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Blog Entry Comments on the Right to Information Rules, 2017
by Amber Sinha published Apr 27, 2017 — filed under: , ,
On March 31st, 2017, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training released a Circular framing rules under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (“RTI Rules”). The Ministry invited comments on on the RTI Rules. CIS submitted its comments on April 25, 2017.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Comments on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report
by Srinivs Kodali and Amber Sinha published May 02, 2017 last modified Mar 13, 2019 12:28 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (“CIS”) on the ​Statistical Disclosure Control Report published on March 30th by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
Located in Internet Governance
Community Capacity Building Workshop at KIIT University
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 30, 2014 last modified Apr 08, 2014 05:22 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team is organizing a workshop for community capacity building at KIIT University on March 30, 2014.
Located in Openness / Events
Blog Entry Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
by Nitika Tandon published May 16, 2014 last modified Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
Located in Openness / Blog
Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 26, 2013 — filed under: ,
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
Located in News & Media
Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 04, 2014 last modified Sep 10, 2014 05:04 AM — filed under: , ,
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission
by Anubha Sinha published Mar 29, 2016 last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 03, 2016. Ms. Anubha Sinha represented CIS at the meeting, and shares her notes.
Located in Openness
Content co-ordination for the Panel Discussion on Crypto-Currencies
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 15, 2014 last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:35 AM — filed under:
Sharath Chandra Ram was a panelist at this event organized by the Law and Technology Society on November 15, 2014 at the National Law School of India in Bangalore. His presentation was titled Scalability and Security Issues in Distributed Trust based Cryto-Currency Systems like BITCOIN.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Continuing community engagement: Communities of interest and Quarrying
by Manasa Rao published Apr 18, 2017 last modified May 19, 2017 03:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
In telling the stories of Indian Wikipedians, we bring to you the story of Dr. Diptanshu Das, a doctor and avid Wikipedian, working with WikiProject Medicine who recently approached CIS-A2K with a technical request.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
by U.B.Pavanaja published Oct 31, 2014 last modified Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM — filed under: , , , ,
People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.
Located in Openness / Blog