Centre for Internet and Society

Workshop on Digital Security for Journalists

praskrishna — 2015-01-15T14:07:16Z

The Foundation for Media Professionals and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are jointly hosting a workshop on 'Digital Security for Journalists' in New Delhi on January 16, 2015.

This workshop will be a hands-on training — so all journalists are strongly encouraged to bring their laptops and smartphones — on how to assess security threats, how to protect your sources, how to prevent your ISP from snooping on your communications, and how to harden your computer's security.

This workshop furthers CIS's work as part of the Cyber Stewards Network with aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, and the space for this workshop has been provided by the Times of India.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-digital-security-for-journalists

Workshop on Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS

praskrishna — 2016-08-03T15:14:12Z

To discuss the focus areas of the Patent Declaration with key stakeholders in India, the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development organized a workshop at Conference Hall of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi on July 12 and 13, 2016. Sunil Abraham was a speaker.

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, with the active participation of 40 international patent scholars from 25 countries, has drafted the “Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS” to clarify the regulatory options available for WTO members while they implement their obligations under TRIPS Agreement. The Declaration is an attempt to conceptualize the relationship between innovation,patent and competition and to explore the possibilities under the TRIPS agreement for WTO members to develop patent laws that suit their domestic imperatives of socio-economic development. By analyzing the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, the Declaration attempts to identify flexibilities member states have when interpreting these provisions in their national legislation.

The text contains 12 sections that take a detailed look at the options relating to subject matter, scope of protection, exhaustion, exceptions to the scope of protection, government use, undisclosed information, enforcement, transit and criminal measures. This document assumes much importance in the content where countries are more and more bound by regional and bilateral free trade agreements, which include TRIPS-plus provisions.

The Declaration was published to mark the 20th anniversary of the enforcement of the TRIPS Agreement. A large number of scholars have already signed on to this Declaration. After the publication of the Declaration, the Max Planck Institute has been taking steps to launch this in different parts of the world by engaging different stakeholders such us academics, executives, judges, lawyers, industry representatives and civil society members.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-declaration-on-patents-protection-regulatory-sovereignty-under-trips

Workshop on Competition Law and Policy

praskrishna — 2016-10-23T01:51:25Z

National School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and made presentations.

The workshop was organized under the broader EU-India project titled "Capacity Building Initiative in Competition Area under Trade Development Programme" sponsored jointly by European Union Delegation and National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

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Anubha Sinha's presentation on "Investigation into the sub $100 Mobile Device Industry from IPR + Competition law lens"
Rohini Lakshané's presentation on CCI Workshop on Competition Law and Policy Competition Policy and Internet

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-competition-law-and-policy

Workshop on Center for IT and Society

praskrishna — 2016-12-23T14:05:00Z

This workshop was held at IIT, Delhi on December 20, 2016. Amber Sinha attended the workshop. The meeting focused on the curriculum and the way forward, especially with respect to the industry requirements.

Session 1 (11:00 - 13:00*): Quick recap of the earlier workshop. Description and focus area of the center. Feedback about the interdisciplinary program in IT and Social Sciences.
Session 2 (14:00 - 16:00)*: Discussion on industry requirement and absorption criterion.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/workshop-on-center-for-it-and-society

Workshop of Competition Law and Policy Brochure

praskrishna — 2016-10-21T14:58:21Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-brochure-cci.pdf

Workshop in Progress

praskrishna — 2013-07-12T05:19:25Z

Workshop in progress

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workshop ghaziabad1

praskrishna — 2012-10-19T04:30:23Z

Wikipedia Workshop Ghaziabad (1)

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Workshop Details of Big Data in the Global South International Workshop

praskrishna — 2015-11-06T02:03:31Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/big-data-in-global-south-international-workshop-agenda.pdf

Workshop

praskrishna — 2015-07-15T02:40:16Z

Workshop

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Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web

praskrishna — 2015-01-01T14:49:05Z

Andhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.

Click to read the PDF of the original article published by Hans India here.

The camp will conclude on Wednesday. Around 45 volunteers from BSc (Physics) and BA (Telugu) streams are attending the camp. The students are being trained to be the contributors for Wikipedia and they are authorised to add, edit and delete articles in Wikipedia using validated user ids.

The articles in the field of Physics which are not in Telugu language are being prepared by the students. The articles are scrutinised by experts from other parts of the world and are accepted on permanent basis. The students of BA (Telugu) are preparing the classical works of Kandukuri Veerasalingam. His works are being digitalised and are made available to people.

Kola Sekhar of Department of Telugu and the organising secretary said that Kandukuri Veerasalingam is a well-known social activist and a writer. His works reflected the social evils prevailing in the society which are still relevant today. The solutions Veerasalingam showcased through his works are not available to current generation. This camp aims to put his works online. Sekhar said that they would strive hard to add more and more classical works in Telugu to the Wikipedia.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web

Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web

praskrishna — 2015-01-01T14:47:38Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web.pdf

Works of Odisha litterateur JP Das to be available online free

praskrishna — 2016-01-03T10:51:10Z

The works of bureaucrat-turned-writer from Odisha, Jagannath Prasad Das, can be accessed free online after the digitisation process is complete.

