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Google, Apple and Microsoft may need licence for satellite mapping in India
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Prasad Krishna
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published
May 10, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Openness
Cold response from MNCs like Google to India's security concerns is seen as a prime reason for the proposed legislation to regulate mapping of the country, a move that critics call "return of the Licence Raj" and "digital nationalism".
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Adoption of Standards in Smart Cities - Way Forward for India
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Mar 19, 2016
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last modified
Apr 11, 2016 03:04 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Big Data,
Open Data,
Internet Governance,
Smart Cities
With a paradigm shift towards the concept of “Smart Cities’ globally, as well as India, such cities have been defined by several international standardization bodies and countries, however, there is no uniform definition adopted globally. The glue that allows infrastructures to link and operate efficiently is standards as they make technologies interoperable and efficient.
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Blog
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Pre-Budget Consultation 2016 - Submission to the IT Group of the Ministry of Finance
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Jan 12, 2016
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last modified
Jan 12, 2016 01:34 PM
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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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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Dec 30, 2015
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last modified
Jan 05, 2016 06:30 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Odia Wikisource,
Odia Wikipedia
Odia newspaper Sambad carried this featured column of mine yesterday in their Sunday supplement "Sambada Rabibara" on December 6, 2015.
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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Software Freedom Pledge
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 25, 2015 12:26 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Open Content,
FOSS,
Event,
Technological Protection Measures
On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
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Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 30, 2013
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last modified
Jul 17, 2013 06:33 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Digital Governance,
Digital Access,
Open Data,
Open Content,
Open Access,
Openness,
Open Innovation
On May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.
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Second International e-Governance Conference
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 02, 2012
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last modified
Dec 11, 2012 10:50 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
ICT
The second international conference on governance and electronics which is held under the motto "Together Toward Digital Inclusion" is organized by the National Committee for Corporate Governance Electronic Iraq and the United Nations Development Programme at Rashid Hotel in Baghdad from December 2-3, 2012. The event aims to review the achievements of the program e-governance Iraqi national, and discuss the challenges of applying e-governance as a tool to achieve public sector reform and digital inclusion.
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PDF Format
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Aug 23, 2011 03:06 AM
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Oo.org Format
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Aug 23, 2011 03:06 AM
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