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Three emerging market think tanks to collaborate on Good ID recommendations with Omidyar backing
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/biometric-update-may-8-2019-three-emerging-market-think-tanks-to-collaborate-on-good-id-recommendations-with-omidyar-backing
<b>Omidyar Network has invested in a trio of organizations from different regions to support enhanced understanding of the appropriate use and limits of digital identity.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post by Chris Burt was <a class="external-link" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201905/three-emerging-market-think-tanks-to-collaborate-on-good-id-recommendations-with-omidyar-backing">published in Biometri Update</a> on May 8, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Organizations from Brazil, Kenya, and India will take on a collaborative and iterative research process to help develop Omidyar’s concept of Good ID, according to a <a href="https://www.omidyar.com/blog/appropriate-use-digital-identity-why-we-invested-three-region-research%C2%A0alliance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog post</a> by Omidyar Networks Investment Principal Subhashish Bhadra.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three organizations are the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). The ITS is a non-profit organization based in Brazil, with a mission of ensuring that emerging markets can respond appropriately to digital technologies, and that their benefits are broadly shared. CIPIT is an academic think tank, operating from the Strathmore Law School in Nairobi, Kenya, addressing emerging issues of continent-wide impact and providing an African voice for research networks. CIS is an India-based non-profit, which conducts interdisciplinary academic research to understand how the internet and digital technologies reconfigure social processes and structures.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bhadra notes that 110 countries have begun identification schemes in the past decade. These programs are often implemented to serve an initial use case, and their application expanded over time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“In the absence of adequate legislative or judicial oversight, mission creep can create risks for those very individuals that an identity is supposed to empower,” Bhadra writes. “By their very nature, digital identity systems collect some data about individuals in order to provide access to certain services. This immediately raises two interrelated questions. First, how much data should the system collect? Second, what services should it be tied to?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Determining the appropriate scope of digital identity is inherently complex, and the potential for mission creep and requirement for a growing list of services risks exclusion, privacy violations, and a power imbalance between institutions and individuals, Bhadra argues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three groups will conduct independent research over the next six months, and create a set of recommendations and tools for stakeholders to use when engaging with digital identity systems.<br />Omidyar is a supporter of the <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201901/mission-billion-challenge-offers-100k-in-prizes-for-identity-data-privacy-innovation">Mission Billion Challenge</a>, among several initiatives related to UN SDG 16.9.</p>
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No publisherAdminInternet Governance2019-05-14T15:01:48ZNews ItemAnnouncement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/appropriate-use-of-digital-identity-alliance-announcement
<b>Omidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) , Kenya, and the CIS, India — on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity. As part of this Alliance, we at the CIS will look at the policy objectives of digital identity projects, how technological policy choices can be thought through to meet the objectives, and how legitimate uses of a digital identity framework may be evaluated.</b>
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<p>As governments across the globe are implementing new, digital foundational identification systems or modernizing existing ID programs, there is a dire need for greater research and discussion about appropriate design choices for a digital identity framework. There is significant momentum on digital ID, especially after the adoption of UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9, which calls for legal identity for all by 2030. Given the importance of this subject, its implications for both the development agenda as well its impact on civil, social and economic rights, there is a need for more focused research that can enable policymakers to take better decisions, guide civil society in different jurisdictions to comment on and raise questions about digital identity schemes, and provide actionable material to the industry to create identity solutions that are privacy enhancing and inclusive.</p>
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<h4>Excerpt from the <a href="https://www.omidyar.com/blog/appropriate-use-digital-identity-why-we-invested-three-region-research%C2%A0alliance" target="_blank">blog post by Subhashish Bhadra</a> announcing this new research alliance</h4>
<p>...In the absence of any widely-accepted thinking on this issue, we run the risk of digital identity systems suffering from mission creep, that is being made mandatory or being used for an ever-expanding set of services. We believe this creates several risks. First, people may be excluded from services if they do not have a digital identity or because it malfunctions. Second, this approach creates a wider digital footprint that can be used to create a profile of an individual, sometimes without consent. This can increase privacy risk. Third, this approach increases the power of institutions versus individuals and can be used as rationale to intentionally deny services, especially to vulnerable or persecuted groups.</p>
<p>Three exceptional research groups have undertaken the effort of answering this complex and important question. Over the next six months, these think tanks will conduct independent research, as well as involve experts from across the globe. Based in South America, Africa, and Asia, these institutions represent the collective wisdom and experiences of three very distinct geographies in emerging markets. While drawing on their local context, this research effort is globally oriented. The think tanks will create a set of recommendations and tools that can be used by stakeholders to engage with digital identity systems in any part of the world...</p>
<p>This research will use a collaborative and iterative process. The researchers will put out some ideas every few weeks, with the objective of seeking thoughts, questions, and feedback from various stakeholders. They will participate in several digital rights and identity events across the globe over the next several months. They will also organize webinars to seek input from and present their interim findings to interested communities from across the globe. Each of these provide an opportunity for you to provide your thoughts and help this research program provide an independent, rigorous, transparent, and holistic answer to the question of when it’s appropriate for digital identity to be used. We need a diversity of viewpoints and collaborative dissent to help solve the most pressing issues of our times.</p>
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No publisheramberDigital IDInternet GovernanceAppropriate Use of Digital IDFeaturedDigital IdentityHomepage2019-05-13T09:06:23ZBlog EntryDesign and the Open Knowledge Movement
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/saumyaa-naidu-design-and-the-open-knowledge-movement
<b>With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.</b>
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<h4><a href="#1">Introduction</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#2">Exchange between Design Academics and Open Knowledge</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#3">Potential Means of Engagement with Open Knowledge in Design Practice</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#4">Applications of Open Knowledge in Design Education</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#5">Conclusion</a></h4>
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<h2 id="1">Introduction</h2>
<p>Design has historically been functioning in a closed paradigm, both with regard to practice and education. The design process, resources, and products are largely proprietary and limit who can access them. On the other hand, increased use of digital technology offers the potential for greater access and knowledge sharing. In this setting, a dialogue on design and openness becomes essential. There is a need to build sensitivity among designers towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_knowledge">open knowledge</a> and open access practices. Such an exchange can not only allow for design resources and products to be available in the open domain, but also help designers build an extensive shared knowledge base.</p>
<p>With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigraphists_Bootcamp_(2018_India)">Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018</a> with the <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation</a> from 28th to 30th September, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other.</p>
<p>The discussion was preceded by an introduction to the open knowledge movement and its potential in creating access and inclusion, by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Satdeep_Gill">Satdeep Gill</a>. Satdeep is a community outreach coordinator for India at the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also one of the founding members of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians">Punjabi Wikimedians</a> User Group. Satdeep was the programme leader for the Wikiconference India in 2016. The introduction provided a brief history of copyrights and the beginning of the copyleft movement. It discussed creative commons licensing and the role of Wikipedia in the open knowledge movement.</p>
<p>The panel included <a href="http://www.aud.ac.in/faculty/permanent-faculty/detail/137">Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan</a>, <a href="http://www.matratype.com/">Pooja Saxena</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal">Shyamal</a>. Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan is the dean at the <a href="http://www.aud.ac.in/academic/schools/sd">School of Design in Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD)</a>. Her research has been on multiple areas such as history of craft and design, and design education in India. Her practice focuses on social communication design. Pooja Saxena is a typeface and graphic designer whose work centres on multi-script design. She has designed an Ol Chiki typeface for Santali language which is available for free and open use. Pooja also teaches typography at several design schools including <a href="https://pearlacademy.com/">Pearl Academy</a>, <a href="http://www.nid.edu/index.html">National Institute of Design</a>, and <a href="http://srishti.ac.in/">Srishti school of Art, Design, and Technology</a>. Shyamal is an independent researcher and an ornithologist. He has been contributing to Wikipedia for over fifteen years now. In addition to his contributions about the biodiversity of birds, he has also created several illustrations relating to the same. The panel was moderated by Saumyaa Naidu, a designer and researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).</p>
<p>The discussion was aimed at addressing three primary questions around design and the open knowledge movement; how academic materials in design inform unstructured or open knowledge spaces and in what ways do these unstructured spaces come back into design education?, what are the potential means of engagement with open knowledge in design practice?, and in what ways can it be applied in design education?<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="2">Exchange between Design Academics and Open Knowledge</h2>
