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The I-MACX Summit & Demo Day (Spring 2015): by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 09:37 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
IIIT-B Innovation Center organized this event in Bangalore on June 18, 2015. Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker.
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Conflict of interest cloud over CCI chief: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 23, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
The chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and three of the six commission members are participating in a conference organised by Assocham and sponsored by private companies like Ericsson, trade associations and two legal firms specialising in intellectual property cases. This, civil society organisations argue, raises issues of conflict of interest in a quasi-judicial body like CCI participating in a conference organised by private parties that have cases before the commission.
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Developed: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2015 02:58 PM
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Annexure 6: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2015
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Annexure 9: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2015
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Annexure 5: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2015
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People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 22, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: Openness, Projects
The Centre for Internet and Society in association with the Wikimedia Foundation has produced a documentary film "People are Knowledge". The film evolved out of a project on Oral Citations in India and South Africa funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship, to help overcome a lack of published materials in emerging languages on Wikipedia. New Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen has directed the film, with additional assistance from Zen Marie who handled the shooting in South Africa. The film explores how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Wikipedia, documenting a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and subsequently, with oral citations.
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Impaired Social Mobility: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Openness, Digital Activism
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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Open Access to International Agricultural Research: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2010 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:13 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access
Open access advocates have urged the top management of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to give open access to its research publications. A report by Subbiah Arunachalam on 3 June, 2010 was also circulated to all the signatories of the letter.
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Open Access to Science and Scholarship - Why and What Should We Do?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 10, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:13 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access
The National Institute of Advanced Studies held the eighth NIAS-DST training programme on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science, Technology and Society” from 26 July to 7 August, 2010. The theme of the project was ‘Knowledge Management’. Dr. MG Narasimhan and Dr. Sharada Srinivasan were the coordinators for the event. Professor Subbiah Arunachalam made a presentation on Open Access to Science and Scholarship.
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