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Netizen Report: The EU Wrestles With Facebook Over Privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articles: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Community digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada Wikipedian Vasanth S.N. The two blogs on creating Odia-language character encoding converters I had written before in the Huffington Post and the DNA are also featured in the digest.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଯୁଗରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2016 — last modified Mar 14, 2016 07:27 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
In 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society commissioned a project to create a typeface and input methods for for Ol chiki script that is used to write in the Santali language. Santali is one of the many victims that has large number of native language speakers but really low activism to preserve the language though it is not yet among the 196 endangered languages as identified by UNESCO.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 26, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
‘A Good Day for the Internet Everywhere': India Bans Differential Data Pricing: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 25, 2016 — filed under: Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
India distinguished itself as a global leader on network neutrality on February 8, when regulators officially banned “differential pricing”, a process through which telecommunications service providers could or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services offered based on content.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 23, 2016 — filed under: Social Media, Free Basics, Net Neutrality, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
There is No Such Thing as Free Basics: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 14, 2016 — filed under: Free Basics, TRAI, Facebook, Internet Governance
India would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from this Firefox project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning the differential pricing without discriminating services.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 03, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
January 2016 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:47 PM
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is happy to share the January 2016 issue of its newsletter.
Located in About Us / Newsletters
WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals: by Subhashish Panigrahi and Nasim Ali — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: WikipediansSpeak, CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.
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