<p>The discussion began with an enquiry into the challenges faced in the design of knowledge production and the knowledge production of design. It was directed at understanding the various ways in which design education and academia interact with open knowledge. Prof. Suchitra responded by saying that it is still early days for such an interaction to take place as the discipline of design itself is very proprietary in its approach. The work created in different areas of design is often guarded. Locating the discussion at the School of Design in AUD, she suggested that the Social Design course, which looks at the social application of design, believes in socially produced knowledge and contributing to it. However, the university is constrained by the academic environment which does not facilitate the open exchange of knowledge. There is a culture of copyright and protection of work in academia, and heavy funding is required for journal subscriptions. There is an imbalanced gatekeeping of knowledge as countries like India, which have weaker currencies, cannot access this knowledge or contribute to it. The social design community, a small community yet, is interested in making this knowledge freely accessible, in community participation, in co-designing, and in challenge the idea of one ‘super-designer’ who gets all the credit.</p>
<p>Open knowledge spaces such as Wikipedia often make their way into classrooms when students use these resources for assignments. It was pointed out by Prof. Suchitra that there is a lack of regard among students for giving due attribution to material taken from such platforms. Social Sciences universities also consider Wikipedia as an unreliable source, and discourage its use. There is a need to build the culture of knowledge sharing, borrowing, and contribution. She believes that this should be initiated at the level of school education, and not just design schools, so it is internalised at an early stage. She also shared an epistemological concern regarding such a cultural shift in design as it is commonly believed that the knowledge designers produce belongs to them and their livelihoods are connected to it. Hence, open knowledge and open source are antithetical to the profession. This means that the profession itself has to be imagined differently. The social design programme, in this regard, is trying to ensure that when students create work based on interactions with a community, also go back and present it to the community. This is to say that the work produced cannot be exclusively owned by the designers.</p>
<p>The open knowledge movement in India is closely tied to accessibility of information in Indian languages. The availability of a design knowledge base in Indian languages was discussed in this context. Prof. Suchitra explained that most design education in India is in English and is borrowed from another cultural and geographical setting. Design is a discipline of making, and making has its own language. In that sense, the act and content of design transcends language. But, it is the pedagogy which is held by language. The act of making, which is ubiquitous, and is done naturally by everybody, gets held back when it comes to the transmission in different languages. There can be sanskritised words for design terminology, but the vocabulary of everyday use should be applied to represent this knowledge. The School of Design is looking for ways in which important and more provocative texts in design can be made available in other Indian languages. When students are exploring a career in design and they want to learn about it, the information about courses, programmes, and universities should also be available in their language.</p>
<p>The students at AUD recently demanded that education at the university be provided in multiple languages. Since AUD is funded by the Delhi state government, the students want the medium of instruction to include languages of the state (Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi) apart from English. However, in order to accomplish this, the university would require multilingual teachers. At a personal level, Prof. Suchitra feels that the medium of instruction cannot be monolingual, and that it is good to be multilingual. There is also the conflict that it doesn’t do justice to either languages, and there is no neat answer yet. She believes that technology provides some answers in the sense that students can access the material through translations in whichever language they prefer. Being located in Delhi, the university attracts students from all parts of the country, so it needs to be multilingual in different ways. Technology can intervene and provide a layer by which access can be given in the language of one’s choice. She inferred that this is not a question of one or two languages, but of languages everywhere.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="3">Potential Means of Engagement with Open Knowledge in Design Practice</h2>
<p>Presently, there is limited participation from design practitioners on open knowledge platforms. From the perspective of a design practitioner and educator, Pooja Saxena explained that apart from Wikipedia, designers use The Noun Project, which offers both free and paid ways to use icons. She mentioned how students also use this platform but it appears that they are not as interested in contributing to it. They are guarded about the work they create but are fine with using someone else’s work that is available for free. Pooja suggested a much needed change in the understanding that open knowledge simply means that it is open for use. It must be seen as a community which one needs to engage with in whichever capacity and give back to. Agreeing with Prof. Suchitra, Pooja also observed that students fail to give fair attribution when any work is available for free. There is a lack of training and communication around attribution among designers. Regarding open source softwares meant for image making and creating illustrations, Pooja said that despite her several attempts of using them, she has always gone back to proprietary softwares. She believes that there are not enough people contributing to making these open source applications better to work with. A middle path she recommended for designers is creating work in formats which can be edited across applications, so that the work created can be built upon in any application, and is not bound by a proprietary software.</p>
<p>As an experienced Wikipedian, Shyamal also stressed upon the idea of finding ways to productively give back to the open knowledge community. He talked about the opportunities that design students have in terms of creating quality images and graphics, and making them available for public use. An example of such an opportunity could be creating clipart or icons that can be used for roadside signages or other such public resources. Another possibility he proposed was publishing rough drafts or discarded work on platforms like Wikipedia, so it can be refined and used by others. It is not well known that aside from the textual part of Wikipedia, there exists a larger environment which includes projects like Wikidata, which is a semantic database, and Wikimedia Commons, which is meant for a variety of media such as images, video, audio, and even 3D models now. This offers a variety of options to designers to make their work available for open use. Another aspect that Shyamal brought attention to in this regard is to make the work available in a way that it can be easily found by others, by effectively using metadata and writing appropriate descriptions.</p>
<p>A relevant example of engagement of design with the open knowledge community was shared by Pooja through her type design project. This included designing a typeface family for the Ol Chiki script, which is used to write in the Santhali language. The project was initiated by Subhashish Panigrahi at CIS in order to set up the Santhali Wikipedia. But, at the time there were no unicode compliant fonts available for Ol Chiki. This was a clear example of how a design intervention in the form of a typeface could lead to knowledge being shared and possibly even created in the future. The project was then funded by the Access to Knowledge programme at CIS. Pooja described the process of designing the typeface. She mentioned that even though the Santhali language is spoken by over 6 million people, Ol Chiki is not a commonly used script. The script itself was invented less than a hundred years ago, which meant that there is little documentation available of the script to look at. The team then engaged with the community to understand how they would like the letters to look like, and whether the letters in the font were correct. This was done through comprehensive feedback forms to test the letters and ask specific questions around their form and placement. The exercise was repeated a number of times to get accurate letters.</p>
<p>Through this process, Pooja made a key observation on perfection. Designers are often trained to share or show their work only when they think it is perfect. But, in the case of the typeface, it was impossible to achieve something even close to being finished without showing it and seeking help from the community. The project also led to inspiring a design student from the National Institute of Design, who belongs to the Santhal community, to create letters in Ol Chiki script as part of the <a href="http://www.36daysoftype.com/">‘36 days of type’</a> challenge on Instagram. The typeface thus, can contribute towards such projects as well. Pooja concluded that the typeface being available for free can also lead to students making a version of it that serves their purpose better.</p>
<p>Further on open typefaces for Indian languages, Shyamal spoke about the several issues regarding the use of Indian languages, specific to Wikipedia and in general as well. He correlated the lack of academic disciplines in Indian languages with the lack of vocabulary of technical terms. Several people also oppose borrowing words from other languages. In an example of needing to translate the labels of an illustration of a four-stroke engine into an Indian language, the engineer would not know the terms in that language, and the language expert will not know enough about engineering. Shyamal suggested transliterating English words as a first step, so that somebody who doesn’t know English can understand what the word sounds like. Another technical concern is the use of open source fonts of Indian languages for better compatibility on Wikimedia Commons. The platform replaces proprietary fonts with equivalent open source ones during the process of uploading. This changes the typesetting in the illustration in terms of spacing between the letters and sentences, and the resulting design can end up looking different from the intended one. Hence, it is important to include identification and use of open source fonts as part of the learning process in design.</p>
<p>Shyamal further talked about the need to create more awareness about copyright. He explained that the fact that anything we create is automatically copyrighted is not really understood by most people. People posting images on Facebook and Instagram would allow others to use their work when asked, but would hesitate to give a written permission. It would be useful to license out the work. This lack of copyright awareness hinders the creation of a vast visual database on Wikimedia Commons. There is little visual information available online about objects, monuments, maps, places, etc. in India. The advantage of using systems like Wikipedia is that you can geotag places, you can semantically describe them so that people who speak other languages can find that content. The value of availability of such content online for an outsider is not well understood yet. As a practice, when learning something new, Shyamal himself tries to add it on Wikipedia or on related projects, so that it can be of use to anyone else looking for it as well.</p>
<p>On encouraging designers to contribute to open knowledge, Pooja advised that designers can contribute through side projects or self-initiated projects as they are not looking to make any money from them to begin with, and would be able to share the work for free. These side projects can take the form of resources or tools that other people can use to build something else. She also pointed out that it is not necessary that designers cannot get paid to do open work, and shared the example of the Ol Chiki typeface, which was paid for by a patron. There are also organisations that commission projects which are supposed to be available for free use because those organisations need that product to be available for free. Google fonts for example, commissions the typefaces to designers which are eventually available as free and open fonts. It is important for designers to be aware that such opportunities exist, and that they need to be sought.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="4">Applications of Open Knowledge in Design Education</h2>
