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Western Ghats Portal: Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 08, 2011 — filed under: Open Data, Openness
The Western Ghats portal team is organising a one-day workshop to explore the contemporary state on biodiversity informatics on 25 November 2011 at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore.
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Tejaswini with Participants: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 07, 2014 05:27 AM
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Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 13, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Edit-a-thon, Openness
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being held at Urban Solace on October 14, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. The event is being organized by IndiaBioScience in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. CIS-A2K will conduct the first three edit-a-thons.
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The India Conference on Cyber Security and Cyber Governance: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 13, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Following the success of CYFY 2013 the CYFY 2014 will be held from October 15 to 17, 2014 in New Delhi. The Centre for Internet and Society is a knowledge partner for this event and Sunil Abraham is participating as a panelist in the session "Privacy is Dead".
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Pushing women scientists: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 21, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Wikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science.
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If MNCs make early inroads, they will keep market share: Sunil Abraham, CIS: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 24, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance
The recent visits of the high-profile CEOs of internet/technology companies have made it clear that India, with its 200-million internet users, is increasingly becoming important for the multinational corporations (MNCs).
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screen-shot3: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 31, 2014 12:42 AM
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Google move is not good for netizens, say experts: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 03, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Google's plan to merge data across 60 of its properties, which was announced last week, has drawn criticism from experts on the Internet, who are saying that this is detrimental to privacy. Balaji Narasimhan wrote this in the Hindu Business Line. The article was published on 31 January 2012.
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India needs an independent privacy law, says NGO Privacy India: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 03, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
India needs an independent privacy law though there are a number of provisions in existing legislations that protect a citizen's privacy, according to an NGO that is lobbying for the cause. The story was published in the Economic Times on 2 February 2012.
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Anand: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 06, 2012 03:55 AM
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