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Can Innovation Solve the Grand Challenges of Indian Society?: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 07, 2011 — filed under: Openness
It’s nearly time again for Design Public the event, a high-level conclave on design, innovation, and the public interest. Our up-coming event will be in Bangalore on the 14th of October, and will be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, which is housed in a century-old Manikyavelu mansion, which was once the property of the Mysore royal family.
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CBGA - Consultation on Opening Up Access to Budget Data in India (Delhi, January 27): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 27, 2017 — last modified Jan 27, 2017 05:45 AM — filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Openness
Open Budgets India, a comprehensive and user-friendly open data portal to provide free, easy, and timely access to relevant data on budgets, has been developed by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) in collaboration with a number of other organisations. CBGA is organising a Consultation on “Opening Up the Access to Budget Data in India” on Friday, January 27, 2017, to launch the beta version of the portal. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will be a speaker in the panel discussion that will follow the launch.
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Inaugural EPT Award for Dr. Francis Jayakanth: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 06, 2012 — last modified Feb 27, 2012 12:24 PM — filed under: Openness, Open Access
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Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 01, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ବୁର୍ଲା (ସମ୍ବଲପୁର): by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2013 — last modified Aug 05, 2013 08:04 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
There was a news coverage on The Sambad, Sambalpur edition about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla.
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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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Extending The Spectrum Of Openness To Include The Moral Right To Share: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 19, 2013 — filed under: Openness
from the now-there's-a-thought dept.
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Telugu Wikipedia Meet-up @ CIS: by Prasad Krishna — published May 29, 2013 — last modified Aug 19, 2013 06:53 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a meet-up on June 2, 2013 in its office in Bangalore, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All are cordially invited.
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CoinFest 2016: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 04, 2016 — filed under: Openness, Event
Coinsecure and India Bitcoin have joined hands to organize to organize CoinFest at the Centre for Internet & Society's Bangalore office on Saturday, April 10, 2016, from 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part II): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 12, 2016 — filed under: Development, Open Data, Open Government Data, Data Revolution, Openness, Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, and each target is mapped to one or more indicators as a measure of evaluation. In this and the next blog post, Kiran AB is documenting the availability and openness of data sets in India that are relevant for monitoring the targets under the SDGs. This post offers the findings for the last 10 Goals. The first 7 has already been discussed in the earlier post.
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