<p>The discussion led to several suggestions on involving design students in the open knowledge movement. Pooja recommended that students can be encouraged to make their assignments available on Wikimedia Commons. Design students are often expected to work on projects that address problems that exist in the real world. In most cases, these projects remain with the students and not get implemented in the real world. If such projects were available on open platforms like Wikimedia Commons, they can be taken forward by others who are tackling the same concerns. It is also something that design students would benefit from because their work will be publicly available.</p>
<p>In order to address the disregard for attributions pointed out earlier, Prof. Suchitra stressed upon the need to build a culture among design students to attribute fairly. This would allow for acceptable acknowledgement to someone who has produced work and contributed it to the open domain. She added that this is being initiated in other design spaces such as the Decolonise Design group, which some design faculties are a part of. The group looks at ways of finding different cultural anchors for design. One such project is where design faculties have gotten together to share design assignments, in order to see what kind of assignments we set in the classroom for teaching various kinds of concepts in design. The faculties are trying to form an international platform where teaching methods can be shared and a bank of design assignments can be created. These methods and assignments are otherwise considered proprietary.</p>
<p>Prof. Suchitra also talked about the onus on public funded educational institutions to make their work available on open platforms, at least in projects which have a larger use. The Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Powai already has a portal on which design related educational material is available for anyone who is interested. They offer an online course in design which anyone can register for and attend. It is only for the certification at the end of the course, that one needs to pay to take an exam. Design courses otherwise tend to be quite expensive. She mentioned that the School of Design at AUD has been contemplating sharing the thesis work that students produce on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/">Academia</a>, a platform for academics to share research papers, where it can be downloaded for free. This allows for the work to be viewed by people outside the school, which is a significant step for young designers. Design as a profession fundamentally does not allow sharing, and this certainly needs to change. She gave the example of textiles, where the traditional artworks and motifs are picked up from different sources and placed on fabrics. Such reuse borders on unethical practice. Therefore, we need to identify the boundaries of open source. The ethical aspects of it need to be opened up and discussed, otherwise it can lead to asymmetrical knowledge practices. The attribution or acknowledgement that the work individually or culturally belongs to somebody, needs to be recognised.</p>
<p>On the learning by doing approach in design education, Pooja raised the concern that there is a lack of attention towards ‘learning by reading’. Design related reading materials are not available on open platforms and in different languages. She suggested that even if the readings are available in English, it is also useful for them to be available in a vocabulary that is more acceptable for someone for whom it is not their first language. Further, the ‘doing’ is also framed by a certain perspective, and often that perspective is quite closed. It does not take into account where the students is coming from. For example, a branding assignment for a product for new mothers does not consider how eighteen year old students would understand the product without any interaction with the users. It doesn’t ask why does it have to be branding to begin with. It also limits the objective to ‘selling something’ while there are other ways in which design can intervene. In the assignments where students engage with a community, there is often a clear asymmetry between the students and the people they are designing for. There is a vast gap in the knowledge and experience shared by the two. Consequently, students are forced to either assert themselves in this community or misrepresent themselves. This also takes away from students wanting to share their work on open platforms. Pooja recommended that they would be more willing to put the work out in the open when they are working with their own community because they can then see how it affects people in a much more direct way.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="5">Conclusion</h2>
<p>The discussion brought forward various intersections in design and open knowledge, and the possible ways in which the two can lend to each other. Broader interventions such as a cultural shift in design around sharing work and discussing its ethical aspects, availability of academic material in design on open platforms and in different Indian languages, sensitivity around fair attribution and copyrights among designers, and designers seeking out or self initiating projects that contribute to the open domain were discussed. In terms of specific steps, ideas including design practitioners creating works in formats which are editable on open applications, adding more visual content on platforms like Wikimedia Commons, creating and using more open typefaces in Indian languages, and students sharing their assignments on open platforms were considered. Other ways of engagement with design education could be through internships and workshops that demonstrate the need for open knowledge systems.</p>
<p>During the interaction with the audience, another key concern was brought up by Govind Sivan, a student at the School of Design at AUD. He spoke about the prevalent approach in design schools of giving primary importance to originality. Students work towards thinking of unique ideas and any similarity between their own and a classmate’s assignment is seen as a failure of creativity. Such an approach goes on to curb shared knowledge and collaborative working, and needs to be changed in order to make way for openness in design. Prof. Suchitra also advised that there is more value to design in thinking of it as a collaborative project.</p>
<p>Design is also gradually opening up its process to include the people being designed for through open research methods such as co-design and participatory design. All aspects of a design process such as need identification, data gathering, and the end product can be <a href="https://www.designsociety.org/publication/34842/Three+layers+of+openness+in+design%3A+Examining+the+open+paradigm+in+design+research">conceptualised</a> for openness. These directions can be explored by both designers and the open knowledge community for the creation of a greater and more accessible knowledge base.</p>
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No publishersaumyaaAccess to KnowledgeFeaturedDesignOpennessEducationHomepage2019-04-01T12:13:00ZBlog EntryCyFy 2018 Agenda
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/cyfy-2018-agenda
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No publisherAdmin2018-10-08T15:29:16ZFileNIPFP Bangalore Agenda
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/nipfp-bangalore-agenda
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No publisherAdmin2018-05-26T00:38:16ZFileWhite Paper on Data Protection and Privacy
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/white-paper-on-data-protection-and-privacy
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No publisherAdmin2018-03-07T14:57:05ZFileDelhi Declaration on Open Access
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access
<b>Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Published by Open Access India on February 14, 2018. Read the original <a class="external-link" href="http://openaccessindia.org/delhi-declaration-on-open-access/">post here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India. The declaration is aimed at scientific communities, scholarly societies, publishers, funders, universities and research institutions to promote openness in science and research communications.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Preamble</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The South Asian region, home to 24% of the world’s population faces major challenges such as hunger, poverty and inequality. These challenges become the collective responsibility of scholars and experts in research universities across the country. Consequently, it becomes imperative that research institutes share scientific research outputs and accelerate scientific research. The Open Access movement which aims for making all ‘publicly funded research outcomes publicly available for the public good’ is gaining momentum.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>“</i><i>Open</i><i> means </i><i>anyone</i><i> can </i><i>freely access, use, modify, and share</i><i> for </i><i>any purpose</i><i>(subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness)” –</i><a href="http://opendefinition.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Open Definition</i></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As per the Budapest Open Access Initiative (<a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BOAI</a>), ‘Open Access’ (to scholarly literature) is “<i>free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself</i>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since the launch of the BOAI on 14th Feb. 2002, efforts are being made by various scholarly societies, academic communities and governments to make scholarly content Open. However, due to various reasons, the full potential of Open Access is not realised by the producers (scholars), publishers and readers (scholars and society at large) of this knowledge and the world is still disconnected in terms of sharing the scholarly content openly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As per the Scimago Journal & Country Rank<a href="http://www.scimagojr.com/countrysearch.php?country=in" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> (SJR</a>), India ranks 9th in the year 2016 producing about 13 lakhs articles. However, 82% of them are not Open Access and the Institutional Repositories in India are sparsely populated in spite of having Open Access mandates in place. The Directory of Open Access Journals (<a href="https://doaj.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DOAJ</a>) lists only 200 out of the 20,000+ journals being published from India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The historical BOAI is now 16 years old, but still there is a need for all of us to be educated and empowered to realize the power of Open Access to scholarly content and harness it for public good in India. With burgeoning commercial scholarly publications and increasing diversity in terms of availability of & accessibility to the information, we need to create a necessary framework for making Open Access the default by 2025 in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To ensure the wide availability and encourage the use of of research data and information for the purpose of addressing multifaceted challenges, Open Access to publicly funded research and scholarly outputs are to be made available under Open Licenses (e.g. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Commons</a>) while duly acknowledging the intellectual property (work/rights of the creators/producers/authors).</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://openaccessindia.org/delhi-declaration-on-open-access-brief/">Declaration</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>We, the contributors and signatories of this declaration, members of the Open Access India, Open Access communities of practice in India and the attendees of the <a href="http://www.opencon2017.org/opencon_2018_new_delhi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenCon 2018 New Delhi</a> held on 3rd Feb., 2018 at Acharya Narendra Dev College, Kalkaji, New Delhi (University of Delhi) agree to issue this declaration:</i></p>
