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Blog Entry Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: , , , , , ,
It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay Madgaonkar from the Marathi language department took the lead to develop a project around this theme.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
India No Haven For Net Freedom But It Did Not Oppose UN Move on Internet Rights
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 09, 2016 — filed under: ,
India hasn’t had the best record when it comes to Internet rights. The country regularly carries out Internet shutdowns under flimsy pretexts, is still fumbling when it comes to the drafting of a comprehensive privacy bill, and most recently came out with a geospatial information regulation bill that would establish ownership over all forms of location data.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
by Nishant Shah — published Sep 09, 2016 — last modified Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM — filed under: ,
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
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Blog Entry Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 13, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2015 12:54 AM — filed under: , ,
Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
by Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan — published Sep 30, 2014 — last modified Oct 12, 2014 03:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
A two-day workshop for students was organized by Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune (KSPWSC), Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (CIS-A2K) on September 11 and 12, 2014 in Pune. Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan summarize the developments from the workshop in this report.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry TTT 2015
by Tanveer Hasan — published Dec 05, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia activities within Indian language communities. Wikimedians from 21 language communities had participated in this training workshop including Wikipedians working for Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Theorizing the Digital Subaltern
by Sara Morais — published Aug 02, 2013 — last modified Aug 06, 2013 07:20 AM
As digital humanities research at CIS proceeds, a number of critical positions have arisen, making it possible to reconcile questions of humanities with the digital realm. This blog entry focusses on race as a factor of research and how it is displayed in the digital.
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Blog Entry National IPR Policy Series: Quick Observations on the Leaked Draft of the National IPR Policy
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Oct 18, 2015 — last modified Nov 19, 2015 05:13 AM — filed under: , ,
Earlier this week, the “Don’t Trade Our Lives Away” blog leaked the supposed final draft of India’s National IPR Policy (“leaked draft”). This article presents quick comments on this leaked draft.
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Blog Entry Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Susan K. Sell
by Job Michael Mathew — published Dec 12, 2015 — last modified Jan 31, 2016 08:36 AM — filed under: ,
After Mr. Zakir Thomas and Dr. Michael Geist, our third discussion is with Prof. Susan K. Sell.
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Blog Entry New Release of IPR Chapter of India-EU Free Trade Agreement
by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 12, 2011 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:34 PM — filed under: , , ,
A draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available now for the first time, provides insight into India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual property protection and enforcement.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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