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FOSS & a Free, Open Internet: Synergies for Development
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 16, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:57 PM
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filed under:
FOSS,
Open Source,
Internet Governance,
Internet Governance Forum
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Civil Society is organizing a workshop on FOSS and a Free, Open Internet. The workshop will be held on November 13, 2015 from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash will be speaking at this event.
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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Blog
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Software Freedom Pledge
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 25, 2015 12:26 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Open Content,
FOSS,
Event,
Technological Protection Measures
On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
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Openness
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'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community'
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Aug 23, 2015
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last modified
Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AM
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filed under:
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Innovation,
FOSS,
Patents
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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FOSS for Public Use: Free and Open Source Software for Digital India
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
May 29, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:20 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS
I attended a round-table meeting on May 29, 2015 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The meeting was organized by SFLC in collaboration with the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, and the Centre for Internet & Society.
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Openness
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Blog
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Swatantra 2014: Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 28, 2014
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last modified
Dec 28, 2014 02:44 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS
ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala organized the fifth international Free Software Conference at Hotel Hycinth by Sparsa, Trivandrum from December 18 - 20, 2014. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the organizations supporting the event. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam was a speaker and made a presentation on Open Science.
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Openness
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News & Media
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Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 04, 2014
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last modified
Sep 10, 2014 05:04 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
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Openness
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News & Media
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FOSS: Smart Choice for Developing Countries
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 21, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
This workshop is being organised by TechNation and Open Source Alliance of Central Asia on October 23. Sunil Abraham is participating as a panelist and will speak on FOSS and IT Growth Policies in South Asia.
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