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Hacking, Modding & Making: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 09, 2012 — filed under: Patents, Access to Knowledge
Seeber's electronics laboratory is a room in a unit he shares with his mother. Every available space is taken up with teetering towers of electronic parts, writes Brendan Shanahan for GQ.
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An Analysis of the Comments by World Blind Union and the International Publishers Association: by Rahul Cherian — published Mar 30, 2012 — filed under: Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
Rahul Cherian provides an analysis of the comments by the World Blind Union and the International Publishers Association after the 23rd session of the Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights.
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Summary of the IPA Position: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2012 07:30 AM — filed under: Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
The document proposed by the International Publishers Association.
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The World Blind Union document: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2012 07:25 AM — filed under: Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
WBU Version of the Working Document
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Expert Meeting on Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property Rights: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 16, 2012 — last modified Mar 16, 2012 07:41 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
This report provides an overview of the discussion from the Expert Meeting on Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property Rights, organized by ARTICLE 19 in London on November 18, 2011.
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Patented Games: by Sunil Abraham — published Mar 08, 2012 — filed under: Patents, Access to Knowledge
Some prefer Steve Jobs, patron saint of perfection, others prefer Nicholas Negroponte, messiah of the masses. While Mr Jobs may be guilty of contributing to the digital divide, Mr Negroponte may have contributed to bridging it with his innovation: the One Laptop Per Child, also known as the $100 laptop or XO. Sunil Abraham's column was published in the Economic Times on 8 March 2012.
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Consumers International Global Meeting 2012: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 07, 2012 — last modified Apr 03, 2012 07:54 AM — filed under: Consumer Rights, Access to Knowledge
Pranesh Prakash participated in the Consumers International Global Meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on March 8 and 9, 2012. He spoke on UN Consumer Guidelines. Robin Brown, Tobias Schönwetter and Guilherme Varella were the other speakers in the session.
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Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Feb 28, 2012 — last modified Sep 25, 2012 05:33 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
G3ict and CIS are pleased to announce the publication of a new, improved edition of the Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective. The report published in cooperation with the Hans Foundation provides an updated synopsis of the many policies that governments have implemented around the world to ensure that the Internet and websites are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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Gandhi, Freedom, and the Dilemmas of Copyright: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2012 — last modified Apr 28, 2012 04:11 AM — filed under: Event Type, Video, Copyright, Access to Knowledge
To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary, the Centre for Internet and Society cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh of the University of Pennsylvania on Gandhi, Freedom, and the Dilemmas of Copyright on 30 January 2012 at 6.00 p.m.
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The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Featured, New Pedagogies, Researchers at Work, Digital Pluralism
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
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