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https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-let-us-write-our-code-in-our-own-hands
<b>I authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference in our lives. I have also shared a little bit about how anyone can celebrate the Software Freedom Day today by contributing to and sharing about to FOSS.
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Samaja2016September17.jpg/@@images/dbc8b6d5-3e4c-4e01-b176-70340cfd768e.jpeg" alt="Samaja" class="image-inline" title="Samaja" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-let-us-write-our-code-in-our-own-hands'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-let-us-write-our-code-in-our-own-hands</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-09-17T16:04:12ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — September 2013
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-september-2013
<b>The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of September 2013: </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/19y0EJx"><b>Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0</b></a><br />Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m. at the Goa University Conference Hall. Konkani Vishwakosh is a four-volume encyclopedia published by Goa University. It encompasses all the world information in a nutshell with special emphasis and detailed information on Goa, Konkani, Goan culture, folklore, history, geography, etc. By releasing Vishwakosh under Creative Commons license, Goa University is making it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. For more on Konkani Vishwakosh re-release see</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Announcements</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1fBZXlR">CIS Signs MoU with Goa University</a>: The A2K team at CIS has signed an MoU with the Goa University to digitize the “Konkani Vishwakosh” under the Creative Commons license and build a digital knowledge partnership to enhance digital literacy in Konkani language. </li>
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<li> <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/15Idlh7">Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project</a>: The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa is doing a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Video</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/16jYsBF">Wikipedians Speak: Piotr Konieczny</a>: This episode brings you a conversation with Piotr Konieczny, a veteran Wikipedian from Poland. He has contributed to over 514 DYK articles on Wikipedia.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Columns and Blog Entries</h3>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/19KtIwo">Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Startup Goa Blog, September 9, 2013). </li>
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<li> <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/14QQkIo">ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odiapua, September 10, 2013).</li>
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<li> <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1fU7Ikl">Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K</a> (by Nitika Tandon, September 10, 2013).</li>
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<li> <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18f9n1o">Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad</a> (by Syed Muzammiluddin, September 20, 2013).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Organised</h3>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/15LPoKZ">A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mysore</a> (University of Mysore, August 6, 2013): This is a report of the workshop conducted last month. Dr. Pavanaja conducted the workshop.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1ajmH7G">Indian Language Wikipedia Training Workshop</a> (TISS, Mumbai, August 16, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop. This workshop was organized as part of the CIS-A2K MoU with TISS. This is also part of the Indian Language Mela being organized by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1aHg6AL">Indian Language Wikipedia Training Workshop</a> (TISS, Tuljapur, August 24, 2013). Abhishek Suryavanshi was the trainer for this workshop.</li>
<li>Wikipedia Introductory Workshop (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Goa, September 28, 2013). Nitika Tandon conducted this workshop. The details will be posted soon.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1f1KOvm">Train the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore</a> (organised by CIS-A2K, Bangalore, October 3 – 6, 2013).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Co-organised</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/174pugy">Digital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars</a> (co-organised by CIS-A2K and the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and CILHE, TISS on September 13, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan curated and conducted this day-long event for M.Phil and Ph.D students of the EFL University.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18SsChu">Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia</a> (organised by CIS-A2K and the University of Goa, Conference Hall, Goa University, Taleigao, September 26, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Introductory Workshop (co-organised by CIS-A2K and wikipedians John Noronha and Supriya Kankumbikar, September 27, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/15NsTjM">Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (co-organised by CIS-A2K and Odia Wikimedia community, September 30, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi coordinated the entire event along with members of Odia Wikipedia, Dr Subas Chandra Rout, Mrutyunjaya Kar and Sasanka Sekhar Das. This was covered by Odisha Diary (<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1bna9zd">http://bit.ly/1bna9zd</a>), and eOdisha Samachar (<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1aNJvv4">http://bit.ly/1aNJvv4</a>).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated In</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/16HNZpy">Workshop on e-Content Development</a> (organised by Centre for Staff Training and Development, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, September 4 – 6, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave guest lectures on Open Source to Open Knowledge; Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet; e-Content in Indian languages – History, Challenges and Opportunities; Wikipedia Users to Wikipedia Authors – Exploring Wikipedia as an OER Tool; and e-Content, e-Student, e-Faculty – Reimagining classroom in the digital Age.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/183Atq0">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire, September 15, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet (organised by Jadavpur University, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University on September 23, 2013): <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/163oEpz">http://bit.ly/163oEpz</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1eGviTY">Konkani Wikipedia Workshop</a> (organised by St. Aloysius College, AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore, September 13, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/16hdTLb">Indian Languages Mela</a> (organised by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS, Mumbai, September 20-21, 2013). Tejaswini Niranjana, T. Vishnu Vardhan and Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">'Digital Humanities and Higher Education' (organised by School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, September 2013). Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana gave a talk.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">'<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/152vA0g">Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation</a>' (Deccan Herald, September 13, 2013): The article talks about the relative lack of content in Konkani Wikipedia. “To get it out of incubation, many should write Konkani articles for Wikipedia,” Dr. Pavanaja was quoted as having said.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18VgnEN">Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow</a> (The Hindu, September 26, 2013). A coverage of the re-release of the Konkani encyclopaedia under Creative Commons license.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18VgnV8">Goa University re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26</a> (The Times of India, September 24, 2013): Goa University and CIS-A2K re-released the four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) in Goa.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/174rmpA">Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on Wikipedia</a> (Navhind Times, September 27, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/19EYl5T">Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months</a> (The Times of India, September 27, 2013): Goa University becomes the first varsity in India to allow data produced and copyrighted by an Indian university to be used by internet users. Professors, students and anyone with expertise or love for Konkani can come forward to help with the project for which training will be provided, says Vishnu Vardhan.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18jiG1B">Konkani Wikipedia in the making</a> (by Prakash Kamat, The Hindu, September 29, 2013): Goa University re-launched a four-volume Konkani encyclopaedia and will upload it on Wikipedia. The process will be completed in six months times, says Vishnu Vardhan.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1bV5XWH">For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official language</a> (by Joanna Lobo, DNA, September 29, 2013): Konkani has 24 lakh speakers as per the Census Department of India 2001 but online documentation is limited. CIS-A2K wants to strengthen the Konkani Wikipedia, says Nitika Tandon.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/18ROmfb">Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months</a> (by Jagran Josh, September 30, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1bsZW4u">Goa University Partners CIS India to Build Konkani Wikipedia</a> (by Apurva Chaudhary, Medianama, September 30, 2013).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">About CIS</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.<br /><br /><b>Follow us elsewhere</b></p>
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<li>Twitter: <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
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<li> CIS group on Facebook: <a class="external-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.indi">https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.indi</a>a</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Support Us</b><br />Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.<br /><br /><b>Request for Collaboration:</b><br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a><br /><br />CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-september-2013'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-september-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-12-09T06:37:43ZPageOnline space for Odia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-june-10-2016-diana-sahu-online-space-for-odia
