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Celebrating 13 Years of the Kannada-language Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 29, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 04:20 PM — filed under: Kannada Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The Kannada-language Wikipedia celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14 in Mangalore. To celebrate the journey of the project and the community, Kannada Wikipedians gathered at Saint Aloysius College, Mangaluru on May 14.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Designing Change? Gatekeepers in Digital Humanities: by Sara Morais — published Jul 02, 2013 — last modified Jul 02, 2013 08:33 AM
After defining the archive as one of the important concepts for digital humanities research, the question arose, whether or not a redefined archive still functions as a gatekeeper. This blog entry follows the question, if the digital humanities have overcome gatekeepers of knowledge, or if there has simply been a shift in what is doing the gatekeeping.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Indian Privacy Code: by Admin — published Jul 20, 2018
Located in Internet Governance / Files
'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community': by Rohini Lakshané — published Aug 23, 2015 — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AM — filed under: Open Source, Access to Knowledge, Open Innovation, FOSS, Patents
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
September 2011 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 26, 2011 — last modified Jul 30, 2012 06:34 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, CISRAW
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage that happened in the month of September 2011.
Located in About Us / Newsletters
The Centre for Internet and Society’s Comments and Recommendations to the: Indian Privacy Code, 2018: by Shweta Mohandas, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha and Shruti Trikanand — published Jul 20, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The debate surrounding privacy has in recent times gained momentum due to the Aadhaar judgement and the growing concerns around the use of personal data by corporations and governments.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC): by Denisse Albornoz — published Dec 26, 2013 — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Web Politics, Making Change, Digital Natives
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
Located in Digital Natives / Making Change
Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 26, 2015 — filed under: Wikipedia, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
The policy langurs: by Shyam Ponappa — published Jan 07, 2011 — last modified May 10, 2012 10:15 AM — filed under: Telecom
The comforts of civilised living for all Indians require dedicated collective effort. The article by Shyam Ponappa was published in the Business Standard on 6 January 2011.
Located in Telecom / Blog
IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListsAsDatabase: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 26, 2018 — filed under: Proposed Sessions, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, IRC19, Researchers at Work
Details of a session proposed by Ria De and Samata Biswas for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
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