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Whats & Hows of Wiki: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 26, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:00 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki.
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WhatsApp: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 21, 2016 02:31 AM
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WhatsApp forward promising PM Modi scheme for double recharge is a scam: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 25, 2017
Cashing on the ignorance of users, social media platforms are increasingly being used to scam people.
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WhatsApp ruling: Experts seek privacy law: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2016 — filed under: Social Media, WhatsApp, Internet Governance, Privacy
On August 25, Whatsapp updated its policy to share user content with social network; the decision opened new monetisation models for the messaging app.
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wheel: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2012 06:00 AM
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When #GOIBlocks, twitterati fly off their ‘handles’: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 26, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
Ever since the news broke mid-week that some genuine Twitter accounts and six spoof accounts were blocked, the social networking platform has been in a tizzy.
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When Copyright Goes Bad: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 23, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:37 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
A part of the Access to Knowledge Project, this short film by Consumers International is available on DVD and online at A2Knetwork.org/film.
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When Knowledge Isn’t Written, Does It Still Count?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 09, 2011
“MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007,” a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project.
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When Netas Network: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 27, 2013 — last modified Jun 19, 2013 06:19 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
In September 2009, a freshly re-elected Congress took exception to a light-hearted tweet by its newly inducted minister Shashi Tharoor, chastising him not only for causing offence but also for being too quick to air his views on social media.
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When politics gets social: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 12, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 07:52 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
In the run-up to the general election, social media companies explain how the political campaigns this time are very different from what they were five years ago.
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