<b>From a few hundred articles in 2002 to over 10,600 articles on various aspects of Odisha today, Odia Wikipedia has certainly made a mark as far as promotion of the language is concerned. Wikipedia, the volunteer driven web-based multilingual encyclopedia project, is an important reference source on the Internet for all kinds of information.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Diana Sahu was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Online-space-for-Odia/2016/06/10/article3475870.ece">published in New Indian Express</a> on June 10, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Recently, Odia Wikipedia (https://or.wikipedia.org) celebrated its 14th anniversary in Bhubaneswar where the focus was on capacity building of Wikipedia contributors, volunteers and enhancing the content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While the event brought all the active contributors under one roof, it also provided a platform to new users to learn the basics of Wikipedia editing, technical aspects, uploading and adding images to articles and dealing with copyright issues on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia is free for anyone to create articles on notable topics related to Odisha, edit and enhance them. Topics covered so far are varied, from elaborate rituals in Jagannath temple of Puri to medical science.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Sister Projects</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Currently, there are two sister projects of Odia Wikipedia - Odia Wikisource (an online library that already has over 300 volumes of text) and Odia Wiktionary, an online dictionary that has over one lakh entries in the language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With these two projects, the community is bringing a digital revolution in Odia by sharing valuable content online and many language tools. Odia Wikipedia, the flagship project was started as one of the first four Indian language Wikipedias along with Assamese, Malayalam and Punjabi Wikipedia in 2002, a year after the English Wikipedia went live.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The project remained dormant for more than nine years till a group of youths revived it in 2011. Subsequently, the project became popular among Odias and they joined in writing and editing articles on different subject areas in the language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"Odia Wikipedia is part of the 292 language Wikipedia family and a larger global family of hundreds of other free knowledge projects that are collectively known as Wikimedia projects," said Mrutyunjaya Kar, one of the administrators of the project, during the event.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Tools for Writers</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Apart from writing and editing articles, the Wikipedia contributors have created several tools and resource manuals over the years. The script encoding converters that they have built is helping online users to share their Odia writings.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">"Before these converters were built, people were stuck with outdated encoding systems like Shreelipi and Akruti," says Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikipedian, and Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">New Projects</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"The next big goal is to enhance the quality of the existing articles by adding more images, references from external sources and expanding small articles by adding more information," said a contributor, Shitikantha Dash. Dash, who is also an administrator of Odia Wiktionary said, "It is important that more people contribute to the Odia Wiktionary so that words of all genres, especially the technical and burrowed words, make their way into this free multilingual dictionary. A 10-day campaign will be organised soon to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Odia Wiktionary. "This time, our focus will be that every Wikipedia editor adds at least one word to the Odia Wiktionary. We are also using these words to create a spell check facility in Odia Wikipedia that will be freely available for everyone to use," he added.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-june-10-2016-diana-sahu-online-space-for-odia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-june-10-2016-diana-sahu-online-space-for-odia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-12T15:39:21ZNews ItemNovember 2014 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2014-bulletin
<b>We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcome you to the eleventh issue of the newsletter (November 2014). </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters"></a> </small> <small> </small></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><small> Highlights </small><small></small></h2>
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<li><small>On 13 November, 2014, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion had released a Call for Suggestions for India's proposed National IPR Policy. <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/comments-on-proposed-ip-rights-policy-to-dipp">CIS sent its comments</a>.</small></li>
<li><small>As part of the Pervasive Technologies we published four methodology documents: Rohini Lakshané wrote on <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/patent-landscaping-in-the-indian-mobile-device-market"> Patent Landscaping for the Indian Mobile Device market </a> ; Anubha Sinha wrote on <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-intellectual-property-in-mobile-application-development-in-india"> Intellectual Property in Mobile Application Development in India </a> ; Maggie Huang wrote on <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-access-to-music-through-mobile">Access to Music through the Mobile</a>; and Nehaa Chaudhari wrote on <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-sub-hundred-dollar-mobile-devices-and-competition-law"> Sub Hundred Dollar Mobile Devices and Competition Law </a> .</small></li>
<li><small>Odisha's <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/nineteen-books-by-ama-odisha-relicensed">most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated</a> with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".</small></li>
<li><small>Vipul Kharbanda in a blog entry <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/white-paper-on-rti-and-privacy-v-1.2"> examines the relationship between privacy and transparency in the context of the right to information in India </a> .</small></li>
<li><small>Geetha Hariharan in a <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/good-intentions-recalcitrant-text-2013-ii-what-india2019s-itu-proposal-may-mean-for-internet-governance"> blog entry </a> explores what India's ITU proposal means for Internet Governance.</small></li>
<li><small>Pranesh Prakash wrote an <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/economic-times-november-18-2014-pranesh-prakash-the-socratic-debate-whos-internet-is-it-anyway"> article in the Economic Times </a> exploring net neutrality.</small></li>
<li><small>In her <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/mapping-digital-humanities-in-india-concluding-thoughts">final blog post on the mapping exercise</a> undertaken by CIS-RAW, P.P.Sneha summarises some of the key concepts and terms that emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India. </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Job </small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership">Programme Officer</a> (Access to Knowledge - Institutional Partnerships): CIS is seeking applications for the post of Programme Officer for its Access to Knowledge (A2K) Programme. The position will be based in its Bangalore office. Programme Officer will collaboratively work with the A2K Team and would report to the Programme Director, Access to Knowledge at CIS. </small> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility and Inclusion</a> </small></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small>Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing two projects. The first project is on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. CIS in partnership with CLPR (Centre for Law and Policy Research) compiled the National Compendium of Policies, Programmes and Schemes for Persons with Disabilities (29 states and 6 union territories). The publication has been finalised and is currently in the process of being printed. The draft chapters and the quarterly reports can be accessed on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/national-resource-kit-project">project page</a>. The second project is on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>. </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►NVDA and eSpeak </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Monthly Update </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/november-e-speak-nvda-2014-report.pdf">November 2014 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; November 30, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Upcoming Event </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/events/training-in-e-speak-malayalam">Training in Use of eSpeak with Malayalam</a> (co-organized by CIS, DAISY Forum of India and Chakshumathi Assistive Technology Centre; Trivandrum; January 24 - 25, 2015, Trivandrum). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Other </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Blog Entry </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/central-guidelines-and-schemes">Central Guidelines and Schemes</a> (Anandhi Viswanathan; November 6, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> </small></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small>As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects. </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> <small> Submission </small></b></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/comments-on-proposed-ip-rights-policy-to-dipp"> Comments on the Proposed Intellectual Property Rights Policy to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion </a> (Pranesh Prakash, Nehaa Chaudhari, Anubha Sinha and Amulya P.; November 30, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Blog Entries </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chairs-underutilization-of-funds-and-lack-of-information-regarding-expenditures"> MHRD IPR Chairs - Underutilization of Funds and Lack of Information Regarding Expenditures </a> (Amulya Purushothama, November 19, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> <small> Participation in Events </small></b></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/center-for-global-communication-studies-november-6-2014-ubiquity-mobility-globality-charting-directions-in-mobile-phone-studies"> Ubiquity, Mobility, Globality: Charting Directions in Mobile Phone Studies </a> (Organized by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; November 6 - 7, 2014). Nehaa Chaudhari made a presentation on Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace. </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/countering-us-pressure-on-indias-ip-regime">Countering US pressures on India's IP regime</a> (Organized by Lawyer's Collective; November 16, 2014). Anubha Sinha attended the event. </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/technology-gender-based-violence">Technology and Gender Based Violence</a> (Organized by the Bachchao Project; November 24, 2014). Rohini Lakshané was a speaker at the event. She spoke about various strategies that women use to respond