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Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09: by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 30, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Consumer Rights, Digital Governance, Fair Dealings, FLOSS, Workshop, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.
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Second Response to Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 07, 2009 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM — filed under: Digital Pluralism
The government is in the process of drafting a national policy on open standards for e-governance. The National Informatics Centre recently released draft version 2 of the policy, and CIS sent in its comments on the draft.
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DCOS Agreement on Procurement: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:58 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Internet Governance Forum, Workshop
On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
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Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization System: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:56 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Workshop
On Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to Innovate South Africa, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, Ashish Gautam of IBM India, and Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Government IT Officers' Council, OSS Working Group, Republic of South Africa, who moderated the session.
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Research Project on Open Video in India: by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 05, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:51 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Open Content, Projects, Software Patents
Open Video Alliance and the Centre for Internet and Society are calling for researchers for a project on open video in India, its potentials, limitations, and recommendations on policy interventions.
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Civic Hacking Workshop: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 28, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:14 AM — filed under: Open Data, Workshop, Digital Governance, Openness
CIS, with the UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement, and Google India, is organizing a workshop on open data (or the lack thereof) and 'civic hacking'.
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Call for Comments for Report on the Online Video Environment in India: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 21, 2010 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:12 PM — filed under: Openness, Featured, Open Video
The Open Video Alliance, the Centre for Internet and Society and iCommons are pleased to announce a public call for comments on version 1 of "Online Video Environment in India: A Survey Report".
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CIS Comments on the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I): by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 23, 2011 — last modified May 22, 2013 10:48 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, Submissions
In November 2010, the Central Government released the Draft 0.6 of the Technical Standards for the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I), requesting comments by January 27, 2011. Here are the comments that CIS submitted.
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Engaging on the Digital Commons: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 12:56 PM — filed under: Digital Access, Openness, Commons, Digital Governance
We at the Centre for Internet and Society are very glad to be able to participate in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Our interest in the conference arises mainly from our work in the areas of intellectual property rights reform and promotion of different forms of ‘opennesses’ that have cropped up as a response to perceived problems with our present-day regime of intellectual property rights, including open content, open standards, free and open source software, open government data, open access to scholarly research and data, open access to law, etc., our emerging work on telecom policy with respect to open/shared spectrum, and the very important questions around Internet governance. The article by Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash was published in the journal Common Voices, Issue 4.
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Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 21, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: Digital Governance, Open Data, Public Accountability, Openness, e-governance
The Transparency & Accountability Initiative has published a book called “Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector”. We at the Centre for Internet & Society contributed the section on Open Government Data.
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