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<li>We advocate for the practice of Open Science (sharing research methods and results openly which will avoid “reinventing the wheel”) and adoption of open technologies for the development of models for sharing science and scholarship (Open Scholarship) to accelerate the progress of research and to address the real societal challenges</li>
<li>We will strive to publish our interim research outputs as preprints or postprints (e.g. Institutional Repositories) and encourage our peers and supervisors to do the same to make our research open and actionable in a timely manner.</li>
<li>We will practice and encourage researchers and scientists to implement openness in peer-reviewing and other editorial services, influence the scholarly societies to flip their journals into Open Access and will contribute for the development of whitelist of Open Access journals in India adhering to the “<a href="https://publicationethics.org/news/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing-revised-and-updated" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing</a>”.</li>
<li>We will garner support of the relevant stakeholders (scholars, journal editorial teams, university libraries, research funders, authorities’ in-charge of dissemination of scholarship in higher education) for spearheading the Open Access movement.</li>
<li>We will take forward the concept of Open Access to further bring all the publicly funded research outputs (not limited to journal literature alone) to be freely available under open licenses to the public to use, reuse and share in any media in open formats.</li>
<li>We will impress upon policy makers to adopt an open evaluation system for research and an institutional reward system for practicing openness in science ,scientific communications and academic research across disciplines including Humanities and Social Sciences</li>
<li>We will support and work for an alternate reward system in recognition and promotion not in terms of the ‘Impact Factor’ of the journals, but the ‘Impact’ of the articles/scholarship in science and the society and impress upon all the scientists/scholars, research funders, research institutes, universities, academies and scholarly societies to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (<a href="http://www.ascb.org/dora/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DORA</a>).</li>
<li>We strongly agree with the Joint<a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/joint_coar_unesco_statement_on_open_access/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access</a> , <a href="http://jussieucall.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Jussieu Call</a> and <a href="http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2595&lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dakar Declaration</a>. And will also follow the international initiative<a href="https://oa2020.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Open Access 2020</a>, to develop roadmaps to support sustainable Open Access scholarly communication models which are free of charge for the authors and free of charge availability to the readers.</li>
<li>While learning from South South cooperation on Open Access, will work for developing a framework for Open Access in India and South Asia: National Policies for Open Access and country-specific action plans will be formulated aimed at making Open Access as the default in India and South Asia, by 2025.</li>
<li>For creating more awareness on Open Access, infrastructure, capacity building, funding and policy mechanisms, as well as incentivizing for the Open Access, we come forward to share success stories, studies and discussions during the Open Access Week.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Adopted on 14th February 2018</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Signatories (along with their affiliation):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Anasua Mukherjee, BRICSLICS</i><br /><i>Anubha Sinha, CIS India</i><br /><i>Anup Kumar Das, Open Access India; CSSP, JNU</i><br /><i>Arul George Scaria, NLU Delhi</i><br /><i>Barnali Roy Choudhury, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Bhakti R Gole, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Girija Goyal, ReFigure.org</i><br /><i>Javed Azmi, Jamia Hamdard</i><br /><i>Kavya Manohar, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Neha Sharma</i><br /><i>Nirmala Menon IIT Indore</i><br /><i>Sailesh Patnaik, Access to Knowledge, CIS</i><br /><i>Savithri Singh, Creative Commons India</i><br /><i>Sridhar Gutam, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Subhashish Panigrahi, Internet Society, O Foundation</i><br /><i>Vijay Bhasker Lode, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Virendra Kamalvanshi, Banaras Hindu University</i><br /><i>Tanveer Hasan A K, Access to Knowledge, Bangalore</i><br /><i>Waseem A Malla</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ahsan Ullah, Bangladesh<br />Anila Sulochana, Central University of Tamil Nadu<br />Anoh Kouao Antoine, Ecole Supérieure Africaine des TIC, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<br />Antonio Solís Lima,México<br />Atarino Helieisar, FSM Supreme Court Law Library, Federated States of Micronesia<br />Bidyarthi Dutta, Vidyasagar University<br />Binoy Mathew, INELI<br />Boye Komla Dogbe, Ministère De La Communication, De La Culture, Togo<br />Srikanth Reddy, CBIT<br />Cajetan Onyeneke, Imo State University, Nigeria<br />Chantal Moukoko Kamole, Universitty of Douala, Cameroun<br />D Puthira Prathap, Extension Education Society<br />Daniel Bossikponnon, Ministère du plan et du Développement, Bénin<br />Dare Adeleke, the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria<br />Dilip Man Sthapit, TU Central Library/LIMISEC, Nepal<br />Emmy Medard Muhumuza, Busitema University Library, Uganda<br />Fabian Yelsang, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Consultancy Services, Ghana<br />Fayaz Loan, University of Kashmir<br />GJP Dixit, Central Library, Central University of Karnataka<br />Gurpreet Singh Sohal, GGDSD College<br />Harinder Pal Singh Kalra, Punjabi University<br />Hue Bui, Thainguyen University of Sciences, Vietnam<br />Jacinto Dávila, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela<br />Jaishankar K, International Journal of Cyber Criminology<br />Jancy Gupta, National Dairy Research Institute<br />JK Vijayakumar<br />Jonathan Tennant, Open Science MOOC, Germany<br />Julián Vaquerizo-Madrid, Unidad de Neurología Clínica Evolutiva, Spain<br />Kamal Hossain, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Bangladesh<br />Kasongo Ilunga Felix, Democratic Republic of Congo<br />Kavita Chaddha<br />Kojo Ahiakpa, Research Desk Consulting Ltd., Ghana<br />Krishna Chaitanya, Velaga, the Wikipedia Library<br />Kumaresan Chidambaranathan, New Zealand<br />Kunwar Singh, Banaras Hindu University<br />Luis Saravia, PERU<br />Mahendra Sahu, Gandhi Institution of Engineering & Technology,Gunupur<br />Maidhili S., Meenakshi College for Women<br />Manika Lamba, University of Delhi<br />Md. Nasir Uddin, BRAC University, Bangladesh<br />Md. Nazim Uddin, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh<br />Md. Nurul Islam, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh<br />Md. Shahajada Masud Anowarul Haque, BRAC University, Bangladesh<br />Mir Sakhawat Hossain, Kabi Nazrul Government College, Bangladesh<br />Munusamy Natarajan, CSIR-NISCAIR<br />Murtoza Kh Ali, Bangladesh<br />Subash Pillai, ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research<br />Nasar Ahmed Shah, Aligarh Muslim University<br />Nimesh Oza, Sardar Patel University<br />Niraj Chaudhary, United States<br />Poonam Bharti<br />Prerna Singh, Central University of Jammu<br />Rabia Bashir, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Pakistan<br />Rajendran Murugan, Department of Education, University of Delhi<br />Rama Kant Shukla, Delhi Technological University<br />Raman Nair R, Centre for Informatics Research and Development<br />Rebat Kumar Dhakal, KUSOED Integrity Alliance, Nepal<br />Revocatus Kuluchumila, AMUCTA, Tanzania<br />M. Humayun Kabir, Tutul, National Health Library & Documentation Centre, Bangladesh<br />Sabuj Kumar, Chaudhuri, University of Calcutta<br />Sandipan Banerjee<br />Satwinder Bangar<br />Shahana Jahan, Bangladesh<br />Shamnad Basheer, SpicyIP<br />Shivendra Singh<br />Shreyashi Ray, NLU, Delhi<br />Sivakrishna Sivakoti<br />Soumen Kayal, Maharaja Manindra chandra College<br />Srinivasarao Muppidi, Sanketika Vidya Parishad Engineering College<br />Stephanie Gross, MSLIS from Pratt Institute, USA<br />Sujata Tetali, MACS-Agharkar Research Institute<br />Surjodeb Lulu Hono Basu<br />Susmita Das, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh<br />Susmita Chakraborty, University of Calcutta<br />Thilagavathi, Thillai Natarajan, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women<br />Umesh Kumar<br />Umme Habiba, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh<br />Vinita, Jain, M D College of Arts, Science and Commerce<br />Virginia Inés Simón, Red Iberoamericana de Expertos sobre la Convención de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad, Argentina<br />Vrushali Dandawate, AISSMS College of Engineering/DOAJ<br />Waqar Khan, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh<br />Wilbert Zvakafa, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe<br />Yasser Ahmed, South Valley University, Egypt<br />Yohann Thomas, Wikimedia India<br />Zakir Hossain, International Association of School Librarianship, International Schools Region, Switzerland<br />Dahmane Madjid, CERIST, Algeria<br />Nagarjuna G, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR<br />Sulyman Sodeeq Abdulakeem, Federal Polytechnic Offa, Nigeria<br />Leena Shah, DOAJ<br />Hamady Issaga Sy, Sénégal<br />Sanket Oswal, Wikimedia India<br />Chitralekha, University of Delhi<br />Chris Zielinski, University of Winchester, United Kingdom<br />Mourya Biswas, Prateek Media</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access</a>
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No publisherAdmin2017-09-20T01:35:54ZFileChanging the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a time
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country
<b>My interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a children’s story book or a novel or magazine, there was usually the same drab typeface. </b>