to online harassment, such as reporting the abuser, and enlisting support from online followers, or friends or family in order to deal with the abuser. </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Pervasive Technology </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Blog Entries </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/patent-landscaping-in-the-indian-mobile-device-market">Methodology: Patent Landscaping</a> (Rohini Lakshané; November 10, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-intellectual-property-in-mobile-application-development-in-india"> Methodology: Intellectual Property in Mobile Application Development in India </a> (Anubha Sinha; November 17, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-access-to-music-through-mobile">Methodology: Access to Music through the Mobile</a> (Maggie Huang; November 18, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-sub-hundred-dollar-mobile-devices-and-competition-law"> Methodology: Sub Hundred Dollar Mobile Devices and Competition Law </a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; November 25, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Wikipedia </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> As part of the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a> we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English). </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><small>Op-Ed </small></b></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/the-samaja-november-17-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikisource-its-potential"> Odia Wikisource, its Potential </a> (Subhashish Panigrahi, The Samaja, November 17, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small><b>Blog Entries </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/55-works-of-iconic-indian-writer-released-under-free-licence-to-benefit-wikisource"> 55 Works of Iconic Indian writer released under Free Licence to benefit Wikisource </a> (T. Vishnu Vardhan, November 13, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-author-nirmala-kumari-mohapatra-21-books-under-cc"> Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0 </a> (Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/nineteen-books-by-ama-odisha-relicensed"> Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0 </a> (Subhashish Panigrahi, November 25, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><small>News and Media Coverage </small></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> </small></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage: </small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/just-kannada-november-23-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-coverage"> ಭಾಷಣದಿಂದ ಭಾಷೆ ಉಳಿಯಲ್ಲ, ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಿಗುವುದು ಅಗತ್ಯ: ಪವನಜ </a> (Just Kannada; November 23, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/prajavani-november-24-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-in-mysuru"> Kannada Wikipedia Presentation in Mysuru </a> (Prajavani; November 24, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles"> Now, Tulu set to be promoted through Wikipedia articles </a> (Hindu; November 24, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-26-2014-ravi-prasad-kamila-tulu-wikipedia-in-incubation-stage"> 'Tulu Wikipedia' in incubation stage, 600 articles uploaded, says U.B. Pavanaja </a> (Ravi Prasad Kamila; Hindu; November 26, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/odisha-sun-times-november-28-2014-odia-wikisource-launched-in-odisha-capital"> Odia Wikisource launched in Odisha capital </a> (Odisha Sun Times; November 28, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-diary-november-28-2014-odia-wikisource-aims-to-bring-valuable-and-rare-books-on-the-internet"> Odia Wikisource aims to bring valuable and rare books on the Internet </a> (Odisha Diary; November 28, 2014). </small> </li>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikisource-sabha-2014">Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014</a> (Co-organized by CIS-A2K and Odia Wikimedia Community; November 28, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Participation in Event </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/seminar-e-publishing-odia-books">A Seminar on E-publishing of Odia Books</a> (Organized by Molybtech Technology Solutions; November 30, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi was a speaker. </small> </li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►<b>Openness </b></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> <small> Blog Entry </small></b></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/privacy-v-transparency">Privacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy</a> (Sunil Abraham <i>with feedback and inputs from Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Elonnai Hickok, Bhairav Acharya and Geetha Hariharan</i>; November 14, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>News and Media Coverage </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/open-up-tim-davies-november-3-2014-getting-strategic-about-openness-and-privacy"> Getting Strategic about Openness and Privacy </a> (Tim Davies; Open Data Research Lead at Web Foundation; November 3, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> <small> Participation in Event </small></b></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/crypto-currencies">Content co-ordination for the Panel Discussion on Crypto-Currencies</a> (organized by the Law and Technology Society; November 15, 2014). Sharath Chandra Ram was a panelist and made a presentation Scalability and Security Issues in Distributed Trust based Cryto-Currency Systems like BITCOIN </small> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> </small></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Privacy </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> As part of our Surveillance and Freedom: Global Understandings and Rights Development (SAFEGUARD) project with Privacy International we are engaged in enhancing respect for the right to privacy in developing countries. During the month we published the following blog entries: </small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/white-paper-on-rti-and-privacy-v-1.2">White Paper on RTI and Privacy V1.2</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; November 9, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/introduction-about-the-privacy-and-surveillance-roundtables"> Introduction: About the Privacy and Surveillance Roundtables </a> (Manoj Kurbet; November 27, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Event Organized </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/iocose-talk-at-cis">IOCOSE's talk at CIS</a> (CIS, Bangalore; November 27, 2014). There was a presentation of the work of the artists group IOCOSE, current artists in residence at T.A.J./SKE Residency. </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> </small></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Upcoming Event </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cpdp-2015">CPDP 2015</a> : The eighth international conference on computers, privacy and data protection will be held in Brussels from January 21 to 23, 2015. CIS is a moral supporter of CPDP. </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Participation in Events </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hague-institute-for-global-justice-november-4-2014-e-consultation-on-cyber-security-justice-and-governance-begins"><b> </b>E-Consultation on Cyber Security, Justice, and Governance Begins! </a> (Organized by the Hague Institute for Global Justice; November 4, 2014). Sunil Abraham facilitated the e-consultation on "Internet access, the freedom of expression online, and development in the Global South". </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/learning-forum-transparency-and-human-rights-in-the-digital-age"> Learning Forum: Transparency and Human Rights in the Digital Age </a> (Organized by Global Network Initiative; November 6, 2014). Pranesh Prakash gave a talk on transparency reports and their use and abuse in India; the Intermediary Liability Rules in India (and its non-provision of any transparency mechanism); and the need for transparency in private speech regulation, not just governmental speech regulation. </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/fourth-discussion-meeting-of-expert-committee-to-discuss-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill"> Fourth Discussion Meeting of the Expert Committee to Discuss the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill </a> (Organized by the Department of Biotechnology; New Delhi; November 10, 2014). Sunil Abraham was unable to participate because of technical problems. </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ground-zero-summit-2014">Ground Zero Summit 2014</a> (Organized by India Infosec Consortium; November 13-14, 2014). Geetha Hariharan participated in this event. </small> </li>
<li><small><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/wilton-park-november-17-19-privacy-security-surveillance">Privacy, security and surveillance: tackling international dilemmas and dangers in the digital realm</a> </small><small>(Organized by Wilton Park; November 17-19, 2014). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist in the session "Beyond the familiar: how do other countries deal with security and surveillance oversight?" </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ►Free Speech </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> Under a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, CIS is doing research on the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government and contribute studies, reports and policy briefs to feed into the ongoing debates at the national as well as international level. As part of the project we bring you the following outputs: </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small><b>Blog Entries </b></small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/good-intentions-recalcitrant-text-2013-ii-what-india2019s-itu-proposal-may-mean-for-internet-governance"> Good Intentions, Recalcitrant Text - II: What India's ITU Proposal May Mean for Internet Governance </a> (Geetha Hariharan; November 1, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indias-statement-at-itu-plenipotentiary-conference-2014"> India's Statement at ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, 2014 </a> (Geetha Hariharan; November 4, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <b>Newspaper Article </b></small><b> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/economic-times-november-18-2014-pranesh-prakash-the-socratic-debate-whos-internet-is-it-anyway"><b> </b>The Socratic debate: Whose internet is it anyway? </a> (Pranesh Prakash; Economic Times; November 18, 2014). </small> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a> <br />CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage: </small></p>
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<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-economic-times-vasudha-venugopal-november-2-2014-twitter-users-find-several-accounts-suspended-for-unknown-reasons"> Twitter users find several accounts suspended for unknown reasons </a> (Vasudha Venugopal; Economic Times; November 2, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/digit-november-3-2014-silky-malhotra-several-indian-twitter-users-accounts-suspended-due-to-tech-glitch"> Several Indian Twitter users' accounts suspended due to tech glitch </a> (Silky Malhotra; digit; November 3, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/mumbai-mirror-november-19-2014-jaison-lewis-game-release-cancelled-over-gay-character"> Game release cancelled over gay character </a> (Jaison Lewis; Mumbai Mirror; November 19, 2014). </small> </li>
