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आधार नंबर, नाम, पता, बैंक अकाउंट और दूसरी संवेदनशील जानकारियां लीक: CIS रिपोर्ट
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<b>एक तरफ भारत सरकार लोगों से अपना आधार कार्ड बनवाने और उसे जरूरी सर्विसों के साथ जोड़ने की अपील कर रही है. दूसरी तरफ लगातार सरकारी वेबसाइट्स से लोगों की आधार से जुड़ी जानकारियां लीक हो रही हैं. सरकार ने आधार को लगभग सभी सर्विसों के लिए जरूरी करने की तैयारी की है. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://aajtak.intoday.in/story/135-million-aadhaar-number-leaked-by-govt-website-cis-report-1-926864.html">published by Aaj Tak</a> on May 4, 2017.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ताजा रिसर्च के मुताबिक सरकार के डेटाबेस से लगभग 135 मिलियन आधान नंबर ऑनलाइन लीक हुए हो सकते हैं. इस रिसर्च दी सेंटर फॉर इंटरनेट एंड सोसाइटी (CIS) ने कराया है. इस एजेंसी ने इस रिसर्च को इनफॉर्मेशन सिक्योरिटी प्रैक्टिस ऑफर आधार के नाम से प्रकाशित किया है.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक सरकारी पोर्टल्स ने लगभग 135 मिलियन भारतीय नागरिकों के आधार नंबर ऑनलाइन को पब्लिक कर दिया. यानी कोई भी इसे ऐक्सेस कर सके. जाहिर है ऐसे में आधार नंबर के गलत यूज का भी खतरा होता है.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">चार सरकारी वेबसाइट जिनमें मनरेगा, सोशल ऐसिस्टेंस प्रोग्राम, <a href="http://aajtak.intoday.in/story/bill-gates-microsoft-job-future-rich-1-926844.html" target="_blank">डेली ऑनलाइन पेमेंट रिपोर्ट</a> और चंद्रण बीमा स्कीम वेबसाइट शामिल हैं. रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक इन वेबसाइट्स पर यूजर्स के आधार नंबर और फिनांशियल जानकारी जैसे बैंक अकाउंट डीटेल को पब्लिक कर दिया जिसे कोई भी ऐक्सेस कर सकता है.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक नेशनल सोशल ऐसिस्टेंस प्रोग्राम की वेबसाइट पर पेंशन धारकों के जॉब कार्ड नंबर, बैंक अकाउंट नंबर, आधार कार्ड नंबर और अकाउंट की स्थिति जैसी संवेदनशील जानकारियां उपलब्ध होती हैं. लेकिन कमजोर सिक्योरिटी की वजह से यह दुनिया के किसी भी इंसान के लिए उपलब्ध हो गई. सिर्फ कुछ क्लिक से ही तमाम संवेदनशील जानकारियां हासिल की जा सकती हैं.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">हाल ही में झारखंड सरकार की एक वेबसाइट पर लाखों आधार कार्ड होल्डर्स की जानकारियां लीक हो गईं. इसके अलावा कई राज्यों की सरकारी वेबसाइट पर स्कॉलरशिप पाने वाले स्टूडेंट्स के आधार कार्ड डीटेल्स लीक हो गए. गूगल सर्च के जरिए सिर्फ कुछ कीवर्ड्स यूज करके डीटेल्स कोई भी ढूंढ कर गलत यूज कर सकता है.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">इस रिसर्च रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है आधार नंबर, जाती, धर्म, पता, <a href="http://aajtak.intoday.in/story/internet-users-local-indian-language-increase-1-926460.html" target="_blank">फोटोग्राफ्स और यूजर की आर्थिक</a> जानकारी इस तरह पब्लिक होना इस बात को दर्शाता है कि इसे कितने लचर तरीके से लागू किया गया है.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">हाल ही में मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालय की वेबसाइट से ऐसे डेटा ऐक्सेल शीट आसानी से गूगल के जरिए डाउनलोड की जा सकती थी. आप इसे चूक करें या लापरवाही, लेकिन इतने नागरिकों का घर तक का पता किसी के पास भी हो सकता है.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>क्या आधार नंबर को पब्लिक करना सही है? </b><br /> आधार ऐक्ट 2016 के मुताबिक किसी नागरिक का आधार डेटा पब्लिश नहीं किया जा सकता. यानी मंत्रालय की वेबसाइट इन डेटा को सिक्योर रखने में नाकामयाब हो रही हैं.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">आधार ऐक्ट 2016 के तहत कलेक्ट किया गया कोई भी आधार नंबर या कोर बायोमैट्रिक इनफॉर्मेशन पब्लिक नहीं किया जा सकता और न ही इसे किसी पब्लिक प्लैटफॉर्म पर पोस्ट किया जा सकता है. हालांकि इसके इस्तेमाल कानून के तहत शामिल की गईं एजेंसियां और संस्थाएं कर सकती हैं.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">दी वायर की एक रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक एक महीने पहले डेटा रिसर्चर श्रीनीवास कोडाली ने थर्ड पार्टी वेबसाइट के द्वारा गलती लीक किए गए 5-6 लाख लोगों के पर्सनल डेटा के बारे में बताया था. इस डेटा में आधार नंबर, नाम, कास्ट, जेंडर और फोटोज शामिल थे.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>सरकार के हमेशा दावा करती है कि आधार सिक्योर है</b><br /> सरकार लगातार दावा करती है कि आधार सिक्योर है सेफ है और डेटा लीक नहीं हो रहे हैं. लेकिन ये घटनाएं लागातार उन दावों को खोखला साबित कर रही हैं. सवाल यह है कि अब इस रिपोर्ट के बाद सरकार कोई कठोर कदम उठाती है या फिर पहले की तरह लचर सुरक्षा बनी रहेगी.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaVideoAadhaarInternet GovernancePrivacy2017-05-20T11:40:49ZNews Item'Aadhaar' Of Your Existence Or Card Of Controversy?
