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Impaired Social Mobility
- January 22, 2010
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
Read more →Wiki's worth, on a different turf
- January 15, 2010
An Indian duo–a programmer and a mathematician–have developed a tool to expose anonymous writers and cleanse Wikipedia of rogue editors
Read more →Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting
- January 16, 2013
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
Read more →Openness, Videos, Impressions
- December 28, 2009
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of Open Video. Nishant Shah, who participated in the conversations, was invited to summarise the impressions and ideas that ensued in the day.
Read more →When the virtual world gets a room
- December 22, 2009
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.
Read more →Watch what you read on that website
- December 21, 2009
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
Read more →Mozilla Open Web Talks
- December 09, 2009
Give a talk, or just listen - On December 16 in Bangalore, Mozilla and The Centre for Internet and Society are holding an evening of talks about the future of the open internet.
Read more →Present, tense: Future classrooms
- December 08, 2009
An article by Nishant Shah in the December issue of Teacher Plus - the magazine for the contemporary teacher.
Read more →Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net
- December 08, 2009
The Centre For Internet and Society and JAAGA organised a CC Salon on 02nd December, 2009 at 7.30pm.
Read more →Free Culture Roadshow
- December 06, 2009
The Free Culture Roadshow from 07th December, 2009 to 22nd December, 2009: A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
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