<li> <small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/businessworld-november-25-2014-leave-the-net-alone">Leave the Net Alone</a> (Businessworld; November 25, 2014). </small> </li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a> <br /> </small></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small>CIS is building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia: </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><small>Blog Entry </small> </b></p>
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<li><b> </b><small><b> </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/mapping-digital-humanities-in-india-concluding-thoughts"><b> </b>Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts </a> (P.P.Sneha; November 30, 2014). </small> </li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><small> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> </small></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><small>The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities. </small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><small> ► Follow us elsewhere </small></p>
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<li> <small> Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a> </small> </li>
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No publisherpraskrishnaInternet GovernanceAccessibilityAccess to KnowledgeDigital Humanities2014-12-15T13:27:04ZPageWinners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners
<b>Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.</b>
<p>These stories are about open source as we use it in our everyday lives as well as how it helps to build a better world and future in technology. This year, we present to you the 2015 Opensource.com Community Awards in the following categories.</p>
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<p><b><a class="external-link" href="http://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a></b></p>
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<p>An educator and open source activist, based in Bangalore, India.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left; "><i>Reader's Choice Awards</i></h2>
<p style="text-align: left; "><i>Recognizes the community's favorite articles from 2014. Voted on by the community.</i></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaOdia WikipediaWikimedia2015-02-12T01:23:44ZNews Itemଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା (Need for an Odia-language Wikisource)
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-october-25-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-need-for-an-odia-language-wikisource
<b>This post is about the Odia library movement and the conventional archival, touch-bases on the problems with dissemination of knowledge with more public domain books that are entering into the "rare and perishing" category, a comparative study of the conventional and new medium--like Wikisource--for book archival. It sheds light on how Wikisource functions as a collaborative platform in engaging with readers for digitizing books that are yet to be digitized.</b>
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<p>The op-ed was published in Samaja on October 25, 2015.</p>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikisourceAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T08:21:59ZBlog Entry14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons license
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-rohini-lakshane-april-26-2014-14-books-re-released-under-creative-commons-license
<b>This blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the article <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-14-odia-books-re-released-under-creative-commons-license-1982395">published in DNA on April 26, 2014</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha">Odisha</a> became a separate state in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidencies_and_provinces_of_British_India">British India</a> on April 1, 1936. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_language">Odia</a>, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar">Bhubaneswar</a> with a gathering of 70 people. Linguists, scholars and journalists discussed the state of the Odia language in the digital era, initiatives for its development and steps that can be taken to increase accessibility to books and other educational resources. 14 copyrighted books have been re-licensed under the Creative Commons license and the digitization project on <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page/%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86">Odia WikiSource</a> was formally initiated by an indigenous educational institute, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). Professor Udayanath Sahu from Utkal University, The Odisha Review’s editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar’s editor Pradosh Pattnaik, Odia language researcher Subrat Prusty, Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Allhadmohini Mohanty, Chairman Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa and trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik along with senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash spoke at the event.</p>
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<p>Eleven books from Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were re-released under Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license by the “Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa” trust, a trust founded by Dr. Mohanty for the development of the Odia language. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia to release and digitize these books.</p>
<p>The community will be training students and a group of six faculty members at KISS who will coordinate the digitization of these books.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Collaborative efforts and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language and culture,” said linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak as he inagurated the event. Dr. Pattanayak and Odia language researcher Subrat Prusty from the Institute of Odia Studies and Research also re-licensed three books (Two Odia books; “Bhasa O Jatiyata“, “Jati, Jagruti O Pragati” and an English book “Classical Odia”) based on their research on Odia language and cultural influence of the language on other societies under the same license. KISS is going to digitize some of these books and make them available on Odia Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">An OpenType Odia Unicode font, “<a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/Odia_fonts.html">Odia OT Jagannatha</a>” designed by Sujata Patel from <a href="http://odialanguage.com">Odialanguage.com</a> was released under the OFL license. This is the first Odia OpenType font that the community actively tested. A new Odia offline input tool called <a href="https://github.com/majnun1337/jquery.ime-Offline-input">“TypeOdia”</a> by Wikipedian <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TWO%5E0">Manoj Sahukar</a> was also released for public distribution. DVDs containing the font, the input tool, Odia language dictionaries, offline Odia Wikipedia in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix">Kiwix</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia_Wikipedia_learning_guide.pdf">Wikipedia editing guide</a>, ISCII to Unicode font converter, various free and open source software packages and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29">Ubuntu operating system</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Active Odia Wikipedian and Admin <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MKar" title="User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a> gave the inaugural speech. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish" title="User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> from the <a href="https://cis-india.org/">Center for Internet and Society</a> read the annual report and vision of Odia Wikipedia. Chief guest Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak discussed about the efforts put forth that brought the Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. A large majority of Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easy accessibility. He further discussed the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts. Professor Udayanath Sahu presented on the process, progress and implementation of machine translation project in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkal_University">Utkal University.</a></p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Experienced Wikimedians conducted an advanced Wikipedia workshop on the second day of event at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. It was attended by a majority of the existing Wikimedians from the community including new Wikipedians who signed up for the Odia Wikipedia Education Program at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal. Mrutyunjaya Kar <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%93_%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%BE">presented on WikiData</a> and various tools for linking and accessing information in multiple languages on various Wikimedia projects.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ansuman Giri discussed advanced technical aspects such as the use of various gadgets, proper categorization, how to use subpages, how to auto-list archive pages, customizing <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove">WikiLove feature</a>, user rights modification, including how important it is to cite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BLP">biographies of living persons</a> with secondary sources, etc. Shitikantha Dash <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%87_%E0%AC%AB%E0%AC%9F%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%8F_%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%A1_%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87_%3F">discussed copyright and issues regarding uploading images and other media files on Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Subas Chandra Rout presented on “notability, referencing and creating citations for the notable topics.” Subhashish Panigrahi discussed the <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B7%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AF%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE_%28%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%87_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA_-_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB%29">work plan for the year</a>, failure of program projects, collective learning and the dos and don’ts of community building.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">We hope that more authors will come forward and re-release their books under CC-BY-SA license. The Odia community is excited to see or.wikisource.org go live. A few Wikipedians are even interested in typing their favorite free licensed books to make them available on Wikisource. I believe it’ll be challenging to train the KISS students to type and proof-read the written texts. In the CISA2K’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Odia_Wikisource_as_OER" title="India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015/Odia Wikisource as OER">draft plan</a>, the goal to have the number of editors seems overestimated. The students need to have some knowledge about Wikimedia and how it works in general before they start working. We hope that the books will be digitized properly and in coming days more users will join us in the process as we will have more free books in Odia Wikisource. I appeal to the Odia people to be a part of the Odia Wikimedia community and make Odia Wikisource a successful project, we need all the time you can devote. :-)</td>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-06T06:26:29ZBlog EntryVachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/openaccessweek-april-3-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-vachana-sanchaya
