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Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists
- April 16, 2017
An Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017
Read more →Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software Products
- December 11, 2016
The Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software Products on December 9, 2016.
Read more →Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop
- April 17, 2017
An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
Read more →4 tips for DIY makers
- November 22, 2016
I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.
Read more →Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
- October 29, 2016
We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
Read more →Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication
- October 28, 2016
ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
Read more →Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru
- October 27, 2016
The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
Read more →(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
- October 20, 2016
World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
Read more →OpenData Week in Madrid - OD4D Summit, Open Data Charter Meetings, and IODC16
- October 16, 2016
Sumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
Read more →Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up
- October 12, 2016
In an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
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