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A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
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by
Sunil Abraham
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Sep 23, 2008
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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Open Access
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.
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Aaron Swartz: The First Martyr of the Free Information Movement
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by
Lawrence Liang
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published
Jan 24, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Video,
Open Access
Well known American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist died on January 11, 2013. Lawrence Liang from the Alternative Law Forum discusses with Newsclick the tragic loss. The interview was conducted by Prabir Purkayastha.
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Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication
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by
Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan
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published
Oct 28, 2016
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
Openness,
Open Research,
Open Access
ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
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After 15 Years, Is Free Access to Law Here to Stay?
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by
Rebecca Schild
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Oct 08, 2009
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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Open Access
CIS, in collaboration with partners LexUM and SAFLII, is undertaking a Global Free Access to Law Study. Being the first of its kind within the Free Access to Law Movement, this comparative study will examine what free access to law initiatives do, evaluate their core benefits and identify factors determining of their sustainability. In the end, the free access to law study will provide future initiatives and existing LII networks with proven and adoptable best practices which will support the continued growth of the legal information commons.
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An Interview with Dr. Francis Jayakanth
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Feb 17, 2012
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last modified
Nov 24, 2012 06:09 AM
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Interview,
Openness,
Open Access
India has been losing out its best talents to the West, however, this trend could be reversed if we create adequate number of world-class institutions and research facilities, and our scientific productivity and quality of research will improve significantly, says Dr. Francis Jayakanth in an email interview with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
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Cancel the Subscription
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by
Subbiah Arunachalam
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published
May 09, 2012
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Openness,
Open Access
It has been a slow but steady move to make scholarship freely available, writes Prof. Arunachalam in an article published by the Indian Express on May 8, 2012.
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM
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Digital Activism,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Access,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Youth,
Video,
Open Access,
Openness,
Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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CIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
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Tanveer Hasan
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Sep 02, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:07 PM
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Telugu Wikipedia,
Creative Commons,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Access
As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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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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Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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Nov 18, 2015
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last modified
Nov 18, 2015 06:33 AM
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filed under:
ICT4D,
Call for Comments,
WSIS+10,
Access to Knowledge,
Accessibility,
Human Rights Online,
Internet Governance,
ICANN,
IANA Transition,
Open Source,
Open Access
Following the comment-period on the Zero Draft, the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
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