<b>The blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://openaccessweek.org/m/blogpost?id=5385115%3ABlogPost%3A107871">Open Access Week</a> on April 3, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">During early 11th century a form of spiritual <a class="ui-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language" target="_blank">Kannada language</a> poetry in the Indian state of Karnataka called <a class="ui-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachana_sahitya" target="_blank" title="on Wikipedia">Vachana sahitya</a> became quite popular. It started flourishing in the 12th century by a religious movement called <a class="ui-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingayatism" target="_blank" title="on Wikipedia">Lingayatha movement</a>. More than 259 Vachana writers, called Vachanakaru, compiled over 11,000 vachanas (verses). 21,000 of these verses in 15 volumes were published by the Government of Karnataka into an online portal called <a class="ui-link" href="http://www.vachanasahitya.gov.in/" target="_blank" title="digitally published Indian poems">Samagra Vachana Samputa</a>. Two Wikimedians along with two linguists brought these verses on a standalone project called <a class="ui-link" href="http://vachana.sanchaya.net/" target="_blank" title="website">Vachana Sanchaya</a>. Kannada Wikimedians, <a class="ui-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Pavithrah">Pavithra Hanchagaiah</a> and <a class="ui-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Omshivaprakash">Omshivaprakash HI</a> along with Kannada linguist O. L. Nagabhushana Swamy converted the font to Unicode to make the verses searchable on this project. The entire collection is now ready to enrich the <a class="ui-link" href="https://kn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">Kannada WikiSource</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The text in Samagra Vachana Samputa were typed using fonts of </span><span><a class="ui-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange" target="_blank" title="Indian Script Code for Information Interchange">ISCII</a>, an Indian character encoding standard. Indic characters generally replace Latin ones inside the font that makes them completely useless when someone does not have the particular font installed in the computer. This is a typical problem with non-Latin fonts, especially Indic typefaces. In case of this particular publication, there were more than 5 ISCII standards which made searching and reusing content completely impossible. Hanchagaiah and Omshivaprakash started </span>writing scripts to make the Vachanas searchable through an index. This demanded a user friendly platform for the linguistic researchers, students, and the public interested in accessing this literature.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Omshivaprakash worked on designing the architecture for this platform using open source software tools. Hanchagaiah was involved in providing critical hacks for digitization and valuable inputs through suggestions, feedback, and quality assurance.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At present, Vachana Sanchaya project has around 200,000 unique words that were derived from these verses. The public has been using the repository and accessing vachana<span> from Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ profiles. There are thousands of people now who read a Vahana as part of their daily routine. Vachana Sanchaya is not only a gateway for reading the literature, but also a research platform for Kannada language and literature. It has options for researchers to help in reviewing content which in turn will help to add references from research papers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>All of the content is currently available to the public through the OpenData API, and once the reviewing the work is complete, it will be distributed in the public domain through WikiSource. This will open up the system for students, developers, researchers, and anyone interested in building linguistic tools for Kannada and other Indic languages. Users will be able to use our code to digitize any book available in the public domain. Early literature in any language is well-respected, so making it available via an open platform allows for reuse of the content for research, publication, and other documentation work.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Other similar projects could take help from this project and use any part of the processes.</span></p>
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<li>To initiate <a class="ui-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing">Natural Language Processing (NLP)</a> projects if more researches help to tag words and grow the glossary.</li>
<li>To continue work on subsequent, similar projects for Sarvagnana Vachanagalu and Dāsa Sanchaya (work has begun) and Vyāsa and Muddann (work to be started)</li>
<li><span>To extend this platform to other the contemporary literature works available in the public domain.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Authored by <a class="ui-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Pavithrah">Pavithra Hanchagaiah</a>, <a class="ui-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Omshivaprakash">Omshivaprakash HI</a> and <a class="ui-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish" title="User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a>. Draws inspiration from another <a class="ui-link" href="http://opensource.com/life/14/3/wikipedia-project-hindu-poetry" target="_blank">article</a> published on Opensource.com under CC-BY-SA 4.0</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/openaccessweek-april-3-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-vachana-sanchaya'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/openaccessweek-april-3-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-vachana-sanchaya</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-04-08T01:48:18ZBlog Entry‘Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession’ – 25 quotes from Indian startup journeys
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/your-story-madan-mohan-rao-october-23-2016-startup-journeys-quotes-respectable-profession
<b> From success to status, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 25 gems and insights from the week of October 16-22 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights!</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Madanmohan Rao was published by <a class="external-link" href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/startup-journeys-quotes-respectable-profession/">Your Story</a> on October 23, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">When it comes to e-commerce, IoT will exceed overall expectations. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/iot-2018/" target="_blank">Avinash K Gautam, Silvan Innovation Labs</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Chat will play an important role in the future of communication for customer service. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/freshdesk-acquires-chatimity/" target="_blank">Girish Mathrubootham, Freshdesk</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The customer experience is important, especially when things go wrong. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/radhika-ghai-aggarwal-shopclues/" target="_blank">Radhika Aggarwal, ShopClues</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Organisations will have to prepare for a digital future and they will have to use technology skills that offer artificial intelligence and design thinking. <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/tcs-infosys-face-business-slowdown/" target="_blank">– Vishal Sikka, Infosys</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Design isn’t only about ‘wow’ features. Learn about user preferences and behaviour. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/five-avoidable-design-mistakes-startups-make/" target="_blank">Jay Dutta, SAIF Partners</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Overall, there are 30–40 million sarkari naukri aspirants in the country. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/sarkari-jobs/" target="_blank">Konark Singhal, Sarkari.Jobs</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The growth of energetic startups is sure to translate into growth for the agriculture sector if channelised appropriately. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/vibrant-agricultural-technological-innovation/" target="_blank">Varun Khurana, Crofarm</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Awareness with respect to organic food is on the rise. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/likhita-bhanu-terra-greens/" target="_blank">Likhita Bhanu, Terra Greens</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Almost 100 percent of adhoc transport still happens through truck stands or ‘nakas’. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/mahindra-smartshift/" target="_blank">Kausalya Nandakumar, SmartShift</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The opportunities to build connected mobility and electric vehicles in India are immense. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/ashok-leyland-dhl-electric-vehicles/" target="_blank">Chetan Maini, Reva</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We foresee a paradigm shift in corporate outlook towards on-site childcare. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/little-big-world/" target="_blank">Chirag Shah, Little Big World</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There is need for collective action towards bolstering growth for our cottage industry. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/parul-mehta/" target="_blank">Parul Mehta, Ishanya Foundation</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India has more than 250 million students enrolled in government and private schools. Unfortunately, more than 70 percent of children never complete their education. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/digital-transformation-in-india/" target="_blank">Anil Bhansali, Microsoft India</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sales this festive season have probably not changed too much over last festive season. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/diwali-sales-how-much-can-you-take/" target="_blank">K.Vaitheeswaran, retail entrepreneur</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India has become our largest market outside of the Chinese mainland. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/xiaomi-india-diwali/" target="_blank">Lei Jun, Xiaomi</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There is no better time for anyone who can read and write in their native Indian language. