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DevFest'19: by Admin — published Oct 14, 2019 — filed under: Openness, Open Source
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at the event organised by Google Developers Groups at Coimbatore on September 14, 2019.
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FOSSCON India 2019: by Admin — published Sep 25, 2019 — last modified Sep 25, 2019 10:59 PM — filed under: Openness, FOSS
Bhuvana Meenakshi gave a talk on "The revolution of WebXR" at FOSSCON India 2019 organized by KLS Gogte Institute of Technology in Belgaum from August 29 - 31, 2019, where she discussed about the tools used for development and demos.
Located in Openness / News & Media
India’s top science institution is trying hard to fix its “manel” problem: by Admin — published Aug 19, 2019 — filed under: Openness, Open Access
B Chagun Basha is a science, technology and innovation policy fellow at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Centre for Policy Research established by the department of science & technology (DST-CPR).
Located in Openness / News & Media
Learning and Understanding the Frameworks of Rights at Work: by Admin — published Jul 21, 2019 — filed under: Openness
On July 13, 2019, Torsha and Mira attended the 'Learning and understanding the frameworks of rights at work' workshop held by Kai Hsin Hung at IT For change in Bangalore.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Mozilla is funding a way to support Julia in Firefox: by Catalin Cimpanu — published Jul 10, 2019 — filed under: Openness
Mozilla is funding a project for bringing the Julia programming language to Firefox and the general browser environment.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Discussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya: by Admin — published Jul 04, 2019 — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, Event
Rootconf organised a discussion on open standards at CIS Bangalore office. Zainab Bawa, Karan Saini and Anwesha Das coordinated and organised the event.
Located in Openness / Events
Rootconf 2019: by Admin — published Jun 22, 2019 — last modified Jul 05, 2019 12:52 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Source
Karan Saini participated in the annual Rootconf conference held by HasGeek on June 21 and 22, 2019. This conference was held at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore, India.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Open Data and Land Ownership: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published May 22, 2019 — last modified May 22, 2019 11:32 AM — filed under: Open Data, Featured, Openness
In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership field highlight the political nature of data, and illustrate the importance of politically aware interventions when creating open data standards, infrastructure, and ecosystems. State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini, is published by African Minds and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Located in Openness
Sunil Abraham - Key Listener Speech at Wikimedia Summit 2019: by Sunil Abraham — published May 04, 2019 — last modified May 04, 2019 03:34 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Summit 2019 – formerly known as "Wikimedia Conference" or "Chapters Meeting" – took place on 29–31 March 2019 in Berlin. Sunil Abraham made a speech at the summit organized in Berlin.
Located in Openness
Design and the Open Knowledge Movement: by Saumyaa Naidu — published Mar 31, 2019 — last modified Apr 01, 2019 12:13 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Featured, Design, Openness, Education, Homepage
With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs

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