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People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Wikipedia
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 22, 2011
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Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM
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Projects
The Centre for Internet and Society in association with the Wikimedia Foundation has produced a documentary film "People are Knowledge". The film evolved out of a project on Oral Citations in India and South Africa funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship, to help overcome a lack of published materials in emerging languages on Wikipedia. New Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen has directed the film, with additional assistance from Zen Marie who handled the shooting in South Africa. The film explores how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Wikipedia, documenting a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and subsequently, with oral citations.
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Open Government Data Study
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Pranesh Prakash
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May 20, 2011
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last modified
Sep 03, 2015 08:08 AM
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Open Data,
Featured,
Publications,
Openness
CIS produced a report on the state of open government data in India, looking at policy, infrastructure, and particular case studies, as well as emerging concerns, future strategies and recommendations. The report is authored by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham, and Nishant Shah. We are grateful to the Transparency and Accountability Initiative for providing generous funding for this report.
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Comments on Draft National Policy on ICT in School Education
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by
krithika
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Apr 18, 2011
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Aug 30, 2011 02:23 PM
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Submissions
The Department of School Education & Literacy under the Ministry of Human Resources Development invited comments on its latest draft of the National Policy on ICT in School Education. CIS' comments are listed in this post.
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Letter to Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Advocating Adoption of FOSS in State IT Academies
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Sanchia de Souza
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May 19, 2009
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Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM
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FLOSS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a signatory to a letter being sent to the Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, advocating the adoption of FOSS at state IT academies.
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The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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Oct 04, 2008
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Aug 23, 2011 03:02 AM
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Conference,
Campaign,
Software Patents,
FLOSS,
Openness,
Meeting
On Saturday, October 4, 2008, the Centre for Internet and Society, with the support of eighteen other organization, held a meeting on the National Public Meeting on Software Patents in the United Theological College campus. The aim of the event was to explore various issues surrounding software patents, especially from the perspective of the draft Patent Manual.
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Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09
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Pranesh Prakash
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Nov 30, 2009
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Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM
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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.
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Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net
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by
Radha Rao
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Dec 08, 2009
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Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM
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The Centre For Internet and Society and JAAGA organised a CC Salon on 02nd December, 2009 at 7.30pm.
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Openness, Videos, Impressions
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by
Nishant Shah
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Dec 28, 2009
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM
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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.
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Impaired Social Mobility
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 22, 2010
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Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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Openness,
Digital Activism
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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Open Access to International Agricultural Research
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 15, 2010
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Aug 25, 2011 08:13 AM
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Open Access
Open access advocates have urged the top management of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to give open access to its research publications. A report by Subbiah Arunachalam on 3 June, 2010 was also circulated to all the signatories of the letter.
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