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/indian-language-wikipedia/" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi, Centre for Internet and Society</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Both men and women have to balance work and life, however, a woman is at the receiving end of prejudiced approaches more than men. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/shweta-jain/" target="_blank">Shweta Jain, William Grant & Sons</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mistreating and disrespecting women doesn’t make a man cool, it makes him a monster. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/why-sunny-has-the-last-laugh/" target="_blank">Sunny Leone</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Social crowdfunding is here to change the face of social activism. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/internet-changing-face-social-good-india/" target="_blank">Piyush Jain, Impact Guru</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It’s beneficial that angel investing is considered sexy. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/putting-yourself-in-your-investors-shoes/" target="_blank">Siddhartha Ahluwalia, Babygogo</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Future growth depends on empowering people. Innovation and globalisation have created opportunity the likes of which has never before existed. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/industries-of-the-future/" target="_blank">Alec Ross, ‘The Industries of the Future’</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Live in the present and be grateful for what you have in life. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/only-a-minute-to-show-that-life-cancer/" target="_blank">Anni Sharma, SelfV Survivor</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Follow your dream and passion consistently. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/photosparks-follow-dream-shyamala-ramanand-akanksha/" target="_blank">Shyamala Ramanand, Akanksha</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Life’s not an easy journey. We live only once and we are responsible for own happiness. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/haritha-khandabattu-in-humans-of-amsterdam/" target="_blank">Haritha Khandabattu</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you solve a real problem, you will do well. And God knows we have a lot of problems to solve. – <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/suveen-sinha-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/" target="_blank">Suveen Sinha, ‘Tip of the Iceberg’</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Entrepreneurship should be a happy and joyous journey and a journey filled with purpose to be called truly successful. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/ashok-soota-entrepreneurship-simplified/" target="_blank">Ashok Soota, Happiest Minds</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession. - <a href="https://yourstory.com/2016/10/bust-the-myth-entrepreneurs/" target="_blank">Sanjay Padode, DaRT</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/your-story-madan-mohan-rao-october-23-2016-startup-journeys-quotes-respectable-profession'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/your-story-madan-mohan-rao-october-23-2016-startup-journeys-quotes-respectable-profession</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-10-25T00:40:09ZNews ItemIndia's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges Remain
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-march-25-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain
<b>The Supreme Court of India took a remarkable step to protect free expression on March 24, 2015, striking down controversial section 66A of the IT Act that criminalized “grossly offensive” content online. In response to a public interest litigation filed by Indian law student Shreya Singhal, the court made this landmark judgement calling the section “vague”, “broad” and “unconstitutional”. Since Tuesday's announcement, the news has trended nationally on Twitter, with more than 50,000 tweets bearing the hashtags #Sec66A and #66A.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi was originally published by <a class="external-link" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/25/indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain/">Global Voices Online</a> on March 25, 2015. Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Section 66A allowed police to arrest any person who sent online communications deemed “grossly offensive” or known to be false. This has enabled the government <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/facebook-trouble-people-arrested-under-sec-66a-of-it-act/article1-1329883.aspx" target="_blank">take down many websites</a> with allegedly objectionable content. Among various cases since the law was updated in 2008, two people were arrested for making comments on Facebook regarding India's prime minister Narendra Modi and one man was arrested for commenting on public service closures following the death of political leader Bal Thakrey.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The now-defunct Section 66A reads as follows:</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">66-A. Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.<br /> —Any person who sends, by means of a computer<br /> resource or a communication device,—<br /> (a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or<br /> (b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal<br /> intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device; or<br /> (c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or<br /> recipient about the origin of such messages, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Internet rights advocate and lawyer Pranesh Prakash, who works with the Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore, has been one of the law's <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/breaking-down-section-66-a-of-the-it-act" target="_blank">most outspoken critics</a> in recent years. Immediately following the ruling, he tweeted:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Tweet.png" alt="Tweet" class="image-inline" title="Tweet" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Nikhil Pahwa, independent journalist and founder of the MeddiaNama blog, <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2015/03/223-section-66a-unconstritutional/">offered his take</a> on the ruling:</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">This is a great decision for freedom of speech in India…66A is far too vague, and lends itself to arbitrary implementation by the police, especially phrases like “grossly offensive”, annoyance, inconvenience, ill will. Remember that even the right to offend is an integral part of free speech.</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Journalist and author Sagarika Ghose sarcastically wondered if the government of India would retroactively offer recompense for all of the actions taken against citizens for violating 66A.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/sagarika.png" alt="Sagarika" class="image-inline" title="Sagarika" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some were playful in their response to the decision. Siddharth Sing set out to “test” the efficacy of the ruling with a tweet mocking prominent public figures in Indian politics:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Siddharth.png" alt="Siddharth" class="image-inline" title="Siddharth" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Section 69, which provides authorities with the power to censor websites that “create communal disturbance, social disorder, or affect India's relationship with other countries” was upheld however. The Court has yet to clarify this decision. CIS India's Pranesh Prakash tweeted:</p>
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<p>Unfortunately 69A (website blocking) has been upheld despite many issues, incl lack of transparency. Need to read full judgment to see why.</p>
<p>— Pranesh Prakash (@pranesh_prakash) <a href="https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash/status/580239299641135105">March 24, 2015</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tuesday's decision comes after the government of India was <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2015/01/06/indian-netizens-criticize-online-censorship-of-jihadi-content/" target="_blank">heavily criticized</a> in January 2015 for blocking 32 websites in the country.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-march-25-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-march-25-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain</a>
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No publishersubhaIT ActCensorshipFreedom of Speech and ExpressionInternet GovernanceChilling Effect2015-03-27T02:38:20ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — May 2013
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-may-2013
<b>In this issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates about the open exhibition held at our office for celebrating five years of our existence, Access to Knowledge work plan (2013-14), and the revised budget (September 2012 - February 2013).</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge (A2K) program</a> of CIS. In this newsletter, we are pleased to bring you updates about the recently concluded exhibition organised in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi and share with you the feedback to the Access to Knowledge work plan from the wikipedia community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Bangalore: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and one member <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a> in Delhi. <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>, Programme Officer left the organisation on April 24, 2013. Archives of our newsletters are <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/celebrating-5-years-of-cis"><strong>Celebrating 5 Years of CIS</strong></a><br />CIS is now 5 years old and we recently celebrated this by holding an open exhibition in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, showcasing our work and accomplishments over the five year period. We had about 170 visitors coming in to our office. Renowned artists like Tara Kelton, Kiran Subbaiah, Navin Thomas, Abhishek Hazra and Sharath Chandra Ram exhibited their work. The four-day event attracted press coverage: <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-18-2013-ngo-invites-public-to-peruse-its-accounts">Bangalore Mirror</a> (May 18, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dna-india-may-19-2013-subir-ghosh-a-lifetime-of-five-years-on-the-internet">DNA</a> (May 19, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-may-22-2013-cis-highlights-changes-ushered-in-by-the-internet">Hindu</a> (May 22, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-pavanaja-talk-at-cis">Prajavani</a> (May 23, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-report-on-cis-5-years-celebration">Udayavani</a> (May 25, 2013) and <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-31-2013-shooting-cyber-cafes-before-they-die">Bangalore Mirror</a> (May 31, 2013). <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/celebrating-5-years-of-cis">Download all the posters that were part of the exhibition here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Announcements</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/resources/access-to-knowledge-work-plan">Access to Knowledge Work Plan</a> (April 2013 - June 2014): CIS has announced its detailed plan with projection of outcomes and expected impact of the A2K programme activities. The document has been made in consultation with various stakeholders and keeping in mind the objectives, opportunities and challenges faced by each of the Indian language Wikimedia projects. Feel free to share any feedback.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">WMF-A2K Revised Budget (draft) and Utilization (September 2012 - February 2013): In our effort to increase transparency with the working of CIS-A2K programme, we are <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf">sharing</a> with you the A2K Programme Budget along with the utilization for the above period. The proposed revisions to the budget along with some notes are <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Revised_Budget_%28draft%29_and_Utilization_Sept_12-Feb_13.pdf">here</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/cis-tiss-mou" class="external-link">CIS Signs MOU with TISS</a>: has signed a MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">India Access to Knowledge IRC can be accessed here: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/IRC/13th_May">May 13, 2013</a> (All Language Discussion) and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/IRC/26th_May">May 26, 2013</a> (Odia Language Discussion).</li>
