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Blog Entry Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 16, 2012 — last modified Nov 04, 2012 02:03 PM — filed under: , , ,
Kannada Wikipedia is one of those Indic language wikipedias which has seen many readers coming up every month. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the experiences of some of the very active Kannada wikipedians from the recent Kannada Wikipedia meetup held in Bengaluru on October 7, 2012.
Located in Openness / Blog
Better intellectual property values luring Indian startups abroad
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 16, 2015 — filed under: ,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Make in India. But anyone who wants to, finds that their intellectual property is valued much more if the patent is filed in the US, or anywhere else, but India.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Beyond Alcohol and Angel Investors: Building Business Models in an Age of Mobile Music Streaming (Conference Learnings)
by Maggie Huang — published Jan 20, 2015 — last modified Feb 23, 2015 12:39 PM — filed under: ,
This blog post is the first of a series of blogs to document, synthesize, and analyze learnings from attending various music industry trade conferences. This first post introduces the research question, and highlights learnings about the various business models which can be accessible via the mobile, and broadly how the music industry is attempting to respond to monetization challenges.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Beyond Editor Count: Assessing Quality on Wikipedia
by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Jun 12, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Since Wikipedia is considered as the go-to source for different kinds of knowledge by anyone starting off in a particular field of study, and since Indian languages (IL) are often the default languages of the classroom in India, strengthening the quality of the material available on IL Wikipedias is certain to have widespread tangible and intangible impact.
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Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions of Openness
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2013 — filed under: , ,
It is hard for Westerners to realize just how much we take for granted about intellectual property, and in particular, how much the property owner’s perspective--be it a corporation, government or creative artist--is embedded in our view of the world as the natural order of things.
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Blog Entry Beyond the Language Tussle
by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Dec 10, 2014 — filed under: ,
It might be more productive to see the ongoing Sanskrit versus German controversy as a welcome opportunity to discuss the real and persistent problems of our education system, not all of which have to do with which languages children get to learn.
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Blog Entry Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 14, 2014 — last modified Nov 07, 2014 03:34 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
Located in Openness / Blog
BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Bhuvana Meenakshi elected Mozilla Rep for July 2019
by Admin — published Sep 25, 2019 — filed under: ,
Bhuvana Meenakshi was selected as a Rep of the Month (July 2019) by Mozilla for my active contributions.
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Bitcoin & Open Source with Aaron Koenig
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 06, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Aaron Koenig, director of bitfilm.org and a global Bitcoin entrepreneur will give a talk at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore on February 7 at 6.00 p.m.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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