grab the eyeballs of the largest number possible, and hence gain traction.

And yet, a completely different picture emerges as one reaches out to another part of the country. Badri Seshadri, Publisher, New Horizon Media - a Chennai-based company that publishes books in Tamil, and an active blogger, feels that notions of freedom, or free speech, are essentially offshoots of the modern era which have found a voice in our country primarily through English media.

Seshadri goes back to the freedom struggle in India when many among the noted thought leaders and freedom exponents wrote both in English and the local language. In those days, the discourse on freedom of thought and expression were perhaps more at par across spheres. But with the dying trend of bilingual writing, intellectual writing increasingly gravitated towards English. Today, the gulf between English writers and regional writers has become so huge in his state that even the most fundamental of issues are discussed in vocabularies that cannot bridge the schism. Issues pertaining to secularism and democracy are viewed with a completely different lens in vernacular media, and those pertaining to liberalism, not at all.

"Take the case of the most recent ban on Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroopam," points out Seshadri; "this was not a film made in Hindi or English that you could assume to be emotively disconnected from the Tamil mindspace. It was a film that had been made by one of the cult film personalities of the region, and yet even as the national English media followed this issue and consistently questioned the violation of an individual's right to creative freedom, deliberations in local channels and publications were strangely muted and focused only on whether or not the disputed scenes in the film could be considered to be offensive to the Islamic community. The larger debate on whether one has the right to offend, in an impersonal way, was completely missing." Those who want to toe the line of liberalism either through their writing or new media are dismissed as harbouring "fancy" ideals or pandering to Western sensibilities.

Guhathakurta, himself, disagrees with the claim that free expression is essentially a Western construct or that debates around it are restricted to the chattering classes in plush drawing rooms. “It is something that concerns every common man,” he says, referring to the case of Laxmi Oraon, the teenaged tribal girl who was stripped, beaten and molested in the streets of Guwahati, where she had been part of a peaceful protest rally, seeking the inclusion of 80 lakh Adivasis living in Assam in the ST category. Traumatised and deeply angered by the brutal injustice meted out to her and the lack of legal redress, Laxmi eventually even contested the Lok Sabha elections, points out the director in order to elucidate the struggle that even the most marginalized take part in to press for their fundamental rights.


A still from the documentary Freedom Song. Pic: PSBT India via Youtube

"Reasonable” restrictions

Despite the continuous infringements on artistic and even individual expression, what emerges from the film is not a blanket wave of intolerance that is engulfing society but rather certain powerful groups with vested interests who are driven either by fanaticism for their ideologies or by the lure of political mileage to raise voices against freedom. In the age of 24x7 channels, their voices gain in both volume and pitch and new media enables greater visibility and debate around it.

As Tharoor says, “The government has the lowest level of tolerance possible because it cannot be seen as offending anybody who is held precious by any segments of Indian society.”

Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi points out, “You have a whole link between the politician, the vote bank and the proprietor. Therefore, the freedom of the press, while this trio exists, is under threat.”

But having said all of the above, it is also clear that defining freedom, especially in an absolute sense, is in itself a huge challenge that most of society acknowledges. More so, in the context of Article 19 (2) of the Constitution which itself allows the state to impose “reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right...in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.”

Senior journalists such as Rajdeep Sardesai are quoted in the documentary, expressing their support for such ‘reasonable restrictions’ to combat the spread of expression or opinion that fuels divisiveness or hatred in society. But the fact remains that such restrictions not only add a qualifier to freedom as enshrined in the founding principles, but also create the larger question of ‘who decides?’

Young India however would prefer to see Article 19 (2) as an enabler rather than as a veto. As Apar Gupta, an advocate of the Supreme Court says in the film, he would like to believe that the incorporation of “reasonable restrictions” was done with a view to ensuring that the Constitution does not remain a static document and does not apply only to fixed definitions of facts and circumstances. Certainly not with the objective of curbing any form of dissent or deviation from convention.

Fali S. Nariman, senior advocate to the Supreme Court and a constitutional jurist, also points out very pertinently that the range of restrictions in 19(2) does not include public interest.

Reality does not bear that out though; especially when one looks at the many recent instances of arbitrary impositions of Sec 66A of the IT Act in booking individuals for expression of their opinion and stances through channels offered by new media and Internet. The documentary in itself does not delve deep into the challenges and threats to freedom of expression that have emerged in the FB/Twitter era, perhaps because many of the most volatile and controversial cases surrounding freedom of speech on the Internet occurred after the film was made. But a new debate is brewing in India, especially after the Palghar incident or the arrest of a Puducherry businessman for allegedly posting 'offensive' text on the micro-blogging site Twitter about the son of an Union Minister.

Snehashish Ghosh, a lawyer and Policy Associate at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, says, “Essentially, there are eight restrictions on freedom of speech and expression as enumerated in Article 19(2) of the Constitution. The Supreme Court in many cases has held that these reasonable restrictions should be construed narrowly and with due regards to the value of freedom of speech in a democratic society. Section 66A in its current form goes well beyond the restrictions laid down under Article 19(2). Therefore, it is liable to be struck down for being in violation of Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.”

