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Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09: by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 30, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Consumer Rights, Digital Governance, Fair Dealings, FLOSS, Workshop, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.
Located in Openness / Blog
Openness, Videos, Impressions: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 28, 2009 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM — filed under: Conference, Open Standards, Art, Workshop, Digital Access, FLOSS, Open Content, Archives, Openness, Open Innovation, Meeting, Open Access
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of Open Video. Nishant Shah, who participated in the conversations, was invited to summarise the impressions and ideas that ensued in the day.
Located in Openness / Blog
DCOS Agreement on Procurement: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:58 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Internet Governance Forum, Workshop
On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
Located in Openness / Blog
Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization System: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:56 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Workshop
On Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to Innovate South Africa, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, Ashish Gautam of IBM India, and Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Government IT Officers' Council, OSS Working Group, Republic of South Africa, who moderated the session.
Located in Openness / Blog
CIS Comments on the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I): by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 23, 2011 — last modified May 22, 2013 10:48 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, Submissions
In November 2010, the Central Government released the Draft 0.6 of the Technical Standards for the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I), requesting comments by January 27, 2011. Here are the comments that CIS submitted.
Located in Openness / Blog
Comments on the draft National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jun 08, 2011 — last modified Aug 24, 2011 06:32 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Open Data, Submissions, Openness
A draft of the 'National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy', which some hope will be the open data policy of India, was made available for public comments in early May. This is what the Centre for Internet and Society submitted.
Located in Openness / Blog
Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 30, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:33 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Digital Governance, Digital Access, Open Data, Open Content, Open Access, Openness, Open Innovation
On May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.
Located in Openness / Blog
Event Report: Community Discussion on Open Standards: by Karan Saini, Prem Sylvester and Anishka Vaishnav — published Aug 01, 2019 — last modified Aug 02, 2019 06:51 AM — filed under: Communities, Open Standards, Event
This community discussion organised by HasGeek was held at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India on June 20, 2019.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF: by Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham — published Nov 30, 2018 — last modified Jan 22, 2019 07:29 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Surveillance, IETF, Encryption Policy
The institution of open standards has been described as a formidable regulatory regime governing the Internet. Given the regulatory and domestic policy implications that technical standards can have, there is a need for Indian governmental agencies to focus adequate resources geared towards achieving favourable outcomes at standards development fora.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2015 — last modified Jan 05, 2016 06:30 AM — filed under: Open Standards, CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Odia Wikisource, Odia Wikipedia
Odia newspaper Sambad carried this featured column of mine yesterday in their Sunday supplement "Sambada Rabibara" on December 6, 2015.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs

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