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ndtv-may-3-2017-aadhaar-of-your-existence-or-card-of-controversy
<b> recent report estimates that details of 13 crore Aadhaar card holders have been leaked from four government websites. These include bank account details, income levels, addresses, even caste and religion details.</b>
<p>This was <a class="external-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaY4WHrs-OQ">telecasted by NDTV</a> on May 3, 2017. Amber Sinha was a panelist.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As the Supreme Court questioned the government about this, the centre admitted for the first time that the leaks had taken place but passed the onus on to state governments. It also argued that no technology was a 100 per cent foolproof but that couldn't be the basis for a constitutional challenge. Those who have petitioned against making Aadhar mandatory for filing income tax say no other democratic country has such a requirement and allege that it shows the sinisterness of the government.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaVideoAadhaarInternet GovernancePrivacy2017-05-20T12:24:20ZNews ItemSurveillance in India: Policy and Practice
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<b>The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy organized a brainstorming session on net neutrality on February 8, 2017 and a public seminar on surveillance in India the following day on February 9, 2017 in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash gave a talk. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh presented a narrative of the current state of surveillance law, our knowledge of current surveillance practices (including noting where programmes like Natgrid, CMS, etc. fit in), and charted a rough map of reforms needed and outstanding policy research questions.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh Prakash is a Policy Director at - and was part of the founding team of - the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit organisation that engages in research and policy advocacy. He is also the Legal Lead at Creative Commons India and an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and has been on the Executive Committee of the NCUC at ICANN. In 2014, he was selected by Forbes India for its inaugural "30 under 30" list of young achievers, and in 2012 he was recognized as an Internet Freedom Fellow by the U.S. government.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">His research interests converge at the intersections of technology, culture, economics, law, and justice. His current work focuses on interrogating, promoting, and engaging with policymakers on the areas of access to knowledge (primarily copyright reform), 'openness' (including open government data, open standards, free/libre/open source software, and open access), freedom of expression, privacy, digital security, and Internet governance. He is a prominent voice on these issues, with the newspaper Mint calling him “one of the clearest thinkers in this area”, and his research having been quoted in the Indian parliament. He regularly speaks at national and international conferences on these topics. He has a degree in arts and law from the National Law School in Bangalore, and while there he helped found the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, and was part of its editorial board for two years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/workshop-on-net-neutrality">Click here</a> to see the agenda for the brainstorming session on net neutrality.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaVideoNet NeutralityInternet GovernanceSurveillance2017-03-15T01:05:07ZNews ItemThe soon-to-be launched Aadhaar Pay will let you make purchases using your fingerprint
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-indulekha-aravind-january-15-2017-the-soon-to-be-launched-aadhaar-pay-will-let-you-make-purchases-using-your-fingerprint
<b>Paying for your groceries and other goods by using your biometrics instead of an e-wallet, debit card or cash seems to be the next phase in the Centre’s ambitious push to shift the country to a “less cash” economy, as its mandarins term it.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Indulekha Aravind was <a class="external-link" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/the-soon-to-be-launched-aadhaar-pay-will-let-you-make-purchases-using-your-fingerprint/articleshow/56542475.cms">published in the Economic Times</a> on 15 January 2017. Sunil Abraham was <a class="external-link" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-now/experts/sunil-abraham-on-aadhaars-misuse-during-demonetisation/videoshow/56544492.cms">consulted for this</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), says it will be rolling out Aadhaar-enabled payment system, or Aadhaar Pay, for merchants in the next few weeks. This will be an app for merchants that enables them to receive payments through biometric authentication of the customer, provided their bank accounts are linked to their Aadhaar number. "A pilot is under way in fair price shops in Andhra Pradesh where shopkeepers are accepting payments from PDS beneficiaries. The results are very encouraging," says Pandey.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The idea takes off from the existing Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AEPS) used by bank business correspondents (BCs) in rural areas to disburse and accept cash, using micro ATMs. "We are trying to tweak this so that a similar device can be used by a local merchant," says Pandey. Adoption will depend on two factors: merchants’ acceptance of it and whether they can use an app rather than a micro ATM. The biggest advantage through this method of payment, says Pandey, is that the customer will not need a credit or debit card, or even a smartphone.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The limits for transactions using AEPS, such as the number of daily transactions, will be left to the discretion of the banks. In the long term, the AEPS will be migrated to the BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) platform but the rollout of Aadhaar Pay will happen before that. Post demonetisation, banking BC’s number of transactions using AEPS has leapt from 4-5 lakh to 14-15 lakh, says Pandey. According to Reserve Bank of India data on electronic payment systems, the total volume of such transactions jumped from 671 million in November 2016 to 957 million in December. USSD-based payments, which can be done using a basic feature phone, are among the biggest beneficiaries: the volume rose from just 7,000 in November to 1,02,000 in December, and value of transactions from over Rs 7,000 to over Rs 1 lakh. Prepaid payment instruments — mainly mobile wallets — rose from 59 million to 88 million in the same period (and value from Rs 1,300 crore to Rs 2,100 crore).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While Aadhaar Pay is likely to ride the demonetisation wave if it is launched soon, certain concerns remain, as the list is how secure such a payment system will be. The UIDAI CEO says it is a paramount concern for the organisation, too. "We are using the latest technology to ensure the information stays encrypted end to-end, so that information is not leaked or misused. In the months to come, we will strengthen the security."