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Delhi Declaration on Open Access
- February 26, 2018
Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi.
Read more →Open Data and Land Ownership - Environment Scan
- February 12, 2018
The State of Open Data is an ambitious research project reflecting on 10 years of action on open data and providing a critical review of the current state of the open data movement across a range of issues and thematic areas. This environment scan represents the first step in gathering information to support a review of the state of open data with regard to land ownership, and in refining the focus of a chapter. The lead author for this chapter is Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
Read more →Wikipedia Orientation Program at Rotary Club of Salem
- December 11, 2017
CIS-A2K in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Salem, Tamil Nadu conducted a two-day Wikipedia orientation workshop for student members of the club.
Read more →Advocating for Openness: Nine Ways Civil Society Groups Have Mobilized to Defend Internet Freedom
- November 26, 2017
The debate over whether the Internet is a better tool for democratic empowerment or authoritarian control misconstrues the nature of the democratic challenges of the digital age.
Read more →Helping Institutions Embrace Open Access
- November 23, 2017
World over, a large number of universities and institutions are making way for open access repositories. Why have Indian researchers shied away from it?
Read more →Marathi Wikipedia workshop for Sandarbh Science magazine writers
- December 19, 2017
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently conducted for the writers at Sandarbh Science magazine.
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