Centre for Internet & Society

Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09

by Pranesh Prakash

The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.

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Asia Source 3 Meeting

by Radha Rao

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

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Imagining the Internet – A History and Forecast

by Radha Rao

Workshop: A Rights-Based Framework - Open Standards - A report on the workshop by Senior segment producer, Janna Anderson - IGF 2009 – Egypt – Sharm El Sheikh (Nov 15th, 2009)

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DCOS workshop at IGF Egypt 2009

by Radha Rao

CIS along with Knowledge Ecology International is co-organising a workshop on Open Standards: A rights-based framework at the Internet Governance Forum,2009 that is being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

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Open Debate

by Pranesh Prakash

Deepa Kurup's article in Frontline on the battle over open standards in e-governance.

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Open Source Peluang tidak Terbatas Industri TIK (GCOS 2009)

by Radha Rao

JAKARTA--MI: Perangkat lunak Open Source membuka peluang tak terbatas untuk mengembangkan industri di bidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) dalam negeri sekaligus sumber daya manusia di sektor TIK. GCOS '09 was organized by AOSI (Asosiasi open Source Indonesia) and was supported by the State Ministry of Research and Technology and the Ministry Communication Information Technology. The Global Conference on Open Source was held on 26th and 27th of October, 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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GCOS 2009

by Radha Rao

The Global Conference on Open Source, held on 26th and 27th of October, 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia was organized by AOSI (Asosiasi open Source Indonesia) and was supported by the State Ministry of Research and Technology and the Ministry Communication Information Technology.

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Quantifying India's research output - Public Lecture by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam

by Radha Rao

International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, IISc. Bangalore, is organizing a Public lecture by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam on Friday, Sept 25th, on Quantifying India's research output.

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Manglore: State-level 'Wiki Academy' Daylong Seminar at St Aloysius

by Radha Rao

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RS/SB)

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Highest wiki taker

by Radha Rao

Bangaloreans are beginning to debate if Wikipedia is a reliable source of info, reports Shweta Taneja. TimeOut Bangalore, published an article on the upcoming WikiWars event that the Centre for Internet and Society is organising in January 2010. Nishant Shah, Director Research, was interviewed for his views and ideas about the event and the rise of Wikipedia as a global knowledge production system.

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