Centre for Internet and Society

Wikimedia Summit India 2019

Admin — 2019-03-03T05:31:35Z

CIS-A2K team is organizing a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin.

Wikimedia Summit India 2019 is an national-level event which intends to prepare representatives of various user groups, affliates, committees, groups, and teams associated to Wikimedia foundation from India who are going to attend in Wikimedia Summit 2019 and helping them understand about Movement Strategy process.

The Wikimedia Summit 2019 (WMSummit 19) will be designed along the needs and status of the Movement Strategy Process and its Working Groups, as well as the participants’ input. The 2019 event will be an important milestone of the Movement Strategy Process.

Wikimedia Summit India 2019 will serve following goals:

Helping participants understand Ongoing phase in movement strategy process: Some of the participants are participating in Movement strategy process' ongoing phase in different capacities, while others might not have a good understanding about it. This conference aims to improve understanding about strategy process especially regarding 9 strategy Working groups and their scoping.
Preparation for WMSummit 19: The Summit will be an occasion where the affiliates’ and WMF’s leadership will come together to check in on the broader direction of the Strategy Process, with the opportunity to reinforce their co-ownership in this process. All Working Groups will have reached the point in their work where they prepare to draft and discuss first recommendations within their thematic area. From Indian Wikimedia movement's perspective, this offers them an opportunity to share their experience in different thematic areas of strategy process and help the broader movement strategy to have different perspectives. Also, this helps Indian Wikimedia movement to utilize experiences and learnings from different areas of Wikimedia movement and utilize them to grow the movement in India exponantially. Wikimedia Summit India 2019 also aims on gathering the collective and diverse experiences and learnings of Indian Wikimedia movement and understand where they can help in movement strategy process.

Schedule

Friday - 15 March 2019

6:30 PM to 8 PM: Introductions

Saturday - 16 March 2019

9:30 AM to 10 AM: Introduction to WMSummit India 2019
10 AM to 11:30 AM: Strategy Process: Necessity, Strategic direction 2030, Timeline
11:30 AM to 1 PM: Reinforcing co-ownership in Strategy process: How communities and affliates can be part of process
1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM: Potential Impact of Strategy process
2:30 PM to 5 PM: Introducing various working groups: Working group representatives will be requested to explain over video calls

Sunday - 17 March 2019

10 AM to 10:20 AM: Working group scoping documents' introduction
10:20 AM to 12 PM: Various community learnings and to what working group's scope they matter: Group activity
12 PM to 1 PM:
1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 to 2:30: Way forward: Consulting their community and framing agenda before WMSummit 2019

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019

Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession

sumandro — 2019-04-01T08:00:05Z

Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.

Image credit: Manuel Beltrán

Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession

The Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO) explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Our work develops from a scenario in which forms of manual and intellectual labour traditionally performed by humans are increasingly automated by new technologies. In this context we investigate and challenge the socio-political and economic implications of new forms of labour, such as the production of data. The IoHO developed several projects exploring the production of data as a form of labour, as a different paradigm through which to interrogate and challenge dynamics of ownership over the production of data and the economic and governance objects emerging through it. Previous lines of inquiry around the framework of Data Labour Rights include Data Basic Income, Data Cooperative, Data Production Labour series, Investigative Discussion Sessions and Data Workers Union.

In this talk founder of the IoHO Manuel Beltrán, will introduce the work of the IoHO and discuss their current project Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD). CoD explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance. The project looks at the implications of how the dispossession of data unequally occurs in different contexts, through different means and for different purposes.

Instruments such as the Right Of Access provided by GDPR emerge from a European context but the flows of data operate in a transnational scale. We are exploring the potential and limits of this instrument in combination with others such as the Right To Information in India as tools to investigate and repossess our production of data across borders. We are particularly interested in feedback and discussing in how to think further about this last part.

Manuel Beltrán

Manuel is an artist and activist. He researches and lectures on contemporary art, activism, contemporary social movements, post-digital culture and new media. As an activist, he was involved in the Indignados movement in Spain, the Gezi Park protests in Turkey and several forms of independent activism and cyber-activism in Europe and beyond. In 2012 he co-founded the art collective Plastic Crowds and since 2013 he is head and co-founder of the nomadic school and artistic organization Alternative Learning Tank. In 2015 he founded the Institute of Human Obsolescence, through which he explores the future of labour, the social and political implications regarding our relationship with technology and the economic and governance systems surrounding the production of data.

http://speculative.capital

https://dataworkers.org

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/raw/manuel-beltran-ioho-cartographies-of-dispossession

A Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai

praskrishna — 2013-08-23T16:00:46Z

The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

The morning session will be having a discussion and demonstration on Wikipedia (10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.), which will be followed by a practical session (2.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.).

As part of the run-up to the Indian Languages Mela (planned for September 20-21, 2013), CILHE will conduct a workshop for those who would like create new articles in any Indian Language Wikipedia. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) and the Wikipedia Hyderabad community. The objective of the workshop is to train students to edit Wikipedia. Participants are encouraged to work with Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu or any other language of their choice. Although the workshop is mainly intended for potential competitors for the Mela awards for Best New Article in an Indian Language Wikipedia, anyone interested in Wikipedia is welcome.

As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 286 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.

The CILHE is committed to producing material in Indian languages for higher education, and is partnering Wikipedia in drawing new editors to the Indian language Wikipedias so that they become an important knowledge resource.

What students gain from Wikipedia editing:

It improves writing skills. Wikipedia provides students a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances critical thinking and the ability to see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens research skills. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.

Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!

It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements.

It teaches students how to collaborate! Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.

The workshop will cover the following:

What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?
Who edits Wikipedia?
How do I edit Wikipedia?
What can I edit?
How can I input text in Indian languages?
How do I insert images?
How do I find and add references?
Do’s and Don’ts

Participants are required to register at least by August 23, 2013. Send your names to Ritesh Khunyakari riteshpk@gmail.com.

Important Instructions

Each student attending the Wikipedia Training programme should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. This should be done by August 23, 2013. Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration
Once registered the students must furnish their details on the google doc. I have already entered my data just as sample. Please circulate this link to all the students at the earliest. This should be done by August 24, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing
All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia (www.te.wikipedia) as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English and other language Wikipedias. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in an Indian language. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai

Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013

praskrishna — 2013-04-08T04:43:00Z

The Telugu Wikipedia Community is organizing the Telegu Wiki Mahotsavam from April 9 to 11, 2013 in Hyderabad. The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society is supporting and co-organizing the event.

A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad. The main event page, which is in Telugu, is here.

The following activities are scheduled:

April 9, 2013: Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad (Vishnu Vardhan will be one of the trainers.
April 10, 2013: Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads. (In one of the sessions Vishnu Vardhan will talk about CIS-A2K work).
April 11, 2013: Telugu Wikipedia General body meeting (Vishnu Vardhan has been asked by Telugu SIG to speak about A2K's plans for the growth of Telugu Wikipedia during 2013-14), Telugu Wikipedia Academy (Vishnu Vardhan will be one of the Trainers), and Wiki Chaitanya Vedika ((A public event), Vishnu has been asked by the Telugu Wiki Community to talk about 'Access to Knowledge' in the digital era).

వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మహోత్సవం 2013

మన తెలుగు వికీపీడియా గురించి మన తెలుగు వాళ్ళకి తెలుసా? ఎంతమందికి తెలుసు....?

