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Helping Institutions Embrace Open Access
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by
Admin
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published
Nov 23, 2017
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last modified
Nov 27, 2017 03:11 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
World over, a large number of universities and institutions are making way for open access repositories. Why have Indian researchers shied away from it?
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Openness
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News & Media
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Here is why government twitter handles have been posting offensive and partisan messages
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 16, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Twitter,
Social Networking,
Internet Governance
You have failed us big time Mr Kejriwal, for your petty political gains you can become headlines for Pakistani press,” read a tweet on October 5 from @IndiaPostOffice, the official twitter handle of the Indian postal service.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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History of the Internet: Building Conceptual Frameworks
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 31, 2013
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last modified
Jan 08, 2014 07:56 AM
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filed under:
Internet Access
In this module Nishant Shah analyses the understanding of the Internet, cyberspace and everyday life and why do we need to know the history of the internet.
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Telecom
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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Home Alone
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 06, 2012
Digital Natives newsletter, April 2012 issue.
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Digital Natives
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
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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Openness
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Blog
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How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t help
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Banning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known.
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News & Media
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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 25, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Open Access
Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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How Technology Is and Isn't Helping Fight Corruption in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 29, 2013
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last modified
Jun 05, 2013 06:43 AM
I recently sat down with Sunil Abraham, the founder and executive director of the Center for Internet & Society (CIS) in Bangalore to talk about the center, and his views on the role of technology and openness in politics and society.
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News & Media
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How the Telecom Act undermines personal liberties
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by
Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri
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published
Feb 20, 2024
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filed under:
Telecom
In this article, Prof. Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri analyse whether the law has enough safeguards and an independent regulatory architecture to protect the rights of citizens. The authors posit that the current version leaves the door open for an overenthusiastic enforcement machinery to suppress fundamental rights without any meaningful checks and balances.
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Telecom
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Blog