<p>The blog post by Pooja Saxena was <a class="external-link" href="https://storyweaver.org.in/blog_posts/95-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country-one-letter-at-a-time">published in Storyweaver</a> on December 1, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some letters didn’t look like what we were taught in school, on others the matras (vowel marks) didn’t arch at the right places. Overall, the books and the letters inside them had an air of neglect. They looked old and completely unexciting. When I first learned that designing typefaces was a real job, I thought here was the opportunity to change all that.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/254/content/cambay.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Cambay, Devanagari typeface designed by Pooja Saxena for Google Fonts </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Changing the typographic landscape of a country as diverse as India is not a one-woman job, but every now and then a project comes by that has the potential to make a small difference. Two years ago, as a result of a conversation with <a href="http://psubhashish.com/">Subhashish Panigrahi</a>, the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> programme at the <a href="http://cis-india.org">Centre for Internet and Society</a> commissioned a Ol Chiki typeface family. The Ol Chiki script, about which I knew precious little at the time, is used to write the language Santali, which is spoken by over six million people in India and its neighbouring countries. At the time that we started working on this project, there was no Unicode compliant typeface available in the script, making it impossible for it to be used on computers and cellphones, and online in a consistent and future-proof way. We hoped to change that by designing a small, but useful typeface family (it comes in regular, bold and italics) along with input methods and keyboard layouts that would allow a person to type Ol Chiki text easily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/256/content/gurugomke.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Guru Gomke, Ol Chiki typeface designed by Pooja Saxena with research inputs from Shubhashish Panigrahi,for the A2K Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society. </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This project was especially challenging because not only was Ol Chiki a completely unfamiliar script to me and Subhashish, but there was limited material available for us to consult. While designing a typeface in a script one reads and/or writes, or is at least familiar with, one’s experience with those letters can act as a guide. By writing them and seeing them printed in different fonts, in many people’s handwriting — some good, some bad — and on hand painted signs, one develops an instinct for identifying which parts of a letter make it recognisable. That way we know what parts of the letter can be exaggerated, and what others can be played down without compromising legibility. For an unfamiliar script, this visual vocabulary and the traditionally correct way of writing letters must be learned. Manuscripts, printed documents, handwriting manuals and samples, metal type, linguistic information about the script, feedback from native readers — all form parts of a puzzle that needs to be put together to design a competent typeface.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The story of Ol Chiki script is fascinating. The script is less than a century old, and was devised by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who wanted to create a script that could accommodate all the features of the Santali language — something that the scripts used to write Santali so far had failed to do. Legend has it that he based the design of the letters on objects commonly found in the everyday environment of the Santals. Even though the script was created between 1920 – 1940, the Santal community has many myths about how it was created. One says that the script came to be at the time when the Earth itself was created, another says that the script was given as a divine gift to a learned man, Pandit Raghunath Murmu. It is after Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who is reverentially called Guru Gomke, that the Ol Chiki typeface that I designed was named. You can find out more about the Ol Chiki typeface and input methods project <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/255/content/coovumartfestival.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Custom lettering for the Tamil branding of the Coovum Art Festival, designed by Pooja Saxena </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you’re interested in Indian type design and le ering, consider following the work of these exceptional designers — Noopur Datye, one of the co-founders of type design collective, <a href="https://ektype.in">Ek Type</a>, who has designed custom typefaces TV channels like LifeOK; <a href="https://kimyagandhi.wordpress.com/">Kimya Gandhi</a>, who is partner at Mota Italic, and recently designed an inventive Devanagari handwriting font; or <a href="https://twitter.com/lipopsicle">Lipi Raval</a>, whose flamboyant Gujarati typeface <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mogra?sort=date">Mogra</a> is a complete head-turner.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country</a>
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No publisherpraskrishna2016-12-11T07:29:05ZFileGuru Gomke is a Stylish Ol Chiki Typeface for India’s Santali Speakers
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eye-on-design-aiga-guru-gomke-is-stylish
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was <a class="external-link" href="https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/guru-gomke-is-a-stylish-ol-chiki-typeface-for-indias-santali-speakers/">published by AIGA.org </a>on November 29, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi was consulted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Back story:</b> Ever met a teenaged girl yearning to be a typeface designer? Yes? Then perhaps you know Pooja Saxena, who recognized her life’s calling when she was still in high school. Saxena went on to study with type historian and designer <a href="http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-to-design-typefaces-in-a-language-you-cant-speak/" target="_blank">Fiona Ross</a> at the University of Reading in the UK.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The idea for Guru Gomke came from a chat she had with Panigrahi, whose work with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Program at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore underscored the lack of tools and resources available for India’s minority languages online. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol_Chiki_alphabet" target="_blank">Ol Chiki</a> is the alphabet needed to write the language Santali, used by over 5 million people in India and its neighboring countries. “At the time of our conversation, we couldn’t find a single Unicode-compliant font in the script—forget a typeface family with a bold or an italic. [<a href="http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/google-and-montype-unite-to-digitize-all-the-languages-of-humanity/" target="_blank">Noto Sans Ol Chiki</a>, in regular and bold, has since been released]. Subhashish mentioned all these minority scripts in India that people can’t use because fonts and keyboards for them don’t exist,” Saxena says. “I was enthusiastic to help create a free open-source typeface family and input methods in Ol Chiki, and thanks to Subhashish’s work with A2K, he was able to make it happen.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Why’s it called Guru Gomke? </b>Guru Gomke is a title of respect for <a href="http://www.worldlibrary.org/articles/eng/pandit_raghunath_murmu" target="_blank">Pandit Raghunath Murmu</a>, creator of the Ol Chiki script in the early 20th century. The name translates to “great teacher.” It was recommended to Panigrahi by one of the language experts consulted by the designers, and they found it a wonderful nod to the history of the script.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>What are its distinguishing characteristics? </b>Its very existence, frankly. It’s now one of just two Unicode-compliant fonts with both bold and italic character sets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>What should I use it for? </b>Next time you need to set absolutely anything in Ol Chiki.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>What other typefaces do you like to pair it with?</b> Matched to <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro" target="_blank">Source Sans Pro</a> visually and proportionally, these two fonts are visually harmonic used anywhere Ol Chiki and Latin texts have to work together. In fact, the Latin glyphs included in Guru Gomke are derived from Source Sans Pro.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eye-on-design-aiga-guru-gomke-is-stylish'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eye-on-design-aiga-guru-gomke-is-stylish</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-01T14:56:41ZNews ItemNovember 2016 Newsletter
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2016-newsletter
<b>Welcome to the November 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear readers,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we bring in the new year here at CIS, we thank you for your continued interest and support.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Over the course of the previous year, government services and functions became more dependent on information technologies, concerns over cybersecurity and the vulnerability of electronic infrastructure grew, and new developments and challenges arose in the fields of Internet governance and free speech and expression.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the wake of this major year of developments, the work that CIS does is even more important. We look forward to engaging with these and other emerging issues, in 2017 and beyond.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Previous issues of the newsletters can be <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">accessed here</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Geethanjali Jujjavarapu and Udbhav Tiwari undertook a high-level literature review of the most commonly used technological tools and processes in the big data life cycle. <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/technology-behind-big-data">In the research paper</a> the authors have argued that big data life cycle is a conceptual construct that can be used to study the various stages that typically occur in collecting, storing and analysing big data, along with the principles that can govern these processes. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Nirmita Narasimhan in a <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/your-story-nirmita-narasimhan-november-24-2016-quest-for-education-persons-with-disabilities-severely-challenged">blog post published by Your Story</a> has thrown light on the various challenges which persons with disabilities have to overcome. She has stressed that promoting use of technology and open source software and imparting training at an early age will go a long way in making students with disabilities self-sufficient and independent.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Government of India's work is not available under free and open licenses as is the case in various other nations. Tito Dutta <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/free-knowledge-and-indian-government-work">has called upon the Indian government to make its work freely licensed, wherever possible and applicable</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The 33rd WIPO-SCCR was held in Geneva from November 14 - 18, 2016. Anubha Sinha attended the meeting. CIS made its statements on the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/33rd-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-grulac-proposal-for-analysis-of-copyright-in-the-digital-environment">GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment</a> and the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/33rd-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations">Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence? Nishant Shah has <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-november-20-2016-digital-native-the-voices-in-our-heads">explored this in an article</a> published in the Indian Express.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">In a consolidated compilation titled Privacy after Big Data we have put together a series of articles that we have developed as we explore the impacts – positive and negative – of big data. This is a growing body of research that we are exploring and is relevant to multiple areas of our work including privacy and surveillance. CIS has <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-after-big-data-compilation-of-early-research">called for comments</a> for this compilation.