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Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary
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<b>Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/">Odia Wikipedia</a> recently has celebrated its <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪">9</a><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪"><sup>th</sup></a><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪"> anniversary</a>. January 29 is considered to be that day when someone made a first edit on it. Communities from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar joined hands to celebrate this event with a panel discussion on "Application of Odia language in e-media". The discussion was coordinated by Nilambar Rath, Director of Academy for Media Learning. The event was organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from <a href="https://cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society</a> in collaboration with <a href="http://www.aml.edu.in/">Academy for Media Learning</a>. Panelists who took part in the discussion were Prasanna Kumar Mohanty, Director of "Odia Bhasa Pratisthan", Dr. Prafulla Tripathy, Odia linguist and writer, Dr. Dhanada Mishra, Academician and Director-Academics, <a href="http://www.kmbb.in/">KMBB College of Engineering</a>, Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society, Jatindra Das, Senior journalist and founder, <a href="http://Odisha.com/">Odisha.com</a> and Subhransu Panda, Senior journalist, <a href="http://www.orissasambad.com/">Sambad</a>. Wikipedians, students and journalists took active part in the discussion.</p>
<p>To celebrate the success of Odia Wikipedia, wikipedians joined the guest to cut a “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhena_Poda">Chhenapoda</a>” and light Deepam as an integral part of the Odia culture.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The discussion began with Nilambar Rath speaking briefly about the agenda of the meeting and about the current scenario of the use of Odia language in media especially in the web. Prasanna Kumar Mohanty spoke about how the true form of the language should be taken to public via media. He also emphasized about the need to sacrifice our conventional way of approach and adopt new technologies like Wikipedia. Many such efforts are not rewarded because of the lack of support from the government even though funding is available for such development. Odia linguist Prafulla Tripathy explained about the lack of public interest to pledge for declaring Odia as a classical language even though Odia holds the 31<sup>st</sup> position among 6500 world languages. "The language of our personal lives, social interaction and verbal communication never gets documented. The confusion among various linguists is another obstacle to take Odia to a global level. If the script grammar is kept in focus and script and eventually the fonts are simplified then they would be easier to be used online", he expressed. Dr. Tripathy also shared his experience of his interaction with other Indian language experts at places where he worked such as on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition">OCR (Optical character reading)</a> software which could be a great tool to digitize many precious resources. He offered his support for helping with OCR in Odia. Few other aspects of simpler approaches of scripts discussed were glossary, Odia-English and English-Odia lexicon, spell check feature for typing and interactive e-learning which could boost the effort of the wikipedians.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Prof. Dhanada Mishra took the audience through the free and open source culture and Linux and future role of Odia Wikipedia to tackle the problems of primary education. He thanked the wikipedians for their noble effort and showed his interest in promoting it more in academics. Subhashish Panigrahi discussed about the role of Odia Wikipedia in documenting various resources in Odia Wikipedia. He brought various technical problems that common men face while typing, contributing to Wikipedia and how they could be handled. He also proposed a plan for bringing more language experts and museum curators to the community which would increase the spectrum of resource and capacity for the Odia Wikimedia community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jatindra Das, founder of the first online Odia newspaper Odisha.com discussed about the hurdles of using Odia Unicode and acceptance level in the society for it. Senior journalist Subhransu Panda discussed about the usage of various fonts and how adopting Unicode could bring a lot of information to the public.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Nilambar Rath, Director, Academy for Media Learning talked about the future efforts of Odia Wikipedia community. He elaborated how media could be used as an essential tool for taking Wikipedia to more people. Mrutyunjaya Kar, one of the very active Wikipedians closed the ceremony with a brief talk about the achievements, education program and impact of Odia Wikipedia in the recent past and community building plans.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a press meet in the afternoon. Wikipedians interacted with the media about future prospects of Odia Wikipedia and its current state.</p>
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<th style="text-align: center; ">Few glimpses of the event<br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhubaneswar_Odia_Meetup_2013Jan29-32.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="450"></iframe><br />Audio Podcast<br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="23" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prafulla_Tripathy_on_Odia_script_and_Odia_Wikipedia.ogg?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></th>
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<p><b><br />Press coverage:</b></p>
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<li><span></span><span><b>ଓଡ଼ିଶାନ୍:</b></span><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span><b> </b>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା</span></span></span></a><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span>: </span></span></span></a><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span>ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ</span></span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span><span><b> </b></span><span><b></b></span></li>
<li> <span><b>ସମ୍ବାଦ:</b></span><a href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615&boxid=23625437"><span><i><span><b> </b>ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ</span></i></span></a><span><span>.</span></span><span><b> </b></span></li>
<li> <span>eindiadiary.com:</span><a href="http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary-odia-language-application-odia-language-e-media"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span></li>
<li> <span>Fullorissa.com:</span><a href="http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/"><span> Odia Wikipedia’s 9th anniversary</span></a><span><b>. </b></span><span>Fullorissa.com</span></li>
<li> <span>orissadiary.com:</span><a href="http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=3924"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span></li>
<li> <span><span>In</span></span><span>diaeducationdiary.in:</span><a href="http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>. </span></span><span></span></li>
<li> <span>Odishaviews.com:</span><a href="http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversary-of-odia-wikipedia-application-of-odia-language-in-e-media/">Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media</a><i>. </i>Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.<i><br /></i></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessFeaturedWikipediaWikimedia2013-02-28T04:32:29ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — January 2013
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<b>In the first issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme director, Vishnu Vardhan, provide you an update of the Access to Knowledge (September to December 2012) Report, the Indic Languages Wikipedia Statistical Report 2012 and reports of the events organised in Goa in the month of December 2012.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of CIS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<p><b><span>CIS Office in Delhi</span></b></p>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
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<p><b>New Project Director for Wikipedia Project</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> is the new Programme Director-Access to Knowledge at CIS. Vishnu has over the last 11 years worked in various capacities as researcher, grant manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. Vishnu managed the <a href="http://www.srtt.org/institutional_grants/arts_culture/overview.htm">Art, Crafts and Culture</a> portfolio of <a href="http://www.srtt.org">Sir Ratan Tata Trust</a> and also worked as Research Coordinator at the <a href="http://www.cscs.res.in">Centre for the Study of Culture and Society</a> in Bangalore. </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/distinguished-fellows">Tejaswini Niranjana</a>, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and Visiting Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is joining our team as an Adviser to the 'Access to Knowledge' programme. She will guide the A2K team in expanding the Indian language Wikipedias and in increasing the number of active editors through strategic partnerships with Higher Education institutions across India.</li>
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<p><b>Events Organised by CIS:</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: The events in Goa were organized in the month of December 2012. However, reports were published the following month.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/two-day-wiki-workshop-in-goa-university">Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 15, 2013). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa">Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 19, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/promoting-glam-in-goa">Promoting GLAM in Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 24, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/konkani-in-wikipedia-incubator">Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next Level</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 25, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad">A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad</a> (RKGIT, Ghaziabad, January 17, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-education-program-at-iimc-dhenkanal">Odia Education Program</a> (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, Orissa, January 26, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration">Odia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary Celebration</a> (Academy of Media Learning, Samantha Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, January 29, 2013).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bringing-konkani-encyclopedia-in-public-domain">Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 22, 2013).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-the-success-of-wikipedia-in-wikipedia-summit-pune-2013">Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013</a> (organized by Wikipedia Club, Pune, January 12 – 13, 2013).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-january-27-2013-first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-concludes-at-iimc">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (Odisha Diary Bureau, Dhenkanal, January 27, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-e-paper-january-30-2013-odia-wikipedia-workshop-coverage">Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in Media</a> (Sambad, January 30, 2013).</li>
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<p><b><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2013-04-05T06:58:56ZPageJanuary 2013 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin
<b>We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the first issue of our newsletter for the year 2013. This issue brings you an overview of our research programs, events organised and participated, news and media coverage, and videos of recent events.</b>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Jobs</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for the posts of <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2675&qid=263491" target="_blank">Programme Officer</a> (Access to Knowledge — Indic Language Initiatives), <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2676&qid=263491" target="_blank">Developer</a> (NVDA Project), <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2677&qid=263491" target="_blank">Programme Officer</a> (Access to Knowledge and Openness), and <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2678&qid=263491" target="_blank">Programme Officer</a> (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> and <a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>. For our Privacy project, we are seeking applications for the post of Researcher, Technology/Security Expert, Graphic Designer as well as for internships. To apply for these posts, please send in your resume to Elonnai Hickok (<a href="mailto:elonnai@cis-india.org">elonnai@cis-india.org</a>).</p>
<h2><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2679&qid=263491" target="_blank">Accessibility</a></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">CIS is carrying out two projects in partnership with the <b>Hans Foundation</b>. The first one is to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India and the second one is for developing a screen reader and text to speech synthesizer for Indian languages. We are also working with the World Blind Union to develop the Treaty for Improved Access for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled Persons, and assisting in the negotiations at WIPO:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">Anandhi Viswanathan from CIS and Manojna Yeluri from the Centre for Law and Policy Research are working in this project. Shruti Ramakrishnan has left the project. Draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the chapter on Haryana:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-haryana-chapter-call-for-comments" class="external-link">The Haryana Chapter</a> (by Anandi Viswanathan, January 31, 2012): The state implements the provisions under the central laws, particularly the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995 and the National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act 1999.</li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2681&qid=263491" target="_blank">Making Public Libraries Accessible to People with Disabilities</a> (by Rahul Cherian, January 23, 2013): CIS was one of the 20 disability rights groups that wrote to the Ministry of Culture.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2682&qid=263491" target="_blank">Government of Madhya Pradesh initiates ICT Accessibility in Public Communication</a> (by Nirmita Narasimhan, January 31, 2013): CIS with Daisy Forum of India member Arushi in Bhopal submitted a request for a notification mandating that all communication by the Government of Madhya Pradesh should be accessible to persons with disabilities.</li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2683&qid=263491" target="_blank">Accessible Broadcasting in India</a> (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, January 11, 2013): The abridged version of ITU’s report "Making Television Accessible" which was initially put up for comments last year has been updated once again.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2684&qid=263491" target="_blank">Linking Commercial Availability and Exceptions in the Treaty for Visually Impaired/Persons with Disabilities</a> (by Rahul Cherian, January 23, 2013).</li>
