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Pre-Budget Consultation 2016 - Submission to the IT Group of the Ministry of Finance: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 12, 2016 — last modified Jan 12, 2016 01:34 PM — filed under: Open Standards, Open Source, Cybersecurity, Open Data, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Government Data, Featured, Patents, Openness, Open Innovation, Encryption Policy
The Ministry of Finance has recently held pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder groups in connection with the Union Budget 2016-17. We were invited to take part in the consultation for the IT (hardware and software) group organised on January 07, 2016, and submit a suggestion note. We are sharing the note below. It was prepared and presented by Sumandro Chattapadhyay, with contributions from Rohini Lakshané, Anubha Sinha, and other members of CIS.
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Open Access Day: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:45 AM — filed under: Openness
October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this Day are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.
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March 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 09, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
In this month we announced the new clusters from Researchers at Work: Locating the Mobile, Interface Intimacies and Habits of Living.
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April 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
In this issue of our newsletter, we bring you updates of our latest research, event reports, videos, news and media coverage during the month of April 2012:
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May 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
Welcome to the newsletter issue of May 2012! In the current issue, we bring to you updates of our latest research, event reports, videos, and media coverage:
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CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 15, 2014 — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:22 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.
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ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 14, 2015 — last modified Sep 06, 2015 12:09 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated on August 12. It was followed by hands-on workshop. SahilOnline has reported this on August 14, 2015.
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International Open Data Charter: Comments by CIS: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Sep 08, 2015 — filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Policies, Openness, International Open Data Charter
The second meeting of Stewards of the International Open Data Charter is in progress in Santiago, Chile, where the revisions made to the Charter based on the comments received during the public consultation period that ended on July 31, 2015, are being re-discussed and finalised by the Stewards. Here we are sharing the comments submitted by us on the first public draft of the Charter published during the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2015. The comments include those submitted by Sumandro and Sharath Chandra Ram.
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Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM — filed under: Openness, Kannada Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani): by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AM — filed under: Openness, Kannada Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
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