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November 2013 Bulletin
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<b>Our newsletter for the month of November 2013 can be accessed below. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the eleventh issue of its newsletter (November) for the year 2013:</p>
<h2>Highlights</h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS is pleased to announce the second "Institute on Internet and Society" to be held in Yashada, Pune from February 11 to 17, 2014. Any members from the civil society (students, research scholars, academicians, scientists, legal professionals, etc.) who engage in issues concerning Internet and Society are encouraged to apply.</li>
<li>The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research for the states of Tripura, Nagaland and Chattisgarh.</li>
<li>CIS-A2K team signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Christ University in Bangalore to introduce Wikipedia in classrooms. </li>
<li>The Access to Knowledge narrative report capturing the work done by CIS-A2K team in the first ten months of the grant along with its strategy for the next 1 year is published.</li>
<li>Last month we organised the Seventh Privacy Round-table in collaboration with FICCI, DSCI, and Privacy International in Delhi. The developments are captured in a report by Elonnai Hickok.</li>
<li>Along with Wikimedia India and Acharya Narendra Dev College, we organised the Relaunch of Creative Commons in India. Dr. Shashi Tharoor was the chief guest.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility and Inclusion</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of our project (under a grant from the Hans Foundation) on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India, we bring you draft chapters for the states of Madhya Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, and the union territory of Daman and Diu. With this we have completed compilation of draft chapters for 27 states and 5 union territories. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the following chapters:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► National Resource Kit Chapter</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Tripura Chapter (by CLPR, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1bCFPwq">http://bit.ly/1bCFPwq</a>. </li>
<li>The Nagaland Chapter (by CLPR, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cmKzq0">http://bit.ly/1cmKzq0</a>. </li>
<li>The Chattisgarh Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, November 30, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cSczSt">http://bit.ly/1cSczSt</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: <i>All of these are early drafts and will be reviewed and updated</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Other Accessibility Update</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>E-Accessibility Workshop 2013 (organised by Directorate of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra, Mahaonline Limited and National Internet Exchange of India, November 19-20, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cQ0wd8">http://bit.ly/1cQ0wd8</a>. CIS was one of the trainer organisations for the event.</li>
<li>National Conference on Harnessing Technology for the Empowerment for Persons with Visual Impairments (organized by NAB Centre for Blind Women & Disability Studies, Indian Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi, November 19, 2013). Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan participated as a speaker: <a href="http://bit.ly/IzLOty">http://bit.ly/IzLOty</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers and human rights, and critically examines Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, and Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following has been done under grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (<a href="http://bit.ly/SPqFOl">http://bit.ly/SPqFOl</a>). As part this project (<a href="http://bit.ly/X80ELd">http://bit.ly/X80ELd</a>), we held 8 workshops, signed a MoU with Christ University for teaching Wikipedia to students, published a detailed narrative report of activities done during the initial period of the Wikimedia grant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Articles</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/17LOw4O">http://bit.ly/17LOw4O</a>. The article highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.</li>
<li>Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, November 14, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz">http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz</a>. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane of DNA. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Announcement</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013): The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms: <a href="http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz">http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Report</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS-A2K Narrative Report (September 2012 – June 2013) (by T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi, November 29, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO">http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO</a>. The report throws some light on the CIS-A2K program strategy in the next one year.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Note: A couple of the below blog entries were carried in the Access to Knowledge newsletter last month</i>.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project (by Nitika Tandon, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dodyuK">http://bit.ly/1dodyuK</a>. </li>
<li>Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cm9wBH">http://bit.ly/1cm9wBH</a>. </li>
<li>Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/18hjw0n">http://bit.ly/18hjw0n</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Event Co-organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre, November 12, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/HPxrAO">http://bit.ly/HPxrAO</a>. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development was the chief guest at the event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/ItxAtu">http://bit.ly/ItxAtu</a>. Syed Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated. </li>
<li>Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF">http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF</a>. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed Muzammiluddin and Dr. U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second language students participated in the programme. </li>
<li>Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop (Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi: <a href="http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v">http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v</a>.</li>
<li>Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management, Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/Imf0DV">http://bit.ly/Imf0DV</a>. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop. </li>
<li>Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5">http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5</a>.</li>
