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e-DIRAP Google+ Hangout on Open Government: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 08, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Video
The e-DIRAP Hangout on Open Government was held on Thursday, July 25, 2013. The Hangout brought together nine professionals from Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines to discuss open government initiatives in their respective countries, the challenges they face, and open source tools for open government.
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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 31, 2013 — last modified Mar 25, 2014 08:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.
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Institute on Internet & Society: Event Report: by Srividya Vaidyanathan — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 15, 2013 06:48 AM — filed under: Video, Internet Studies, Featured, Homepage
The Institute on Internet and Society organized by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) with grant supported by the Ford Foundation took place from June 8 to 14, 2013 at the Golden Palms Resort in Bangalore.
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Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education: by Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 18, 2013 — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AM — filed under: Video, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge, Digital Humanities
The digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on July 13, 2013.
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An Interview of Vera Franz: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 15, 2013 09:49 AM — filed under: Copyright, Video, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
This interview was conducted at the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities on June 26, 2013.
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Pranesh Prakash on the US snooping into Indian cyber space: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 02, 2013 04:19 PM — filed under: Video, Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash, Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society, talks about the ramifications of US incursion into the privacy of Indians through cyber space. He says that Indian laws on privacy and free speech shall be applied to the web companies in India so that they actually not surrender the privacy of Indian citizens just because American law requires them to.
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Wiki Rahasya: Panel Discussion on Suvarna News: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 13, 2013 — last modified Jul 02, 2013 04:36 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Openness
Dr. U.B.Pavanaja participated in a panel discussion around Wikipedia in general and about Kannada Wikipedia in specific. This was telecast by Suvarna News 24x7 (Kannada) TV channel on June 13, 2013.
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Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme on HMTV: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 10, 2013 — last modified Jun 18, 2013 05:54 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Openness
Vishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia. This was telecasted in HMTV on June 1, 2013.
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Whose Change is it Anyway?: by Prasad Krishna — published May 30, 2013 — last modified Jun 05, 2013 08:40 AM — filed under: Video, Digital Natives
The first product from the Whose Change is it Anyway? Hague workshop with Hivos in February is out. The video captures the process of knowledge generation there.
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Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary?: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2013 04:50 PM — filed under: Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Video, Censorship, Social Networking
The Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju calls for regulating social media, saying it will prevent offensive material coming into the public domain. But is it really necessary to regulate the social media? If yes, is it possible to do it?
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