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection">second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> (IRC17) is scheduled to take place in Bengaluru between March 3 - 5, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals CIS will select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. </li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CIS in the news:</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-november-1-2016-using-kannada-in-technology-made-easier-with-smartphones">Using Kannada in technology made easier with smartphones</a> (New Indian Express; November 1, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-november-12-2016-delink-icann-from-us-jurisdiction">'Delink ICANN from US jurisdiction'</a> (Deccan Herald; November 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cio-november-14-2016-john-riberio-google-facebook-will-not-place-ads-on-sites-distributing-fake-news">Google, Facebook will not place ads on sites distributing fake news</a> (John Riberio; IDG News Service and CIO; November 14, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bloomberg-quint-november-17-2016-payaswini-upadhyay-how-the-uk-got-a-better-deal-from-facebook-than-india-did">How The U.K. Got A Better Deal From Facebook Than India Did</a> (Payaswini Upadhyay; Bloomberg Quint; November 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-peerzada-abrar-november-20-2016-the-thrill-of-saving-india-from-cybercrime">The thrill of saving India from cybercrime</a> (Peerzada Abrar; Hindu; November 20, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-standard-november-20-2016-anita-babu-free-net-advocates-flay-trais-public-wifi-paper">Free Net advocates flay Trai's public Wi-Fi paper</a> (Anita Babu; Business Standard; November 20, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/economic-times-arpita-raj-november-21-2016-popular-apps-are-inaccessible-to-millions-of-disabled">Popular apps are inaccessible to millions of disabled: Study</a> (Arpita Raj; The Times of India and ET Brand Equity; November 21, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-november-22-2016-chetana-divya-vasudev-caught-in-a-filter-bubble">Caught in a filter bubble</a> (Chethana Divya Vasudev; November 22, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/hindu-businessline-november-27-2016-meera-siva-a-world-apart">A world apart</a> (Meera Siva; Hindu Businessline; November 27, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/new-indian-express-november-28-2016-akhila-damodaran-disabled-kid">Disabled kid? sorry, no admission!</a> (New Indian Express; November 28, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eye-on-design-aiga-guru-gomke-is-stylish">Guru Gomke is a Stylish Ol Chiki Typeface for India’s Santali Speakers</a> (AIGA.org; November 29, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong><br />CIS members wrote the following articles</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/huffington-post-november-3-2016-nirmita-narasimhan-where-are-there-so-few-books-for-print-impaired">Where Are There So Few Books For The Print-Impaired?</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; Huffington Post; November 3, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/opensource-november-18-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-4-tips-for-diy-makers">4 tips for DIY makers</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; November 18, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-november-20-2016-digital-native-the-voices-in-our-heads">Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads</a> (Nishant Shah; November 20, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/your-story-nirmita-narasimhan-november-24-2016-quest-for-education-persons-with-disabilities-severely-challenged">The Quest for Education – Persons with Disabilities, Severely Challenged</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; Your Story; November 24, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/first-post-udbhav-tiwari-november-24-2016-demonetisation-survey-limits-the-range-of-feedback-that-can-be-provided-by-the-user">Demonetisation Survey Limits the Range of Feedback that can be Provided by the User</a> (Udbhav Tiwari; November 24, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Jobs</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS is presently seeking applications for the following positions</p>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/policy-officer-cyber-security">Policy Officer (Cyber Security)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/senior-policy-officer-cyber-security">Senior Policy Officer (Cyber Security)</a> </li>
<li><a class="internal-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/intern-for-pervasive-technologies-project">Intern (Pervasive Technologies Project)</a> - Application accepted throughout the year</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/internship">Internship</a> - Application accepted throughout the year</li>
<li><a class="internal-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/seeking-survey-participants-for-research-on-musician-livelihood">Survey Participants for Research on Musician Livelihood</a></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>-----------------------------------</strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br />Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is 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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Copyright & Patent</p>
<p><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/33rd-sccr-opening-statement-by-india-on-behalf-of-the-asia-and-the-pacific-group">33rd SCCR: Opening Statement by India on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 14, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/33rd-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations">33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/33rd-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-grulac-proposal-for-analysis-of-copyright-in-the-digital-environment">33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 18, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Event Organized</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/sambalpur-university-workshop">Sambalpur University Workshop</a> (Sambalpur; November 27, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ciipc-nlud-workshop-on-wikipedia-editing-and-open-source-knowledge-sources">CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge Sources</a> (Organized by Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC), National Law university, Delhi; November 11 - 12, 2016). Rohini Lakshané and Tanveer Hasan conducted and facilitated this workshop.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-on-1-november">Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November</a> (Tito Dutta; November 1, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100wikidays">100 Wikidays: The Journey so Far</a> (Tito Dutta; November 23, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/free-knowledge-and-indian-government-work">Free Knowledge and Indian Government Work</a> (Tito Dutta; November 26, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles">Improving Telugu Village Articles</a> (Pavan Santhosh; November 26, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>-----------------------------------</strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance"><br />Internet Governance</a> <br /><strong> -----------------------------------</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p>
<p>►Privacy</p>
<p><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/conference-on-the-digitalization-of-the-indian-legal-system">Conference on the Digitalization of the Indian Legal System</a> (Leilah Elmokadem; November 16, 2016)</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Participation in Event</div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/industry-consultation-panel-on-data-retention-dsci">Industry Consultation Panel on Data Retention - DSCI</a> (Organized by the Data Security Council of India; New Delhi; November 23, 2016). Udbhav Tiwari was a panelist.</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">►Big Data</div>
<p><strong>Blog Entry<br /></strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-after-big-data-compilation-of-early-research">Privacy after Big Data: Compilation of Early Research</a> (Saumyaa Naidu; November 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/big-data-in-india-benefits-harms-and-human-rights-a-report">Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights - Workshop Report</a> (Vidushi Marda, Akash Deep Singh and Geethanjali Jujjavarapu; November 14, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p>►Cyber Security</p>
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<p><strong>Blog Entry<br /></strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cert-ins-proactive-mandate-a-report-on-indian-computer-emergency-response-teams-proactive-mandate-in-indian-cyber-security-ecosystem">CERT-In's Proactive Mandate - A Report on the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team’s Proactive Mandate in the Indian Cyber Security Ecosystem</a> (Udbhav Tiwari; November 19, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p>►Free Speech and Expression</p>
<p><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/if-the-didp-did-its-job">If the DIDP Did Its Job</a> (Asvatha Babu; November 3, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-a-global-public-good">Internet's Core Resources are a Global Public Good - They Cannot Remain Subject to One Country's Jurisdiction</a> (Vidushi Marda; November 9, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/how-workstream-2-plans-to-improve-icanns-transparency">How Workstream 2 Plans to Improve ICANN's Transparency</a> (Asvatha Babu; November 10, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/icann-begins-its-sojourn-into-open-data">ICANN Begins its Sojourn into Open Data</a> (Padmini Baruah and Sumandro Chattapadhyay; November 11, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/navigating-reconsideration-quagmire-a-personal-journey-of-acute-confusion">Navigating the 'Reconsideration' Quagmire</a> (A Personal Journey of Acute Confusion).</li></ul>
<strong>Participation in Events</strong><br />
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/icann-57-hyderabad">ICANN 57</a> (Organized by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India; Hyderabad International Convention Centre; November 3 - 9, 2016). Vidushi Marda was a speaker.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/10th-nlsir-symposium-regulating-e-commerce-in-india">10th NLSIR Symposium - Regulating E-Commerce in India</a> (Organized by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru; November 27, 2016). Vidushi Marda was a panelist.</li></ul>
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<p><strong>-----------------------------------</strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
<p><strong>Blog Entry<br /></strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection">Internet Researchers' Conference 2017</a> (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; November 16, 2016).</li></ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/cisxscholars-delhi-william-f-stafford-thursday-nov-03">CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford</a> (CIS; New Delhi; November 3, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at <a>tanveer@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaNewsletter2017-02-06T12:52:38ZPage4 tips for DIY makers
https://cis-india.org/openness/opensource-november-18-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-4-tips-for-diy-makers
<b>I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/article/16/11/4-tips-DIY-maker">Opensource.com </a>on November 18, 2016</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Of course, I started considering how I could make the artwork from these postcards open to others.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">First, I take a picture of the postcard and upload it to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Linocuts_and_stencils_made_by_Subhashish_Panigrahi" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a> under a free license, usually <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Share-Alike 4.0 </a> or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 4.0 International</a>. These two licenses allow anyone to use the image of my artwork for both non-commercial and commercial purposes, modify and remix them. And uploading to Wikimedia Commons puts my artwork in a place where many people will see it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sometimes, I capture the postcard-making process as well, and upload those images to Wikimedia Commons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you're considering making your DIY project open, here are four main considerations:</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">1. To share or not to share?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Deciding whether to share your craft project or image might be an easy "sure, why not?" but you may be wondering "but, is it useful to others?"</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">My opinion is that yes, everything you make could be interesting to others, so why not make it open? There is certainly something in every maker activity that is worth sharing publicly. When I was making a stamp that was quite special and personal, and I did not want the whole world to see it because it was personal, but I did capture the stamp carving process for others to see. You might want to ask around friends and other people in any maker community you are part of. Also, try asking yourself what really would matter to other people so that you can share only useful outcomes and tips rather than sharing everything.