The article was published in Odisha Sun Times on December 5, 2015.

Saraswati Samman and Sahitya Academy award winner, prominent writer, former IAS officer and cultural historian, popularly known as JP Das, has recently re-licensed 30 of his notable works under a free license called CC-by-SA 4.0. This opens up a whole new window to his books being accessible to readers for free online.

Recently, the scanning of the original books was made by the Bhubaneswar based non-profit and science education research organisation Srujanika which will now be made available after converting them into text form.

Not just Dr Das, many other notable individuals like Padma Shree Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Manoj Panda, Dr Subrat Prusty, Bharat Majhi and organisations like Aama Odisha, Manik Biswanath Smrutinyasa that have come forward in the past to make their books available online using Odia Wikisource as a platform. Aama Odisha’s founder Soumya Ranjan Patnaik in a public gathering last year had permitted for relicensing and digitizing 19 volumes of Odia books published by Aama Odisha.

“I made a rather late and hesitant entry into the internet and digital world, but it has since become an integral part of my life. My introduction to digital books was through Srujanika’s digitised version of Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha – all of 95,00 pages in seven volumes — which was impossible to handle on the writing table. That made me think how wonderful it would be to have all Odia books available on the internet that could be easily accessible to every interested reader,” says Das.

“As a beginning, I decided to put my own writings on the internet. Many of our young Odia writers are quite active on the social media. I hope they will take the initiative to get more and more Odia books available on the internet with the help of Odia Wikisource,” he adds.

Notably, Odia Wikisource is a sister project of the Odia Wikipedia and is available at or.wikisource.org on the internet. As a free online Odia-language library, it houses over 119 books already and all of the books are either under public domain or under the above mentioned creative commons share-alike license which gives the freedom of accessing the works for free, reuse them and even correct if any mistakes found, of course following the guidelines made by the Wikisource community. Currently, about 10 Wikisourcers are actively contributing to digitise books of various genres ranging from science to fiction to even the Odia classics.

With more authors generously opening up their work online, it feels like they are worried of the books becoming obsolete from the new generation leaving them with no way to learn about their own language and literature. Regional languages like Odia are facing the struggle to selling more books with the growing trend of English-centric education and rat race for jobs. In such a tough situation, more popular Odia literary content is certainly going to give a boost to readership and will take the language to more people, he expressed.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/odisha-sun-times-december-5-2015-works-of-odisha-litterateur-jp-das-to-be-available-online-free

Workplace Solutions Champions Consultative Workshop

praskrishna — 2017-02-03T01:23:38Z

A two day workshop was held on January 21 - 22 at Ecumenical Christian Centre in Bangalore. The workshop was organized by Enable India. Nirmita Narasimhan attended the workshop.

Agenda

Day 1: January 21, 2017

Sl. No.	Agenda Item	Description	Timings
1	Context Setting for the Workshop	What outcomes we hope to achieve during the workshop	9.30 - 10.00
2	Reflections and Sharing	Sharing on achievements and impact, through discussions and activities	10.00 - 10.45
	Tea Break		10.45 - 11.15
3	Reflections and Sharing (Continued)	Sharing on achievements and impact, through discussions and activities	11.15 – 12.45
	Lunch Break		12.45 - 13.45
4	Situational Context for WPS Champions Network	Understanding the background of workplace solutions and their critical role in shaping livelihoods for persons with vision impairment	13.45 - 14.30
5	Curriculum Development	Creation of curriculum for development of quality WPS Implementation professionals	14.30 - 16.30
	Tea Break		16.30 - 17.00
6	Curriculum Development	Creation of curriculum for development of quality WPS Implementation professionals	17.00 - 19.00

Day 2: January 22, 2017

Sl. No.	Agenda Item	Description	Timings
1	WPS Champions Network Long Term Vision and My Personal Vision	Understanding the future of WPS implementation, and personal vision alignment	9.00 - 10.00
	Tea Break		10.00 - 10.30
2	National track: Top Actions for the Year, and Who Will Do What	Understanding the roadmap for WPS across India	10.30 – 11.00
3	Regional Tracks for North, South and West regions: Top Actions for the Year, and Who Will do What	Preparing a region-specific roadmap for WPS in the north, south and west regions	11.00 - 12.00
4	Open Session on Employment	Group discussion on WPS in the context of employment and livelihoods	12.00 - 13.00
	Lunch Break		13.00 - 14.00
5	Logistics and communication channels for next steps	Service management tool demo, Whatsapp group and other information	14.00 - 15.00

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/workplace-solutions-champions-consultative-workshop

Working PDF

praskrishna — 2011-02-24T05:10:37Z

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Working Draft (Word File)

praskrishna — 2011-02-24T04:51:42Z

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