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Workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data' (Delhi, November 12): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 02, 2016 — last modified Nov 12, 2016 10:14 AM — filed under: Data Systems, Digital Governance, Privacy, Data Revolution, Surveillance, Big Data, Digital India, Internet Governance, Big Data for Development, Digital Rights
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Sarai programme, CSDS, invite you to a workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?' on Saturday, November 12. This workshop aims to build a dialogue around some of the key government-led big data initiatives in India and elsewhere that are contributing significant new challenges and concerns to the ongoing debates on the right to privacy. It is an open event. Please register to participate.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars in Pune: by Abhinav Garule — published Oct 27, 2015 — last modified Dec 31, 2015 07:17 AM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Marathi Wikipedia, CIS-A2K, Hindi Wikipedia
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE) is conducting a two-day workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars at KSP Women’s Studies Centre, Pune on October 30-31, 2015.
Located in Openness
Workshop on e-Content Development: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 04, 2013
Located in Openness / Blog
Workshop on e-Content Development: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2013 — last modified Sep 04, 2013 05:56 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.
Located in News & Media
Workshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China: by Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané — published Sep 28, 2016 — last modified Oct 09, 2016 04:41 AM — filed under: Peer Production, Access to Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Mobile Apps, Patents
Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané presented at the SMU-JINDAL-RENMIN Workshop on “Innovation, Economic Development, and IP in India and China,” co-organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin University of China, in Delhi during September 27-28, 2016. Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, delivered the inaugural address at the workshop.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Workshop on Open Data for Human Development - Sessions Report: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Aug 26, 2015 — last modified Aug 28, 2015 08:16 AM — filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy, Openness
CIS facilitated a workshop on open data policy and tools for government officials from Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Tripura, and those from Bhutan and Maldives, in June 2015. The workshop was co-facilitated with Akvo, DataMeet, and Mapbox, and was supported by International Centre for Human Development of UNDP India. Here we share the workshop report and other related documents. The report is written by Sumandro, along with Amitangshu Acharya of Akvo.
Located in Openness
Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures: by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 14, 2016 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM — filed under: Digital Payment, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, UID, Internet Governance, Surveillance, Big Data, Aadhaar, Welfare Governance, Big Data for Development, Digital ID
This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
World Day Against Software Patents: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 10, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM — filed under: Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
Located in News & Media
World Intellectual Property Organisation: by Anirudh Sridhar and Snehashish Ghosh — published Oct 31, 2013 — last modified Dec 03, 2013 06:56 AM — filed under: Internet Studies
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which deals with issues related to intellectual property rights throughout the world.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
World Library and Information Congress 2018: by Admin — published Aug 31, 2018 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
Swaraj Paul Barooah was a speaker at two panels during the World Library and Information Congress 2018 (WLIC2018), organised by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Kuala Lumpur on August 26 and 27, 2018.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media

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