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">2. Choosing a license</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I wrote about <a href="https://opensource.com/education/16/8/3-copyright-tips-students-and-educators" target="_blank">three tips for sharing your work online</a>. And there are many other resources out there, including <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/" target="_blank">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="http://choosealicense.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A simple rule of thumb is: Except content that clearly indicates the work is released under a free license, or that the copyright has lapsed and the work is in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">Public Domain</a>, you can assume content is not freely/liberally licensed.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">3. Where to share</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There is almost a platform to share anything these days. Most popular multimedia platforms support Creative Commons-licensed works, like <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en" target="_blank"> YouTube</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/creativecommons" target="_blank"> Vimeo</a> for video, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/" target="_blank"> Flickr </a> for images, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/05/06/medium-embraces-cc-licenses/" target="_blank"> Medium</a> for writing, <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/faq#q8" target="_blank"> Jamendo</a> for music, and many more. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload" target="_blank"> Wikimedia Commons</a>, mentioned above, is a sister project of Wikipedia and the world's largest multimedia repository; it allows original works to be uploaded and shared by <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/relgen/" target="_blank">Copyright holders and others</a> of works like images (.jpg, .png, .gif), presentations (.pdf), videos (.webm and .ogv), and audio files (.ogg).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Know of more places to share works? Let us know in the comments.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">4. Meet birds of feather and exchange ideas</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are tons of global and local events that bring people of all maker interests under a single roof.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">An event that I love is Mozilla's <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/tag/maker-party/" target="_blank"> Maker Party</a>. I have been to one in my city of <a href="http://blog.mozillaindia.org/24" target="_blank">Bengaluru</a>, India and can guarantee it is lots of fun!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Events like this help connect you with other makers who live nearby.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Tell us about your experience</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I hope these tips have helped. Do you have other tips to share? Leave us a comment.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/opensource-november-18-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-4-tips-for-diy-makers'>https://cis-india.org/openness/opensource-november-18-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-4-tips-for-diy-makers</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessOpen SourceCreative CommonsWikimedia2016-11-22T02:36:39ZBlog EntrySeptember 2016 Newsletter
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/september-2016-newsletter
<b>Welcome to the September 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear readers,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thank you for reading the Centre for Internet and Society's September newsletter. The past month was notable for the media presence that various CIS members had. Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan continued our work looking at the inaccessibility of everyday electronics with a piece in the Huffington Post about mobile applications and their low usability for persons with disabilities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ting-Yi Chang continued her research into the gender gap in Wikipedia, with a series of blog posts looking at the various movements and discoveries she has made about the Indian and the global context.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are also happy to announce that CIS, in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy, will organize the second Internet Researchers' Conference next year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Previous issues of the newsletters can be <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">accessed here</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS in partnership with Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy will <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-call">organize the second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> (IRC17) from March 3 - 5, 2017 at the International Institute of Information Technology in Bengaluru. It is a free and open conference. Sessions must be proposed by teams of two or more members on or before Friday, October 21, 2016. All submitted session proposals will go though an open review process, followed by each team that has proposed a session being invited to select ten sessions of their choice to be included in the Conference agenda. Final sessions will be chosen through these votes, and be announced on January 2, 2017.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">In an <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/huffington-post-september-22-2016-nirmita-narasimhan-mobile-apps-are-excluding-millions-of-indians-who-want-to-use-them">article published in the Huffington Post</a>, Nirmita Narasimhan threw light on the fact that mobile applications which today form an essential part of our lives such as booking cabs, ordering groceries, making payments online, or simply connecting to friends are still excluding millions of people in India particularly the visually impaired who want to use them. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rohini Lakshané has published a methodology to <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-statements-of-working-form-27-of-indian-mobile-device-patents" target="_blank">answer the research questions</a> pertaining to working statements of mobile technology patents in India, also known as Form 27, using the granted patents from the landscape. <br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">In furtherance to the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey which revealed gender imbalance on online encyclopaedia, Ting-Yi Chang in a <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-the-wikipedia-gender-gap-and-what-has-been-done-part-1">blog post series (of three parts)</a> has summarized the movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">In an <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/dna-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-software-freedom-day-importance-of-free-and-open-source-software">article published in the DNA</a>, Subhashish Panigrahi has explained the concepts of FOSS, Free Software, Open Source, and FLOSS in light of the Software Freedom Day celebrated every year. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Pranesh Prakash in a response note to Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) reply to Hans Verghese Mathews' article titled “Flaws in the UIDAI Process” (EPW, March 12, 2016) has noted that UIDAI do not illustrate the extent to which the false positive identification rates is expected to grow—neither in their initial paper, nor in their rebuttal to Mathews—whereas Mathews provides a method of estimating the increase of false positive identification rates. The article by Pranesh was <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/glaring-errors-in-uidai-rebuttal-epw">published in the Economic & Political Weekly</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/cis-submission-to-trai-consultation-on-proliferation-of-broadband-through-public-wifi-networks">made a submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India</a> (TRAI) on Proliferation of Broadband through Public WiFi Networks. Through comments prepared by Sunil Abraham, Sharath Chandra Ram, Vidushi Marda, and Thejaswi Melarkode, CIS pointed out that Wi-Fi, a radio transceiver must be deregulated further to bridge India's digital divide.</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CIS in the news:</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/talking-point-futile-battle-against-torrents">Talking Point: Futile Battle Against Torrents</a> (Deccan Herald; September 1, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-aloke-tikku-september-7-2016-despite-sc-order-thousands-booked-under-scrapped-sec-66a-of-it-act">Despite SC order, thousands booked under scrapped Sec 66A of IT Act</a> (Aloke Tikku; Hindustan Times; September 7, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll.in-mayank-jain-september-12-2016-the-digilocker-was-supposed-to-cut-down-paperwork">The DigiLocker was supposed to cut down paperwork but less than 0.1% of Indians are using it</a> (Mayank Jain; Scroll.in; September 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-september-13-2016-shreeja-sen-how-does-govt-track-all-its-legal-cases">How does the government track all its legal cases?</a> (Shreeja Sen; Livemint; September 13, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/mint-pressnews-september-13-2016-kit-o-connell-spacex-explosion-slows-facebook-israeli-efforts-to-control-online-content">SpaceX Explosion Slows Facebook & Israeli Efforts To Control Online Content</a> (Kit O' Connell; Mint Press News; September 13, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-standard-alnoor-peermohammed-september-14-2016-indias-aadhaar-mandate-for-smartphone-makers-may-rile-global-firms">India's Aadhaar mandate for smartphone makers may rile global firms</a> (Alnoor Peermohammed; Business Standard; September 14, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/spicy-ip-september-19-2016-prof-colleen-v-chien-and-prof-jorge-l-contreras-made-in-india-innovation-policy">“Made in India” Innovation Policy</a> (Prof. Collen Chien and Prof. Contreras; SpicyIP; September 19, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-week-sushil-kambampati-september-21-2016-india-is-unprepared-for-future-cyber-attacks">Is India Prepared for a Cyber Attack?</a> Suckfly And Other Past Responses Say No (Sushil Kambampati; September 21, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/livemint-september-23-2016-vidhi-choudhary-to-embed-a-tweet-or-not">To embed a tweet or not?</a> (Vidhi Choudhary; Livemint; September 23, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-standard-september-24-apurva-venkat-and-moulishree-srivastava-whasapp-ruling-experts-seek-privacy-law">WhatsApp ruling: Experts seek privacy law</a> (Apurva Venkat and Moulishree Srivastava; Business Standard; September 24, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-september-25-2016-manju-vi-when-the-war-is-on-whatsapp">When the war’s on WhatsApp</a> (Manju V.; The Times of India; September 25, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong><br />CIS members wrote the following articles</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/india-today-september-1-2016-pranesh-prakash-internet-rights-and-wrongs">Internet Rights and Wrongs</a> (Pranesh Prakash; India Today; September 1, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-september-1-2016-shyam-ponappa-digital-india-needs-these-policy-changes">Digital India Needs These Policy Changes</a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard and Organizing India Blogspot; September 1, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/glaring-errors-in-uidai-rebuttal-epw">Glaring Errors in UIDAI's Rebuttal</a> (Pranesh Prakash; Economic & Political Weekly; Vol. 51, Issue No. 36; September 3, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-september-3-2016-nishant-shah-quarter-life-crisis-the-world-wide-web-turns-25-this-year">Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; September 3, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-september-5-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-indians-ask-is-visiting-a-torrent-site-really-a-crime">Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Global Voices; September 5, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet">Making Telugu Suitable for Internet</a> (Rahmanuddin Shaik; Ammanudi; September 6, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/spicy-ip-september-7-2016-anubha-sinha-where-is-the-regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership-headed">Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed?</a> (Anubha Sinha; Spicy IP; September 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/dna-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-software-freedom-day-importance-of-free-and-open-source-software">Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; DNA; September 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-let-us-write-our-code-in-our-own-hands">ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବା</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Samaja; September 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/global-voices-september-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-it-is-september-and-that-means-it-is-time-for-software-freedom-day">It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Global Voices; September 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-september-18-2016-who-owns-your-phone">Who Owns Your Phone?</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; September 18, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/huffington-post-september-22-2016-nirmita-narasimhan-mobile-apps-are-excluding-millions-of-indians-who-want-to-use-them">Mobile Apps Are Excluding Millions Of Indians Who Want To Use Them</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; Huffington Post; September 22, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-wire-anubha-sinha-september-23-2016-delhi-high-court-ruling-against-publishers-is-a-triumph-for-knowledge">Delhi High Court’s Ruling Against Publishers is a Triumph For Knowledge</a> (Anubha Sinha; September 23, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Jobs</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS is presently seeking applications for the following positions</p>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/policy-officer-cyber-security">Policy Officer (Cyber Security)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/senior-policy-officer-cyber-security">Senior Policy Officer (Cyber Security)</a> </li>
<li><a class="internal-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/cis-a2k-programme-officer">Programme Officer (Communications)</a> </li>
<li><a class="internal-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/intern-for-pervasive-technologies-project">Intern (Pervasive Technologies Project)</a> - Application accepted throughout the year</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/internship">Internship</a> - Application accepted throughout the year</li>
<li><a class="internal-link" href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/seeking-survey-participants-for-research-on-musician-livelihood">Survey Participants for Research on Musician Livelihood</a></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility & Inclusion</a> <br /> ------------------------------------- <br /> India has an estimated 70 million persons with disabilities who don't have access to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. As part of our endeavour to make available accessible content for persons with disabilities, we are developing a text-to-speech software in 15 languages with support from the Hans Foundation. 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>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►NVDA and eSpeak</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Monthly Report</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/september-2016-report.pdf">September 2016 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; August 31, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- </strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br />Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is 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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Copyright and Patent</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-statements-of-working-form-27-of-indian-mobile-device-patents">Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device Patents</a> (Rohini Lakshané; September 14, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Events</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-innovation-economic-development-and-ip-in-india-and-china">Workshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China</a> (Organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin University of China; New Delhi; September 27 - 28, 2016). Anubha Sinha made a presentation on Investigating Limits to Innovation and Peer Production in India's Mobile Apps Economy. Rohini Lakshané made a presentation on Exploring Open Hardware in Mass Produced Mobile Phones. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/law-and-economy-policy-conference-2016">Law and Economy Policy Conference 2016</a> (Organized by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and Institute of New Economic Thinking; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; September 28 - 30, 2016). Sunil Abraham served as a discussant on the "Towards a privacy framework for India" session of this conference.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-explores-potentials-and-plans-of-women-editors-in-mangalore-karnataka">Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka</a> (Ting-Yi Chang; September 1, 2016).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates">A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates</a> (Pavan Santhosh; September 12, 2016).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (<a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-the-wikipedia-gender-gap-and-what-has-been-done-part-1">Part 1</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-the-wikipedia-gender-gap-and-what-has-been-done-part-2">Part 2</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-the-wikipedia-gender-gap-and-what-has-been-done-part-3">Part 3</a>; Ting-Yi Chang; September 18, 2016).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/software-freedom-day">ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; September 18, 2016). The blog post was mirrored in <a class="external-link" href="https://odia.yourstory.com/read/b3b56fd08a/-?c=16">Your Story</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.odishastory.com/odia/2016/09/software-freedom/">Odisha Story</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://aajiraodisha.org/software-freedom/">Aajira Odisha</a> on September 17, 2016. The originally published piece can be <a class="external-link" href="http://psubhashish.com/post/150524560200/sfd">accessed here</a>.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-under-creative-commons-licenses">Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses</a> (Pavan Santhosh S. & Subhashish Panigrahi; September 20, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Openness</p>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Our work in the Openness programme focuses on open data, especially open government data, open access, open education resources, open knowledge in Indic languages, open media, and open technologies and standards - hardware and software. We approach openness as a cross-cutting principle for knowledge production and distribution, and not as a thing-in-itself.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Submission</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/comments-on-the-telangana-state-open-data-policy-2016">Comments on the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; September 1, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/fuel-gilt-conference-2016">Fuel Gilt Conference 2016</a> (Organized by Fuel Project; New Delhi; September 24 - 25, 2016). Subhashish Panigrahi participated and made a presentation.</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- </strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /><strong> -----------------------------------</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p>
<p>►Privacy</p>
<p><strong>Participation in Events</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/study-tour-on-future-of-privacy-in-age-of-big-data">The Future of Privacy in the Age of Big Data</a> (Organized by Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom; September 3 - 10, 2016; Berlin and Hamburg). Vanya Rakesh was one of the participants from South Asia.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/litd-17-committee-bureau-of-indian-standards-meeting">LITD 17 Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards Meeting</a> (Organized by Bureau of Indian Standards; September 23, 2016; Bengaluru). Vanya Rakesh attended the meeting. </li></ul>
<p>►Big Data</p>
<p><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/young-scholars-programme-cpr-south-2016">Young Scholars' Programme, CPRSouth 2016</a> (Organized by Communication Policy Research South; September 6 - 7, 2016; Zanzibar). Rohini Lakshané participated in this programme. </li></ul>
<p>►Cyber Security</p>
<p><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cyfy-2016-the-india-conference-on-cyber-security-and-internet-governance-4th-edition">CYFY 2016 - The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance</a> (Organized by Observer Research Foundation; September 28 - 30, 2016; New Delhi). Sunil Abraham was a speaker.</li></ul>
<p><strong><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br /> </strong>CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources, and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/cis-submission-to-trai-consultation-on-proliferation-of-broadband-through-public-wifi-networks">TRAI Consultation on Proliferation of Broadband through Public WiFi Networks</a> (Sunil Abraham, Sharath Chandra Ram, Vidushi Marda, and Thejaswi Melarkode; September 1, 2016). Shyam Ponappa and Arjun Venkatraman provided inputs.</li></ul>
<p><strong>-----------------------------------</strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/7-ways-to-con-fuse-the-internet-with-analogy-intergalactic-mix-talk-by-surfatial-september-26-6-pm">7 Ways to Con/fuse the Internet with Analogy (Intergalactic Mix) - Talk by Surfatial</a> (CIS, Bangalore; September 26, 2016). Surfatial, a trans-local collective that works with text and sound gave a talk about their essay.</li></ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/iirc-reflections-on-irc16">IIRC: Reflections on IRC16</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; September 6, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-call">Internet Researchers' Conference 2017</a> (IRC17) - Call for Sessions (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; September 23, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/blog_how-green-is-the-internet-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly">How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</a> (Aishwarya Panicker; September 23, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/blog_mobilizing-online-consensus-net-neutrality-and-the-india-subreddit">Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India Subreddit</a> (Sujeet George; September 27, 2016).</li></ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/sequoia-india-designathon-2016">Designathon 2016 </a>(Organized by Sequoia India; Bangalore; September 10 - 11, 2016). </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/iiit-delhi-workshop-on-center-for-it-and-society">Workshop on Center for IT and Society</a> (Organized by IIIT, Delhi; September 17, 2016). Sumandro Chattapadhyay participated in the event.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- </strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /><strong> ----------------------------------- </strong><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at <a>tanveer@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><em>CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects</em>.</div>
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