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా

ఈ ప్రశ్నకి ‘చాలా తక్కువ మందికి’ అన్న జవాబు వెంటనే వస్తుంది. వికీపీడియా తెలుగులో ఒకటి ఉందన్న విషయమే తెలియనప్పుడు కొత్తవాళ్ళు ఎలా వస్తారు...? తెలుగు వికీపీడియా అభివృద్ధి ఎలా సాధ్యమవుతుంది...? ఈ సమస్యను అధిగమించాలంటే – ఒక మంచి కార్యక్రమము నిర్వహించడంతోబాటు... దినపత్రిక, ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ మీడియాల లో ప్రముఖంగా ప్రచారం పొందగలిగి నప్పుడు మాత్రమే తెవికీ గురించి కొన్ని వేల మందికి ఏకకాలంలో తెలుస్తుంది. తద్వారా – మన రాష్ట్రంలో, మన దేశంలో, ఇతర దేశాలలో ఉన్న తెలుగు ప్రజలకు చేరువ కాగలుగుతాం...! ఇదే ‘తెలుగు వికీపీడియా సర్వ సభ్య సమావేశం’ ముఖ్య ఉద్దేశ్యం...!

ఈ ఉగాది 'తెలుగు వికీ ఉగాది'
తెలుగు వికీపీడియా అభివృద్ధికి మనం అందరం కృషి చేస్తూనే ఉన్నాం. రేపటి తరానికి ఖచ్చితమైన సమాచారాన్ని అందివ్వాలన్న సదుద్దేశ్యంతో నిస్వార్ధంగా కృషి చేస్తున్న మనం అందరం ఒకసారి కలిస్తే ఎంత బాగుంటుందో కదా...! అదీ, తెలుగు ఉగాదినాడు కలిస్తే చెప్పలేనంత సంతోషంగా ఉంటుంది. అందుకే - ఈ ఉగాదిని 'తెలుగు వికీ ఉగాది'గా జరుపుకుందాం.

ఇది సర్వసభ్యసమావేశం, శిక్షణ కార్యక్రమము మరింకా..
వికీని తెలుగు ప్రజలకు పరిచయం చేయడం, తెవికీ విస్తృత అభివృద్ధికి కృషి చెయ్యడం - ఈ ' సర్వ సభ్య సమావేశం ’ ప్రధాన లక్ష్యం. అందరం కలిస్తే లక్ష్య సాధన మరింత సులభమవుతుంది. తెవికీ అక్షర సుసంపన్నమవుతుంది. దీనిలో భాగంగా వికీఅకాడమీ ద్వారా శిక్షణ చైతన్యవేదిక ద్వారా మరింతమందికి తెవికీ పరిచయం చేయటం జరుగుతుంది

33 సంవత్సరాలు జర్నలిస్టుగా అనుభవం ఉన్న మల్లాది కామేశ్వరరావు గారు ప్రతిపాదించగా ఇతర సభ్యులు మద్దతునివ్వగా ఈ ప్రతిపాదన రూపుదిద్దుకుంటున్నది.

ఈ సమావేశం ఉగాది రోజున మన రాజధాని నగరంలో జరపాలని భావిస్తున్నాం . ఈ సమావేశం తెలుగు వికీపీడియాకు ప్రత్యేక గుర్తింపు కలిగిస్తుందని పలువురు సభ్యులు భావిస్తున్నారు. తెవికీ సభ్యులలో సరి కొత్త ఉత్సాహం కలిగించి ఒక అభివృద్ధికి దోహదం ఔతుంది. సమావేశంలో పాల్గొనడానికి సభ్యులు తమ అంగీకారం క్రింది విభాగాలలో తెలియచేయాలని కోరడమైనది.

విజయ నామ ఉగాది 'తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మహోత్సవం' ఆహ్వాన కమిటీ

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మహోత్సవం 2013

థియేటర్ ఔట్రీచ్ యూనిట్ లోగో

అధ్యక్షులు : రహ్మానుద్దీన్
కార్యదర్శి : Malladi kameswara rao
కోశాధికారి : Rajasekhar1961

సిద్ధతా కార్యక్రమ వివరాలు

వికీపీడియా ముందస్తు సమావేశాలు – 2013 కార్యక్రమ రూపం:

మార్చి 17 : మొదటగా హైదరాబాద్ వికీపీడియా సంపాదకుల కార్యవర్గ సమావేశం
మార్చి 24 : హైదరాబాద్ వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకుల సమావేశం
మార్చి 31 : కార్యనిర్వహణ పురోగతి గురించి పరిశీలించడం.
ఏప్రిల్ 7 : కార్యనిర్వహణ పురోగతి మరియు బాధ్యతల సమీక్ష

మహోత్సవం కార్యక్రమ ప్రణాళిక

వికీపీడియా తెలుగు మహోత్సవం, మహోత్సవ ముందస్తు వికీఅకాడెమీ

తేదీ ఏప్రిల్ 9
సమయం : మ. 2 గం॥ నుండి సాయంత్రం 5:30 గం॥ వరకు
వేదిక : సీజీజీ శిక్షణా నిలయం, జూబిలీ హిల్స్

వికీపీడియా - ప్రసార మాధ్యమాల(మీడియా) సదస్సు

తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 10
సమయం : 10 am to 1:00 pm
ప్రదేశం : :::గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు

గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, మహోత్సవానికి వేదిక

వికీ పరిచయం

కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు

ఉ. 10.00 - 10.30 --- మీడియా ప్రముఖులతో పరిచయాలు

ఉ. 10.30 - 11.30 --- వికీపీడియా పరిచయం

కార్యక్రమ నిర్వాహకులు : అభిజిత్, పెద్ది రామారావు

మల్లాది కామేశ్వర రావు : ముందుమాట ( సమావేశానికి ఆహ్వానం)
విష్ణువర్ధన్, ప్రాజెక్ట్ డైరెక్టర్ cis A2K: అంతర్జాలంలో సమాచార విప్లవం - వికీపీడియా పాత్ర
అర్జునరావు,వికీమీడియా ఇండియా చాప్టర్ మాజీ అద్యక్షులు : భారతదేశంలో వికీపీడియా అభివృద్ధి
చంద్రకాంతరావు, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : తెలుగు వికీపీడియా ప్రస్థానం .........(నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)
సుజాత,వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : వికీపీడియా - మహిళల పాత్ర
రహ్మానుద్దీన్, వికీమీడియా ఇండియా చాప్టర్ తెలుగుశాఖ అద్యక్షులు : వికీపీడియా - ఉన్నత సాంకేతికత
రామకృష్ణ రామస్వామి, హైదరాబాద్ విశ్వవిద్యాలయం వైస్ ఛాన్సిలర్ : వికీపీడియా ఆవశ్యకత .......... (నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)
-----వీడియో ప్రదర్శన
-----వెన్న నాగార్జున సందేశం ..............(నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)

ఉ. 11.30 - 11.45 టీ విరామం
వికీ -మీడియా చర్చాగోష్ఠి: ఉ. 11.30 - 1.00

చర్చాంశం : జ్ఞానసమాజఅభివృద్ధిలో మీడియా, వికీపీడియా పరస్పర సహకారం

సమన్వయకర్త : బండారు శ్రీనివాసరావు, పాత్రికేయులు, విమర్శకులు
సహకారం : పెద్ది రామారావు
వికీపీడియా నుంచి చర్చలో పాల్గొనేవారు

విష్ణువర్ధన్, ప్రాజెక్ట్ డైరెక్టర్ cis A2K
అర్జునరావు,వికీమీడియా ఇండియా చాప్టర్ మాజీ అద్యక్షులు
చంద్రకాంతరావు, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు (నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)
సుజాత, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు
రహ్మానుద్దీన్, వికీమీడియా ఇండియా చాప్టర్ తెలుగుశాఖ అద్యక్షులు

మీడియా నుంచి చర్చలో పాల్గొనేవారు : మీడియా ప్రముఖులు
......(నిర్ధారించాలి)

