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4 tips for DIY makers
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 22, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Source,
Creative Commons,
Wikimedia
I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.
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Openness
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 27, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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Blogs
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January 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 30, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 07:09 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter (January) for the year 2014:
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Newsletters
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Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
May 13, 2019
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last modified
May 13, 2019 09:06 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Featured,
Digital Identity,
Homepage
Omidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) , Kenya, and the CIS, India — on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity. As part of this Alliance, we at the CIS will look at the policy objectives of digital identity projects, how technological policy choices can be thought through to meet the objectives, and how legitimate uses of a digital identity framework may be evaluated.
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There is No Such Thing as Free Basics
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 14, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
India would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from this Firefox project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning the differential pricing without discriminating services.
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Internet Governance
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Mozilla Brings Indian Communities Together
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 23, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
I took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events.
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Digitize any Book in the Public Domain
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 27, 2014
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last modified
Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
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Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries grow
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 10, 2016
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last modified
Jan 29, 2016 03:51 PM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
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News & Media
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This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 03, 2016
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last modified
Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
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Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 02, 2014
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last modified
May 28, 2014 06:29 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
This blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
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