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Big Data, People's Lives, and the Importance of Openness
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Nishant Shah
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Jun 24, 2013
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Jul 03, 2013 04:23 AM
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Open Data,
Openness
Openness has become the buzzword for everything in India right now. From the new kids on the block riding the wave of Digital Humanities investing in infrastructure of open knowledge initiatives to the rhetoric of people-centered open government data projects that are architected to create 'empowered citizens', there is an inherent belief that Opening up things will make everything good.
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International Open Data Charter: First Public Draft
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 29, 2015
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last modified
Jun 02, 2015 03:51 PM
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Open Data,
Homepage,
Openness
The first public draft of the International Open Data Charter was released at the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, May 28-29, 2015. It is being developed by a range of organisations led by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Open Data Working Group (co-chaired by Government of Canada and the Web Foundation), the Government of Mexico, the Open Data for Development (OD4D) Network, and Omidyar Network. CIS has contributed comments to a previous version of the draft, and also took part in the pre-release meeting of potential stewards of the Charter on May 26 in Ottawa. Here is the text of the draft Charter. Please visit opendatacharter.net/charter/ to submit your comments.
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Workshop on Open Data for Human Development
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jun 02, 2015
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last modified
Jun 02, 2015 03:34 PM
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Open Data,
Featured,
Workshop,
Policies
Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Sunil Abraham will take part in the workshop being organised for government officials from Bhutan, Maldives, Meghalaya, Sikkim, and Tripura, by the International Centre for Human Development (IC4HD) of UNDP India, during June 3-6, 2015. The workshop will be held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies Campus in Bengaluru. Sunil will be one of the panelists in the opening discussion on 'data and transparency in governance,' and Sumandro will provide input for and lead the sessions on developing the draft implementation plan for the Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy. Sumandro worked with the IC4HD team to design the objectives and the agenda of the workshop.
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Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries - A Synthesis Report
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jun 16, 2015
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Data Systems,
Open Data,
Featured,
Open Data Community,
Openness
The roles of intermediaries in open data is insufficiently explored; open data intermediaries are often presented as
single and simple linkages between open data supply and use. This synthesis research paper offers a more
socially nuanced approach to open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s social model, in particular, his concept of species of capital as informing social interaction... Because no single
intermediary necessarily has all the capital available to link effectively to all sources of power in a field, multiple
intermediaries with complementary configurations of capital are more likely to connect between power
nexuses. This study concludes that consideration needs to be given to the presence of multiple intermediaries in an open data ecosystem, each of whom may possess different forms of capital to enable the use and unlock the
potential impact of open data.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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by
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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Technology Evangelists and Religious Evangelists — A Talk by Katherine Sydenham
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 02, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 10:44 AM
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Open Data,
Event Type
Katherine Sydenham from the University of Michigan School of Information will deliver a lecture at the Centre for Internet & Society office in Bangalore on August 10, 2012, from 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
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Open Data Hackathons are Great, but Address Privacy and License Concerns
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Feb 05, 2016
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last modified
Feb 05, 2016 08:37 PM
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Privacy,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Hackathon,
Openness
This is to cross-publish a blog post from DataMeet website regarding a letter shared with the organisers of Urban Hack 2015, Bangalore, in response to a set of privacy and license concerns identified and voiced during the hackathon by DataMeet members. Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-authored and co-signed the letter. The blog post is written by Nisha Thompson.
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Washington Meet on Open Data Principles
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 24, 2015
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Mar 09, 2015 02:05 AM
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Open Data,
Openness
Sunil Abraham was invited to discuss the common international open data principles on February 24, 2015. The meeting took place at the World Bank office in Washington.
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NASA International Open Data Challenge 2015
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Sharath Chandra Ram
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Apr 10, 2015
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Apr 27, 2015 01:08 AM
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Open Data,
Event,
Big Data,
Openness
As part of the initial NASA Open Government 2.0 plan, the NASA International Open Data challenge brings together the FOSS community, citizen scientists, open data practitioners , open hardware enthusiasts and students for collaborative problem solving with the goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in Space.
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'
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Anubha Sinha
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Jul 26, 2016
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last modified
Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM
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Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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