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Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software Products
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by
Anubha Sinha, Rohini Lakshané, and Udbhav Tiwari
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published
Dec 11, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 02:45 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
National Software Policy,
Open Source,
Open Data,
Internet Governance,
Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software
Products on December 9, 2016.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Nov 28, 2016
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last modified
Apr 17, 2017 06:44 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikisource,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
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Blogs
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4 tips for DIY makers
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 22, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Source,
Creative Commons,
Wikimedia
I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.
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Openness
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
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by
Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam
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published
Oct 29, 2016
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last modified
Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Science,
Open Content,
Open Access
We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
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Openness
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Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication
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by
Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan
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published
Oct 28, 2016
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
Openness,
Open Research,
Open Access
ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
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Openness
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Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 27, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS,
Open Source
The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
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Openness
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
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by
Harsh Gupta
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published
Oct 20, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
Web Standards,
Encrypted Media Extensions,
Openness
World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
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Blogs
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OpenData Week in Madrid - OD4D Summit, Open Data Charter Meetings, and IODC16
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 16, 2016
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filed under:
Open Data,
Openness
Sumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
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Openness
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News & Media
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Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Oct 12, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
In an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
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Openness
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How we celebrated Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 07, 2016
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last modified
Oct 07, 2016 02:02 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS
A small group of 6 FOSS contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map and users of FOSS solutions gathered in Bengaluru to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Subhashish Panigrahi who was a part of the event, reports the developments.
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