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wary About Security</b> <br /> Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society, a think tank that has been analysing the Aadhaar project for six years, outlines several reasons why Aadhaar-based biometrics is inappropriate for authentication in payments, unlike card-based payments that use cryptography. <br /> <br /> "With biometrics, there is always an error ratio. It is imprecise matching, whereas with cryptography (smart cards), there is no false positive or negative. You either have the key (PIN) or you don’t. It is also very cheap to defeat biometric authentication — even an unlettered person can do it," says Abraham. It would be easy enough, he says, to replicate someone else’s fingerprint by pressing it against lukewarm wax and filling the mould with glue to get a dummy finger. In contrast, compromising a smart card requires more cost and effort, from tech-savviness to machines such as a skimmer that will read the card. "And once you are compromised,you are compromised forever. You can’t change it, like a debit card PIN."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Using Aadhaar for authentication had proved to be a failure during the exchange of currency notes following demonetisation, he adds, pointing to how the poor and the middle class stood in queues for money while stacks of new currency were recovered from the homes of businessmen and bureaucrats. "When you have bank officials who are corrupt, giving them your biometrics is giving them more ammunition for corruption." To catch the criminals, law enforcement agencies had to resort to CCTV footage,a relatively older technology, he says. Others point out that while it may be secure, certain factors stand in the way of making biometrics-based payment authentication a large-scale success. Amrish Rau, CEO of PayU India, a payment gateway provider, cites a list of reasons why it would inevitably take off but only in 5-10 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"For one, the technology is not yet good enough. There are also bandwidth and data constraints in sending biometric data," says Rau. Even in more mature markets, it has yet to find widespread acceptance, he says, pointing to the slow adoption of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay in the US. "It’s not the answer today.” This is in contrast to NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant’s recent remarks that cards and PoS machines would become redundant by 2020 because Indians would be making payments using their thumb (biometrics). "... my view is that in the next two and a half years, India will make all its debit cards, credit cards, all ATM machines, all PoS machines totally irrelevant,” Kant had said at a Pravasi Bharatiya Divas session in Bengaluru.</p>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">UIDAI’s Pandey is more circumspect. “I wouldn’t say who would replace what. But from the government’s side we are encouraging all modes of digital payment. India has a diverse population and some people might prefer using a card, others a wallet. Collectively, they will contribute to a less-cash society.”</div>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDemonetisationDigital PaymentDigital GovernanceDigital EconomyPrivacyInternet GovernanceDigital MoneyVideoAadhaarBiometrics2017-01-16T03:14:22ZNews ItemSeminar on Quality of Services in Telecom and Data Services: Issues, Challenges and Solutions
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<b>National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi organized a seminar on quality of services in telecom and data in Delhi on September 21, 2016. Shyam Ponappa was a speaker.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CUTS and IIT have recently published a report on quality of services in mobile data services, which is <a class="external-link" href="http://www.cuts-ccier.org/QOSII/pdf/Mobile_Internet_Services_in_India-Quality_of_Service.pdf">available here</a>. The aim of the organizers was to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to generate a debate on the findings of the study. This will be followed by a broader discussion on the next steps towards achieving better QoS in telecom and data services. For agenda of the meeting, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.cuts-ccier.org/pdf/Agenda-Mobile_Internet_Services_in_India-Quality_of_Service.pdf">click here</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelecomVideo2016-10-19T02:15:43ZNews ItemFuel Gilt Conference 2016
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fuel-gilt-conference-2016
<b>Fuel Gilt Conference 2016 was organized by the Fuel Project is being held in New Delhi on September 24 and 25, 2016. This is the fourth conference in series. Subhashish Panigrahi made a presentation at this event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Technical and other interface strings that fall under the ambit of FUEL are actually a subset of several other localization projects. They can also be used for bettering the corpus of machine translation. And there is a need for collaboration between communities and institutions -- both free and open source, and the proprietary ones -- to help grow their corpus. More and more collaborations in place will help the volunteer localizers even more as the localization suggestions will increase drastically with partnerships are more. Two existing such partnerships could be Pontoon by Mozilla and Content Translation by the Wikimedia Foundation. When the former shows localized strings from memory as suggestion and even include translations by proprietary organizations like Microsoft, the latter helps Wikipedians create Wikipedia articles faster by translation suggestions sourced from the corpus of Apertium and Yandex. Bettering collaboration needs strengthening two major aspects; a) growing professional and mutual bonding with other communities/organizations that are there in the same domain, and b) creating technical infrastructure to address the aforementioned pluralism. In my talk, I will detail about my own experience and best practices from working with several communities beyond borders and lessons learned from from my own work and the work of many others. A larger discussion with other colleagues at the Conference will hopefully shape into creating a manual or a few Open Educational Resources of some kind to help the future localization leaders. For more info, <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presentation_by_Subhashish_Panigrahi_at_the_FUEL_GILT_Conference_2016,_New_Delhi.webm#.7B.7Bint:filedesc.7D.7D">click here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fuel-gilt-conference-2016'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fuel-gilt-conference-2016</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaVideoOpennessOpen Source2016-09-25T03:27:38ZNews ItemTalking Point: Futile Battle Against Torrents
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/talking-point-futile-battle-against-torrents
<b>Sunil Abraham spoke to Deccan Herald to clear the air about rumours surrounding a jail threat for those logging on to Torrent sites. </b>