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<h2><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2685&qid=263491" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">In partnership with the <b>International Development Research Centre</b> we are doing a project on Pervasive Technologies examining the relationship between production of pervasive technologies and intellectual property. The <b>Wikimedia Foundation</b>’s India Program to support and develop free knowledge in India is now being executed by us. We are also supporting the Iraq government in developing an eGovernment Interoperability Framework:</p>
<h3><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2686&qid=263491" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2686&qid=263491" target="_blank">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2687&qid=263491" target="_blank" title="Access To<br ></a><br /> <br /> Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members based in Delhi: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2688&qid=263491" target="_blank">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2689&qid=263491" target="_blank">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2689&qid=263491" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2689&qid=263491" target="_blank">Noopur Raval</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>New Project Director</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2688&qid=263491" target="_blank">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> is the new Programme Director-Access to Knowledge at CIS. Vishnu has over the last 11 years worked in various capacities as researcher, grant manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. Vishnu managed the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2690&qid=263491" target="_blank">Art, Crafts and Culture</a> portfolio of <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2691&qid=263491" target="_blank">Sir Ratan Tata Trust</a> and also worked as Research Coordinator at the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2692&qid=263491" target="_blank">Centre for the Study of Culture and Society</a>.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>New Distinguished Fellow at CIS</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2693&qid=263491" target="_blank">Tejaswini Niranjana</a>, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is joining our team as an Adviser to the 'Access to Knowledge' project. She will guide the A2K team in expanding the Indian language Wikipedias and in increasing the number of active editors through strategic partnerships with Higher Education institutions across India.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Reports</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2694&qid=263491" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012</a> (by Noopur Raval, January 31, 2013): The report covers an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2695&qid=263491" target="_blank">Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012</a> (by Shiju Alex, January 21, 2013): A statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012 providing perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Wiki Event Reports<br /> </b>CIS organised a series of Wiki workshops in Goa in the month of December 2012, we bring you the reports from those events.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><i>Note: The workshops were held in the month of December 2012 but the reports were published only in the month of January.</i></p>
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<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2696&qid=263491" target="_blank">Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 15, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2697&qid=263491" target="_blank">Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 19, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2698&qid=263491" target="_blank">Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 22, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2699&qid=263491" target="_blank">Promoting GLAM in Goa</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 24, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2700&qid=263491" target="_blank">Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next Level</a> (by Nitika Tandon, January 25, 2013).</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; ">CIS also organised a Wiki workshop in Ghaziabad:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2701&qid=263491" target="_blank">A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad</a> (RKGIT, Ghaziabad, January 17, 2013).</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Wiki Event Participated</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2702&qid=263491" target="_blank">Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013</a> (organized by Wikipedia Club, Pune, January 12 – 13, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Wikipedia News Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2703&qid=263491" target="_blank">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (Odisha Diary Bureau, Dhenkanal, January 27, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2704&qid=263491" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in Media</a> (Sambad, January 30, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Wiki Events Organised</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2705&qid=263491" target="_blank">Odia Education Program</a> (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, Orissa, January 26, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2706&qid=263491" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary Celebration</a> (Academy of Media Learning, Samantha Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, January 29, 2013).</li>
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<h3>Pervasive Technologies</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">The Pervasive Technologies project carries out research on the intellectual property implicated in the hardware, software and content available in low-cost mobile devices.The long-term outcome of this project is to create a legitimate, legal space for these technologies to exist on the Indian market.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Events Participated</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2707&qid=263491" target="_blank">Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Market Place — A Presentation by Sunil Abraham</a> (FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, December 15, 2012).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2708&qid=263491" target="_blank">Fifth International IPR Conference</a> (GIPC 2013) (organised by ITAG Business Solutions, Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, January 30, 2013): Snehashish Ghosh made a presentation on the Pervasive Technologies Project.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Other <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2709&qid=263491" target="_blank">Openness</a> Updates<b> </b></h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Blog Posts / Columns</b></p>
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<li><i> </i><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2710&qid=263491" target="_blank">The Violence of Knowledge Cartels</a> (by Nishant Shah, Hybrid Publishing Lab, January 17, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2711&qid=263491" target="_blank">Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight</a> (by Nishant Shah, DML Central, January 24, 2013).</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Interview </b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2712&qid=263491" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz: The First Martyr of the Free Information Movement</a>: Prabir Purkayastha interviewed Lawrence Liang on Newsclick, January 19, 2013. The video is published.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2713&qid=263491" target="_blank">Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron Swartz</a> (by Deepa Kurup, Hindu, January 21, 2013. Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
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<td>HasGeek creates discussion spaces for geeks and has organised conferences like the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2714&qid=263491" target="_blank">Fifth Elephant</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2715&qid=263491" target="_blank">Droidcon India 2011</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2716&qid=263491" target="_blank">Android Camp</a>, etc. HasGeek is supported by CIS and works out from CIS office in Bengaluru.</td>
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<p style="text-align:justify; ">Event Organized</p>
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<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2717&qid=263491" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight</a> (CIS, Bangalore, January 19 – 20, 2013): Aaron’s collaborators such as <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2718&qid=263491" target="_blank">Anand Chitipothu</a> and <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2719&qid=263491" target="_blank">A S L Devi</a> participated in the event.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2720&qid=263491" target="_blank">Internet Governance</a></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">With <b>Privacy International</b>, London we signed an agreement to facilitate the implementation of activities related to surveillance and freedom of speech and expression. In this month we have blog posts on data retention, international principles of surveillance and human rights and comparitive analysis of Indian legislation vis-à-vis draft of the International Principles on Surveillance of Communications by Ellonai Hickok, and columns by Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Privacy Research</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2721&qid=263491" target="_blank">Data Retention in India</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, January 30, 2013): The post provides an insight into the data retention mandates from the Government of India and data retention practices by service providers.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2722&qid=263491" target="_blank">Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, January 16, 2013): These principles were developed by Privacy International and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and seek to define an international standard for the surveillance of communications.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2723&qid=263491" target="_blank">A Comparison of Indian Legislation to Draft International Principles on Surveillance of Communications</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, January 31, 2013): The principles, first drafted in October 2012 and developed subsequently seek to establish an international standard for surveillance of communications in the context of human rights. CIS is contributing feedback to the drafting of the principles.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Columns/Op-eds</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2724&qid=263491" target="_blank">Web of Sameness</a> (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, January 18, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2725&qid=263491" target="_blank">TV versus Social Media: The Rights and Wrongs</a> (by Sunil Abraham, The Tribune, January 20, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Statement</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2726&qid=263491" target="_blank">Statement of Solidarity on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Internet Users in Bangladesh</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, January 15, 2013): This is a statement on the violent attack on blogger Asif Mohiuddin by the participants to the Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2727&qid=263491" target="_blank">No Civil Society Members in the Cyber Regulations Advisory Committee</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, January 10, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2728&qid=263491" target="_blank">Five Frequently Asked Questions about the Amended ITRs</a> (by Chinmayi Arun, January 28, 2013): The author discusses the five major questions that have been the subject of debate after the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2729&qid=263491" target="_blank">DML Conference 2013</a> (co-organised by CIS and Digital Media & Learning Research Hub Central, Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - Chicago, Illinois, March 14 – 16, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2730&qid=263491" target="_blank">An Introduction to Bitfilm and Bitcoin – A Discussion by Aaron Koenig</a> (CIS, Bangalore, January 23, 2013): Aaron Koenig, Managing Director, Bitfilm Networks of Hamburg, Germany gave a talk.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Events Participated</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2731&qid=263491" target="_blank">Panel Discussion on E-Commerce at NLSIU</a> (organised by National Law School of India University, Bangalore, January 7, 2013). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2732&qid=263491" target="_blank">Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business Transformation</a> (Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore, January 9, 2013): Sunil Abraham was a panelist in this event.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2733&qid=263491" target="_blank">Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression</a> (organized by Internet Democracy Project, Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment and Global Partners & Associates, Dhaka, January 14 – 15, 2013): Pranesh Prakash moderated the session on "Understanding cyber security and surveillance in South Asia”.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2734&qid=263491" target="_blank">Is Freedom of Expression under Threat in the Digital Age?</a> (organized by Editors Guild of India, Index on Censorship and Sage, India International Centre, New Delhi, January 15, 2013): Sunil Abraham was a panelist at this event.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2735&qid=263491" target="_blank">7th India Digital Summit 2013</a> (organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India, Lalit Hotel, New Delhi, January 16 – 17, 2013): Sunil Abraham was the moderator for Plenary Session 3: Discussion on Social Media – Freedom, Moderation or Regulation.