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Comments on the Right to Information Rules, 2017
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Amber Sinha
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published
Apr 27, 2017
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filed under:
Openness,
RTI,
Call for Comments
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.
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Comments on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report
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by
Srinivs Kodali and Amber Sinha
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published
May 02, 2017
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 12:28 AM
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filed under:
Call for Comments,
Digital Access,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Data Protection,
Data Governance,
Aadhaar,
Digitisation,
Information Security,
Openness,
Internet Governance,
Data Management
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.
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Internet Governance
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Community Capacity Building Workshop at KIIT University
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 30, 2014
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last modified
Apr 08, 2014 05:22 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
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.
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Events
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Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
May 16, 2014
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last modified
Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness
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.
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Openness
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Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 26, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Internet Governance
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
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News & Media
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Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 04, 2014
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last modified
Sep 10, 2014 05:04 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
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News & Media
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Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Mar 29, 2016
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last modified
Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
Openness,
Digital India
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.
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Openness
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Content co-ordination for the Panel Discussion on Crypto-Currencies
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 15, 2014
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last modified
Dec 05, 2014 01:35 AM
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filed under:
Openness
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.
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News & Media
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Continuing community engagement: Communities of interest and Quarrying
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by
Manasa Rao
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published
Apr 18, 2017
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last modified
May 19, 2017 03:23 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
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.
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Blogs
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Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Oct 31, 2014
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last modified
Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia
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.
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