Snehashish also feels that technologically, in the present time, it would be near-impossible to 'monitor' the Internet. As far as regulations are concerned, there are laws already in place which ensure the implementation of reasonable restrictions. For example, the Indian Penal Code, 1860 already covers offenses such as incitement of violence, obscenity, criminal intimidation and outraging religious sentiments. The laws which are being applied offline are well equipped to deal with offenses committed online. There is no need to have extraordinary laws where ordinary laws suffice.

But in a country that appears to grow increasingly thin-skinned with time, the import of such logic could well be lost.

Access and freedom

Interestingly, Freedom Song begins with a series of frames capturing the widely different and divergent faces of Indian society, fast moving scenes juxtaposing the educated, affluent sections of urban India against the child who performs on sidewalks to earn his bread or the old emaciated man getting his night’s sleep on the pavement. The clear correlation between access – to basic needs, education and media – and the very consciousness of freedom is hard to ignore.

“Freedom to me is the ability to do what I want, where no one tells me to do anything” says one child on screen, evidently from an English-speaking, relatively privileged background; but one cannot help feeling that his coherence and articulation on freedom would be hard to come across in the children on the streets who are filmed in some of the previous shots.

The point that access to the very basic necessities of life is a necessary condition for freedom of expression is driven home by social activist Ram Bhat in the documentary, who says that despite the technologies aiding free expression, and the profusion of players in this debate, talk of freedom of speech will be pointless unless the problem of access is solved. In its absence, such freedom will remain the privilege of a few.

On balance, in all the voices that emerge from our conversations, and the many more episodes that Freedom Song, the documentary narrates, the only thing that can be concluded without doubt is the challenge of establishing freedom as a perennial or permanent concept in a country as complex and diverse as India. A truly effective and desirable state of free speech and expression can only evolve out of a continuous, fearless, rational dialogue between society and its stakeholders, in which all voices are expressed and heard.

Whether India, as a whole, can facilitate such a dialogue is going to be the moot question in the times to come.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/india-together-april-27-2013-satarupa-sen-bhattacharya-is-free-speech-an-indian-value

April 2013 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2013-05-31T08:07:38Z

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the fourth issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.

Celebrating 5 Years of CIS
We at the Centre for Internet and Society celebrate 5 years of existence with an exhibition showcasing our work and accomplishments over this time. The exhibition will be held concurrently at both our Bangalore and Delhi offices from May 20 to 24, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Google Policy Fellowship
CIS is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India fellow who will be selected by July 1, 2013. Fellowship focus areas include Access to Knowledge, Openness in India, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Telecom Send in your applications for the position by June 15, 2013.

Jobs
CIS invites applications for the posts of Developer (NVDA Screen Reader Project), and Programme Officer (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to sunil@cis-india.org and pranesh@cis-india.org. CIS also invites applications for the post of Programme Officer (Access to Knowledge, Pilot Projects). To apply for this position send your resume to vishnu@cis-india.org.

Accessibility

CIS is doing two projects in partnership with the Hans Foundation. One is to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India and another is for developing a screen reader and text-to- speech synthesizer for Indian languages. CIS is also working with the World Blind Union and many other organisations to develop a Treaty for the Visually Impaired helped by the WIPO:

National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities
Anandhi Viswanathan from CIS and Manojna Yeluri from the Centre for Law and Policy Research are working in this project. Draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the chapters on Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan:

The Himachal Pradesh Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, April 30, 2013).
Goa Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, April 30, 2013).
The Jammu & Kashmir Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, April 30, 2013).
The Rajasthan Chapter (by Manojna Yeluri, April 30, 2013).

Note: All of these are early drafts and will be reviewed and updated.

Events Organised

Girls in ICT Day (April 25, 2013, Mitra Jyothi Auditorium, HSR Layout, Bangalore). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Social Media and Kannada Language for Women with Disabilities. Sara Morais wrote an event report.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 9, 2013, TERI, Southern Regional Centre, Domlur, Bangalore).

Announcement

CIS Gets ITU-D Sector Membership: CIS has become a sector member of ITU-D.

Access to Knowledge and Openness

The Wikimedia Foundation awarded CIS a two year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop the growth of Indic language communities and projects by community collaborations and partnerships. This is being carried out by the Access to Knowledge team based in Delhi. CIS is also doing a project (Pervasive Technologies) on examining the relationship between production of pervasive technologies and intellectual property. CIS also promotes openness including open government data, open standards, open access, and free/libre/open source software through its Openness programme.

Wikipedia
Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation awarded CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi, and one team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer has left the organisation. April 24, 2013 was her last working day.

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages.

Blog Entries

Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain, April 29, 2013).
Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges (by Nitika Tandon, April 30, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment (by Subhashish Panigrahi, April 30, 2013).

Event Organised

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia.

Events Co-organised
The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held meetings with wikipedians:

Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community, March 14, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013).