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2736&qid=263491" target="_blank">9th International Asian Conference</a> (organised by ITechLaw, February 14 – 15, 2013): Sunil Abraham will be participating as a panelist in the session on “Censorship of Online Content”.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2737&qid=263491" target="_blank">2012 in Review: Biometric ID Systems Grew Internationally...and So Did Concerns about Privacy</a> (by Rebecca Bowe, Right Side News, January 1, 2013)</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2738&qid=263491" target="_blank">Cool Jobs | Parmesh Shahani, Head, Godrej India Culture Lab</a> (LiveMint, January 4, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2739&qid=263491" target="_blank">Clash of the cyberworlds</a> (by Latha Jishnu, Dinsa Sachan and Moyna, Down to Earth, January 15, 2013 issue). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2740&qid=263491" target="_blank">Is freedom of expression under threat in digital age?</a> (originally published by<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2741&qid=263491" target="_blank"> Indo Asian News Service</a>, January 16, 2013 and also covered in the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2742&qid=263491" target="_blank">Business Standard</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2743&qid=263491" target="_blank">Vancouver Desi</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2744&qid=263491" target="_blank">DNA</a>, and <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2745&qid=263491" target="_blank">Tech2</a>). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2746&qid=263491" target="_blank">Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?</a> (by Mahima Kaul, Index on Censorship, January 18, 2013).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2747&qid=263491" target="_blank">Internet Freedom in India – Open to Debate</a> (by Kirsty Hughes, Index on Censorship, January 22, 2013). CIS research on censorship is quoted.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2748&qid=263491" target="_blank">Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: country perspectives</a> (by Richa Kaul Padte, Internet Democracy Project).</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2749&qid=263491" target="_blank">Surveillance Camp: Privatized State Surveillance</a> (by Katitza Rodriguez, Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 28, 2013). Elonnai Hickok is quoted.</li>
<li> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2750&qid=263491" target="_blank">An innovative concept comes to the fore</a> (Deccan Herald, January 29, 2013).</li>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">In partnership with Ford Foundation, CIS was tasked to produce and disseminate modules on various aspects of telecommunications including policy, regulations, infrastructure and market. However, as on November 9, 2012 there was a change in the mandate of the project. Currently, we are working on building a knowledge repository on “Internet Access”. This new repository will cover the history of the internet, technologies involved, principle and values of internet access, broadband market and universal access. It will also touch upon various polices and regulations which has an impact on internet access and bodies and mechanism which are responsible for such policy formulation. For this purpose we will be hosting a new website:<span class="visualHighlight"> <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2751&qid=263491" target="_blank">www.internet-institute.in</a></span>.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">We are also organizing an “Institute on Internet and Society” in collaboration with the Ford Foundation India, which is to be held from June 8, 2013 to June 14, 2013. Call for registrations and relevant details will be soon announced on our website.</td>
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<h2><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2752&qid=263491" target="_blank">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">While the potential for growth and returns exist for telecommunications in India, a range of issues need to be addressed. One aspect is more extensive rural coverage and the other is a countrywide access to broadband which is low. Both require effective and efficient use of networks and resources, including spectrum.:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Column by Shyam Ponappa</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2753&qid=263491" target="_blank">What's Needed Is User-Centric Design, Not Good Intentions</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, January 3, 2013 and Organizing India Blogpost, January 6, 2013).</li>
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<li><b> </b>21<sup>st</sup> Convergence Conference Conference India 2013 (organized by Exhibitions India Group, January 16 – 17, 2013, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi). Snehashish Ghosh participated in the event.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2754&qid=263491" target="_blank">Digital Humanities</a></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">From 2012 to 2015, the Researchers At Work series is focusing on building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. We organised the first Habits of Living workshops in Bangalore last year. The next workshop is being held in Brown University:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><b>Habits of Living Workshop</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2755&qid=263491" target="_blank">Habits of Living: Networked Affects, Glocal Effects</a> (organised by CIS and Brown University, March 21 – 23, 2013, Brown University, Rhode Island). Nishant Shah will be speaking at this event.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2756&qid=263491" target="_blank">About CIS</a></h2>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2757&qid=263491" target="_blank">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2758&qid=263491" target="_blank">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2759&qid=263491" target="_blank">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2760&qid=263491" target="_blank">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2761&qid=263491" target="_blank">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2762&qid=263491" target="_blank">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2763&qid=263491" target="_blank">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2764&qid=263491" target="_blank">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2765&qid=263491" target="_blank">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</td>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Support Us</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceOpennessResearchers at Work2013-06-11T11:56:35ZPageFirst Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-january-27-2013-first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-concludes-at-iimc
<b> The first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants. </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This <a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=39095">report by OdishaDiary bureau, Dhenkanal </a>was published on Sunday, January 27, 2013.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia (or.wikipedia.org) is a free online encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit. It is an open source project and the content is available online for free. This three month education program included three workshops to educate students of IIMC about typing in Odia, collecting sources to write articles, writing the articles on Odia Wikipedia and then geting them evaluated by faculty members and wikipedians.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The program was initiated in November and run until January end. During this time 16 students took part and wrote about 12 articles on various topics, starting from the articles of local importance to eminent personalities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are very keen on getting more students on board to edit Wikipedia which they read and use everyday. This could be one opportunity for them to showcase their writing abilities and documentation skill. I'd like to invite the Wikipedia team to help us install Odia Unicode fonts and continue such a program for the students again”, says Professor Mrinal Chatterjee.</p>
<p>This program was supported by Centre for Internet and Society, a grantee of Wikimedia Foundation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“This was the first pilot Education Program ever done for Odia Wikipedia and I'm overwhelmed with the kind of support from the college faculty and the enthusiasm of the students will bring us back soon,” expresses Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer , Centre for Internet and Society. “This was a great learning experience for us and I'd surely continue contributing to Odia Wikipedia. Had it been little longer I could have contributed more on Mass Communication and Journalism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedian Mrutyunjya Kar who took a central part in organizing the project and conducting workshops in the institute calls it a great start and a stepping stone for a long term program. Odia Wikipedians Manoranjan Behera, Srikant Kedia and Dr. Subas Rout were part of the education programme as resource persons.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-january-27-2013-first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-concludes-at-iimc'>https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-january-27-2013-first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-concludes-at-iimc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaWikimedia2013-01-29T06:42:53ZNews ItemOdia Education Program at IIMC, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-education-program-at-iimc-dhenkanal
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi is organizing a workshop on the Odia Education Program on January 26, 2013, from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is the first Odia Education Program which ran for three months and 16 students took active part in contributing on various articles on Odia Wikipedia. Subhashish Panigrahi will be supporting for the closing ceremony of the program.</p>
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<p>ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳା ଭାରତୀୟ ଜନସଂଚାର ସଂସ୍ଥାନ, ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳରେ ଚାଲିଥିବା <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%B6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B7%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA/%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A4%E0%AD%80%E0%AD%9F_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%82%E0%AC%9A%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0_%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%82%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8,_%E0%AC%A2%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%99%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B3" title="ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଶିକ୍ଷା ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ/ଭାରତୀୟ ଜନସଂଚାର ସଂସ୍ଥାନ, ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳ">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଶିକ୍ଷା ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ</a>ର ଉଦଯାପନ କର୍ମଶାଳା । ଏହା୨୬ ଜାନୁଆରୀ ୨୦୧୩, ଅପରାହ୍ଣ ଘ୩.୦୦ମି. ରେ ହେବାକୁ ଅଛି । ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳାରେ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀମାନେ ଲେଖିଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ସବୁ ବିଷୟରେ ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ମତାମତ ଦେବେ ଓ ଆଗକୁ କଣ କଣ କରିବେ ତାହା ବତାଇବେ । ଏକ ଉଦଯାପନ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମ ସହିତ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀମାନଙ୍କୁ ମାନପତ୍ର ପ୍ରଦାନ କରାଯିବ</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.AC.86.E0.AC.B2.E0.AD.8B.E0.AC.9A.E0.AC.A8.E0.AC.BE.E0.AC.B0_.E0.AC.AA.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.B0.E0.AC.B8.E0.AC.99.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.97">ଆଲୋଚନାର ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ</span></h2>
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<li>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ପ୍ରଥମ ଶିକ୍ଷା ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପର ସ୍ଥିତି ଓ ଫଳାଫଳ</li>
<li>ଏଯାବତ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀମାନେ ଲେଖିଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗର ମୂଲ୍ୟାୟନ ଓ ମତାମତ</li>
<li>ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକ ଓ ଭଦ୍ରମଣ୍ଡଳୀଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ବାବଦରେ ସମ୍ୟକ ସୂଚନା</li>
<li>ମାନପତ୍ର ବିତରଣ</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.AC.8F.E0.AC.A5.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.B0.E0.AD.87_.E0.AC.AD.E0.AC.BE.E0.AC.97.E0.AC.A8.E0.AD.87.E0.AC.89.E0.AC.A5.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.AC.E0.AC.BE_.E0.AC.89.E0.AC.87.E0.AC.95.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.86.E0.AC.B3.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.97.E0.AC.A3">ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗନେଉଥିବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ</span></h2>
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<li>[[ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:|ମୃତ୍ୟୁଞ୍ଜୟ କର]]</li>
<li><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Psubhashish">ସୁଭାସିସ ପାଣିଗାହି</a></li>
<li><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Subas_Chandra_Rout" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Subas Chandra Rout">ସୁବାସ ଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ରାଉତ</a></li>
<li><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:ManXiii" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:ManXiii">ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ ବେହେରା</a></li>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-education-program-at-iimc-dhenkanal'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-education-program-at-iimc-dhenkanal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaEventWikimedia2013-01-24T10:23:05ZEventOdia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary Celebration