వందన సమర్పణ : డా. రాజశేఖర్, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు
మీడియా సమావేశ విషయ సేకరణ, సమాచార నమోదు - గుళ్ళపల్లి నాగేశ్వరరావు

మ. 1.00 - 2:00 --- భోజనం

వికీపీడియన్ల క్షేత్ర దర్శనం

తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 10

మ. 3-00 -సా 6:00: ఒక ప్రింటు మీడియా (విశాలాంధ్ర దినపత్రిక) మరియు ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ మీడియా (హెచ్.ఎం.టీ.వి.) కార్యాలయం సందర్శన

వికీపీడియన్ల ఇష్టా గోష్టి

తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 10

సమయం : రాత్రి : 7-00 గంటల నుంచి 8-30

ప్రదేశం : :::గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు

కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా చేపట్టే కొత్త ప్రాజెక్టులపై వికీ అధికారుల, నిర్వాహకుల చర్చ - ఇష్టా గోష్టి

కార్యక్రమ సమన్వయ కర్తలుగా చంద్రకాంతరావు, సుజాత గార్లు వ్యవహరించాలని సమావేశం ప్రతిపాదిస్తున్నది. ( నిర్ధారించవలసిందిగా విన్నపం.)

వికీపీడియన్ల సర్వ సభ్య సమావేశం

తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 11

సమయం : ఉదయం : 9-00 గంటల నుంచి మధ్యాహ్నం 02:00 వరకు

ప్రదేశం : :::గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు

సభనిర్వహణ:చావా కిరణ్, వీవెన్ ( నిర్ధారించవలసివుంది)

కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు

ఉ. 9.00 - 10.00 --- తెవికీ సభ్యుల పరిచయాలు, అల్పాహారం

ఉ. 10.00 - 10.15 --- సౌమ్యన్, వికీమీడియా భారతదేశం చాప్టర్ ఎగ్జిక్యూటివ్ మేనేజర్ : వికీమీడియా భారతదేశం కార్యకలాపాలు

ఉ. 10.15-10.30 --సిఐఎస్ ఎ2కె కార్యకలాపాలు. విష్ణు, ఎ2కె ప్రోగ్రామ్ డైరెక్టరు

ఉ. 10.30-11.00 --మహోత్సవ సందేశాలు

ఉ. 11.00-11.15 -- భారత ప్రగతి ద్వారం నిర్వహణ అనుభవాలు. కథిరేశన్, నార్నె శ్రీనివాసరావు, India Development Gateway

ఉ. 11.15-11.30 --టీ విరామం

ఉ 11.30-11.45 -- ఆర్కీవ్.ఆర్గ్ వికీపీడియా సహకారం... ఆనంద్ చిట్టిపోతు, ఆర్కీవ్.అర్గ్ ఉద్యోగి (స్కైప్ ద్వారా)

ఉ 11.45-12.15 వికీపీడియా అభివృద్ధికి ఎ2కె ప్రణాళిక

ఉ 12.15-12.30 స్పందనలు,ప్రాధాన్యతల నిర్ణయం, సభ్యులు

ఉ 12.30 -13.00 మహోత్సవం సిఫారసులు

మ. 1.00 - 2.00 --- భోజనం

ప్రాథమిక వికీ అకాడమీ|ఉన్నత వికీ అకాడమీ

కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు

మ. 2.00 - 3.00 --- ఉన్నత వికీసంపాదకత్వ విషయాలు.

హాట్కేట్, ట్వింకిల్ ఉపకరణాలు, 10ని..... అర్జున
పై వికీపీడియాబాటు తో పని, 20ని ... రహ్మనుద్దీన్
<<అనువైనవి చేర్చండి>>

మ. 3.00-4:00 --సమిష్ఠికృషి

హాట్కేట్ తో వర్గీకరణ,... 20ని, సమన్వయకర్త ....
ఇంగ్లీషు అంతరవికీలింకులు చేర్చుట..20ని సమన్వయకర్త ...
<<అనువైనవి చేర్చండి>>
అనుభవాలు పంచుకొనుట.. 5 ని

ప్రాథమిక వికీపీడియా:తెవికీ అకాడమీ సమావేశ అధ్యక్షుడు:<చొరవ తీసుకొనే సభ్యుని పేరు చేర్చండి> సమావేశ ఉపాధ్యక్షుడు: <చొరవ తీసుకొనే సభ్యుని పేరు చేర్చండి>	ఉన్నత వికీ అకాడమీ సమావేశ అధ్యక్షుడు:<చొరవ తీసుకొనే సభ్యుని పేరు చేర్చండి> సమావేశ ఉపాధ్యక్షుడు: <చొరవ తీసుకొనే సభ్యుని పేరు చేర్చండి>
తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 11 సమయం : మధ్యాహ్నం : 1-30 గంటల నుంచి సాయంత్రం 04:00 వరకు
ప్రదేశం : ....గది,గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు	ప్రదేశం:....గది, గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు
కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు మ 1:30 -2:00 నమోదు మ. 2.00 - 4.00 పాఠం: 1గం॥ వికీపీడియా చరిత్ర మరియు సింహావలోకనం.10ని.. < వక్త పేరు> కంప్యూటర్ లో తెలుగు కీబోర్డులు ..15ని..< వక్త పేరు> వికీపీడియా విధానాలు-మార్గదర్శకాలు...30ని.. <వక్తపేరు> వికీపీడియా ప్రయోగశాల: 1గం॥ వికీపీడియా లో వెతుకుట వికీపీడియా దిద్దుబాటు వికీపీడియా ప్రయోగశాల (ఇసుకపెట్టె) ను ఉపయోగించడం కరపత్రాలు(నెట్ లో) Welcome to Wikipedia (వికీపీడియాకు స్వాగతం), Wikipedia Article quality (వికీపీడియా వ్యాస-నాణ్యత)

వికీ చైతన్య వేదిక

తేది:ఏప్రిల్ 11

సమయం : సాయంత్రం: 04-30 గంటల నుంచి రాత్రి 08:00 వరకు

ప్రదేశం : :::గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్, అబిడ్స్, హైదరాబాదు

పాల్గొనే వారు:వికీపై ఆసక్తి గలవారందరు

కార్యక్రమ అంశాలు

సా. 04:30-05:00 పాల్గొనేవారి నమోదు

సా. 5.00 - 8.00 --కార్యక్రమం

మల్లాది కామేశ్వర రావు : స్వాగతం: సమావేశం నేపథ్యం
ముఖ్య అతిధి

మంగళగిరి ఆదిత్య ప్రసాద్, ఆకాశవాణి హైదరాబాద్ స్టేషన్ డైరెక్టర్ : అంతరించి పోతున్న తెలుగు అక్షరం

జ్యోతి ప్రజ్వలన ................. అతిధులు

అమరనాథ్ రెడ్డి, CEO, IEG- Govt of AP : (నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)
పెద్ది రామారావు, ప్రాజెక్ట్ కో ఆర్డినేటర్, ధియేటర్ ఔట్రిచ్ యూనిట్ : వికీపీడియా - నాటకకళ
బండారు శ్రీనివాసరావు, పాత్రికేయులు, విమర్శకులు : అక్షరాన్ని కాపాడుకుందాం

