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How we celebrated Software Freedom Day: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 07, 2016 — last modified Oct 07, 2016 02:02 AM — 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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India's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges Remain: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 27, 2015 — last modified Mar 27, 2015 02:38 AM — filed under: IT Act, Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Chilling Effect
The Supreme Court of India took a remarkable step to protect free expression on March 24, 2015, striking down controversial section 66A of the IT Act that criminalized “grossly offensive” content online. In response to a public interest litigation filed by Indian law student Shreya Singhal, the court made this landmark judgement calling the section “vague”, “broad” and “unconstitutional”. Since Tuesday's announcement, the news has trended nationally on Twitter, with more than 50,000 tweets bearing the hashtags #Sec66A and #66A.
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Indian government includes open source in RFPs: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 08, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:18 PM — filed under: Openness, Open Source
The Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.
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Indian Netizens Criticize Online Censorship of ‘Jihadi’ Content: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 06, 2015 — last modified Feb 10, 2015 02:43 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
The article on online censorship by Subhashish Panigrahi was published in Global Voices on January 6, 2015.
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Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 06, 2016 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
India has banned various large-scale torrent sites for a long time — this is old news. But under a new federal policy in India, one can be jailed for three years and fined 300,000 Indian Rupees (~US $4464) for downloading content on any of these blocked websites.
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Indians Plead for #NetNeutrality as Airtel Raises Data Charges: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Feb 11, 2015 03:10 PM — filed under: Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
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Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Open Education Working Group sees supporting multilingual activities such as translation to and from languages which are not often used as one of its key future roles. Subhashish Panigrahi’s post while dwelling upon the growth of Indic Wikimedia communities critically examines Wikipedia as an educational resource.
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 17, 2016 — filed under: Open Standards, Access to Knowledge, FLOSS, Openness, FOSS
Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
Located in Openness
Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 17, 2013 — last modified Oct 30, 2013 10:51 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Recently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met wikipedians in Kolkata. The event was co-organized by the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikipedian community of Kolkata.
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Interview, Openness
Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.
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