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, New Delhi is celebrating the ninth anniversary of Odia Wikipedia. The event is being held at Academy of Media Learning, M-6, Samanta Vihar in Bhubaneswar from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl"> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଅନଲାଇନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ଏକ ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ୯ମ ବାର୍ଷିକ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ୨୯ ଜାନୁଆରୀରେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵରର ଏକାଡେମି ଅଫ ମିଡ଼ିଆ ଲର୍ଣ୍ଣିଙ୍ଗରେ ଅପରାହ୍ଣ ୪ ଘଟିକା ସମୟରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହେବାକୁ ଯାଉଛି । ଏହି ଅବସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିବାର ଆପଣମାନଙ୍କୁ ଏହି କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଏହାକୁ ସାଫଲ୍ୟମଣ୍ଡିତ କରିବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରୁଛି ।</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl">ଏଥିରେ ଆମେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଉପଯୋଗୀତା, ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ଓ ଆପଣ କିପରି ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇପାରିବେ ଓ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ଏହି ମହାପ୍ରବାହ ସାମିଲ ହୋଇପାରିବେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଜାଣିପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେବା ପାଇଁ ଏହି ଅନଲାଇନ ଫର୍ମଟିକୁ ଭରନ୍ତୁ: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fq5vnA&h=FAQEgTac3&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/q5vnA</a></span></span></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.AC.AE.E0.AD.82.E0.AC.B3_.E0.AC.AA.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.B0.E0.AC.B8.E0.AC.99.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.97_.28Agenda.29">Agenda</span></h3>
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<li>Introducing Wikipedia</li>
<li>Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's 9th birthday!</li>
<li>Current status of Odia Wikipedia and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:Wikiprojects" title="ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Wikiprojects">WikiProjects</a></li>
<li>Press meet</li>
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<h3>Organizers</h3>
<p><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Odisha1" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Odisha1">ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ ବେହେରା<br />ଶ୍ରୀକାନ୍ତ କେଡ଼ିଆ<br /><b></b></a><b><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Psubhashish"><span>ସୁଭାସିସ<span>ପାଣିଗାହି</span></span></a></b><b><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Psubhashish"><span><span></span></span></a></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Register for this event <a class="external-link" href="http://bitly.com/bbsrwiki">here</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaEventWikimedia2013-01-24T09:52:13ZEventA Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the soft skill development training program, RKGIT, an engineering college is working on a series of activities to empower the students with practical approach and competence for their professional life. We were invited to conduct a workshop for the students of mechanical engineering and help them understand the real reasons for contributions to Wikipedia as a volunteer.</p>
<p>Some of the focus areas we set for the workshop were:</p>
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<p>Number of students not to exceed 60 to make sure that we get enough time and space to interact actively and pay individual attention.</p>
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<p>Number of coordinators to support with logistics to conduct the workshop smoothly.</p>
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<p>Active participation of teachers.</p>
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<p>Arrangement of internet labs with multiple IP addresses for smooth user account creation.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Around 65 mechanical engineering students from second and third year participated in this workshop. We began the workshop with an interactive discussion about their practical relation with Wikipedia as students and the usability and difficulties that they face. I presented about some important facts about Wikipedia and voluntary contribution in different ways. During and after the presentation students asked a lot of questions about the notability and authenticity of articles, collaboration vs. fights among editors, references and its significance, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a short break to make way for students to settle in the internet lab for a hands on training session. We faced problems with the LAN and 3G network for mobile broadband which made this session longer than expected. There were problems for creating accounts because of the Internet explorer and X based systems and the students couldn't create their user accounts. So, we had to manage with them contributing anonymously from IP addresses. Despite these unexpected technical problems all of them edited various articles. Some of them tried to vandalize and observe the quick reversal of the vandals.</p>
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<th><img class="image-inline" src="blog/resolveuid/c95b296397b746abae98c8b557344504/@@images/image/preview" /><br />Subhashish presenting about Wikipedia to the participants</th>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">I had a discussion with the director about conducting more such workshops, especially technical workshops where students can code and contribute to MediaWiki.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Quick links:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Presentation used for this workshop: <a class="external-link" href="http://www.slideshare.net/psubhashish/you-can-also-wikipedia">www.slideshare.net/psubhashish/you-can-also-wikipedia</a></li>
<li>English Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org</a> (Click <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page&type=signup">here</a> to create an account on Wikipedia)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Presentation</h3>
<p> </p>
<ul>
</ul>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16067135" width="427"> </iframe></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad</a>
</p>
No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-01-22T03:09:25ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — December 2012
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-december-2012
<b>This is the fourth Access to Knowledge newsletter from the CIS team in Delhi! During the month of December we had organised the Marathi wiki workshop, a workshop at NMAIT in Karnataka and a workshop at SRM University in Chennai.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). In this issue we bring you updates from the Marathi wiki community and workshops organised in NMAIT in Karnataka and SRM University in Chennai.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CIS Office in Delhi</span></h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Education Program</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss">Marathi Wiki Workshop at TISS</a> (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, December 8, 2012). Organised as part of the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society’s initiative of focusing on Indian languages. Nitika Tandon participated in the event.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Workshops Organised by CIS:</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait">Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT</a> (NMAIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka December 21, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai">Wikipedia Workshop at SRM</a> (SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, December 17, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute). Noopur Raval participated in the event.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iit-kharagpur">A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, Kharagpur</a> (Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, December 3, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<p># Blog Entries</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/non-unicode-iscii-text-can-be-converted-to-unicode">Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, December 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/new-avenues">New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups</a> (by Noopur Raval, December 28, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Video</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller">Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 12, 2012). Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programs such as <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3>Follow us elsewhere</h3>
<ul>
<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
</ul>
<p>*<b>Support Us</b>*</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-december-2012'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-december-2012</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2013-01-10T13:33:41ZPageDecember 2012 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2012-bulletin
<b>We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Jobs</b></p>
<hr />
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-indian-initiatives">Programme Officer</a> (Access to Knowledge — Indic Language Initiatives), <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-developer">Developer</a> (NVDA Project), <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/jobs/research-manager">Research Manager</a> (Digital Humanities project), and <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-access-to-knowledge-and-openness">Policy</a> Associate (Access to Knowledge and Openness) and Policy Associate (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> and <a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India has an estimated 70 million disabled persons who are unable to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. The disabled need accessible content, devices and interfaces facilitated via copyright law and electronic accessibility policies:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities</b><br />CIS received a grant of INR 54,83,200 from the Hans Foundation for Creating a National Kit of Laws, Policies and Programs for Persons with Disabilities on August 16, 2012. Anandhi Vishwanathan from CIS and Shruti Ramakrishnan from the Centre for Law and Policy Research are the researchers presently working for this project. Early draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from the readers:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-tamil-nadu-chapter-call-for-comments">The Tamil Nadu Chapter</a> (by Shruti Ramakrishnan, December 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-karnataka-chapter">The Karnataka Chapter</a> (by Shruti Ramakrishnan, December 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kerala-chapter-call-for-comments">The Kerala Chapter</a> (by Anandi Vishwanathan, December 31, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-andhra-pradesh-call-for-comments">The Andhra Chapter</a> (by Anandi Vishwanathan, December 31, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/feedback-on-draft-twelfth-five-year-plan">Comments and Feedback on the Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan with respect to Persons with Disabilities</a> (by Rahul Cherian, December 28, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ip-watch-catherine-saez-december-18-2012-wipo-to-negotiate-treaty-for-the-blind-in-june">WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’</a> (by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch, December 18, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-city-mumbai-madhavi-rajadhyaksha-december-20-2012-disability-groups-in-india-welcome-progress-on-treaty-for-blind-persons">Disability groups in India welcome progress on treaty for blind persons</a> (by Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, December 20, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Blog Entry</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/wipo-to-convene-conference-to-finalise-tvi-next-year">WIPO to Convene a Diplomatic Conference in Morocco to Finalise TVI</a> (by Rahul Cherian, December 24, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers, developing countries, human rights, and creativity/innovation from excessive regimes of copyright, patents, and other such monopolistic rights over knowledge:</p>
<h3>Event Organised</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip">2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a> (FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, December 15 – 17, 2012). The Second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was organized by Fundação Getulio Vargas, American University Washington College of Law, Columbia University, Open AIR, and ICSTD. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash participated in the event. Pranesh was one of the moderators in the Roundtable Discussion on Priority Policy Forums, Research and Analysis Needs and Commitments.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Research for the Global Congress</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">For the 2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and Public Interest event, CIS conducted research. Jadine Lannon (based on research by Annapoornima and Rohan George and with help from Yogesh Kumar did research on documentation of phones and their patent, Amba Kak did research on copyright and mobile licensing, Vikrant Vasudev conducted research on patent pools and valuation methods, Hans Varghese Mathews did research on mathematical models of patent pools and Nehaa Chaudhuri did research on analysis of 3Gand 4G patent pools.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/openness">Openness</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 'Openness' programme critically examines alternatives to existing regimes of intellectual property rights, and transparency and accountability. Under this programme, we study Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software:</p>
<h3>Event Report</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/random-hacks-of-kindness-december-2012-report">Random Hacks of Kindness Global December 2012 — A Report</a> (by Yogesh Londhe, December 10, 2012). Event was hosted at CIS office in Bangalore. CIS, Amnesty International India Office, Greenpeace India Office, HasGeek, Yahoo Research & Development and SimpleTechLife sponsored the event held in CIS office in Bangalore on December 1 and 2, 2012.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Events Participated</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>‘<a href="https://cis-india.org/news/i-and-n-partners-meeting-rio">Information & Networks’ Partners’ Meeting</a> (organised by International Development Research Centre, Canada in Rio de Janeiro, December 11 – 12, 2013). Sunil Abraham spoke in session on Open Business and IP.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/leslie-chan-gives-five-talks-in-india">Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India</a> (Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala, National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, CSIR, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala, Manasa Media Centre, Mysore University Library and SDM Institute for Management Development, December 17 – 20, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge</a> (Wikipedia Project)</b><br />Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Delhi: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<h3>Events Organised</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait">Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT</a> (NMAIT, Karkala Taluk, December 21, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai">Wikipedia Workshop at SRM</a> (SRM University, Chennai, December 17, 2012, co-organised in association with Metawings Institute).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss">Marathi Wiki Workshop at TISS</a> (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, December 8, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Blog Entries</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/non-unicode-iscii-text-can-be-converted-to-unicode">Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, December 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/new-avenues">New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups</a> (by Noopur Raval, December 28, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>News / Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iit-kharagpur">A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, Kharagpur</a> (Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, December 3, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Videos</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller">Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 12, 2012). Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age">Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 30, 2012). Gene Kogan, a programmer and digital artist gave a talk.</li>
