Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen

by Jayanta Nath

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.

Accessibility

Groundbreaking disability rights activist Javed Abidi dies at 53

March 06, 2018

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) expresses profound regret at the demise of Mr. Javed Abidi, a groundbreaking disability rights activist.
Comments on Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
November 26, 2017
Comments on Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
January 03, 2018
Why GST Is A Step Backward For The Disabled
July 03, 2017
GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
June 24, 2017
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Openness

Design and the Open Knowledge Movement

March 31, 2019

With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.
Talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young
February 28, 2019
Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019
February 26, 2019
Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia
February 22, 2019
Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)
December 05, 2018
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Telecom

Recapturing the Commons

April 03, 2019

Regulations that facilitate infrastructure with appropriate public resource use will enhance productivity.
A great start on Wi-Fi reforms
November 30, 2018
Policies & the Public Interest
November 01, 2018
The Problems That Should Occupy Our Electioneers
August 01, 2018
India's Draft Telecom Policy Needs to Bridge the Gap Between Intent and Execution
May 07, 2018
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Access to Knowledge (A2K)

CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020

April 15, 2019

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.
Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari
April 10, 2019
Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla
April 10, 2019
SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University
April 10, 2019
Content Donation Sessions with Authors
April 10, 2019
695 more articles →

Internet Governance

To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT Act

April 16, 2019

Look into the mechanisms that allow the government and ISPs to carry out online censorship without accountability.
CIS Response to Call for Stakeholder Comments: Draft E-Commerce Policy
April 10, 2019
DIDP #33 On ICANN's 2012 gTLD round auction fund
April 04, 2019
CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy
April 01, 2019
Improving the Processes for Disclosing Security Vulnerabilities to Government Entities in India
March 20, 2019
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Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession

April 01, 2019

Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down
April 03, 2019
Presentation at Global Digital Humanities Symposium
April 12, 2019
Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward
April 03, 2019
What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
March 14, 2019
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