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Thank You To Our 2014 Sponsors: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 27, 2014 02:27 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Today’s the last day of work in 2014 for the editorial team at MediaNama, though we’ll run a Holiday Wire update intermittently this week, we’ll have a brief year end review for each major segment. Thank you for reading us in 2014, and have a great Christmas and New Year.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Design!Public: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 14, 2014 — last modified Apr 08, 2014 11:14 AM — filed under: Openness, Access to Knowledge
Centre for Knowledge Societies is organizing this event in partnership with Grameen Foundation India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNDP, et.al. Sunil Abraham is a speaker at this event to be held in New Delhi on March 14, 2014.
Located in News & Media
Access to Rare Books Made Easy: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 27, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Rare Odia books that are out of print and not easily accessible on the internet, will now be available at the click of the mouse. In a bid to make them available online, the Odia Wikipedia community last week launched WikiSource, an Odia e-library and a sister project of Odia Wikipedia that has been trying to popularise use of Odia language on the Internet since 2002.
Located in Openness / News & Media
#NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Access to Knowledge
Medianama is hosting an open house session on "The Digital Future of Indic Languages" at the Oberoi in Bangalore on Thursday, July 24, 2014. The event will begin at 4.30pm and be followed by cocktails and dinner. Subhashish Panigrahi will participate in the event.
Located in News & Media
Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 16, 2018 — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
In recent times, there has been a rash of policies and regulations that propose that the data that Indian entities handle be physically stored on servers in India, in some cases exclusively. In other cases, only a copy needs to be stored.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Getting the net out of its web: by Sanchia de Souza — published Mar 08, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:11 PM — filed under: Research
Article by Malvika Tegta in Daily News and Analysis (DNA), 8 March 2009
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Second Annual Roundtable on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 02, 2017 — last modified Aug 08, 2017 12:33 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Rohini Lakshane attended the round-table organized by CIIPC, National Law University, Delhi, in Bangalore on July 2, 2017.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
NVDA: by Prasad Krishna — published May 23, 2013
Located in Accessibility / Blog
Elements of a Decentralized Web: by Admin — published Nov 23, 2017 — filed under: Event, Internet Governance
Gene Kogan will deliver a talk on the elements of a decentralized web at the Centre for Internet (CIS) office in Bengaluru on December 11, 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
A Shortcut to Freedom: by Tito Dutta — published Dec 14, 2016 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 09:58 AM — filed under: freedominfeb, Open License, Access to Knowledge
In our everyday life we need access to knowledge and information, we need books (and magazines, newspapers), movies (and documentaries, animations), music for education and entertainment purposes. Now, a delighting fact is almost everything we need, from a 1965 book to the latest Bollywood movie’s MP3 song, is available on the web. You knock the door, and it opens. Why should we care for free knowledge then? We have a got “a shortcut to freedom”.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs

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