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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Feb 23, 2016
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last modified
Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Patents,
Access to Knowledge,
Software Patents
India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India
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by
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi
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published
Apr 18, 2024
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last modified
Apr 19, 2024 03:11 AM
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy,
Homepage,
Digital Labour,
Featured,
Researchers at Work
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social Precarities, an anthology edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen and published with Data & Society.
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RAW
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The Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2013 and the Lack of Access to Accessibility Rights
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by
Amba Salelkar
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Feb 03, 2014 02:21 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Accessibility
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2013 (The RPD Bill) went through three avatars since its commissioning in 2009 under the Sudha Kaul Committee. This blog post brings you a summary of the three stages since it was initially commissioned.
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Accessibility
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Blog
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Accessibility
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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Accessibility
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Blog
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The State of the Internet's Languages Report
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 07, 2022
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last modified
Mar 07, 2022 03:01 PM
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
The first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Internet and Society. This extraordinarily community-sourced effort, with over 100 people involved is now available online, with translations in multiple languages.
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RAW
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The Supreme Court Delivers
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Oct 22, 2012
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last modified
Dec 21, 2012 09:57 AM
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filed under:
Telecom,
Featured
Now, the spectrum and licence issues need resolution. On September 27, 2012, the Supreme Court of India delivered the opinion of a bench comprising five Judges on the Presidential Reference regarding the auction of 2G spectrum.
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Telecom
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Blog
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The Technology behind Big Data
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by
Geethanjali Jujjavarapu and Udbhav Tiwari
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published
Nov 30, 2016
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last modified
Dec 04, 2016 09:53 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Homepage
The authors undertakes a high-level literature review of the most commonly used technological tools and processes in the big data life cycle. The big data life cycle is a conceptual construct that can be used to study the various stages that typically occur in collecting, storing and analysing big data, along with the principles that can govern these processes.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Towards Algorithmic Transparency
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by
Radhika Radhakrishnan, and Amber Sinha
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published
Jul 06, 2020
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last modified
Jul 15, 2020 01:16 PM
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filed under:
Regulatory Practices Lab,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Algorithms,
internet governance,
Transparency,
Artificial Intelligence
This policy brief examines the issue of transparency as a key ethical component in the development, deployment, and use of Artificial Intelligence.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Train the Trainer Program
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 18, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
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Openness
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Blog
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Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices
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by
Nirmita Narasimhan
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published
Dec 27, 2011
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last modified
Oct 08, 2012 05:43 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Accessibility,
Publications
The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies and the Centre for Internet and Societies in cooperation with the Hans Foundation have published the Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices. The book consists of a Foreword by Axel Leblois, an Introduction and four chapters. Deepti Bharthur, Axel Leblois and Nirmita Narasimhan have contributed to the chapters.