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Blog Entry 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: , , , , , , , , , ,
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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Seminar on Open Access in Research Area: A Strategic Approach
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Dec 15, 2015 — last modified Dec 22, 2015 05:37 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi, is organising a seminar on open access in research on Tuesday, December 22, 2015. The seminar will focus on: 1) wider access to scientific publications and research data, 2) access to scientific information, and 3) challenges and opportunities of research data. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting the event as a Knowledge Partner.
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Blog Entry 30 Books of Odia Author and Historian Jagannath Prasad Das to Come Online on Odia Wikisource
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 04, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 11:19 AM — filed under: , , ,
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Blog Entry Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule — published Dec 03, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 11:26 AM — filed under: , , ,
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
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Design!Public (6th Edition)
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2015 — filed under:
The sixth edition of Design Public conceptualized and hosted by CivicLabs, an initiative of the Center for Knowledge Societies was held at Vihara Innovation Campus, New Delhi. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was a panelist.
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Blog Entry Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2015 — last modified Dec 16, 2015 03:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
I have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
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Blog Entry Design Public Conclave, 6th Edition
by Amber Sinha — published Nov 15, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 04:45 PM — filed under: , ,
The 6th edition of the Design Public Conclave was hosted by Civic Labs, an initiative of the Center for Knowledge Studies, and part of the Vihara Innovation Network, in partnership with Social Innovation Exchange, Okapi, Business World, Business World for Smart Cities, and the Delhi Jal Board.
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CIS Participated in T20 Mumbai, Regional Consultation Meeting, October 19, 2015
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 19, 2015 — last modified Oct 20, 2015 01:54 PM — filed under: ,
This is the first time that a T20 event, which is a series of preparatory meetings towards G20 summits, is taking place in India. Sumandro Chattapadhyay represented CIS in this consultation, and was a discussant in the session on Technology, Services, and Skills.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry OCR and OER – update
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 25, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM — filed under: , ,
We welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
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Blog Entry Transformaking 2015 : International Summit on Critical and Transformative Making, Yogyakarta
by Sharath Chandra Ram — published Sep 20, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:00 PM — filed under: ,
Transformaking 2015 brought together makers, scientist, hackers, bricoleurs, researchers, artists, designers and other interdisciplinary practitioners from across the globe in a series of Residency and Research Program, Symposium, Exhibition, Fair, and Satellite Projects. It was held from August 10 to September 20, 2015. Transformaking 2015 was organized by HONF Foundation & CATEC (Culture Arts Technoloy Empowerment Community) in partnership with the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Common Room, Crosslab, and Nicelab.
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