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Event Report: Community Discussion on Open Standards
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Karan Saini, Prem Sylvester and Anishka Vaishnav
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published
Aug 01, 2019
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last modified
Aug 02, 2019 06:51 AM
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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.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Discussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya
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by
Admin
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published
Jul 04, 2019
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
Event
Rootconf organised a discussion on open standards at CIS Bangalore office. Zainab Bawa, Karan Saini and Anwesha Das coordinated and organised the event.
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Openness
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Events
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Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF
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by
Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham
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published
Nov 30, 2018
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last modified
Jan 22, 2019 07:29 AM
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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.
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Blog
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Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software Products
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by
Anubha Sinha, Rohini Lakshané, and Udbhav Tiwari
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published
Dec 11, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 02:45 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
National Software Policy,
Open Source,
Open Data,
Internet Governance,
Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software
Products on December 9, 2016.
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Blog
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
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by
Harsh Gupta
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published
Oct 20, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
Web Standards,
Encrypted Media Extensions,
Openness
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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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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How we celebrated Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 07, 2016
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last modified
Oct 07, 2016 02:02 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS
A small group of 6 FOSS contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map and users of FOSS solutions gathered in Bengaluru to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Subhashish Panigrahi who was a part of the event, reports the developments.
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Openness
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
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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Openness
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Openness,
FOSS
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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Openness
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Comments on the National Geospatial Policy (Draft, V.1.0), 2016
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jun 01, 2016
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 09:40 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
National Geospatial Policy,
Openness
The Department of Science and Technology published the first public draft of the National Geospatial Policy (v.1.0) on May 05, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following comments in response. The comments were authored by Adya Garg, Anubha Sinha, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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