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                                      Second International e-Governance Conference
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Dec 02, 2012
                                            
                                            
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The second international conference on governance and electronics which is held under the motto "Together Toward Digital Inclusion" is organized by the National Committee for Corporate Governance Electronic Iraq and the United Nations Development Programme at Rashid Hotel in Baghdad from December 2-3, 2012. The event aims to review the achievements of the program e-governance Iraqi national, and discuss the challenges of applying e-governance as a tool to achieve public sector reform and digital inclusion.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Arguments Against Software Patents in India
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Feb 22, 2010
                                            
                                            
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CIS believes that software patents are harmful for the software industry and for consumers.  In this post, Pranesh Prakash looks at the philosophical, legal and practical reasons for holding such a position in India.  This is a slightly modified version of a presentation made by Pranesh Prakash at the iTechLaw conference in Bangalore on February 5, 2010, as part of a panel discussing software patents in India, the United States, and the European Union.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Letter on South Africa's IPRs from Publicly Financed R&D Regulations
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jun 02, 2009
                                            
                                            
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Being interested in legislations in developing nations styled after the United States' Bayh-Dole Act, CIS responded to the call issued by the South African Department of Science and Technology for comments to the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Regulations.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Software Freedom Pledge
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Sep 25, 2015
                                            
                                            
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On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
                                     
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                                              Sunil Abraham
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Sep 26, 2015
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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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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                                      It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day 
                                     
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                                              Subhashish Panigrahi
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Sep 17, 2016
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
                                      
                                          
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                                      ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା
                                     
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                                              Subhashish Panigrahi
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant social change. I have also shared how anyone can contribute to the FOSS movement in different ways and celebrate SFD.
                                      
                                          
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                                      (Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
                                     
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                                              Harsh Gupta
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Oct 20, 2016
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
                                      
                                          
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                                      CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
                                    
 
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                                              Nishant Shah
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Mar 16, 2010
                                            
                                            
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The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. Organised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, the event builds on the debates and discussions initiated at the WikiWars that launched off the knowledge network in Bangalore in January 2010. Follow the Live Tweets at #CPOV
                                      
                                          
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