Blogs
Online Survey for Indian Mobile App Developer Startups & Enterprises
- April 09, 2014
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) recently released an online survey for mobile app developers to respond on their legal practices within their work, as well as their business models and familiarity with India's laws. Through this research initiative, CIS hopes to better understand the dynamics of India's mobile app ecosystem amongst stakeholders, and how developers are directly or indirectly affected by the laws in place governing this ecosystem.
Read more →App Developers Series: Products-Services Dichotomy & IP (Part I)
- April 09, 2014
Recently, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) held a series of interviews in attempts to better understand the ecosystem in which India's mobile app industry is emerging, how it is governed by India's current laws, and how mobile app developers are affected as a result. The following written series maps out the given responses and presents our findings from these interviews and accompanying conversations.
Read more →India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
- April 08, 2014
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
Read more →Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature
- April 08, 2014
The blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
Read more →First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
- April 07, 2014
During the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.
Read more →Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses Online
- April 06, 2014
The post was co-authored by Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash H L and Subhashish Panigrahi and published in the March issue of Foss Force.
Read more →11th Century Kannada Literature Now on Wikisource
- April 06, 2014
This blog post by Pavithra Hanchagaiah and Omshivaprakash HI was edited by Rohini Lakshane for DNA. It was first edited by Subhashish Panigrahi, CIS-A2K on the Wikimedia Foundation blog where it was first published.
Read more →Open Education Week: Interview with Subhashish Panigrahi
- April 04, 2014
Noopur Raval interviewed Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team about sharing information resources and attribution in academia.
Read more →Digitize any Book in the Public Domain
- April 03, 2014
The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
Read more →Cultural Interests vs. Modernization: Robert Shapiro on IPR & Innovation in India
- April 03, 2014
Last Friday March 28, 2014, prominent economist and chairman of Sonecon, llc, Dr. Robert Shapiro, lead a discussion on the roles of IPR and FDI in innovation. Within his research findings, Shapiro argues for India to adopt a stricter IP regime in order to attract higher rates of FDI in pharmaceuticals and other industries, and in turn, to spur a more successful economy.
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