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Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha
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Jan 12, 2017
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last modified
Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Digital ID,
Big Data,
Digital Economy,
Digital Access,
Privacy,
Digital Security,
Data Revolution,
Digital Payment,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Data Protection,
Demonetisation,
Homepage,
Featured,
Aadhaar
The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on December 09, 2016. The report was made public on December 27, and comments were sought from the general public. Here are the comments submitted by the Centre for Internet and Society.
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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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.
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Openness
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The Draft Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, 2011 – Comments by CIS
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 29, 2011
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:37 AM
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Internet Governance
The Draft Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, 2011 (“Bill”) is a Bill to provide for delivery of government services manadatorily through electronic means by phasing out manual delivery of services. It is heartening to note that the Bill shifts the approach to electronic delivery of services by Government agencies to one as part of the citizens' right to service delivery through electronic means rather than a luxury or benefit doled out by the Government. The Bill introduces bodies exclusively accountable for ensuring that electronic delivery of services by the Government at the state and central levels. While this is a welcome move on the part of the Government there are a few comments we, at the Centre for Internet and Society, have on the present version of the Bill:
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OK Festival 2014
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 28, 2014
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Openness
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NN_Conference Report.pdf
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2016
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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule
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published
Dec 03, 2015
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last modified
Jan 03, 2016 11:26 AM
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Openness,
Marathi Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
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Blogs
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Francis Jayakanth's Presentation
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Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Feb 29, 2012 10:54 AM
Dr. Jayakanth gave a presentation on Open Access.
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Openness
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Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication
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by
Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan
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published
Oct 28, 2016
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
Openness,
Open Research,
Open Access
ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
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Openness
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The Hazards of a Non-neutral Internet
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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Apr 18, 2015
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last modified
May 27, 2015 04:07 PM
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Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
Spurred by recent events, India’s policy circles are dancing to the complex tunes of net neutrality. Airtel came under fire for pricing calls made over the Internet differentially; it has since withdrawn this plan. Airtel and Reliance Communications are caught in the storm as Airtel Zero and Internet.org, the Facebook-spearheaded product for low-cost Internet access, face stiff criticism for violating net neutrality. Companies like Flipkart, which earlier supported these products, have stepped back and are throwing their weight behind net neutrality. The Department of Telecommunications has set up a six-member panel to consult on net neutrality.
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Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA
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by
Nitika Tandon
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Nov 13, 2013
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last modified
Nov 30, 2013 10:47 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness
Upon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. This is a huge step to help preserve Konkani language and culture in digital era and will also feed into building of Konkani Wikipedia.
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