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<p><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment">Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 11, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/access-to-knowledge-work-plan-synopsis-of-feedback-by-wikipedians">Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians</a> (by Nitika Tandon, May 20, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-introductory-session">Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 30, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop" class="external-link">My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit</a>, University of Hyderabad (by T. Vishnu Vardhan, June 19, 2013). </li>
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<p><strong>Events Organised</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia</li>
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<p><strong>Event Participated</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-irc-meet-may-7-2013">Kannada IRC Meet</a> (organised by the Wikipedia Community, May 7, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.</li>
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<p><strong>Upcoming Event</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-humanities-for-indian-higher-education">Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education</a> (co-organised in collaboration with HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS (IISc), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 13, 2013).</li>
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<p><strong>Press Coverage</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-pavanaja-talk-at-cis">Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration</a> (Prajavani, May 23, 2013). Prajavani published a report of Dr. U.B. Pavanja’s talk “From Palm Leaf to Tablet – Journey of Kannada”.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-report-on-cis-5-years-celebration">Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration</a> (Udayavani, May 25, 2013). Udayavani published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hmtv-may-30-2013-wikipedia-and-telegu-wikipedians">A Feature on Wikipedia and Telegu Wikipedians</a> (HMTV, May 30 – 31, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted in this half an hour feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme">Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme</a> (HMTV, June 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan speaks about Telegu Wikipedia in the discussion that was telecasted live.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-may-2013'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-may-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-07-04T04:17:49ZPageଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-august-21-2016-ocr-works-and-using-it
<b>Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.</b>
<p>This was published in the Samaja on August 21, 2016:</p>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SamajaAug21.jpg" alt="Samaja" class="image-inline" title="Samaja" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-august-21-2016-ocr-works-and-using-it'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-august-21-2016-ocr-works-and-using-it</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-23T15:16:00ZBlog EntryTwitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week
<b>WeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>This post is written by <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Guguly18">Diptiman Panigrahi</a>, an Odia Wikipedian who curated <a class="external-link" href="http://twitter.com/wearewikipedia">@WeAreWikipedia</a> during the week when the Odia community was celebrating Odisha Dibasa 2014 in March</i>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Kjʊ (ə) ˈreɪt/ (curate)</b><br />Select, organize, and present (online content, merchandise, information, etc.), typically using professional or expert knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Luckily I also got a chance to curate WeAreWikipedia on Twitter. WeAreWikipedia is the official Twitter handle of wikipedians from different linguistic groups around the world, in which appointed Wikipedians tweet information, what is happening in Wikipedia of different languages, new services about Wikipedia and achievements of Wikipedia and Wikipedians across the globe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During the last week of March 2014, I got a chance and responsibility to handle @WeAreWikipedia. I am a volunteer in Odia Wikipedia. Odia is an Indian classical language. Coincidentally Odia Wikipedia was celebrating the Statehood Day of Indian State Odisha and Classical Status to 2500 years old language Odia. The main motto of this celebration was “How can we use Odia language more and more in digital media?” Subhashish Panigrahi, program officer, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), told me to curate Wikipedia, for that week of the occasion. When I studied the rules and regulations for tweeting, I got to know that, it is not an easy job. I had to keep track on every tweet of whom the handle was following and who was following to that handle, related to Wikipedia. It was difficult to track Bangla Wikipedia because completion of every article was informed by a tweet by their volunteer. I have a Twitter account of my own but, I don’t frequently use this. So I didn’t know about tweeting technologies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As the function was ahead, I have seen Subhasish Panigrahi and other active wikipedians tweeting frequently about what’s going on in function in every particular time interval, as per the program time-table. So, I asked them “How you guys are doing so much of tweeting and organizing the function at a time?” Then they told about tweetdeck technology, a tool to schedule you tweet for future for any time and any moment. After that the work became 50% easier for me. I added my personal account to WeAreWikipedia account on tweetdeck, scheduled the tweet as per time table of the program. Now, the only work was to keep in touch with tweets of wikipedians regarding Wikipedia and other related tweets about Wikipedia. During the function, I happened to tweet the updated pictures and extra information live from the venue. After that my friends asked me “Are you sure you are organizing the program? This was so since the tweets were coming in every half-an-hour. However, they didn’t know that I was travelling here and there during the program for emergency requirements.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was a wonderful experience curating WeAreWikipedia without even much time. Meeting the entire Wikimedia global community was even more fun when I was telling happenings of my own community. I hope to take part in more of such collaborative global issues like this.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week</a>
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No publisherDiptiman PanigrahiAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-06-16T06:16:30ZBlog EntryNet Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing
<b>India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.</b>
<p>The article by Subhashish Panigrahi was <a class="external-link" href="http://odishatv.in/opinion/net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing-125476/">published by Odisha TV </a>on February 9, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning differential pricing without discriminating services. In their notes TRAI has explained, “In India, given that a majority of the population are yet to be connected to the internet, allowing service providers to define the nature of access would be equivalent of letting TSPs shape the users’ internet experience.” Not just that, violation of this ban would cost Rs. 50,000 every day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook planned to launch Free Basics in India by making a few websites – mostly partners with Facebook—available for free. The company not just advertised aggressively on bill boards and commercials across the nation, it also embedded a campaign inside Facebook asking users to vote in support of Free Basics. TRAI criticized Facebook’s attempt to manipulate public opinion. Facebook was also heavily challenged by many policy and internet advocates including non-profits like Free Software Movement of India and Savetheinternet.in campaign. The two collectives strongly discouraged Free Basics by moulding public opinion against it with Savetheinternet.in alone used to send over 2.4 million emails to TRAI to disallow Free Basics. Furthermore, 500 Indian start-ups, including major names like Cleartrip, Zomato, Practo, Paytm and Cleartax, also wrote to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting continued support for Net Neutrality – a concept that advocates equal treatment of websites – on Republic Day. Stand-up comedians like Abish Mathew and groups like All India Bakchod and East India Comedy created humorous but informative videos explaining the regulatory debate and supporting net neutrality. Both went viral.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Technology critic and Quartz writer Alice Truong reacted to Free Basics saying; “Zuckerberg almost portrays net neutrality as a first-world problem that doesn’t apply to India because having some service is better than no service.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The decision of the Indian government has been largely welcomed in the country and outside. In support of the move, Web We Want programme manager at the World Wide Web Foundation Renata Avila has said; “As the country with the second largest number of Internet users worldwide, this decision will resonate around the world. It follows a precedent set by Chile, the United States, and others which have adopted similar net neutrality safeguards. The message is clear: We can’t create a two-tier Internet – one for the haves, and one for the have-nots. We must connect everyone to the full potential of the open Web.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are mixed responses on the social media, both in support and in opposition to the TRAI decision. Josh Levy, Advocacy Director at Accessnow, has appreciated saying, “India is now the global leader on #NetNeutrality. New rules are stronger than those in EU and US.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Had differential pricing been allowed, it would have affected start-ups and content-based smaller companies adversely as they could never have managed to pay the high price to a partner service provider to make their service available for free. On the other hand, tech-giants like Facebook could have easily managed to capture the entire market. Since the inception, the Facebook-run non-profit Internet.org has run into a lot of controversies because of the hidden motive behind the claimed support for social cause.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing</a>
