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Netizen Report: The EU Wrestles With Facebook Over Privacy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 30, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the 10th anniversary of Odia Wikipedia at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on January 29, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
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Events
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May 2016 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 06, 2016
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last modified
Jun 10, 2016 07:34 PM
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filed under:
Newsletter
Welcome to the May 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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About Us
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Newsletters
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How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 14, 2015
Last year, I wrote about the development of Odia language character encoding converters that the Wikipedia community was working on. These converted text into Unicode, a universal encoding standard. These converters have now been made available for use, just in time for today’s thirteenth anniversary of the Odia Wikipedia.
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Openness
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Blog
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Wikipedia writes a new script
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 24, 2013
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last modified
Sep 04, 2013 06:27 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Wikipedia is available in over 30 Indian languages. Add Konkani to that list. The Centre for Internet and Society has just completed a programme of training students to write for Konkani Wikipedia.
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News & Media
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March 2016 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 31, 2016
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last modified
Apr 13, 2016 08:05 AM
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filed under:
Newsletter
CIS Newsletter for the month of March 2016 is here.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Indian government includes open source in RFPs
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 08, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:18 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Source
The Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.
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Openness
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Blog
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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule
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published
Dec 03, 2015
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last modified
Jan 03, 2016 11:26 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Marathi Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Access to Rare Books Made Easy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 27, 2014
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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.
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Openness
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News & Media
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Fuel Gilt Conference 2016
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 25, 2016
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filed under:
Video,
Openness,
Open Source
Fuel Gilt Conference 2016 was organized by the Fuel Project is being held in New Delhi on September 24 and 25, 2016. This is the fourth conference in series. Subhashish Panigrahi made a presentation at this event.
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Openness
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News & Media