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<p>This was originally published by Deccan Herald on August 30, 2016</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/talking-point-futile-battle-against-torrents'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/talking-point-futile-battle-against-torrents</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaSocial MediaVideoInternet Governance2016-09-01T14:36:01ZNews Itemଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ "ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ" ବିକାଶ ପାଇଁ ଏକାଠି ହେଲେ ପୁରୀର ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40
<b>ସଂସ୍କୃତିର ସହର ପୁରୀରେ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀମାନେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହାରଯୋଗ୍ୟ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ତଥା ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଅଧିକ ପଠନଯୋଗ୍ୟ ଲେଖାର ବିକାଶ ଲାଗି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିଛନ୍ତି । ପୁରୀର ୫ଟି ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ଶିକ୍ଷାନୁଷ୍ଠାନର ପାଖାପାଖି ୧୨ ଜଣ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ ନିୟମିତ ଭେଟି କର୍ମଶାଳା ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ତଥ୍ୟଭିତ୍ତିକ ଲେଖାମାନ ତିଆରି ଓ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରୁଛନ୍ତି । </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The article that came May 20 on <a class="external-link" href="http://odia.yourstory.com/read/219505a2a9/-">YourStory Odia</a>, is about WikiTungi Puri and highlights a female editor Adyasha Sahu. WikiTungi Puri is a collective of the Odia Wikimedia community members that are based in the city of Puri.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ପୁରୀରେ ଆୟୋଜିତ ଏକ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ କର୍ମଶାଳା ପରେ ସେଠାରେ ଆଗରୁ ଗୁଗୁଲ ଡେଭଲପର୍ସ ଗ୍ରୁପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଥିବା ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ କର୍ମୀମାନେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଯୋଗ ଦେଇ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲେ । କେଇଟା ଦିନ ଭିତରେ ଆଗରୁ ଅବହେଳିତ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟ ଯଥା ମୋବାଇଲ, କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ଲେଖା, । ଏହି ୧୨ ଜଣିଆ ଦଳରେ ଥିବା ୪ ଜଣ ଝିଅ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ବାହାରର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ନାରୀଙ୍କ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଲେଖାସବୁ ତିଆରିବା ସହିତ ଆଗରୁ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଉନ୍ନତ କରିଆସୁଛନ୍ତି । ଏମାନଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନ ଫଳରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜଣାଅଜଣା ବିଷୟରେ ଉପାଦେୟ ଲେଖାସବୁ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖୋଲାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେଉଛି । ଆଗକୁ ଛାତ୍ର, ଶିକ୍ଷକମାନେ ବହି ବାହାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ ଚାହିଁଲେ ଏସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରରେ ଲାଗିବ ।</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;">ଏମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ ଜଣେ ଉଇକିଆଳି ଆଦ୍ଯାଶା କହନ୍ତି, "ମୁଁ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲାବେଳକୁ ରବୀନ୍ଦ୍ରନାଥ ଠାକୁରଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ ଛୋଟ ଲେଖାଟେ ଥିଲା । ଆଉ ମୋର ତାଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଇଚ୍ଛା ଥିଲେ ବି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ କିଛି ଖୋଜି ପାଉଲି ନାହିଁ । ତେଣୁ ନିଜେ ଇଂରାଜୀରୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲି । ନିକଟରେ ଗୋଟେ ପରୀକ୍ଷାରେ ତାଙ୍କ ବିଷୟରେ ପଡ଼ିଥିଲା ଯେ ମୁଁ ମୋର ନିଜ ଲେଖା ଅନୁଭୂତି କେତେ କାମରେ ଆସିଲା ତାହା ଜାଣିଲି", ବଖାଣନ୍ତି ଆଦ୍ୟାଶା ।</blockquote>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;">ଆଉ ଜଣେ ମହିଳା ଉଇକିଆଳି ଅଲିଭା ସାହୁ କହନ୍ତି, "ମୁଁ କାକଟପୁର କଲେଜରେ ପଢ଼ିଲା ବେଳେ ବାଦ୍ୟଯନ୍ତ୍ର ଉପରେ ଲେଖାଟିଏ ଥିଲା । ସେତେବେଳେ ମୁଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଶେଷ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ ପାଇନଥିଲି । ଏମିତି ଖୋଜୁଖୋଜୁ ଦିନେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଲେଖାଟିଏ ପାଇଲି । ଇଂରାଜୀ ଲେଖା ଆଉ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଲେଖା ଦୁଇଟିରୁ ମିଶାଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କଲି ।"</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଅନୁବାଦ ହେଉ କି ମୌଳିକ ଭାବେ ହେଉ, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଲେଖାର ଆଧାରରେ ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ତିଆରିଚାଲିଛନ୍ତି ଭଳିକି ଭଳି ନୂଆ ଲେଖା ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ପୁରୀର ଏହି ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ଏକାଠି ହୋଇ ଗଢ଼ିଛନ୍ତି "<a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/xyc">ଉଇକିଟୁଙ୍ଗି ପୁରୀ</a>" । ପୁରୀରେ ଯୁବପିଢ଼ିଙ୍କୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ପର୍କରେ ଅବଗତ କରାଇବା, ପୁରୀ ସାମନ୍ତ ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ସ୍ୱୟଂଶାସିତ କଲେଜରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ପ୍ରଚାର ପ୍ରସାର କରାଇବା, ପୁରୀରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଓ ମେଳଣ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ ଶିଖାଇବା ଓ ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ନିଜ ଅଞ୍ଚଳ ଓ ଆଗ୍ରହର ବିଷୟ ବାବଦରେ ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଆଗଭର କରାଇବା ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଢଗଢମାଳି-ଲୋକକଥା ଆଦିକୁ ଗୋଟେ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିକଥା ନାମରେ ଆଉ ଏକ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପର ବିକାଶ କରାଇବା ହେଉଛି ଏହି ଦଳର ମୁଖ୍ୟ ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ବାକି ଭାରତୀୟ ଓ ଏସୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏକ ପୁରୁଣା ଭାଷା ହୋଇ ସୁଦ୍ଧା ଓଡ଼ିଆର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ଖୁବ ଊଣା । ଯଦିଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ନିୟମିତ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ବଢ଼ି ବଢ଼ି ଚାଲିଛି ସେସବୁ ଏଯାବତ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଦ ହେଉନଥିବାରୁ ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜିଲେ ମିଳୁନାହିଁ । ଆଉ ସବୁ କାଗଜର ପୁରୁଣା ଅଭିଲେଖ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେଉନଥିବାରୁ ଜଣେ ଲୋଡ଼ାପଡ଼ିଲେ ଖବରଟେ ଖୋଜି ପାଇପାରିବ ନାହିଁ । ଏ ଦିଗରେ ପ୍ରକାଶନ ସଂସ୍ଥା, ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିବିଶେଷ ଓ ସରକାର ସଭିଏଁ ଚେଷ୍ଟା କଲେ ଯାଇ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲେଖା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୁଅନ୍ତା । ଏଯାଏ ଗୁଗୁଲର ପ୍ରଧାନ ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଆସୁନାହିଁ ବୋଲି ଅନେକେ ମତ ଦିଅନ୍ତି ତା'ର ମୁଖ୍ୟ କାରଣ ହେଲା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖାର ଘୋର ଅଭାବ । ଏ ଦିଗରେ ଅଣଲାଭକାରୀ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ଦ୍ୱାରା ପରିଚାଳିତ ସମୂହ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଭୂମିକା ଉଲ୍ଲେଖଯୋଗ୍ୟ । ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Wikipedia) ୨୦୦୧ରେ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଇଂରାଜୀରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ବାକି ଭାଷାରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା । ଆନନ୍ଦର ବିଷୟ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ୨୦୦୨ ମସିହାରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାର ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଅହମୀୟା, ମାଲାୟାଲାମ ଓ ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ସହିତ ଗଢ଼ାହେଲା । ଅଧୁନା କେବଳ ଇଂରାଜୀ ନୁହେଁ ୨୮୭ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏହି ଖୋଲା ଅନଲାଇନ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ । ଅନେକେ ଜାଣି କାବା ହେବେ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ସମ୍ପାଦକ ବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି ୨୫-୩୦ ହେଲେ ହେଁ ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ୧୦,୬୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ । ପୁରୀର ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନଙ୍କ ଆସିବା ପରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି ଦୁଇଗୁଣା ବଢ଼ିଛି ବୋଲି କହିହେବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/">http://or.wikipedia.org</a> ରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ସଭିଏଁ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ (ଲେଖିବା ବାବଦରେ <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CS">ଦରକାରୀ ସୂଚନା</a>) ।</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40</a>
