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How to do GuerillaGLAM
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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May 28, 2015
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May 28, 2015 03:30 PM
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A proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.
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International Open Data Charter: First Public Draft
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 29, 2015
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Jun 02, 2015 03:51 PM
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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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Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online
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Rohini Lakshané
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Apr 13, 2015
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Jun 01, 2015 02:13 AM
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Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
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Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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May 13, 2015
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Aug 22, 2015 04:54 PM
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Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
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Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries - A Synthesis Report
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Jun 16, 2015
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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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Open Street Map "Mapping Workshop"
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 13, 2015
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Jun 17, 2015 04:47 PM
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I conducted a workshop titled "OpenStreetMap Mapping Workshop" on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at Phandeeyar. The workshop was attended by 20 enthusiasts. This involved organisations that work on resource issues, mostly on land grabbing, a start-up company that is planning to offer location-based local news feeds, a representative of MIDO, and an organisation that sells children’s books.
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What is the Open Data Movement & Why Does it Matter?
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 13, 2015
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Jun 18, 2015 01:12 AM
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I gave a talk at this event organized by Phandeeyar on May 13, 2015 in Yangon. About 25 delegates attended the event.
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Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
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Sailesh Patnaik
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Jun 29, 2015
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Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PM
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This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
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FOSS for Public Use: Free and Open Source Software for Digital India
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Anubha Sinha
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May 29, 2015
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Jun 18, 2016 06:20 PM
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I attended a round-table meeting on May 29, 2015 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The meeting was organized by SFLC in collaboration with the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, and the Centre for Internet & Society.
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Magic words in Wikipedia
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Tanveer Hasan
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Jun 25, 2015
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Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM
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The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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