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Wiki's worth, on a different turf
An Indian duo–a programmer and a mathematician–have developed a tool to expose anonymous writers and cleanse Wikipedia of rogue editors
Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
World Day Against Software Patents
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
Drawing maps for change
Digital maps can hold immense academic value – an article by Deepa Kurup, The Hindu, 3rd Jan, 2010.
Native plays
Online activist groups are helping change perceptions about the internet generation, says Shweta Taneja, Time Out Bengaluru.
Pushing Buttons
The coolest device of the decade – From brick-sized to size zero, the cell phone changed our lives forever – an article by Deepa Kurup, The Hindu, 1st Jan, 2010.
Bridging the Divide
Video clipping of the National Conference on ICT's for the differently abled held in Loyola College, Chennai from 1 December to 3 December, 2009.
Wired state of mind
Information technology is the driver of society today — the basic block of innovation and growth in organisations, the mainstay of the 21st century. The decade bygone was only an indicator of the things to come. Whether its ideas or friendships, the future indubitably belongs to linking-up on the web, writes Malvika Tegta , DNA - Digital Edition, Monday - 28th December, 2009.
When the virtual world gets a room
Wikipedians have found a permanent abode, and the comfort of increasing numbers, at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.
Want to bring social change? This map shows the way
By siliconindia news bureau, Tuesday,08 December 2009, 14:13 hrs
Newspapers should empower citizen journalism
A single content-management system can be used to publish highly-targeted and customised content. Sunil Abraham, director, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS India), believes traditional newspapers should expose their primary research databases such as photos, video and audio recordings, and documents to the public using web technologies.
Watch what you read on that website
Google has decided to give newspapers better control over their content appearing on the search engine but netizens don’t seem too pleased about it, says an article by NT Balanarayan of DNA on December 9, 2009
Present, tense: Future classrooms
An article by Nishant Shah in the December issue of Teacher Plus - the magazine for the contemporary teacher.
Techies mapping change
A group of 40 Bangaloreans, including techies and social activists, are creating digital maps that will be used to bring social change in India - an article in the Bangalore Mirror by Renuka Phadnis - Monday, December 07, 2009.
Books shut by law blinkers
An article in The Telegraph (Kolkata) by Chandrima S Bhattacharya - 6th December, 2009
Mumbai no longer ‘meri jaan’
Why online (and offline) activism after 26/11 never took off; what should have been done to mobilize people - an article in the Livemint by Seema Chowdhry and Samanth Subramanian - 20th November, 2009
Lawyers get socially involved: The Right to Read
Thursday, 03 December 2009 by Tanuj Kalia (www.legallyindia.com)
The disabled also grapple with copyright issues
An article in The Hindu by Deepa Kurup - 03rd December, 2009
Shanty home
A nationwide initiative is imploring that you look closely at the greyed-out areas on your GPS maps, says Jaideep Sen in an article in the Time Out Bengaluru Magazine, November 13-26 2009 [Vol 2 Issue 9]
Asia Source 3 Meeting
The Asia Source 3 Meeting Reinforces Asian Free and Open Source Software Movement - More than 150 Asian Open Source activists met in the Philippines from 07th November to 12th November to discuss the latest IT-tools for NGOs and SMEs and this time the Main Theme of Asia Source 3 was: Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through FOSS