వక్తలు

సౌమ్యన్, కార్యనిర్వాహక మేనేజర్ వికీమీడియా భారతదేశం, వికీమీడియా భారతదేశం అవలోకనం, (నిర్థారించాలి)
రహ్మానుద్దీన్, వికీమీడియా ఇండియా చాప్టర్ తెలుగు విశేష అభిరుచి జట్టు అధ్యక్షులు : తెలుగు వికీపీడియా పరిచయం.
చంద్రకాంతరావు, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : దిద్దుబాట్లు, సూచనలు - (నిర్ధారణ కావలసి ఉంది)
సుజాత, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : వికీపీడియా - దిద్దుబాట్లు ఎలా చేయాలి
వీవెన్, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : అంతర్జాలంలో తెలుగు
జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : విక్షనరీ
పాలగిరి రామకృష్ణా రెడ్డి, వికీపీడియా సభ్యులు : వికీపీడియాలో సైన్స్ ప్రాముఖ్యత
విశ్వనాధ్ బి.కె, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : భారతీయ సంస్కృతి , పుణ్యక్షేత్రాలు
డా. రాజశేఖర్, వికీపీడియా నిర్వాహకులు : వికీపీడియా - నిన్న, నేడు, రేపు ... వైద్యం
విష్ణువర్ధన్, ప్రాజెక్ట్ డైరెక్టర్ cis A2K : విజ్ఞాన విషయాలను పంచుకుందాం.
అనంతరం ఆహ్వానితులకు మరియు వికీపీడియన్లకు ప్రశంసా పత్రాల, మెమెంటోల ప్రదానం
జాతీయ గీతంతో వందన సమర్పణ

దారిఖర్చులు మరియు విడిది

హైదరాబాదుకు బయటనుండి వచ్చు వికీపీడియన్లకు ప్రయాణ మరియు వసతి సౌకర్యం:

హైదరాబాదుకు బయటనుండి సమావేశానికి హాజరుకావాలనుకొంటున్న వికీపీడియా సభ్యులకు ప్రయాణ మరియు వసతి సౌకర్యము (ఇద్దరు లేక ఎక్కువ మంది రూము పంచుకొనే ప్రాతిపదికన) కల్పించటానికి (రైలు ఎసి టు టైర్ చార్జీలకు లోబడి అయిన ఖర్చులకు) Access to Knowledge-CIS, బెంగుళూరు వారు పరిమిత నిధులు కేటాయించారు. డిసెంబరు 31, 2012 నాటికి తెలుగు వికీప్రాజెక్టులు అన్నిటిలో కలిపి కనీసం 50 (ఏభై) మార్పులు చేసినవారు దీనికి అర్హులు. ఈ సౌకర్యం "మొదలు వచ్చినవారికి ముందు" ప్రాతిపదికన ఇవ్వబడుతుంది. ఆసక్తిగల సభ్యులు త్వరగా ఈ పేజీలోని ' తప్పక హాజరవుతున్న సభ్యుల ' విభాగంలో మీ పేరు(వికీ సంతకం ద్వారా) మరియు ఊరు నమోదు చేసుకొనమని కోరడమైనది. వికీ "సభ్యులు టికెట్టు మూలప్రతి (original) ఇస్తూ ఖర్చుధృవపత్రం (voucher) పై సంతకం చేయవలసి వుంటుంది. ఇది CIS-A2K ఆడిటర్ వారి నిభంధన కావున సభ్యులు మన్నించాలని అభ్యర్దన.

సమావేశం నిర్వాహకులు

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సమావేశంలో పాల్గొనే సభ్యులు

సమావేశంలో పాల్గొనడానికి ఆసక్తి ఉన్న సభ్యులు ఈ జాబితాలో మీ పేరును(వికీసంతకంద్వారా), (ఊరునుహైద్రాబాదు బయటనుండి వస్తున్నట్లయితే) చేర్చండి.

తప్పక పాల్గొనేవారు

t.sujatha (చర్చ) 05:06, 13 మార్చి 2013 (UTC), చెన్నై
Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 06:11, 13 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్, విజయవాడ. (చర్చ) 06:11, 13 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)(అననుకూల స్థితి, పరిస్థితులలో తప్ప, హాజరులో మార్పు ఉండదు.)
Malladi kameswara rao (చర్చ) 06:49, 14 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
Bhaskaranaidu (చర్చ) 10:39, 14 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
విశ్వనాధ్ (చర్చ) 07:35, 14 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
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విష్ణు (చర్చ)04:15, 15 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
రహ్మానుద్దీన్ (చర్చ) 21:00, 16 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
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పవి (చర్చ) 04:49, 25 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
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ప్రసాదు (చర్చ) 15:13, 6 ఏప్రిల్ 2013 (UTC)

బహుశా పాల్గొనేవారు

పోటుగాడు అదేరోజు వేరొక ముఖ్యమైన పని ఉన్నది. వీలును బట్టి పాల్గొంటాను.
కూచిమంచిప్రసాద్ పాల్గొనడానికి ప్రయత్నిస్తానుకూచిమంచిప్రసాద్ (చర్చ) 17:38, 14 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)
Mylaptops (నేను బంజారా హిల్స్ రోడ్డు నెం 1 లో, సాక్షి ఆఫీసు వెనుక ఉంటున్నాను. వాహన సౌకర్యం లేదు. అయినా ఆదివారం పాల్గొనటానికి ప్రయత్నిస్తాను.(భూపతిరాజు రమేష్ రాజు) (Mylaptops (చర్చ) 07:31, 15 మార్చి 2013 (UTC))
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పాల్గొనటానికి వీలుకానివారు: గమనిక: సమావేశానికి వీలుకాని సభ్యులు/నిర్వాహకులు/అధికారులు తమ సందేశాన్ని వీడియో/ఆడియో/టెక్స్టు ఈ వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/2013 తెవికీసమావేశం/సభ్యుల అభినందనలు ఇంకా సూచనలు విభాగంలో చేర్చండి. వాటిని సమావేశం సమయంలో అందరికీ తెలియజేస్తాము.

ఖాదర్ - హైదరాబాదు వెలుపల ఉండటం వలన హాజరుకాలేక పోతున్నాను.
శశి (చర్చ) 20:53, 15 మార్చి 2013 (UTC)బెంగుళూరు లో ఉండటం వలన, ఉగాదికి సెలవు లేకపోవటం వలన హాజరు కాలేను.
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వర్గాలు: వికీపీడియా	వికీపీడియా సమావేశాలు

ఈ పేజీకి 03:58, 8 ఏప్రిల్ 2013న చివరి మార్పు జరిగినది.
పాఠ్యం క్రియేటివ్ కామన్స్ అట్రిబ్యూషన్/షేర్-అలైక్ లైసెన్సు క్రింద లభ్యం; అదనపు షరతులు వర్తించవచ్చు. మరిన్ని వివరాలకు వాడుక నియమాలను చూడండి.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013

Freedom Song: Film Screening and Discussion

praskrishna — 2013-03-15T06:51:39Z

Freedom Song, a documentary film produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and directed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Subi Chaturvedi will be screened at the IIHS Bangalore City Campus on March 21, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., followed by discussions. Paranjoy will be present for the screening and will answer questions from the participants.

Discussions and arguments on freedom of expression and what should or should not be censored are as old as civilization itself, across the world and in India. In recent years, these debates have acquired new dimensions with the growth of the mass media -- especially the internet. Maintenance of public order, national security, religious tolerance, blasphemy, libel, defamation, invasion of privacy, artistic licence, pornography, obscenity, copyright and other intellectual property rights have all become issues linked to freedom of expression, often under highly contentious and controversial circumstances. Whereas Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of expression as a fundamental right of all citizens, Article 19(2) imposes "reasonable restrictions" on the exercise of such freedom. There is no consensus on what constitutes "reasonable" restrictions and/or who or which body should determine what is or should be "reasonable" restrictions on freedom of expression.

The 52-minute-long documentary film entitled Freedom Song produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and directed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Subi Chaturvedi seeks to examine issues relating to freedom of expression in a contemporary Indian context. The film raises a number of questions. Has Indian society as a whole become more or less tolerant to dissent even as sections of the population have apparently become increasingly vociferous in protesting against what is considered offensive? Are vocal minorities drowning out the voices of passive majorities in issues pertaining to artistic freedom and independence of expression? Where does one draw a dividing line between an individual's right to offend and her or his obligations towards maintenance of social harmony?