</ul>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><span>HasGeek</span></b><br />HasGeek creates discussion spaces for geeks and has organised conferences like the <a href="http://fifthelephant.in/2012/">Fifth Elephant</a>, <a href="http://droidcon.in/2011">Droidcon India 2011</a>, <a href="http://androidcamp.hasgeek.com/">Android Camp</a>, etc. HasGeek is supported by CIS and works out from CIS office in Bengaluru.</p>
<h3>Upcoming Event</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://metarefresh.in/2013/">Meta Refresh</a> (MLR Convention Centre, JP Nagar, Bangalore, February 22 and 23, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes:</p>
<h3>Analysis of Central Motor Vehicle Rules</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-motor-vehicle-rules">Comments on the Proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989</a> Concerning Radio Frequency Identification Tags (by Bhairav Acharya, December 3, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b></p>
<h3>Columns/Op-eds</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/economic-times-december-2-2012-sunil-abraham-online-censorship">Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech</a> (by Sunil Abraham, Economic Times, December 5, 2012).</li>
<li>The Worldwide Web of Concerns (by Pranesh Prakash, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/deccan-chronicle-pranesh-prakash-december-10-2012-the-worldwide-web-of-concerns">Deccan Chronicle</a>, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/asian-age-column-december-10-2012-pranesh-prakash-the-worldwide-web-of-concerns">Asian Age</a>, December 10, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-hindu-opinion-lead-december-15-2012-chinmayi-arun-the-trouble-with-hurried-solutions">The Trouble with Hurried Solutions</a> (by Chinmayi Arun, The Hindu, December 15, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-nishant-shah-december-29-2012-tomorrow-today">Tomorrow, Today</a> (Nishant Shah, The Indian Express, December 29, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Event Organised</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/meeting-of-network-of-internet-and-society-centers">Meeting of the Network of Internet & Society Centers</a> (organised by Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Center for Technology & Society, KEIO University SFC, the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Center for Civic Media, NEXA Center for Internet & Society and CIS, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 6 – 8, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upcoming Events</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/dml-conference-2013">DML Conference 2013</a> (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - Chicago, Illinois, March 14 – 16, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Events Participated</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/second-international-e-governance-conference-at-baghdad">Second International e-Governance Conference</a> (organized by the National Committee for Corporate Governance Electronic Iraq and the United Nations Development Programme, Rashid Hotel, Baghdad, December 2, 2012). Sunil Abraham presented on "Review of the Legal Environment in Iraq for Effective e-Governance".</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/seminar-artist-talks-outresourcing-with-the-transmediale-collective">Seminar/Artist Talks : "Outresourcing" with the Transmediale Collective</a> (organised by the Berlin - Transmediale new media collective, December 3, 2012, Bangalore). Sharath Chandra Ram presented a White Paper. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">World Conference on International Telecommunications (organised by ITU, December 3 – 14). Chinmayi Arun participated as a civil society representative.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internet-driven-developments">Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points</a> (organised by Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University, December 6 – 8, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.eihr.ee/en/annualconference/conference-2012/program/">Annual Conference on Human Rights 2012</a> (organised by Estonian Institute of Human Rights and Google). Malavika Jayaram participated as a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/state-surveillance-and-human-rights-camp">State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp</a> (Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort, Rio, Brazil, December 13 and 14, 2012). Elonnai Hickok made a presentation on MLATS and International Cooperation for Law Enforcement Purposes.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC9G_tbxI9Y">Economic Impact of Internet in India</a> (organised by Aspen Institute India, December 21, 2012). Chinmayi Arun attended this event.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Blog Entries</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/transcripts-of-wcit-2012">Transcripts from WCIT-12</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, December 3, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/section-66-a-information-technology-act-2000-cases">Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: Cases</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, December 3, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internet-driven-developments">Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, December 28, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/state-surveillance-human-rights-camp-summary">State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, December 31, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/mining-the-web-collective">Mining the Web Collective</a> (by Sharath Chandra Ram, December 31, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Video</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/technology-culture-and-events-in-south-east-asia">Technology Culture and Events in South East Asia — A Presentation by Preetam Rai</a> (CIS, Bangalore, December 18, 2012). Preetam Rai gave a lecture.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/telegraphindia-december-3-2012-gs-mudur-66a-cut-and-paste-job">66A ‘cut & paste job’</a> (by GS Mudur, Telegraph, December 3, 2012). Pranesh Prakash and Snehashish Ghosh are quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-december-6-2012-surabhi-agarwal-ayodhya-trending-on-twitter-sparks-censorship-concerns">Ayodhya trending on Twitter sparks censorship concerns</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, December 6, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-sci-tech-internet-december-10-2012-vasudha-venugopal-debate-on-section-66a">Debate on Section 66A rages on</a> (Vasudha Venugopal, The Hindu, December 10, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-india-times-december-13-2012-kim-arora-hacktivists-deface-bsnl-website">Hacktivists deface BSNL website</a> (by Kim Arora, The Times of India, December 13, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-december-16-2012-surabhi-agarwal-govt-likely-to-issue-guidelines-to-clarify-it-rules-soon">Govt likely to issue guidelines to clarify IT rules soon</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, December 16, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/india-today-rahul-jayaram-december-18-2012-the-freedom-of-expression-debate">The freedom of expression debate: The State must mend fences with The Web</a> (by Rahul Jayaram, India Today, December 18, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dna-bangalore-december-19-2012-the-it-act-is-fine-but-its-interpretation-is-not">‘The IT Act is fine, but its interpretation is not’</a> (DNA, December 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-december-22-2012-kim-arora-no-fear-of-losing-internet-freedom-till-jan-15">No fear of losing internet freedom till Jan 15: Experts</a> (by Kim Arora, The Times of India, December 22, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-december-27-2012-surabhi-agarwal-un-agrees-to-review-agencies-governing-internet">UN agrees to review agencies governing Internet</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, December 27, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-december-29-2012-delhi-gang-rape">Delhi gang rape: What Facebook, Twitter expose about govt</a> (The Times of India, December 31, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-december-31-2012-op-ed-a-note-of-dissent-on-cash-transfers-and-uid">A note of dissent on cash transfers and UID</a> (The Hindu, December 31, 2012). Sunil Abraham was one of the signatories.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-december-31-2012-javed-anwer-and-rukmini-shrinivasan-the-year-social-media-came-of-age-in-india">The year social media came of age in India</a> (by Javed Anwer and Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, December 31, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While the potential for growth and returns exist for telecommunications in India, a range of issues need to be addressed. One aspect is more extensive rural coverage and the other is a countrywide access to broadband which is low. Both require effective and efficient use of networks and resources, including spectrum:</p>
<h3>Newspaper Column</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/organizing-india-blogspot-shyam-ponappa-december-11-2012-inflation-control-through-structural-reforms">Inflation Control Through Structural Reforms</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, December 11, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/knowledge-and-capacity-around-telecom-policy">Building Knowledge and Capacity around Telecommunication Policy in India</a></b><br />Ford Foundation has given a grant of USD 2,00,000 to CIS to build expertise in the area of telecommunications in India. The knowledge repository deals with these modules: Introduction to Telecommunications, Telecommunications Infrastructure and Technologies, Government of India Regulatory Framework for Telecom, Telecommunication and the Market, Universal Access and Accessibility, The International Telecommunications Union and other international bodies, Broadcasting, Emerging Topics and Way Forward. Dr. Surendra Pal, Satya N Gupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Payal Malik, Dr. Rakesh Mehrotra and Dr. Nadeem Akhtar are the expert reviewers.</p>
<p>The following are the new outputs:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/licensing-framework-for-telecom">Licensing Framework for Telecom: A Historical Overview</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, December 31, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/market-structure-in-telecom-industry">Market Structure in the Telecom Industry</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, December 31, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Natives with a Cause? examines the changing landscape of social change and political participation in light of the role that young people play through digital and Internet technologies, in emerging information societies. Consolidating knowledge from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it builds a global network of knowledge partners who critically engage with discourse on youth, technology and social change, and look at alternative practices and ideas in the Global South:</p>
<h3>Book Review</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/indian-express-december-8-2012-nishant-shah-not-just-fancy-television">Not Just Fancy Television</a> (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, December 8, 2012): Nishant Shah reviews Ben Hammersley's book "64 Things You Need to Know for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear ", published by Hodder & Stoughton.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/cnn-december-8-2012-oliver-joy-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-digital-native">What does it mean to be a digital native?</a> (by Oliver Joy, CNN, December 8, 2012).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc. CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO, and has given policy briefs to delegations from various countries, our Programme Manager, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Support Us</b><br />Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Request for Collaboration</b><br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2012-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2012-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceOpenness2013-01-16T05:15:27ZPageA Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop began with interaction with the students about their understanding. I asked few questions like what is Wikipedia, who edits articles on Wikipedia, is it paid or free, did they ever try to edit Wikipedia, etc. I took them through a presentation to explain basics of Wikipedia, five pillars, notability and copyright issues related to vandalism. One of the students were called to create his user account. Students were showed the simpler sign up process. To explain how articles are edited we introduced errors in the article on Bengaluru and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&diff=529072240&oldid=529071146">made it the capital of India for few minutes</a>! Students were explained how Wikipedia editors correct mistakes like these in real time and correct facts are published in Wikipedia. A majority of the students asked about the authenticity of articles which is open to anyone. So I got a chance to refresh the page and show how the error introduced was reverted within a few minutes.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ParticipantsatKarkala.png" alt="Participants at Karkala" class="image-inline" title="Participants at Karkala" /></th>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Above is a picture of the participants from the Wikipedia Workshop at Karkala</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The session went on with such interaction and students were explained more about the importance of citing references to add credibility to the facts they can add on Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We also had Dr. Ashok Kumar, prof, Computer science department, a wikipedian and columnist for Kannada newspaper <a href="http://www.udayavani.com/">Udaya Vani</a>. Dr. Kumar <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Outreach_Document_-_Kannada.pdf">introduced</a> Kannada Wikipedia to the students. At the end of the session I had a discussion with him about organizing more workshops for Kannada Wikipedia and supporting participant students. Special thanks to <a href="http://www.metawinggroups.com/">Metawings</a> for finding the venue and supporting for the event.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait</a>
