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Wikidata workshop (South India) conducted in Bangalore
Wikidata workshop (South India) has been conducted in Bangalore on 10 and 11 June 2017. 11 Wikimedians from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the workshop. Here is a report.
Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the People
We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without repercussions.
GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
The Centre of Internet & Society made a submission on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which will be coming into play from July 2017 onwards. In this blog post Nirmita Narasimhan assesses the impact of GST on persons with disabilities.
Dalit History Month 2017 edit-a-thon in Delhi, India
Dalit History Month edit-a-thon was conducted in Delhi on 20 May 2017. Here is a report.
Cybersecurity Compilation: Indian Context
This document intends to serve as a comprehensive source compiling all the cyber-security related regulations, policies, guidelines, notifications, executive orders, court rulings, etc.
Report of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017
Aditya Tejas attended the Global Accessibility Awareness Day event organized at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. The event had multiple panels and presentations, including a talk on coding for accessibility, a panel on why accessibility is necessary and how India is lagging behind in implementing it, and a presentation on how accessibility principles are integrated into the product life cycle at Cisco.
Digital Native: In digiville attention is Currency
The increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
Broadband Reforms for Local Manufacturing
Broadband in India needs reforms for local manufacturing and for infrastructure expansion and utilisation.
Comments from the Centre for Internet and Society on Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposed renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement.
34th SCCR: A Summary Report
The 34th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) was held from 1st- 5th May 2017 at Geneva, Switzerland. Anubha Sinha attended the session and provides an update on the status of discussions and noteworthy emerging/unsolved debates in the Committee.
34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
Observers made the following statements on the agenda of limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives on 3rd May 2017.
34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Limitations and Exceptions for Educational and Research Institutions
Observers made the following statements on discussion around limitations and exceptions for educational and research institutions on 3rd May 2017.
34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Proposal for Analysis of Copyright related to the Digital Environment
Observers made the following statements on GRULAC's proposal on analysis of copyright related to the digital environment on 5th May 2017.
Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in India
Since June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) issue in the Indian Wikipedia communities while examining local interventions.
Policies to Sustain India's Market
The question is whether policies can be better framed to harness the market potential. Why is so much investment flowing into India's securities markets?
Comments on the draft Policy on IT Accessibility for People with Disabilities
The Centre for Internet & Society gave inputs on a document on implementing digital accessibility to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on May 2, 2017.
Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