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No publishersubhaVideoCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T16:21:07ZBlog EntryFacebook Free Basics vs Net Neutrality: The top arguments in the debate
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/indian-express-december-31-2015-facebook-free-basics-vs-net-neutrality-the-top-arguments-in-the-debate
<b>On Twitter, there's a whole conversation around Facebook Free Basics and whether zero-rating platforms should be allowed in India. Here's a look at the debate.</b>
<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/facebook-free-basics-debate-the-arguments-that-are-unfolding-on-twitter/">published in the Indian Express</a> on December 31, 2015. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash were quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook’s Free Basics app, which aims to provide ‘free Internet access’ to users who can’t afford data packs, has run into trouble in India over the last two weeks. After regulator TRAI issued a paper questioning the fairness of zero-rating platforms, it also asked Reliance Communications (the official telecom partner for Free Basics) to put the service on hold.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook on its part has gone for an aggressive campaign, both online and offline, to promote Free Basics and ensure that its platform is not banned permanently. For Net Neutrality activists, zero-rating platforms are in violation of the principle as it restricts access to free, full Internet for users.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On Twitter too, there’s a serious debate unfolding around Free Basics and whether zero-rating platforms should be allowed in India. Here’s a look at some of the prominent voices around this Net Neutrality vs Free Basics debate.</p>
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<p id="stcpDiv" style="text-align: justify; ">Nikhil Pahwa, founder of news website MediaNama, has been campaigning for quite some time against zero-rating platforms in general and Net Neutrality. On Twitter, Pahwa points out that the problem with the zero-rating apps is that it gives telecos right to play kingmaker, and get into a direct relationship between a website and a user.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pahwa also wrote a counter-blog to Mark Zuckerberg’s <a href="http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/its-a-battle-for-internet-freedom/">column in The Times of India </a> questioning why Facebook is going with this restricted version of the web on Free Basics, rather than giving access to all websites.</p>
<p>He posted recently on Twitter, “Why hasn’t Facebook tried any model other than on which gives it a competitive advantage?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pahwa adds, “With zero rating, telcos insert themselves into a previously direct relationship between a site and user. Some sites made cheaper versus others. Said it earlier, saying it again. Problem with zero rating is that it gives telcos the right to play kingmaker through pricing. So Net Neutrality battle isn’t just about Facebook. It’s about telcos lobbying for differential pricing+revenue share from Internet companies.”</p>
<div id="stcpDiv">Check out <a class="external-link" href="http://twitter.com/nixxin/status/681731772682354688">some of this tweets on the issue of Net Neutrality</a>:</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh Prakash, the director for policy at Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore, has said that a total ban might not be the ideal solution and one should look at the platforms on a case by case basis.<br /><br />He writes on Twitter, “My position: We should ban some zero-rating, allow some zero-rating, and deal w/ middle category either w/ +ve obligation or case-by-case. I’m all for banning Free Basics if it harms people more than it benefits them. I’ve even proposed tests for determining this. The regulator needs more data on a) conversion rates to full-Internet; b) cost of subsidy & c) QoE (speed, etc.) of Free Basics.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Check out Pranesh's tweets below</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/P1.png" alt="Pranesh Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Pranesh Tweet" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_P2.png" alt="Pranesh Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Pranesh Tweet" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/P3.png" alt="Pranesh Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Pranesh Tweet" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sunil Abraham, executive director at Centre for Internet and Society, has however questioned Free Basics on Twitter. He also posted counter-points to Pranesh’s tweets about data on conversion being used to create regulations around zero-ratings. He’s also called for a ban on Free Basics.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Check out his tweets below</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/P4.png" alt="Pranesh Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Pranesh Tweet" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/P5.png" alt="Pranesh Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Pranesh Tweet" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/indian-express-december-31-2015-facebook-free-basics-vs-net-neutrality-the-top-arguments-in-the-debate'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/indian-express-december-31-2015-facebook-free-basics-vs-net-neutrality-the-top-arguments-in-the-debate</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaSocial MediaFree BasicsInternet GovernanceFreedom of Speech and ExpressionVideoSocial Networking2016-01-07T02:26:16ZNews ItemTake-away from the I&J Project Workshop at the UN Internet Governance Forum 2015
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/take-away-from-the-i-j-project-workshop-at-the-un-internet-governance-forum-2015
<b>The Internet & Jurisdiction Project organized the workshop “Transnational due process: A case study in multi-stakeholder cooperation” at the Internet Governance Forum convened by the United Nations on November 13, 2015.</b>
<p>This was published on <a class="external-link" href="http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/take-away-from-the-ij-project-workshop-at-the-un-internet-governance-forum-2015/">Internet & Jurisdiction</a> website.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 4-day conference convened over 2000 high-level participants from states, major global Internet companies, technical Internet operators, international organizations, civil society groups and academia.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop organized by the I&J Project discussed how to address the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and a patchwork of national jurisdictions by enabling multi-stakeholder cooperation. Sunil Abraham, the Director of CIS India, stressed the limits of traditional modes of inter-state legal cooperation on the Internet:</p>