</p>
No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-01-04T16:30:28ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Over 100 students are expected to participate in this workshop. The primary aim of the workshop is to educate them about Wikipedia in Indian languages and tell them how they can contribute to Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is willing to bear the travelling expense for upto two wikipedians to and from Bangalore (or any other place in Karnataka that is close to Karkala).</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2012-12-19T07:20:31ZEventAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — November 2012
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-november-2012
<b>This is the third Access to Knowledge newsletter from the CIS team in Delhi! This issue gives a summary of the first Odia Wikipedia education program, workshops organised in Bhubaneswar and Delhi, a meet-up held in Kolkata, hackathons held in Delhi and Hyderabad, and news and media coverage during the month of November.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan"><span>Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</span></a> of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). In this issue we bring you updates from the Kolkata wiki community, the Odia wiki community, a report of a workshop organized exclusively for women in Mumbai, Wikipedia hackathon organised in Delhi and Hyderabad, and the recent news and media coverage. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId"><span>http://bit.ly/TOcXId</span></a>.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span><span>CIS Office in Delhi</span></span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team"><span>A2K team</span></a> consists of three members: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span>Nitika Tandon</span></a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span>Subhashish Panigrahi</span></a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span>Noopur Raval</span></a>. <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team"><span>Shiju Alex</span></a> left the organisation. November 16 was his last working day.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Education Program</span></h3>
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<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-to-be-rolled-out-at-iimc-dhenkanal"><span>First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out</span></a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 30, 2012). The program was initiated at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Workshops Organised by CIS:</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wiki-workshop-at-aml"><span>Odia Wikipedia Workshop at AML</span></a> (Academy of Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, November 10, 2012).</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/follow-up-to-wikipedia-introductory-session-at-bharati%20vidyapeeth"><span>Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session</span></a> (Bharati Vidyapeeth, Delhi, November 19, 2012).</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar"><span>An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB</span></a> (KMBB College, Bhubaneswar, November 19, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Workshop Organised by Wiki Community</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-womens-workshop-in-mumbai"><span>Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai</span></a> (by Noopur Raval, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala, Mumbai, November 4, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Meetup Organised by CIS</span></h3>
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<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia"><span>Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!</span></a> (Kolkata, November 3, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Hackathon organised by CIS</span></h3>
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<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi"><span>A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi</span></a> (CIS, New Delhi, November 11, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span> Hackathon Participation</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hackathon-hyderabad"><span>Wikipedia Hackathon</span></a> (organised by BITS, Hyderabad, October 25 – 27, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>News and Media Coverage</span></h3>
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<li><span>‘<a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-article-kalyan-subramani-nov-15-2012-some-indian-laws-could-be-challenging"><span>Some Indian laws could be challenging</span></a>’ (by Kalyan Subramani, Bangalore Mirror, November 15, 2012)</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad"><span>A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar</span></a> (Sambad, November 19, 2012).</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-november-23-2012-pravuprasad-routray"><span>OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team</span></a> (by Pravuprasad Routray, Orissa Diary, November 23, 2012).</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar"><span>વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે</span></a> (by Harsh Kothari, Cybersafar, November 28, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Blog Entry</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles"><span>Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!</span></a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 19, 2012).</span></li>
</ul>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i> </i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
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<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-november-2012'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-november-2012</a>
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No publisherpraskrishna2012-12-14T08:20:48ZPageKolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia
<b>Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.</b>
<h3>Jayanta Nath and Deepon Saha — Lecture on Bangla Wikipedia</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jayanta is one of the active contributors in <a class="external-link" href="http://bn.wikipedia.org">Bangla Wikipedia</a>. He has supported community building for Bangla Wikipedia in India. Apart from contributing articles Jayanta supports many wikipedians for fixing technical issues on various language wikis. Deepon is another active wikipedian from Kolkata who contributes mostly to English Wikipedia besides contributing to WikiCommons and Bangla Wikipedia and taking active part in community building in Kolkata and other places. I met both Jayanta and Deepon recently in Kolkata and discussed about Bangla Wikipedia and the role of contributors from India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Over the last few years Bangla Wikipedia has seen enough growth — growth in number of articles, growth in number of outreach, growth in number of contributors and lot more. However, there is something missing in this list, and that is the growth in number of Bangla editors from India. Sadly, though Bangla speaking people constitute a major part of the intellectual sphere. Bangla Wikipedia has not seen many new faces in the recent past from the Indian subcontinent. "English has become like a mother language of most Bengalis in Kolkata and Bengalis residing in other major cities", expresses Jayanta with grief. "Most of the Bengalis speak and are adhered to Bengali language but the use of language is limited only to speaking. And they no more use Bangla in writing. That is what makes it more difficult to tell them about Bangla Wikipedia", adds Deepon. Bangla Wikipedia in India is facing one more major challenge: media coverage. There is not much coverage about Bangla Wikipedia in Bangla media, especially print media. "I was interviewed by the Times of India, Hindu, Telegraph and few other English newspapers but, surprisingly there was not much coverage in Bangla media. There are almost 12 Bangla newspapers being published from Kolkata and in spite of our efforts the outcome is far below expectation", explains Jayanta. Jayanta feels there is much scope for community building for Bangla Wikipedia in rural West Bengal. Unlike urban Bengal, Bangla is the primary medium of both verbal and written communication.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Computer literacy might be a big hurdle when it comes to spreading words about editing Bangla Wikipedia. But it is difficult to predict about the status of government schools, computer and internet penetration before initiating outreach for rural places. Deepon also suggests about making a small survey in Bangla medium schools in Kolkata to understand the scope for any Bangla education program in those schools. We discussed about the internet penetration to measure and assess the state of Bangla on internet and its public usage. Out of the ten Bangla newspapers only two are available in unicode for their online edition. The state of unicode and online usage of Bangla in unicode is much better in Bangladesh which also explains that Bengalis in Bangladesh are using Bangla to a great extent including reading, writing and upon internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Typing is another challenge to be tackled. DTP operators, government offices where Bangla typing is used normally use a different typing scheme and non-unicode fonts (mostly old ISCII or ASCII fonts). "We could bring many Bangla enthusiasts to Bangla Wiki projects by simplifying the typing solution and making people aware about the available typing tools. Simple video tutorials and smaller help pages with easy-to-understand guidelines will be helpful and these should be linked from other pages so the new editors will find them and make use of them to learn editing", adds Deepon.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Full Story Began with Loads of Curiosity and a Small [Edit] Button!</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Deepon was searching for some information online while he discovered the available information on wikipedia is incorrect. He was searching for a help desk to ask to correct it. Suddenly he discovered the "Edit" button, when he clicked on it a new page opened up with a warning: "You are not logged in. Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address">IP address</a> will be publicly visible if you make any edits. Please <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Pune&returntoquery=action%3Dedit">log in</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Pune&returntoquery=action%3Dedit">sign up</a> to have your edits associated with a user name, among <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Summary_of_benefits">other benefits</a>." He clicked, signed up and created a new account and corrected the mistake. That was the first time Deepon made his first edit on Wikipedia and never stopped after that.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Ashwin (User:AshLin): Passion to Contribute to Wikipedia still Flying like Butterflies</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was no book available in the early 80s when Ashwin wanted to know more about Indian butterflies. There was no article on Wikipedia about Indian butterflies and there were very less available resource on Indian butterflies. Ashwin along with Shyamal and other enthusiasts collaborated to start working on this project which brought many other contributors. The other project he was quite involved was about Indian snakes. One of his key motivations for contributing to Wikipedia was making the resource about Indian butterflies available for others.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ashwin is one of those active contributors from India who are active for the last few years for bringing more editors onboard to write on articles of Indian context, primarily on English Wikipedia. Out of his own passion Ashwin started contributing to several projects like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lepidoptera">WikiProject Lepidoptera</a> which brought many wonderful articles on Wikipedia. Ashwin is greatly appreaciate for his participation in projects like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OWIS">WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:INCOTM">Collaborations of the month</a>. Ashwin extended his help to the Pune community when he was in Pune from organizing outreach events to bringing editors onboard to take leadership for new projects. "There is a lot of scope for regional language wikipedians to learn from the English Wikipedia projects. Projects on English Wikipedia involves more people and the lessons would be helpful for other regional language wikipedians and English wikipedians in India are always interested to help", expresses Ashwin. Currently he is in a small wikibreak and will be back soon!</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia</a>
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<b>Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="visualHighlight"><b>Jobs</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/jobs/research-manager">Research Manager</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/jobs/programme-officer-internet-governance">Programme Officer – Internet Governance</a>. To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">India has an estimated 70 million disabled persons who are unable to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. The disabled need accessible content, devices and interfaces facilitated via copyright law and electronic accessibility policies:</td>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/human-machine-interfaces-the-history-of-an-uncertain-future">Human Machine Interfaces: The History of an Uncertain Future</a> (by Sharath Chandra Ram, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/itu-int-itu-d-asp-cms-events-2012-nepal-itu-nta-workshop-on-making-ict-and-mobile-phones-accessible-for-persons-with-disabilities-in-nepal" class="external-link"><span class="external-link">Workshop on Making ICT and Mobile Phones Accessible for Persons with Disabilities in Nepal</span></a></li>
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(organised by ITU, November 9, 2012). Nirmita Narasimhan was a speaker in the session "Introduction: ICT and Telecom Accessibility, Good Practices in Policy and Industry Initiatives".
