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July 2016 Newsletter
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 17, 2016
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last modified
Sep 17, 2016 02:13 PM
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Newsletter
Welcome to the July 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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August 2010 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 10:40 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW,
Openness
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society. We bring you news and media coverage, research and event updates for the month of August 2010
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
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by
Nishant Shah
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Nov 30, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Content,
Access to Knowledge
I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
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Blog
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM
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Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Open License,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Data,
Wikipedia,
Open Content,
Odia Wikipedia,
Open Access,
Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Open letter to Kolaveri Di makers: How Dare You!
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by
Nishant Shah
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May 23, 2012
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Internet Governance
When it comes to piracy, you are sure to have an opinion. You might either make a virtue out of it, talking about cultural commons and collaborative conditions of production. Or you might vilify it as the social fault-line that is destroying the very pillars of commerce and cultural negotiations.
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OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference
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by
Prasad Krishna
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May 03, 2014
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last modified
Jun 03, 2014 12:03 PM
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Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Open Government Partnership is organizing this conference in Bali on May 6 and 7, 2014. Sunil Abraham is a speaker for this event.
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Comments on the National Geospatial Policy (Draft, V.1.0), 2016
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Jun 01, 2016
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Jun 30, 2016 09:40 AM
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Open Standards,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
National Geospatial Policy,
Openness
The Department of Science and Technology published the first public draft of the National Geospatial Policy (v.1.0) on May 05, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following comments in response. The comments were authored by Adya Garg, Anubha Sinha, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Civic BRICS Forum 2015
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Anubha Sinha
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Jul 24, 2015
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Aug 10, 2015 02:27 PM
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Access to Knowledge
I attended the Civil BRICS Forum in Moscow last month. My session fell under the Economics and Trade category; and I spoke on the importance of maintaining a balanced IP regime, strengthening access to knowledge and medicines, and ensuring free speech and innovation. The event was held in Moscow from June 29 to July 1, 2015.
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 26, 2016
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May 28, 2016 06:52 AM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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International Open Data Charter: Comments by CIS
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Sep 08, 2015
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Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Policies,
Openness,
International Open Data Charter
The second meeting of Stewards of the International Open Data Charter is in progress in Santiago, Chile, where the revisions made to the Charter based on the comments received during the public consultation period that ended on July 31, 2015, are being re-discussed and finalised by the Stewards. Here we are sharing the comments submitted by us on the first public draft of the Charter published during the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2015. The comments include those submitted by Sumandro and Sharath Chandra Ram.
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