<p class="callout" style="text-align: justify; ">The MLAT system is completely broken […] both from the demand side and also from the supply side.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The US Cyber Coordinator of the State Department, Christopher Painter, stated the need to streamline procedures of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties, but also highlighted the importance of pursuing in parallel more innovative approaches, such as the Internet & Jurisdiction process:</p>
<p class="callout" style="text-align: justify; ">MLATS are not always the right answer. There are other answers between law enforcement channels in terms of joint investigations and there are also creative solutions that might take some of the burden off that MLAT process and I think that those are worthy of exploration.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Representing the Canadian ccTLD .ca, Mark Bull reflected upon how to develop such solutions to maintain the global nature of the Internet.</p>
<p class="callout" style="text-align: justify; ">We are talking about incredibly complex issues here and I believe that complexity necessitates a multi-stakeholder process to identify solutions. And that is what I think the beauty of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project is. And it’s why because of the multi-stakeholder structure, that’s why we believe it is the best and the most effective form for discussing issues this complex.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Panelist Eileen Donahoe, the Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch applauded the progress the Internet & Jurisdiction process made since 2012:</p>
<p class="callout" style="text-align: justify; ">Let me say that the work of the I&J Project has been relentless and it is really important. This is one of the most complex spaces in Internet governance</p>
<p>The jurisdiction topic has become one of the most pressing Internet governance challenges, as I&J Project Director and Co-Founder Bertrand de La Chapelle pointed out:</p>
<p class="callout">There is a real element of urgency. The jurisdiction issue is at the core of many Internet governance problems. And it has been said in many workshops here in the IGF, but also outside of it. The problem is really getting worse. The jurisdiction problem is probably one of the biggest threats to the fabric of the Internet as we know it.</p>
<p>The objective of the workshop was to gather participants in the global Internet & Jurisdiction process from different stakeholder groups to report on progress and achievements. Furthermore, the workshop deepened the understanding of how to address jurisdictional tensions around the Internet and establish innovative legal cooperation mechanisms to prevent its fragmentation along national territorial boundaries.Council of Europe’s Elvana Thaci reminded participants of the importance to develop harmonized procedures across borders, as</p>
<p class="callout">Harmonization of substance is very difficult because the understanding of unlawfulness of content is very diverse.</p>
<p>Facebook’s Head of Policy Development, Matt Perault, talked about the need for appropriate procedures:</p>
<p class="callout">I am here because I believe the I&J Project is devoted to figuring out how to think about mechanisms for a race to the top on the issue of jurisdiction.</p>
<p>The pioneering Internet & Jurisdiction process has engaged more than 100 key entities around the world, creating a unique neutral space to build trust and catalyze operational solutions. As Will Hudson, Google’s Senior Advisor for International Policy, said:</p>
<p class="callout">We need to find solutions that work for all parties. It is one of the great strengths of the I&J Project, that it is looking at this challenge head on. We need to do things in this multi-stakeholder manner, and talk as a community because everyone has a stake in this and we cannot do this alone.</p>
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<li>ANNE CARBLANC, Head of Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD</li>
<li>BYRON HOLLAND, President and CEO, CIRA (Canadian ccTLD)</li>
<li>CHRISTOPHER PAINTER, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, US Department of State</li>
<li>EILEEN DONAHOE, Director Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch</li>
<li>EVANA THACI, Administrator, Council of Europe</li>
<li>MATT PERAULT, Head of Policy Development, Facebook</li>
<li>SUNIL ABRAHAM, Executive Director, CIS India</li>
<li>WILL HUDSEN, Senior Advisor for International Policy, Google</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/take-away-from-the-i-j-project-workshop-at-the-un-internet-governance-forum-2015'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/take-away-from-the-i-j-project-workshop-at-the-un-internet-governance-forum-2015</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaInternet Governance ForumVideoInternet Governance2015-11-30T14:09:57ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Tutorial
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja trained the people involved in the creation of the videos. </b>
<p>Tutorial video on starting with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubation:<a class="free external" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F"></a></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to start with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubator:</p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to add new article to Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial02.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to type in Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial03.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to format articles in Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial04.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
<p><br /> The people behind these videos:</p>
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<li>Prof. Vishwanatha Badikana for Script</li>
<li>Lasya Shetty for Voice</li>
<li>Abhishek Shetty, Saarang Community radio at St Aloysius College Mangaluru for Audio Recording</li>
<li>Soundarya Shetty for Mixing and Editing</li>
<li>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja for Conception, Direction, Mixing and Editing<br /><br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaSocial MediaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeVideoTulu Wikipedia2015-12-15T07:50:52ZNews Item2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar
<b>Institute of Odia Studies and Research organised 2nd National Language Conference beginning on Monday, March 30, 2015 and ending on April 2, 2015 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. This conference was organised in collaboration with the Department of Tourism and Culture. I presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I spoke briefly about the issues with Odia being used massively on the Internet and gaining popular with Odia speaking netizens. Odia Wikimedia community and CIS-A2K's efforts has resulted growth in online Odia content. I also shared the potential projects that people could get involved and how collective effort will yield more diversification of the language and its use by today's generation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The talk is available on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons Share-Alike 4.0 license.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publishersubhaVideoOpennessOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-04-10T15:23:02ZBlog EntryOdia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The seminar was on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/news/relevance-of-bhagabat-tungi-in-evolution-of-odia-language">Relevance of Bhagabat Tungi in the evolution of Odia language from Buddha era to digital age</a>. After attending the event one of the participants Pankajmala Sarangi took great interest in <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikisource-goes-live">Odia Wikisource</a> which was then an incubator project. Since then she has digitized three books and is now proofreading <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A4">Odia Bhagabata</a>, an Odia language classic from the 14th century. Having the <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8/Pmsarangi">highest </a>number of edits in <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%83%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A0%E0%AC%BE">Odia Wikisource</a>, Ms. Sarangi took interest to build a community in Delhi. Another Odia Wikilibrarian <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8/Sitikantha_K">Sitikantha Kheti</a> also joined in to organise the first Odia Wikisource workshop in Delhi. These Wikimedians, a Delhi based group The Intellects and CIS-A2K collaboratively conducted a workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Intellect's president Debendra Rout addressed the participants and broadly spoke about the goal of the workshop and long term plans in Delhi. Both the Wikilibrarians shared their experience on Odia Wikisource. The workshop started with self introduction of the participants followed by screening of a documentary "Odia: Silalekharu Mobile".</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia_Wikisource_Handbook.pdf">handbook</a> with details on the project, Odia input and keyboard layout was distributed among all. Subhashish Panigrahi demonstrated Odia input and the process of digitization of books on Wikisource. Plans for more workshops and digitization sprints were also charted out.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaVideoOpennessOdia Wikipedia2014-12-30T01:08:00ZBlog EntryPrivacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/privacy-v-transparency
<b>The right to privacy has been articulated in international law and in some national laws. In a few countries where the constitution does not explicitly guarantee such a right, courts have read the right to privacy into other rights (e.g., the right to life, the right to equal treatment under law and also the right to freedom of speech and expression).</b>
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<p><i>With feedback and inputs from Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Elonnai Hickok, Bhairav Acharya and Geetha Hariharan</i>. I would like to apologize for not providing proper citation to Julian Assange when the first version of this blog entry was published. I would also like to thank Micah Sifry for drawing this failure to his attention. The blog post originally published by Omidyar Network <a class="external-link" href="http://www.openup2014.org/privacy-vs-transparency-attempt-resolving-dichotomy/">can be read here</a>. Also see <a class="external-link" href="http://newint.org/features/2015/01/01/privacy-transparency/">http://newint.org/features/2015/01/01/privacy-transparency/</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In other countries where privacy is not yet an explicit or implicit right, harm to the individual is mitigated using older confidentiality or secrecy law. After the Snowden affair, the rise of social media and the sharing economy, some corporations and governments would like us to believe that “privacy is dead”. Privacy should not and cannot be dead, because that would mean that security is also dead. This is indeed the most dangerous consequence of total surveillance as it is technically impossible to architect a secure information system without privacy as a precondition. And conversely, it is impossible to guarantee privacy without security as a precondition.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The right to transparency [also known as the right to information or access to information] – while unavailable in international law – is increasingly available in national law. Over the last twenty years this right has become encoded in national laws – and across the world it is being used to hold government accountable and to balance the power asymmetry between states and citizens. Independent and autonomous offices of transparency regulators have been established. Apart from increasing government transparency, corporations are also increasingly required to be transparent as part of generic or industry specific regulation in the public interest. For instance, India’s Companies Act, 2013, requires greater transparency from the private sector. Other areas of human endeavor such as science and development are also becoming increasingly transparent though here it is still left up to self-regulation and there isn’t as much established law. Within science and research more generally, the rise of open data accompanied the growth of the Open Access and citizen science movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">So the question before us is: Are these two rights – the right to transparency and the right to privacy – compatible? Is it a zero-sum game? Do we have to sacrifice one right to enforce the other? Unfortunately, many privacy and transparency activists think this is the case and this has resulted in some conflict. I suggest that these rights are completely compatible when it comes to addressing the question of power. These rights do not have to be balanced against one another. There is no need to settle for a sub-optimal solution. <b>Rather this is an optimization problem and the solution is as follows: privacy protections must be inversely proportionate to power and as Julian Assange says transparency requirements should be directly proportionate to power.</b><a href="#fn*" name="fr*">[*] </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In most privacy laws, the public interest is an exception to privacy. If public interest is being undermined, then an individual privacy can be infringed upon by the state, by researchers, by the media, etc. And in transparency law, privacy is the exception. If the privacy of an individual can be infringed, transparency is not required unless it is in the public interest. In other words, the “public interest” test allows us to use privacy law and transparency law to address power asymmetries rather than exacerbate them. What constitutes “public interest” is of course left to courts, privacy regulators, and transparency regulators to decide. Like privacy, there are many other exceptions in any given transparency regime including confidentiality and secrecy. Given uneven quality of case law there will be a temptation by the corrupt to conflate exceptions. Here the old common-law principle of “there is no confidence as to the disclosure of iniquity” – which prevents confidentiality law from being used to cover malfeasance or illegality – can be adopted in appropriate jurisdictions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Around 10 years ago, the transparency movement gave birth to yet another movement – the