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers, developing countries, human rights, and creativity/innovation from excessive regimes of copyright, patents, and other such monopolistic rights over knowledge:</p>
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<p>We are providing archival copies of the transcripts of the 25th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights held in Geneva from November 19 to 23, 2012:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-1-november-19-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 1, November 19, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-2-november-20-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 2, November 20, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-3-november-21-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 3, November 21, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-4-november-22-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 4, November 22, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-5-november-23-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 5, November 23, 2012</a></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/comments-on-broadcast-treaty-and-exceptions-and-limitations-for-libraries-and-archives">Comments on the Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives</a> (by Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 29, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/comments-on-science-technology-and-innovation-policy-draft">Comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft)</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, submitted to the Ministry of Science and Technology, November 26, 2012).</li>
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<h3>Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a part of the Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace research project, CIS is researching upon 12 gray-market mobile devices to generate a better understanding of the intellectual property implications of the pervasive mobile technologies available in the Indian market:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Workshop Report</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/exploring-the-internals-of-mobile-devices">Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices — Report from a One-day Workshop at TERI</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/icomm-2012-report">ICOMM2012: International Communications and Electronics Fair</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 14, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/pervasive-mobile-technologies-meet-our-grey-market-devices">Pervasive Mobile Technologies: Meet Our Mobile Devices!</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip">2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a> (FGV Law School, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, December 15 – 17, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/openness">Openness</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 'Openness' programme critically examines alternatives to existing regimes of intellectual property rights, and transparency and accountability. Under this programme, we study Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/autonomy-access-infrastructure-future-a-discussion-with-cs-lakshmi-on-sparrow-archive" class="external-link">Autonomy, Access, Infrastructure and Future — A Discussion with C S Lakshmi</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 29, 2012). A video of the event is published.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age">Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://http//cis-india.org/openness/blog/informatics-nic-in-neeta-verma-alka-mishra-d-p-mishra-july-2012-open-government-platform">Open Government Platform</a> (by Neeta Verma, Alka Mishra and D.P. Mishra, Informatics Magazine, July 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/science-gallery-workshop">Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti</a> (organised by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology and Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Srishti School of Art Design and Technology (N2 campus), Bangalore, November 23, 2012). Sunil Abraham participated in this event.</li>
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<h3>Access to Knowledge Programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Delhi: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>. Program Manager, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Shiju Alex</a> left the organisation. November 16, 2012 was his last working day.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia">Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!</a> (Kolkata, November 3, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-to-be-rolled-out-at-iimc-dhenkanal">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program</a> (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, November 8, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wiki-workshop-at-aml">Odia Wikipedia Workshop at AML</a> (Academy of Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, November 10, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi">A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi</a> (CIS, New Delhi, November 11, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller">Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 12, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar">An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB</a> (KMBB College, Bhubaneswar, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/follow-up-to-wikipedia-introductory-session-at-bharati%20vidyapeeth">Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session</a> (Bharati Vidyapeeth, Delhi, November 19, 2012).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hackathon-hyderabad">Wikipedia Hackathon</a> (organised by BITS, Hyderabad, October 25 – 27, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-womens-workshop-in-mumbai">Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai</a> (by Noopur Raval, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala, Mumbai, November 4, 2012).</li>
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<li>‘<a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-article-kalyan-subramani-nov-15-2012-some-indian-laws-could-be-challenging">Some Indian laws could be challenging</a>’ (Bangalore Mirror, November 15, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad">A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar</a> (Sambad, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-november-23-2012-pravuprasad-routray">OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team</a> (Orissa Diary, November 23, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar">વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે</a> (by Harish Kothari, Cybersafar, November 28, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles">Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 19, 2012).</li>
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<h3>HasGeek</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">HasGeek creates discussion spaces for geeks and has organised conferences like the <a href="http://fifthelephant.in/2012/">Fifth Elephant</a>, <a href="http://droidcon.in/2011">Droidcon India 2011</a>, <a href="http://androidcamp.hasgeek.com/">Android Camp</a>, etc. HasGeek is supported by CIS and works out from CIS office in Bengaluru. The following event was organised by HasGeek in the month of November: <a href="http://droidcon.in/2012/">Droidcon India</a> (November 2 and 3, 2012, MLR Convention Centre, Whitefield, Bangalore).</p>
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The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes:
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/breaking-down-section-66-a-of-the-it-act">Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, November 25, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/livemint-opinion-november-28-2012-pranesh-prakash-fixing-indias-anarchic-it-act">Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, Livemint, November 28, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/times-crest-pranesh-prakash-november-24-2012-draft-nonsense">Draft nonsense</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, The Times of India, November 24, 2012).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/question-and-answer-to-report-of-group-of-experts-on-privacy">Q&A to the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, November 9, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/statement-of-civil-society-members-and-groups-at-best-bits-pre-igf-meeting" class="external-link">Statement of Civil Society Members in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF Meeting</a>. CIS was one of the signatories of this submission made to the ITU.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/submission-on-indias-draft-comments-on-proposed-changes-to-itus-itrs">Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRs</a>. CIS was one of the signatories along with Society for Knowledge Commons, Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and Media for Change.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/submission-on-proposals-for-future-itrs-and-related-processes" class="external-link">Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Future ITRs and Related Processes. </a>CIS was one of the signatories of this submission in response to ITU’s call for public comments.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-govts-submission-to-itu">Indian Government's Submission to ITU</a>: We have put up the text of the submission made by the Government of India to the World Conference of International Telecommunications, Dubai on November 3, 2012.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/will-the-international-telecommunication-regulations-itrs-impact-internet-governance-a-multistakeholder-perspective">India Internet Governance Conference</a> (organised by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, FICCI and Internet Society, October 4 -5, 2012). Pranesh Prakash made a presentation. CIS was one of the supporting organisations.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bal-thackeray-comment-arbitrary-arrest-295A-66A">Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray's Death</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, November 19, 2012). This was re-posted in <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283033">Outlook</a> (November 19, 2012), <a href="http://kafila.org/2012/11/19/social-media-regulation-vs-suppression-of-freedom-of-speech-pranesh-prakash/">KAFILA</a> (November 19, 2012), and <a href="http://shailsnest.com/2012/11/20/4445/">Shail's Nest</a> (November 20, 2012). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/dot-blocks-domain-sites">DoT Blocks Domain Sites — But Reasons and Authority Unclear</a> (by Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 21, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/technology-culture-and-events-in-south-east-asia">Technology Culture and Events in South East Asia — A Presentation by Preetam Rai</a>(CIS, Bangalore, Near Domlur Club and TERI Complex, December 18, 2012, 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/dml-conference-2013">DML Conference 2013</a> (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - Chicago, Illinois, March 14 – 16, 2012).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh Prakash, Chinmayi Arun, Malavika Jayaram and Elonnai Hickok participated in the Internet Governance Forum held in Baku, Azerbaijan in the month of November 2012. In total, CIS spoke in 12 panels:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/best-bits">Best Bits 2012</a> (organised by Best Bits, Baku, Azerbaijan<b> </b>November 3 and 4, 2012). Pranesh Prakash and Elonnai Hickok participated in this event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/privatisation-of-censorship">The Privatisation of Censorship: The Online Responsibility to Protect Free Expression</a> (organized by Index on Censorship, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 5, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/new-trends-in-industry-self-governance">New Trends in Industry Self-Governance</a> (organised by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Nominet, UK, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012 from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/intgovforum-cms-w2012-proposals">Civil Rights in the Digital Age, about the Impact the Internet has on Civil Rights</a> (organised by ECP on behalf of the IGF-NL, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012, 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.). Malavika Jayaram was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/solutions-for-cross-border-data-flows">Solutions for Enabling Cross-border Data Flows</a> (co-organised by ICC BASIS and the Internet Society, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/cloudy-jurisdiction-addressing-the-thirst-for-cloud-data-in-domestic-legeal-processes">Cloudy Jurisdiction: Addressing the thirst for Cloud Data in Domestic Legeal Processes</a> (co-organised by Electronic Frontier Foundation (Peru) and University of Ottawa, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/frameworks-for-cross-border-online-communities-and-services">What Frameworks for Cross-Border Online Communities and Services</a> (hosted by the Internet & Jurisdiction Project, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Chinmayi Arun was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/intgovforum-cms-w2012-proposals-governing-identity-on-the-internet">Governing Identity on the Internet</a> (co-organised by Brenden Kuerbis, Citizen Lab and Christine Runnegar, Internet Society, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012, 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.). Malavika Jayaram was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/mag/116-workshop-proposals/1051-igf-2012-workshop-proposal-no-118-law-enforcement-via-domain-names-caveats-to-dns-neutrality">Law Enforcement via Domain Names: Caveats to DNS Neutrality</a> (organised by Hong Xue, Vivekanandan, Wei Mao and Leo Liu, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Chinmayi Arun was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/who-is-following-me">Who is Following Me: Tracking the Trackers</a> (organised by Internet Society and the Council of Europe, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Malavika Jayaram was a speaker at this event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/national-ig-mechanisms">National IG Mechanisms – Looking at Some Key Design Issues</a> (Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/steady-steps-foss-and-mdgs">Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG's</a> (organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
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<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/privacy-in-social-networked-world">Privacy in the Social Networked World</a> (hosted by the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network, November 19 – 20, 2012). Elonnai Hickok spoke on Transparency and Privacy in India.</li>