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No publishersubhaSocial MediaFree BasicsNet NeutralityFreedom of Speech and ExpressionInternet Governance2016-02-23T02:10:42ZBlog EntryTrain the Trainer Program
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/train-the-trainer-program
<b>Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/TTT">Read the original published on the Wikipedia meta page</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan">CIS-A2K</a> organised the residency training program to build capacities amongst different language Wikimedia communities. A good diversity of Wikipedians from various language communities such as Bengali, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Odia, came over for the event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K identified two prominent reasons for organizing the event: (1) Limitations of a virtual sphere, and (2) Limited number of Wikipedians leading outreach activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><b>Limitations of a virtual sphere</b></span><br />Most open source communities face problem of a lack of time and space for sharing ideas in a non-virtual sphere. Similary Wikipedians, who are voluntary contributors and authors of the articles posted on Wikipedia merely get time and opportunity to meet fellow editors because of the limitations of a virtual platform on which Wikipedia is built. There are twelve active Indian language Wikimedia communities that are spread across the world and moving the bandwagon of collaborating with each other and carving their historic mark of compiling the world's largest encyclopaedia and its other sister projects. To keep this movement alive there is a need of cross-sharing ideas of working together for a common goal and strengthening the leaders of these communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><b>Limited number of Wikipedians leading outreach activities<br /> </b></span>Only a handful of Wikipedians devote their time in leading outreach activities and bringing new blood to the community. Indian language Wikimedia communities are in need of empowering Wikipedians who would lead outreach sessions in order to expand their editor community and strengthen their language projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inception of this program began with the discussion of organizing a training program for the Wikipedians who are willing to conduct more activities in their home cities. Finally on October 3, 2013, Bangalore heard the voices of prominent Wikipedians from Punjab, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. The Wikipedians delivered presentations on various topics such as — why Wikipedia is needed for the society, why Wikipedia in Indian languages, importance of starting new Wiki projects and so on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Their presentation delivery skills were judged by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">Vishnu Vardhan</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t">Nitika Tandon</a> and all other community members present. They gave individual assessments and feedback for improvement towards the end of the day. Personal trainer Sachin Nagarajappa spent time with Wikipedians discussing mistakes that trainers do while conducting workshops and gradual improvement techniques for impactful outreach. Wikipedia is built on the concept of crowdsourcing and Malayalam Wikimedian <a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Viswaprabha">Viswanathan Prabhakaran</a> carried out a session about “Crowd Sourcing from the Future” explaining the various layers of crowdsourced projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The first day ended with a task where different language Wikipedians formed groups to prepare presentations for the following day.</p>
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<td>Above: Wikipedians Satdeep Gill, Shyamal Lakshminarayan and Shubha during at the CIS-A2K Train-the-Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, CC-BY-SA 3.0)</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Groups were given a challenge of imagining the audience as new wikipedians. Five groups presented on the second day. Sachin conducted an advanced presentation skill improvement workshop based on the inputs from the participants and the assessment of the group presentations. Veteran Wikipedian <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಸದಸ್ಯ:HPNadig">Hari Prasad Nadig</a> shared learnings from Challenges & Opportunities in building an Indian Language Community online. Open source activist and CIS's Executive Director <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Sunil Abraham</a> conducted two sessions — a spectrogram based activity to simplify the "Criticality of Neutral Point of View" and an interactive session called “Speed Geeking” on offline and online outreach followed by a one-on-one discussion on the presentation skill improvement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Typing in Indian languages is not easy especially when it comes to multiple typing layout standards followed in the public and private sectors in India. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja">Dr. U.B.Pavanaja</a> conducted a session on Unicode standard for Indian languages and its usefulness with a brief context on the fonts and their different operating systems. Social media expert and Wikimedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian">Tinu Cherian</a> shared the secrets of popularizing Indian language Wikipedias and bringing outstanding contributors to the limelight, how media played an important role in showcasing initiatives for free encyclopaedic content contribution in India and tips of social media. With fun activities <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">Vishnu Vardhan</a> shared case studies of making Wikipedia workshops interesting. Wikimedia Foundation board member and writer <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aprabhala">Achal Prabhala</a> shared stories of documenting Oral traditions in Kerala and South Africa for Wikipedia referencing and how copyright laws evolved in the context of copyright issues that Wikipedia contributors face. Achal also threw light on content donation on WikiSource and other platforms that would be useful for people to consume for knowledge production on diverse platforms where Wikipedia could play a central role. Viswanathan and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> demonstrated how to set up a handheld digital camera based prop to easily digitize books without using any scanner and then create electronic books.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The most vital part of Wikipedia articles is referencing. Wikimedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal">Shyamal Lakshminarayan</a> demonstrated how finding sources of references and citing them for the facts on Wikipedia could be made easier through detailed research and by using several tools available. <a href="https://wiki.wikimedia.in/">Wikimedia India</a>'s founding member and veteran Telugu Wikipedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వాడుకరి:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna Rao Chavala</a> gave a talk about the history and future plans of Wikimedia India. Wikipedians then went to M.G. Road boulevard to see the weaving work by Gandhians, Philately exhibition on Gandhi and spent some time with Namma Metro's staff to know about the metro operation. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Kannada Wikipedian <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಸದಸ್ಯ:Omshivaprakash">Om Shivaprakash</a> guided Wikipedians to the office of Deccan Herald Prajavani where they got to see the entire newspaper production and spent time with the technical staff to learn about the use of Kannada Unicode fonts for newspaper printing. Editors and staff at Prajavani got to know about the use of WikiCommons as a free image repository.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The four action filled days involved learning new concepts, training on presentation skills, collaborating to create outreach documents, sharing stories from different language communities, understanding new mediums of outreach, meeting Wikipedians from different cities and also having lots of fun. Wikipedians left Bangalore city with happy faces and we hope to cultivate new editors in their communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><b>List of Participants</b></span></p>
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<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:AbhiSuryawanshi" title="en:user:AbhiSuryawanshi">Abhishek Suryawanshi</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:AnkitaS" title="en:user:AnkitaS">Ankita Sinha</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Charan_Gill" title="en:user:Charan Gill">Charan Gill</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:jayantanth" title="en:user:jayantanth">Jayanta Nath</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Kasyap" title="en:user:Kasyap">Kasyap</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Niraj_Suryawanshi" title="en:user:Niraj Suryawanshi">Niraj Suryawanshi</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:pranayraj1985" title="te:user:pranayraj1985">pranayraj vangari</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Satdeep_gill" title="en:user:Satdeep gill">Satdeep Gill</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:shubha">Shubha</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Rangilo_Gujarati" title="en:user:Rangilo Gujarati">Rangilo Gujarati</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Manojk" title="ml:User:Manojk">Manoj K</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MKar" title="en:User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a> (<a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MKar" title="or:User:MKar">Odia Wiki</a>)</li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Subas_Chandra_Rout" title="or:User:Subas Chandra Rout">Subas Chandra Rout</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Nikhil.kawale" title="en:user:Nikhil.kawale">Nikhil Kawale</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86." title="te:వాడుకరి:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.">Viswanadh.b.k</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hindustanilanguage" title="hi:user:Hindustanilanguage">Muzammil</a></li>
<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:John_Noronha" title="en:user:John Noronha">John Noronha</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/train-the-trainer-program'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/train-the-trainer-program</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedOpennessHomepage2013-11-18T07:52:26ZBlog Entry