The film includes examples of alleged violations and transgressions of the fundamental right to free expression in contemporary India. Such examples include incidents and episodes relating to why Salman Rushdie’s video conference at the Jaipur Literary Festival had to be called off, the banning of books by Taslima Nasreen by the West Bengal government, controversial paintings by the late Maqbool Fida Hussain, the chopping of the hand of professor of Malayalam T.J. Joseph in Ernakulam, Kerala, the arrest of professor Ambikesh Mohapatra in Kolkata for circulating an e-mail lampooning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the controversy surrounding a cartoon first published in 1949 which depicts India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the architect of the country’s Constitution B.R. Ambedkar.

These examples are juxtaposed with the views of a cross-section of Indians from different walks of life: lawyers, creative artistes, journalists, politicians, social activists and ordinary individuals.

Film duration: 52 minutes
Year of production: 2012

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is an independent journalist and an educator. His work experience, spanning more than 35 years, cuts across different media: print, radio, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher and commentator in three languages: English, Bengali and Hindi. His main areas of interest are the working of the political economy and the media in India and the world, on which he has authored/co-authored books and directed/produced documentary films. He lectures on these subjects to general audiences and also trains aspiring – and working -- media professionals. He participates frequently in and organizes seminars/conferences, is a regular contributor to newspapers, magazines and websites and is featured on television channels and radio programmes as an anchor as well as an analyst and commentator.

Born on October 5, 1955 and educated at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (1972-75) and at the Delhi School of Economics (1975-77) in the same university from where he obtained his Master’s degree in economics, he started his career as a journalist in June 1977 and has been employed with various media organizations including companies bringing out publications such as Business India, BusinessWorld, The Telegraph, India Today and The Pioneer. He worked with Television Eighteen (now Network 18) for almost six years between 1995 and 2001 when he anchored a daily discussion programme called “India Talks” on the CNBC-India television channel -- nearly 1,400 half-hour episodes were broadcast. From March 2007, he has been anchoring two one-hour-long weekly programmes for Lok Sabha Television (the channel owned and operated by the lower house of the Parliament of India) – a panel discussion called “Talktime” (earlier “Headstart”) and an interview called “1-on-One”. He has anchored programmes for other television channels.

He is (or has been) a visiting faculty member at over a dozen reputed educational institutions including the Indian Institutes of Management at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Hamdard University (both in Delhi), the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune, the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. In September 2010, he became a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, teaching M.Phil students.

He served as a member of the Press Council of India nominated by the University Grants Commission between January 2008 and January 2011. In April 2010, as a member of a two-member sub-committee of the Council, he co-authored a 36,000-word report entitled “Paid News: How Corruption in the Indian Media Undermines Democracy”.

He is a media trainer and a consultant/adviser on India’s political economy. He was the founder director of the School of Convergence (SoC). He has been a consultant at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, making presentations and writing papers on Indian politics. He has been associated with a number of projects of the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization (ILO). He moderated two panel discussions at the International Labour Conference at Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2009 and at the ILO’s Asia Pactific Regional Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2011. He is currently president of the Foundation for Media Professionals, an independent, not-for-profit organization. He has advised various organizations, including corporate bodies (Indian, foreign and multinational), government agencies (including India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting) and civil society organizations.

He is a director/producer of documentary films. One entitled “Idiot Box or Window of Hope” which examines the impact of television on Indian society – was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) in 2003 and was broadcast on Doordarshan. In 2006-07, he produced and directed a five-part documentary series in partnership with the PSBT entitled: “Hot As Hell: A Profile of Dhanbad”, different versions of which have been broadcast on various television channels including Doordarshan and NDTV 24x7. In 2007, he directed a documentary film “Grabbing Eyeballs: What’s Unethical About Television News in India” for PSBT that was followed up by another entitled “Advertorial: Selling News or Products?” in 2009. In 2010, he produced and directed a three-part documentary film series entitled “Blood & Iron: A Story of the Convergence of Crime, Business and Politics in Southern India” on the political, economic and ecological consequences of iron ore mining in Bellary (Karnataka) and Ananthapur (Andhra Pradesh). The film has been translated into six Indian languages and broadcast on different television channels. In 2011, he produced and directed a documentary film entitled: “The Great Indian Telecom Robbery”. (He was one of the first journalists to write about the telecommunications spectrum scandal in November 2007 and was one of the petitioners in public-interest litigation petitions on the subject in the Supreme Court of India.) In 2012, he co-directed a film entitled “Freedom Song” that examines freedom of expression in a contemporary Indian context. He has produced/directed a number of other documentary films.

He has co-authored a book with Shankar Raghuraman entitled: “A Time of Coalitions: Divided We Stand”, published by Sage Publications India in March 2004. The book was able to anticipate the outcome of the 14th general elections in India, the results for which came out in May that year. A substantially revised, updated and enlarged version of the book titled “Divided We Stand: India in a Time of Coalitions” was published in December 2007. He has written “Media Ethics: Truth, Fairness and Objectivity, Making and Breaking News” published by Oxford University Press India in March 2009 – the second enlarged edition of the book was published in December 2011. He has contributed articles and chapters to books (including “Realizing Brand India” edited by Sharif D. Rangnekar [Rupa, 2005] and “India: The Political Economy of Reforms” edited by Bibek Debroy & Rahul Mukherji [Bookwell, 2004]).

He is currently engaged in authoring/co-authoring other books and producing/directing documentary films. He has travelled widely in India and across the world. He is a partner of Media Network of India, a firm engaged in designing and creation of content for all media, contract publishing, media training, establishment of radio stations and business development.

Contact details: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Work: E-1, Nizamuddin West, 2^nd Floor, New Delhi – 110 013, India
Phone: (+91) (011) 4182-7691; Mobile: (+91) 98101-70435
Home: K-33, South City – I, Gurgaon (Haryana) – 122001, India;
E-mail: paranjoy@gmail.com or paranjoy@hotmail.com

For details on the venue: +91-80-67606666

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/freedom-song-film-screening-and-discussion

Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS

praskrishna — 2015-10-24T14:23:30Z

The Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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What does 'Making Change' mean to you? What are the processes of change? The infrastructure of change? The actors of change? A round-table discussion and exhibition by 23 change makers from 15 countries in Asia, at the Centre for Internet & Society, Saturday, 7th June, 5 - 7 p.m. Please do come.

The Making Change project questions traditional understandings of change –where change is employed in the name of power, reduced to a ‘spectacle’ by global media and goes largely unquestioned in the public discourse- and aims to build more adequate frameworks to address the idea of change in the context of common knowledge, networked media and information societies.

Making Change is hosting focused, intensive, and production-oriented workshops called Production Sprints to facilitate the convergence of actors and ideas.These will be spaces of knowledge exchange between change-makers around processes, narratives and experiences of change and of experimentation with multi-modal forms and formats of knowledge production (text, image, sound, etc). Participants will be asked to group around four topics: concepts, crises ecologies and networks of change. These visions and practices, we hope will produce new ways of thinking about change.

During the Bangalore production sprint, we will document the various knowledges acquired through the pre-production stage and the 5 day intensive sessions on formats, storytelling and visual presentation modes; and we will close with an exhibition of the resulting narratives of change. We invite you to come and participate in the exhibition.