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<p><b>Featured in the Media</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hindustan-times-india-news-new-delhi-nov-3-2012-power-to-youth">Power to youth</a> (The Hindustan Times, November 3, 2012). The article names Sunil Abraham and Lawrence Liang as some of the young people who are shaping the future.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ft-magazine-nov-16-2012-25-indians-to-watch">25 Indians to watch</a> (FT Magazine, November 16, 2012). Sunil Abraham is one among the 25 rising Indian stars to watch out for.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/whoswholegal-profiles-malavika-jayaram" class="external-link">Malavika Jayaram named a top lawyer for Internet and e-Commerce in India</a> (WHO’s WHO LEGAL, November 20, 2012).</li>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/live-mint-politics-surabhi-agarwal-nov-6-2012-information-security-policy-on-govt-agenda">Information security policy on govt agenda</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 6, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-sandhya-soman-and-pratiksha-ramkumar-nov-7-2012-law-yet-to-catch-up-with-tech-enabled-peeping-toms">Law yet to catch up with tech-enabled peeping toms</a> (by Sandhya Soman & Pratiksha Ramkumar, Times of India, November 7, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-sci-tech-internet-karthik-subramanian-nov-14-2012-india-second-in-requesting-user-info-google">India second in requesting user info: Google</a> (by Karthik Subramaniam, Hindu, November 14, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/telegraphindia-opinion-story-kavitha-shanmugham-nov-14-2012-post-and-be-damned">Post and be Damned</a> (by Kavita Shanmugham, November 14, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-india-times-tech-tech-news-internet-ishan-srivastava-nov-15-2012-india-second-in-keeping-tabs-on-netizens">India second in keeping tabs on netizens</a> (by Ishan Srivastava, The Times of India, November 15, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/thinkdigit-internet-kul-bhushan-nov-15-2012-india-ranks-second-globally-in-accessing-private-details-of-users">India ranks second globally in accessing private details of users</a> (thinkdigit, November 15, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/articles-economic-times-nov-17-2012-indu-nandakumar-googles-transparency-report-sketchy-inconclusive">Google's 'Transparency Report' sketchy, inconclusive: Government</a> (by Indu Nandakumar, Economic Times, November 17, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/india-blogs-nytimes-nov-19-2012-neha-thirani-hari-kumar-women-arrested-in-mumbai-for-complaining-on-facebook">Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook</a> (by Neha Thirani and Hari Kumar, New York Times, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-nov-19-2012-girls-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-thackeray-get-bail">Girls arrested for Facebook post on Thackeray get bail</a> (FirstPost, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-india-nov-19-2012-arrest-of-girl-over-thackeray-fb-update-clear-misuse-of-sec-295a">Arrest of girl over Thackeray FB update a clear misuse of Sec 295A</a> (FirstPost, November 19, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/india-blogs-nytimes-november-20-2012-how-to-steer-clear-of-indias-strict-internet-laws">How to Steer Clear of India’s Strict Internet Laws</a> (by Sangeeta Rajesh and Heather Timmons, New York Times, November 20, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ibnlive-news-nov-20-2012-netizens-flay-mumbai-girls-arrest-over-facebook-post">Internet users flay Mumbai girls' arrest over Facebook post</a> (IBN Live, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-politics-venky-vembu-nov-20-2012-arrests-over-facebook-posts-why-were-on-a-dangerous-slide">Arrests over Facebook posts: Why we’re on a dangerous slide</a> (Venky Vembu, FirstPost, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-arun-dev-nov-20-2012-girl-arrest-draws-flak-on-social-media">Girl's arrest draws flak on social media</a> (The Times of India, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/indiatimes-sonal-bhadoria-nov-21-2012-indias-shame-world-reacts-to-fb-post-arrest">India's Shame: World Reacts to FB Post Arrest</a> (by Sonal Bhadoria, India Times, November 21, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/whdi-reviews-nov-22-2012-indian-government-at-second-position-after-usa-for-demanding-user-data-from-google">Indian government at second position after U.S.A for demanding user data from Google</a> (WHDI Reviews, November 22, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/indolink-november-2012-indians-rank-second-for-online-shopping">Indians Rank Second For Online Snooping</a> (Indolink, November 23, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-nov-23-2012-shalini-singh-civil-society-and-industry-oppose-indias-plans-to-modify-itrs">Civil society & industry oppose India’s plans to modify ITRs</a> (by Shalini Singh, The Hindu, November 23, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/business-standard-november-28-2012-nirmalya-behera-amnesty-international-calls-for-review-of-66a-of-it-act">Amnesty International calls for review of 66A of IT act</a> (by Nirmalya Behera, Business Standard, November 28, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dnaindia-nov-29-2012-apoorva-dutt-thousands-go-online-against-66a">Thousands go online against 66A</a> (by Apoorva Dutt, DNA, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-businessline-november-29-2012-the-flaw-in-cyber-law">The flaw in cyber law</a> (by S Ronendra Singh, Hindu Business Line, November 29, 2012). Sunil Abraham and Snehashish Ghosh are quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-politics-november-29-2012-surabhi-agarwal-govt-tweaks-enforcement-of-it-act-after-spate-of-arrests">Govt tweaks enforcement of IT Act after spate of arrests</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-atlantic-wire-november-29-2012-david-wagner-you-can-get-arrested-for-facebook-status-update-now">Yes, You Can Get Arrested for a Facebook Status Update Now</a> (by David Wagner, Atlantic Wire, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-politics-lakshmi-chaudhry-november-30-2012-the-real-sibals-law-resisting-section-66a-is-futile">The real Sibal’s law: Resisting Section 66A is futile</a> (by Lakshmi Chaudhry, FirstPost, November 30, 2012). Pranesh Prakash’s blog post on section 66A which was also published in Outlook is quoted.</li>
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<h3>Videos</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ndtv-video-ndtv-special-ndtv-24x7">Women arrested for Facebook post: Did cops act under Sena pressure?</a> (NDTV, November 19, 2012). YP Singh, Alyque Padamsee, Rohan Joshi, Karuna Nundy and Pranesh Prakash took part in a discussion about the arrest of two girls over a Facebook comment.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ibnlive-videos-november-20-2012-the-last-word-is-there-a-need-to-review-information-technology-act">The Last Word: Is there a need to review Information Technology Act?</a> (CNN-IBN, November 20, 2012). Aryaman Sundaram, Pavan Duggal, Pranesh Prakash and Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad took part in a discussion with Karan Thapar on section 66A of the IT Act.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-november-30-2012-video-interview-with-pranesh-prakash">Interview with Pranesh Prakash</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While the potential for growth and returns exist for telecommunications in India, a range of issues need to be addressed. One aspect is more extensive rural coverage and the other is a countrywide access to broadband which is low. Both require effective and efficient use of networks and resources, including spectrum:</p>
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<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/knowledge-and-capacity-around-telecom-policy">Building Knowledge and Capacity around Telecommunication Policy in India</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ford Foundation has given a grant of USD 2,00,000 to CIS to build expertise in the area of telecommunications in India. The knowledge repository deals with these modules: Introduction to Telecommunications, Telecommunications Infrastructure and Technologies, Government of India Regulatory Framework for Telecom, Telecommunication and the Market, Universal Access and Accessibility, The International Telecommunications Union and other international bodies, Broadcasting, Emerging Topics and Way Forward. Dr. Surendra Pal, Satya N Gupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Payal Malik, Dr. Rakesh Mehrotra and Dr. Nadeem Akhtar are the expert reviewers.</p>
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<p>The following are the new outputs:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/dot-its-powers-and-responsibilities">DoT — Its Powers and Responsibilities</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/govt-policy-and-guidelines">Government Policy and Guidelines</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/trai-regulations">TRAI Regulations</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/trai-telecommunication-tariff-orders">TRAI Telecommunication Tariff Orders</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Newspaper Columns</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/organizing-india-blogspot-in-2012-nov-3-2012-shyam-ponappa-super-wifi-shared-spectrum">Super WiFi & Shared Spectrum: A Time to Start Sharing</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Organizing India Blogspot on November 3, 2012 and Business Standard, November 1, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/the-hindu-businessline-november-24-2012-jayna-kothari-folly-of-mandating-spectrum-auctions">Folly of Mandating Spectrum Auctions</a> (by Jayna Kothari, Hindu Business Line, November 24, 2012).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/eventmodule/latest/detail/674/22969">2nd MPL Faculty Workshop (North Zone) on Teaching Public Policy, Media and Law</a> (Central University, Rajasthan, November 1-2, 2012). Snehashish Ghosh made a presentation on "Building a Telecom Knowledge Repository."</p>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Natives with a Cause? examines the changing landscape of social change and political participation in light of the role that young people play through digital and Internet technologies, in emerging information societies. Consolidating knowledge from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it builds a global network of knowledge partners who critically engage with discourse on youth, technology and social change, and look at alternative practices and ideas in the Global South:</p>
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<p><b>Interview</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway">Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013</a>: As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ueRSm1TTw">video</a> on YouTube.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc. CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO, and has given policy briefs to delegations from various countries, our Programme Manager, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<p><b><span>Support Us</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
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<p><b>Request for Collaboration</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
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<p><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2012-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2012-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceOpennessResearchers at Work2013-01-06T13:59:11ZPageAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — October 2012 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-october-2012-bulletin
<b>This is the second bulletin from the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in Delhi. This issue features education program updates of the Assamese, Malayalam and Gujarati Wiki communities, a hackathon held at BITS, Hyderabad, press coverage of the Odia Wikipedia workshop in Pune, and reports of workshops organised in Bangalore, Ghaziabad and Pune during the month of October.</b>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Education Program Updates</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program">Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University</a> (by Nitika Tandon, October 22, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update">Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates</a> (by Shiju Alex, October 29, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-education-program-rajkot">Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot</a> (by Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-article-competition">Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia</a> (by Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Workshop Reports</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-hub-for-kannada-and-sanskrit-wikipedia">Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, October 16, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad">Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad</a> (by Nitika Tandon, October 19, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-women-day-2012-pune">Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus, Pune, October 28, 2012).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-pune-odia-wikipedia-organized">First Pune Odia Wikipedia Organized!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, October 31, 2012).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Event Organised</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad">Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS Hyderabad</a> (organized by CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, October 26 – 27, 2012).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Press Coverage</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=37463">Odisha: Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in Pune to promote Odia language</a> (OdishaDiary.com, October 31, 2012).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Team Updates</h3>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Delhi: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
<li>We are seeking applications for the post of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-programme-director">Programme Director</a> (Access to Knowledge) for New Delhi office.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Shiju Alex</a>, Programme Manager, Access to Knowledge is leaving the organisation. November 16, 2012 will be his last working day. We wish him success in all his future endeavours. </li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-october-2012-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-october-2012-bulletin</a>
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