open government data movement. The tension between privacy and transparency is most clearly seen in the open government data movement. The open government data movement in some parts of the world is dominated by ahistorical and apolitical technologists, and some of them seem intent on reinventing the wheel. In India, ever since the enactment of the Right to Information Act, 2003, 30 transparency activists are either killed, beaten or criminally intimidated every year. This is the statistic from media coverage alone. Many more silently suffer. RTI or transparency is without a doubt one of the most dangerous sectors within civil society that you could choose to work in. In contrast, not a single open data activist has ever been killed, beaten or criminally intimidated. I suspect this is because open data activists do not sufficiently challenge power hierarchies. Let us look a little bit closely at their work cycle. When a traditional transparency activist asks a question, that is usually enough to get them into trouble. When an open data activist publishes an answer [a dataset nicely scrubbed and machine readable, or a visualization, or a tool] they are often frustrated because nobody seems interested in using it. Often even the activist is unclear what the question is. This is because open data activist works where data is available. Open data activists are obsessed with big datasets, which are easier to find at the bottom of the pyramid. They contribute to growing surveillance practices [the nexus between Internet giants, states, and the security establishment] rather that focusing on sousveillance [citizen surveillance of the state, also referred to as citizen undersight or inverse surveillance]. They seem to be obsessed only with tools and technologies, rather than power asymmetries and injustices.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Finally, a case study to make my argument easier to understand – Aadhaar or UID, India’s ambitious centralized biometric identity and authentication management system. There are many serious issues with its centralized topology, proprietary technology, and dependence on biometrics as authentication factors – all of which I have written about in the past. In this article, I will explain how my optimization solution can be applied to the project to make it more effective in addressing its primary problem statement that corruption is a necessary outcome of power asymmetries in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In its current avatar – the Aadhaar project hopes to assign biometric-based identities to all citizens. The hope is that, by doing authentication in the last mile, corruption within India’s massive subsidy programmes will be reduced. This, in my view, might marginally reduce retail corruption at the bottom of the pyramid. It will do nothing to address wholesale corruption that occurs as subsidies travel from the top to the bottom of the pyramid. I have advocated over the last two years that we should abandon trying to issue biometric identities to all citizens, thereby making them more transparent to the state. Let us instead issue Aadhaar numbers to all politicians and bureaucrats and instead make the state more transparent to citizens. There is no public interest in reducing privacy for ordinary citizens – the powerless – but there are definitely huge public interest benefits to be secured by increasing transparency of politicians and bureaucrats, who are the powerful.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Indian government has recently introduced a biometric-based attendance system for all bureaucrats and has created a portal that allows Indian citizens to track if their bureaucrats are arriving late or leaving early. This unfortunately is just bean counting [for being corrupt and being punctual are not mutually exclusive] and public access to the national portal was turned off because of legitimate protests from some of the bureaucrats. What bureaucrats do in office, who they meet, and which documents they process is more important than when they arrive at or depart from work. The increased transparency or reduced privacy was not contributing to the public interest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Instead of first going after small-ticket corruption at the bottom of the pyramid, maximization of public interest requires us to focus on the top, for there is much greater ROI for the anti-corruption rupee. For example: constructing a digital signature based on audit trails that track all funds and subsidies as they move up and down the pyramid. These audit trails must be made public so that ordinary villagers can be supported by open data activists, journalists, social entrepreneurs, and traditional civil society in verification and course correction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I hope open data activists, data scientists, and big data experts will draw inspiration from the giants of the transparency movement in India. I hope they will turn their attention to power, examine power asymmetries and then ask how the Aadhaar project can be leveraged to make India more rather than less equal.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Open Up? 2014: Risky Business: Transparency, Technology, Security, and Human Rights</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://vimeo.com/111729069">Open Up? 2014: Risky Business: Transparency, Technology, Security, and Human Rights </a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://vimeo.com/111748146">Open Up? 2014: Data Collection and Sharing: Transparency and the Private Sector </a></li>
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<p>[<a href="#fr*" name="fn*">*</a>].<a class="external-link" href="http://prospect.org/article/real-significance-wikileaks">http://prospect.org/article/real-significance-wikileaks</a> “Transparency should be proportional to the power that one has.”</p>
<p>Read the presentation on Risky Business: Transparency, Technology, Security and Privacy made at the Pecha Kucha session <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/risky-business.odp" class="internal-link">here</a>. (ODP File, 35 kb)</p>
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No publishersunilPrivacyFeaturedVideoAadhaarOpennessOpen Access2015-03-08T06:26:21ZBlog EntryOdia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
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<b>Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">His poetry “<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahe_Dayamaya_Biswa_Bihari">Ahe Dayamaya Biswa Bihari</a>” has been sung in every school in Odisha. His work around Odia poetry, language and grammar, essays and encyclopaedia have been greatest resources for children for quite a few decades. CIS-A2K is honored to now bring four of his books under <a class="external-link" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Share Alike</a> (CC-by-SA 4.0) license:</p>
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<li>Lekhanira Pathasala (Grammar)</li>
<li>Bhabi Dekhantu (Compilation of essays)</li>
<li>Pausa Sandhyara Gapa (Compilation of stories)</li>
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<p>The larger plans after this is to bring these books online on <a href="http://or.wikisource.org/">Odia Wikisource</a> by scanning and digitizing them.</p>
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