Date: June 7th, 2014
Time: 5pm- 7pm
Location: The Center for Internet and Society

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/production-sprint-public-exhibition-at-cis

CoinFest 2016

praskrishna — 2016-04-04T15:19:28Z

Coinsecure and India Bitcoin have joined hands to organize to organize CoinFest at the Centre for Internet & Society's Bangalore office on Saturday, April 10, 2016, from 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

CoinFest 2016

CoinFest 2015 was a stunning success, taking Canada’s crypto holiday to countries around the world. CoinFest 2016 is building on that momentum, preparing a series of events for April with over two dozen cities planning to participate. This year's CoinFest will celebrate Bitcoin & educate participants about its uses & benefits. Come learn about bitcoin, blockchain, and other digital currencies! Find out how to use them and how this technology is having a positive impact globally!

Speakers

Coinsecure - Benson Samuel & team will be talking about journey of Bitcoin in India.
Airbitz - Meghan Kellison-Lords & Factom - Paul Snow will also be participating via Hangouts.

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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/coinfest-2016

CIS Seminar Series

Cheshta Arora — 2022-04-11T15:19:11Z

The CIS seminar series will be a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress, exchange ideas, identify avenues for collaboration, and curate research. We also seek to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on research exchange, and foster collaborations among researchers and academics from diverse geographies. Every quarter we will be hosting a remote seminar with presentations, discussions and debate on a thematic area.

The first seminar series was held on 7th and 8th October on the theme of ‘Information Disorder: Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation’,

Theme for the Second Seminar (to be held online)

Moderating Data, Moderating Lives: Debating visions of (automated) content moderation in the contemporary

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based approaches have become increasingly popular as “solutions” to curb the extent of mis-, dis- mal-information, hate speech, online violence and harassment on social media. The pandemic and the ensuing work from home policy forced many platforms to shift to automated moderation which further highlighted the inefficacy of existing models (Gillespie, 2020) to deal with the surge in misinformation and harassment. These efforts, however, raise a range of interrelated concerns such as freedom and regulation of speech on the privately public sphere of social media platforms; algorithmic governance, censorship and surveillance; the relation between virality, hate, algorithmic design and profits; and social, political and cultural implications of ordering social relations through computational logics of AI/ML.

On one hand, large-scale content moderation approaches (that include automated AI/ML-based approaches) have been deemed “necessary” given the enormity of data generated (Gillespie, 2020), on the other hand, they have been regarded as “technological fixtures” offered by the Silicon Valley (Morozov, 2013), or “tyrannical” as they erode existing democratic measures (Harari, 2018). Alternatively, decolonial, feminist and postcolonial approaches insist on designing AI/ML models that centre voices of those excluded to sustain and further civic spaces on social media (Siapera, 2022).

From the global south perspective, issues around content moderation foreground the hierarchies inbuilt in the existing knowledge infrastructures. First, platforms remain unwilling to moderate content in under-resourced languages of the global south citing technological difficulties. Second, given the scale and reach of social media platforms and inefficient moderation models, the work is outsourced to workers in the global south who are meant to do the dirty work of scavenging content off these platforms for the global north. Such concerns allow us to interrogate the techno-solutionist approaches as well as their critiques situated in the global north. These realities demand that we articulate a different relationship with AI/ML while also being critical of AI/ML as an instrument of social empowerment for those at the “bottom of the pyramid” (Arora, 2016).

The seminar invites scholars interested in articulating nuanced responses to content moderation that take into account the harms perpetrated by algorithmic governance of social relations and irresponsible intermediaries while being cognizant of the harmful effects of mis-, dis- mal-information, hate speech, online violence and harassment on social media.

We invite abstract submissions that respond to these complexities vis-a-vis content moderation models or propose provocations regarding automated moderation models and their in/efficacy in furthering egalitarian relationships on social media, especially in the global south.

Submissions can reflect on the following themes using legal, policy, social, cultural and political approaches. Also, the list is not exhaustive and abstracts addressing other ancillary concerns are most welcome:

Metaphors of (content) moderation: mediating utopia, dystopia, scepticism surrounding AI/ML approaches to moderation.
From toxic to healthy, from purity to impurity: Interrogating gendered, racist, colonial tropes used to legitimize content moderation
Negotiating the link between content moderation, censorship and surveillance in the global south
Whose values decide what is and is not harmful?
Challenges of building moderation models for under resourced languages.
Content moderation, algorithmic governance and social relations.
Communicating algorithmic governance on social media to the not so “tech-savvy” among us.
Speculative horizons of content moderation and the future of social relations on the internet.
Scavenging abuse on social media: Immaterial/invisible labour for making for-profit platforms safer to use.
Do different platforms moderate differently? Interrogating content moderation on diverse social media platforms, and multimedia content.
What should and should not be automated? Understanding prevalence of irony, sarcasm, humour, explicit language as counterspeech.
Maybe we should not automate: Alternative, bottom-up approaches to content moderation

Seminar Format

We are happy to welcome abstracts for one of two tracks:

Working paper presentation

A working paper presentation would ideally involve a working draft that is presented for about 15 minutes followed by feedback from workshop participants. Abstracts for this track should be 600-800 words in length with clear research questions, methodology, and questions for discussion at the seminar. Ideally, for this track, authors should be able to submit a draft paper two weeks before the conference for circulation to participants.

Coffee-shop conversations

In contrast to the formal paper presentation format, the point of the coffee-shop conversations is to enable an informal space for presentation and discussion of ideas. Simply put, it is an opportunity for researchers to “think out loud” and get feedback on future research agendas. Provocations for this should be 100-150 words containing a short description of the idea you want to discuss.

We will try to accommodate as many abstracts as possible given time constraints. We welcome submissions from students and early career researchers, especially those from under-represented communities.

All discussions will be private and conducted under the Chatham House Rule. Drafts will only be circulated among registered participants.

Please send your abstracts to workshops@cis-india.org.

Timeline

Abstract Submission Deadline: 18th April
Results of Abstract review: 25th April
Full submissions (of draft papers): 25th May
Seminar date: Tentative 31st May

References

Arora, P. (2016). Bottom of the Data Pyramid: Big Data and the Global South. International Journal of Communication, 10 (0), 19.

Gillespie, T. (2020). Content moderation, AI, and the question of scale. Big Data & Society, 7 (2), 2053951720943234. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720943234

Harari, Y. N. (2018, August 30). Why Technology Favors Tyranny. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

Morozov, E. (2013). To save everything, click here: The folly of technological solutionism (First edition). PublicAffairs.

Siapera, E. (2022). AI Content Moderation, Racism and (de)Coloniality. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 4 (1), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-021-00105-7

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-seminar-series

The Phishing Society: Why 'Facebook' is more Dangerous than the Government Spying on You - A Talk by Maria Xynou

maria — 2013-09-27T09:16:19Z

Next Wednesday, you are all invited to listen to Maria Xynou's crazy - or not-so-crazy theory of the "Phishing Society", in which surveillance, control and oppression is not imposed in a traditional top-down manner, but rather a personal and collective "choice"...come and engage in a heated debate!

We have read and heard a lot of theories on the contemporary "Surveillance Society"...but how much of that is about surveillance per se? Are we being spied on a top-down manner...or are we enabling our own surveillance? Have the masses ever directly or indirectly "pursued" their own surveillance in the past...or are we witnessing a new phenomenon in history?

Most geeks would probably agree that the term "phishing" is used to describe the act of attempting to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, private encryption keys and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity. In other words, "phishing" is commonly used to describe the acquisition of sensitive, personal data through the use of bait.

The aim of the talk on Wednesday is to discuss the possible existence of a "Phishing Society", through which the act of providing bait — whether it being security, commodities, services or relationships — is a common, contemporary practice on a social, political and economic level in the pursuit of the "Gold of the Digital Age": personal data. Through this discussion, the "Government spying vs. Corporate spying" debate will be looked at, in an attempt to understand why the dynamics of surveillance have changed over the last year.

