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Why India snubbed Facebook's free Internet offer: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:49 AM — filed under: Free Basics, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
The social media giant wanted to give the people of India free access to a chunk of the Internet, but the people weren't interested.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Principles for Internet Governance: NETmundial 2014 — What do the Contributions Reveal?: by Geetha Hariharan — published Apr 21, 2014 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 04:01 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
The Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) is scheduled for April 23-24, 2014. Towards its stated end of establishing "strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in the world", NETmundial sought contributions from stakeholders around the world on two topics: (1) Set of Internet governance principles; (2) Roadmaps for the further evolution of the Internet governance system.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 27, 2014 — last modified Oct 06, 2014 05:09 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
Located in Openness / Blog
Odia Wikisource to Celebrate its First Anniversary Tomorrow!: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:14 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikisource, Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia language library, will celebrate its first anniversary in Odisha capital tomorrow.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Training: by Admin — published Nov 23, 2017 — filed under: Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The Rotary Club of Salem in association with the Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge, India and Salem Tamil Sangam is organising series of “Wikimedia training and orientation” programme for the youth on December 9 and 10 and also from 16 –17 at Rotary Hall in the city.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Institute on Internet and Society: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 19, 2013 — last modified Feb 16, 2014 03:00 AM — filed under: Internet Studies, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore is pleased to announce the second "Institute on Internet and Society" to be held in Yashada, Pune from February 11 to 17, 2014.
Located in Events
Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age: Effective Research, Policy Formation & the Development of Regulatory Frameworks in South Asia: by Jyoti Panday — published Apr 11, 2015 — last modified Apr 12, 2015 03:53 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Event, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society cordially invites you to a panel discussion on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age. The event organized by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society will be held at Observer Research Foundation on April 21, 2015 from 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Exploring Knowledge Repositories on Water Resources in India: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 21, 2022 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, A2K Research, Open Content
This research study explores knowledge repositories on water resources in India, with a focus on how the digital transition has impacted the process of creation & access to these resources and possible collaborations to build open digital repositories around water. The research was undertaken by Subodh Kulkarni, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Chiara Furtado. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2021–2022.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Open Data Hackathons are Great, but Address Privacy and License Concerns: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Feb 05, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:37 PM — filed under: Privacy, Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Hackathon, Openness
This is to cross-publish a blog post from DataMeet website regarding a letter shared with the organisers of Urban Hack 2015, Bangalore, in response to a set of privacy and license concerns identified and voiced during the hackathon by DataMeet members. Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-authored and co-signed the letter. The blog post is written by Nisha Thompson.
Located in Openness
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 19, 2014 — last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
Located in Openness / Blog

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