The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing the report soon:

Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS, Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on April 11, 2013.

Other Access to Knowledge Updates

WIPO

CIS Intervention on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired at SCCR/SS/GE/2/13 (Geneva, April 18 – 20, 2013). Pranesh Prakash participated in the session and spoke about the rights of the visually impaired.

Internet Governance

The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes. Currently, CIS is doing a project with Privacy International, London to facilitate research and events around surveillance, and freedom of speech and expression.

Information Technology

IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69A Rules: Draft and Final Version Comparison (by Jadine Lannon, April 27, 2013).
Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, 419A Rules and IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69 Rules (by Jadine Lannon, April 28, 2013).
IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69 Rules: Draft and Final Version Comparison (by Jadine Lannon, April 30, 2013).
IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69B Rules: Draft and Final Version Comparison (by Jadine Lannon, April 30, 2013).

Resources
The below rules were published recently:

Newspaper Column

Off the Record (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, April 6, 2013).

Privacy

India´s ´Big Brother´: The Central Monitoring System (CMS) (by Maria Xynou, April 8, 2013).

Events Organised
Maria Xynou gives an overview of the discussions and recommendations from the privacy round tables held in Delhi and Bangalore:

A Privacy Round Table in Delhi (organized by CIS and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, FICCI Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi, April 3, 2013).
A Privacy Round Table in Bangalore (organized by CIS and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Jayamahal Palace, Jayamahal Road, Bangalore, April 20, 2013).

Announcements

2nd Expert Committee meeting on draft 'Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012': The Department of Biotechnology has constituted an Expert Committee to discuss various issues of this Bill in detail. Sunil Abraham has been nominated as one of the members of this Committee. A meeting of this Expert Committee has been scheduled for May 13, 2013 under the Chairmanship of Dr. T. S. Rao, Adviser, DBT.
Chinmayi Arun is one of the international experts supporting the Internet & Jurisdiction project, a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process.

Upcoming Events

A Privacy Round Table in Chennai (co-organised with Data Security Council of India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Residency Towers, Sir Thyagaraja Road, T Nagar, Chennai, May 18, 10.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.).
Consilience – 2013 (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, May 26 – 27, 2013).

Other Event Hosted

Or-bits.com — A Talk by Marialaura Ghidini (CIS, Bangalore, April 19, 2013). Marialaura Ghidini gave a talk abou the creation and activities of or-bits.com, a web-based curatorial platform that she founded in 2009.

News and Media

Clarify and define terms in IT rules, panel tells govt. (by Prashant Jha, Hindu, April 1, 2013).
India takes its first serious step toward privacy regulation – but it may be misguided (Privacy Surgeon, April 9, 2013).
Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary? (NDTV, April 11, 2013). Pranesh Prakash participated in a discussion on social media aired on NDTV.
Social media may influence 160 LS seats in 2014 (by Zia Haq, Hindustan Times, April 12, 2013).
Vote: Will Social Media Impact the Election? (by R. Jai Krishna, Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2013).
Untangling the web of India's 'ungovernable' Net (Deutsche Welle, April 15, 2013).
CIS in GNI Annual Report (April 25, 2013). CIS gets mentioned in GNI Annual Report. Sunil Abraham is quoted in it.
Is free speech an Indian value? (by Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya, India Together, April 27, 2013).

Knowledge Repository on Internet Access

CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project on Internet Access. It covers the history of the internet, technologies involved, principle and values of internet access, broadband market and universal access and will touch upon various polices and regulations which has an impact on internet access and bodies and mechanism which are responsible for formulation policies related to internet access. The blog posts and modules will be published in a new website: www.internet-institute.in.

Upcoming Event
We are hosting an “Institute on Internet and Society” with the support of Ford Foundation India, which is to be held from June 8, 2013 to June 14, 2013. Call for registration and relevant details have been announced.

The following units have been published:

Internet Infrastructure (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, April 30, 2013).
Internet Service Provider – Introduction (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, April 30, 2013).

Telecom

CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility of telecommunications services and resources and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:

Newspaper Column

Prioritizing Communications & Energy (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard and Organizing India Blogspot, April 4, 2013).

Blog Entry

From Open Citizen Radio Networks to the Race for .RADIO gTLD (by Sharath Chandra Ram, April 30, 2013).

Event Participated

Broadband Policy Course (organised by Lirne Asia, Bangalore, April 5 – 6, 2013). Nirmita Narasimhan and Snehashish Ghosh attended the course.

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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — April 2013

praskrishna — 2013-05-29T10:57:49Z

In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Kolkata, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.

Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.

The A2K team consists of three members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer (Access to Knowledge) has resigned. April 24, 2013 was her last working day. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages.

Guest Blog

Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain, April 29, 2013).

Event Organised

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia.

Events Co-organised

The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held meetings with wikipedians:

Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community, March 14, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013).

The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing the report soon:

Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS, Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on April 11, 2013.

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Review Government Websites

praskrishna — 2013-04-28T03:26:20Z

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