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Ahmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia Workshop
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Tanveer Hasan
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Mar 18, 2013
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Jul 26, 2013 09:34 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.
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With digitisation at the forefront, government departments need to be cautious about digital security
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 04, 2017
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last modified
May 20, 2017 08:33 AM
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Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The huge leak of Aadhar data from four websites belonging to a central ministry and the Andhra Pradesh government has been on the government radar for a while. The leak, caused by poor security protocols, had left around 130 million numbers and their allied information, like bank and post office account details, open to access for several months. As the last website finally plugged loophole, violation echoed in Supreme Court.
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Programme for Competition Law and Policy
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by
Admin
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Jul 04, 2019
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last modified
Jul 04, 2019 04:20 PM
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Files
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Times Group wants TRAI to save the Internet from greedy telcos via Net Neutrality
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 10, 2014
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last modified
Dec 05, 2014 12:52 AM
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Telecom
In an especially strong attack against perceived threats to its Internet-based business, the Times of India group has sought regulatory intervention to ensure what is popularly called Net Neutrality, or the concept that internet service providers must charge only from the end consumer.
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FUEL GILT Conference 2015
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Nov 06, 2015
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last modified
Dec 15, 2015 08:03 AM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Subhashish Panigrahi will be speaking at the FUEL GILT Conference 2015 to be held at Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur in Chennai from November 20 to 22, 2015. Subhashish will also be participating in the Mozilla L10N hackathon.
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Swatantra 2014: Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Dec 28, 2014
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last modified
Dec 28, 2014 02:44 AM
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Openness,
FOSS
ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala organized the fifth international Free Software Conference at Hotel Hycinth by Sparsa, Trivandrum from December 18 - 20, 2014. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the organizations supporting the event. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam was a speaker and made a presentation on Open Science.
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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2013
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last modified
Oct 03, 2013 09:35 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness
Thick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.
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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part II)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 12, 2016
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filed under:
Development,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Data Revolution,
Openness,
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, and each target is mapped to one or more indicators as a measure of evaluation. In this and the next blog post, Kiran AB is documenting the availability and openness of data sets in India that are relevant for monitoring the targets under the SDGs. This post offers the findings for the last 10 Goals. The first 7 has already been discussed in the earlier post.
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DFI and Cambridge University Press join hands for getting print access to the "print impaired"
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by
Radha Rao
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Nov 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM
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Accessibility
Cambridge University Press has given permission for books published in India by them to be converted into other accessible formats such as in DAISY, says Dr. Sam Taraporevala, Director, Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged in this blog.
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Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
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