Everyone with an open mind is welcome to attend this talk and to share all opinions, ideas and concerns!

Video

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/the-phishing-society-a-talk-by-maria-xynou

A Privacy Round Table in Delhi

praskrishna — 2013-04-12T09:33:46Z

The Centre for Internet and Society and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry cordially invite you to a "Privacy Round Table" at the FICCI Federation House in Tansen Marg, New Delhi on April 13, 2013, from 10.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

To discuss, in furtherance of Internet Governance Initiatives and Dialogue in 2013, the “Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy” by the Justice AP Shah Committee, and the text of the Citizens’ Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013, drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society.

The discussions and recommendations from the meeting will be published into a compilation, and presented at the Internet Governance meeting planned for October 2013.

Time	Detail
10.30 11.30	Overview of Justice AP Shah report: Purpose, principles, and framework
11.30 12.00	Tea
12.00 13.00	Overview, explanation, and discussion on the Citizens’ Privacy Protection Bill 2013
13.00 14.00	Lunch
14.00 16.00	In depth explanation and discussions regarding the Citizens’ Privacy Protection Bill 2013 (time for review and comments)
16.00 16.30	Tea

Confirmations and RSVP

Please send your email confirmations for attending the first New Delhi Roundtable on April 13, 2013, to Snehashish Ghosh at snehashish@cis-india.org, mobile no. +91- 9902763325,latest by end-of-business 5:30 p.m. on Friday April 5, 2013. As the conference is a roundtable dialogue, we request that attendees submit a brief introduction about themselves and their interest in the topic.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table

Privacy and Surveillance Roundtable

praskrishna — 2014-06-29T14:50:20Z

The Centre for Internet and Society and the Cellular Operators Association of India invite you to a roundtable at the India International Centre, New Delhi on July 4, 2014.

Background and Context to the Roundtables

In India, lawful interception of communications may be conducted by the state in three ways: firstly, intercepting telephone calls and other telecommunications may take place under powers listed in the Telegraph Act, 1885 and procedure set out in the Telegraph Rules, 1951; secondly, intercepting written communications transmitted through the postal service or by private couriers may occur under the Post Office Act, 1898; and, thirdly, intercepting, de-crypting, and monitoring email messages and other electronic communications may take place under the Information Technology Act, 1950 and two sets of Rules issued in 2008.

The government’s intention to create a Central Monitoring System to automate the existing process of telephone tapping is significant for a number of reasons. It will bypass private telephone service providers; currently the active cooperation of TSPs is required and compelled in order to intercept and monitor a telephone conversation. This creates an extra layer of compliance activity for TSPs which is cumbersome and expensive. Interception orders from the state often do not comply with the procedure required by law. This uncertainty is compounded by the lack of an indemnity for TSPs.

However, while the CMS will release TSPs from legal liability, it will leave the government free to conduct telephone interceptions in absolute secrecy and without a credible system of oversight and checks and balances. Amongst the world’s major democratic countries, India is alone in refusing to overhaul its telephone tapping regime. The legal requirements of probable cause, judicial sanction, and warrant-based interception – which are followed with exceptions in democracies around the world – are not adequately protected in India. The same principles also apply to the interception of postal and electronic communications.

There are several intelligence and police agencies in India that conduct interceptions of communications without central coordination. Previous cases in the Supreme Court of India and a few Indian High Courts reveal many cases of improper and even illegal surveillance. The sheer number of interested state agencies, the concerns of inadequate oversight, the lack of a credible legal regime, the constant leaks of private communications, and the poor legal protection given to TSPs and ISPs must be legally addressed.

Information about the Roundtables

The Privacy and Surveillance Roundtables are a CIS initiative, in partnership with the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). From June 2014 – November 2014, CIS and COAI will host seven Privacy and Surveillance Roundtable discussions across multiple cities in India. The Roundtables will be closed-door deliberations involving multiple stakeholders. Through the course of these discussions we aim to deliberate upon the current legal framework for surveillance in India, and discuss possible frameworks for surveillance in India. The provisions of the draft CIS Privacy Bill 2013, the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance, and the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy will be used as background material and entry points into the discussion. The recommendations and dialogue from each roundtable will be compiled and submitted to the Department of Personnel and training.

The Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy

In January 2012 Justice A.P. Shah formed a committee to create a report of recommendations for privacy legislation in India. The committee met seven times from January 2012 to September 2012. The Report is made up of six chapters and begins by reviewing the international best practices around privacy and the relevant Indian jurisprudence. The Report then recommends nine National Privacy Principles to be adopted by each sector in India. The Nine National Privacy Principles reflect international standards, as well as taking into consideration the Indian context. Along with the National Privacy Principles, the Report lays out a regulatory framework for privacy including privacy commissioners at the regional and national level, self regulating organizations at the industry level, and a system of complaints. Finally the report demonstrates how the National Privacy Principles could be used to harmonize existing legislation and practices.

The Draft CIS Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013

The Centre for Internet and Society has been researching privacy in India since 2010 with the objective of raising public awareness, completing in depth research, and driving a privacy legislation in India. As part of this work, the Centre for Internet and Society has drafted the Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013. The Citizens Privacy Protection Bill contains provisions that speak to data protection, interception, and surveillance. The Bill also establishes the powers and functions of the privacy commissioner, and lays out offenses and penalties for contravention of the Act. The Bill represents a citizens’ version of a privacy legislation, and will be shared with civil society, industry, and government. It is hoped that the review and revision of the Bill will be a participatory process, and thus comments and feedback to it’s’ provisions will be included as annex’s to the Bill.

The International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance

These principles were defined in 2013 in response to rapidly changing technologies and surveillance practices. The principles are the outcome of a global consultation with civil society groups, industry and international experts in communications surveillance law, policy and technology, spearheaded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation US and Privacy International UK. As technologies that facilitate State surveillance of communications advance, States are failing to ensure that laws and regulations related to communications surveillance adhere to international human rights and adequately protect the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. These principles attempt to explain how international human rights law applies in the current digital environment, particularly in light of the increase in and changes to communications surveillance technologies and techniques. These principles can provide civil society groups, industry, States and others with a framework to evaluate whether current or proposed surveillance laws and practices are consistent with human rights.

Tentative Agenda

Time	Detail
10.00 11.00	Introduction
11.00 11.30	Tea
11.30 13.00	Discussion
13.00 14.00	Lunch
14.00 16.00	Discussion
16.00 16.15	Tea

Resources

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-and-surveillance-roundtable-new-delhi

Open Knowledge Day at Mysore

praskrishna — 2014-07-14T09:41:39Z

Mysore University along with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invites you to an Open Knowledge Day at the University of Mysore on July 15, 2014.

We signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore earlier this year in January to re-release the first six volumes of their Kannada encyclopaedia under Creative Commons (CC) license.

CIS-A2K facilitated extracting the legacy text from the soft-copies, converting them to Unicode, distributing the files among volunteers and Christ University interns and uploading them to Kannada Wikisource. So far about 1200 articles have been added. These articles will feed to articles in Kannada Wikipedia.

To commemorate this, the University of Mysore and CIS-A2K is organizing this event. This will also coincide with the Open Knowledge Festival happening at Berlin from July 15 to 17, 2014.

The invitation for the Mysore program given below:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore

Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore

praskrishna — 2013-02-18T05:37:46Z

A seminar for GLAM institutions (GLAM stands for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) will be held in Bangalore on February 25, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The program is supported by Wikimedia, Creative Commons and the Centre for Internet & Society.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables users to share their knowledge and creativity through free legal tools. They develop, support, and steward legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Copyright laws were developed in a previous era where in protection was given to artists, authors, and other creators as a default. In this situation sharing requires a deliberate prior permission. In the internet era, so much of sharing of digital media is happening online, and these require tools that ensure prior permission, and control the level of use. The legal tools of Creative Commons enable controlled sharing.

Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable users to modify their copyright terms to best suit their needs.

What will users learn?

In this part of the seminar users will learn about:

Creative Commons as an organization
How the Creative Commons licenses work
How they relate to Open GLAM, and Wikimedia
What are the tools? How to choose them and use them
How can people selectively retain rights, while releasing some of it for free public use
Examples of how GLAM institutions are using CC
New business models and online communities
Other applications of CC

The speakers from Creative Commons have a long experience of discussing CC with GLAM institutions.

CC licensing also works for many other applications such as music, video, writing, and many other creative works. Open Education Resources, and Public Data are also some of the domains. The focus of the presentation will be on GLAM. However, people interested in other applications may also be able to take the opportunity to have discussions after the main presentation.

Who should attend the seminar?

The seminar would be of interests to:

Administrators of Public policy
Administrators of GLAM institutions
Art historians, Artists, Photographers, and Sculptors
Legal professionals
Bloggers, Authors, Editors, and Publishers.

Admission:

Admission is free to the public who register. Please bring a print copy of this registration page for admission.

Please visit the link to register: http://bit.ly/VZ8yIE

Location map of venue: http://goo.gl/maps/sYsxI

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam

In Memoriam of Rahul Cherian

praskrishna — 2013-02-25T01:51:22Z

The Centre for Internet & Society is organising a memorial function for Rahul Cherian who passed away recently while on a family visit to Goa. He had succumbed to an infection. The function will be held on February 28, 2013, from 5 p.m. To 7.00 p.m. at TERI, Bangalore. Dinner will be served right after the event. Lawrence Liang, Reuben Jacob and Gautam John will be speaking at the event.

Rahul Cherian

Rahul was a lawyer, disability policy activist and the founder of the Inclusive Planet Centre for Disability and Policy, and a fellow at CIS. He was a partner at IndoJuris Law Offices in Chennai, having acted as a managing partner of the firm between 2003 and 2008. He was also the co-founder of www.inclusiveplanet.com, the world's largest social network for persons with visual impairment. He was one of the experts who drafted the Treaty for the Visually Impaired currently being negotiated at the World Intellectual Property Organization. His areas of expertise include disability law, intellectual property law and technology law.

Rahul was on the legal expert panel constituted by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to give input on the new disability law. He was instrumental in conceptualizing and executing a national Right to Read Campaign to bring about changes in copyright law to enable persons with disabilities access copyrighted work on an equal basis with persons without disabilities. He had helped the State of Kerala draft a plan document with a vision to ensure that by the year 2025 persons with disabilities are completely integrated into mainstream society.

Rahul Cherian's collaboration with CIS

Feedback / Submissions

Making Public Libraries Accessible to People with Disabilities (January 23, 2013): Thanks to Rahul's efforts, CIS was one of the 20 disability rights groups that wrote to the Ministry of Culture.
Comments and Feedback on the Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan with respect to Persons with Disabilities (December 28, 2013): CIS was one of the ten organizations representing people with disabilities that sent comments and feedback on the draft twelfth five year plan.

Analysis

An Analysis of the Comments by World Blind Union and the International Publishers Association (March 30, 2012): Rahul provides an analysis of the comments by the World Blind Union and the International Publishers Association after the 23rd session of the Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights.

Blog Posts

Linking Commercial Availability and Exceptions in the Treaty for Visually Impaired/Persons with Disabilities (January 23, 2013).
WIPO to Convene a Diplomatic Conference in Morocco to Finalise TVI (December 24, 2012).
The HathiTrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPO (October 30, 2012).
WIPO General Assemblies Approve Road Map on Treaty for the Visually Impaired (October 11, 2012).
WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired — Moving from a Treaty on Paper to a Treaty that is Workable on the Ground (September 28, 2012).
Breaking News on Electronic Accessibility (September 28, 2012).
Ring Side View: Update on WIPO Negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (August 13, 2012).
Copyright Amendments – Empowering the Print Disabled (May29, 2012).
Copyright v. Exercise of Fundamental rights (August 6, 2009).

News & Media Coverage

Rahul was quoted in the following:

Disability groups in India welcome progress on treaty for blind persons (The Times of India, December 20, 2012).
US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books (The Guardian, July 30, 2012).
An online community platform for people with different needs (Press Trust of India, December 9, 2010).
Disability rights groups oppose changes to Copyright Act (The Hindu, April 23, 2010).

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/accessibility/events/in-memoriam-of-rahul-cherian

Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012

praskrishna — 2013-02-25T09:56:19Z

The Centre for Internet & Society invites you to a workshop on analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill on March 1, 2013 in its Bangalore office, from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

The Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill seeks to establish DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level for the purposes of establishing identity in criminal and civil proceedings. The Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill has been critiqued by the committee chaired by Justice AP Shah in the “Report of Group of Experts on Privacy” for a lack of adequate privacy safeguards.

In Fall 2012 the Centre for Internet and Society held a series of public meetings to raise awareness about the Bill and submitted feedback to the Department of Biotechnology. This workshop is in response to an April 2012 draft of the Bill and seeks to analyze the text of the Bill, look at technical aspects of the Bill and DNA profiling, and compare the current draft of the Bill with previous drafts.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/analyzing-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill

Centre for Internet and Society

Wikimedia Summit India 2019

Schedule

Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession

Image credit: Manuel Beltrán

Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession

Manuel Beltrán

http://speculative.capital

https://dataworkers.org

A Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai

What students gain from Wikipedia editing:

Important Instructions

Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013

వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మహోత్సవం 2013

విజయ నామ ఉగాది 'తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మహోత్సవం' ఆహ్వాన కమిటీ

సిద్ధతా కార్యక్రమ వివరాలు

మహోత్సవం కార్యక్రమ ప్రణాళిక

వికీపీడియా తెలుగు మహోత్సవం, మహోత్సవ ముందస్తు వికీఅకాడెమీ

వికీపీడియా - ప్రసార మాధ్యమాల(మీడియా) సదస్సు

వికీపీడియన్ల క్షేత్ర దర్శనం

వికీపీడియన్ల ఇష్టా గోష్టి

వికీపీడియన్ల సర్వ సభ్య సమావేశం

ప్రాథమిక వికీ అకాడమీ|ఉన్నత వికీ అకాడమీ

వికీ చైతన్య వేదిక

దారిఖర్చులు మరియు విడిది

సమావేశం నిర్వాహకులు

సహాయం

సమావేశంలో పాల్గొనే సభ్యులు

Freedom Song: Film Screening and Discussion

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS

CoinFest 2016

CoinFest 2016

Speakers

CIS Seminar Series

Theme for the Second Seminar (to be held online)

Moderating Data, Moderating Lives: Debating visions of (automated) content moderation in the contemporary

Seminar Format

Timeline

References

The Phishing Society: Why 'Facebook' is more Dangerous than the Government Spying on You - A Talk by Maria Xynou

A Privacy Round Table in Delhi

Confirmations and RSVP

Privacy and Surveillance Roundtable

Background and Context to the Roundtables

Information about the Roundtables

The Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy

The Draft CIS Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013

The International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance

Tentative Agenda

Resources

Open Knowledge Day at Mysore

Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore

Sponsors

What is GLAM and what does it have to do with Wikimedia and Creative Commons?

Why contribute?

How to contribute?

How does it help the GLAM institution?

Creative Commons

What will users learn?

Who should attend the seminar?

Admission:

In Memoriam of Rahul Cherian

Rahul Cherian

Rahul Cherian's collaboration with CIS

Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012