<li>Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9">http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9</a>. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop.</li>
<li>First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/18doDer">http://bit.ly/18doDer</a>. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.</li>
<li>Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, November 19, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT">http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT</a>. Nitika Tandon conducted the event. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Event Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia Community, GLS Campus, Berlin): <a href="http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8">http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Media Coverage</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI">http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI</a>. </li>
<li>10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (The Times of India, November 15, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/IxqDr7">http://bit.ly/IxqDr7</a>.</li>
<li>Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1">http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1</a>. </li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi Website, November 16, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/ImiBSy">http://bit.ly/ImiBSy</a>. </li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು : ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada, November 17, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT">http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT</a>.</li>
<li>Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1b7exSa">http://bit.ly/1b7exSa</a>. </li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v">http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v</a>.</li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy">http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy</a>. </li>
<li>Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop (Daijiworld, November 18, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1inoi03">http://bit.ly/1inoi03</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: The following are not a part of the Wikimedia Grant:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>History of Creative Commons in India (by Priyank Dwivedi, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/17txcH7">http://bit.ly/17txcH7</a>.</li>
<li>How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open? (by Dr. Nishant Shah, DML Central, November 22, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ezsAyj">http://bit.ly/1ezsAyj</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Conference on e-Governance for India: Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Alternatives (organised by OECD Korea Policy Centre in partnership with the Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, November 6-7, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cGP13c">http://bit.ly/1cGP13c</a>. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session on OECD Principles on eGovernment and their applicability to the developing world and India. </li>
<li>Indo-European Conference on the Role of the Patent System in Fostering Innovation and Technology Transfer (organized by European Patent Office, FICCI and European Business & Technology Centre, November 29, 2013, New Delhi). Nehaa Chaudhari participated in this conference.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is doing a project (under a grant from Privacy International and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) on conducting research on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). So far we have organised seven privacy round-tables and drafted the Privacy (Protection) Bill. This month we bring you a report from the seventh privacy round-table held in Delhi, and an analysis on why Facebook is more dangerous than government spying. As part of its project (funded by Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and support from the IDRC) on mapping cyber security actors in South Asia and South East Asia we did an interview with Namita A Malhotra, a researcher and lawyer from Alternative Law Forum. With this we have completed a total of 12 video interviews:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Event Report</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Seventh Privacy Round-table (organised by FICCI, DSCI, Privacy International and CIS, October 19, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/187pFOO">http://bit.ly/187pFOO</a>. The report was published in the month of November. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Newspaper Columns</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Open Secrets (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, October 27, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1b5uvK0">http://bit.ly/1b5uvK0</a>.</li>
<li>I Just Pinged to Say Hello (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, November 24, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/183H34t">http://bit.ly/183H34t</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>An Interview with Caspar Bowden (by Maria Xynou, November 6, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/17LQqFX">http://bit.ly/17LQqFX</a>. </li>
<li>India's Response to WGEC Questionnaire (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 13, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/HX0r96">http://bit.ly/HX0r96</a>. </li>
<li>Why 'Facebook' is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You (by Maria Xynou, November 19, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/HWLFzi">http://bit.ly/HWLFzi</a>. </li>
<li>CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age” (by Elonnai Hickok, November 30, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1c2A89q">http://bit.ly/1c2A89q</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>IDEX Impact Assessment Workshop (organised by IDEX, CIS, Bangalore, November 16, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1bxRfFm">http://bit.ly/1bxRfFm</a>. </li>
<li>The Evolving Cyber Threat and How to Address It (CIS, Bangalore, November 22, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cEkUZY">http://bit.ly/1cEkUZY</a>. </li>
<li>Panel on Privacy, Surveillance & the UID in the post-Snowden era (Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore, November 30, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ctSHW3">http://bit.ly/1ctSHW3</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Chances and Risks of Social Participation (organised by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin, November 22, 2013). Dr. Nishant Shah gave the keynote: <a href="http://bit.ly/18PcMXN">http://bit.ly/18PcMXN</a>. </li>
<li>Expert Committee Meeting on Human DNA Profiling Bill (organised by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi). Sunil Abraham participated in the meeting: <a href="http://bit.ly/19CpDbD">http://bit.ly/19CpDbD</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Upcoming Event</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Big Democracy: Big Surveillance - A Talk by Maria Xynou (CIS, Bangalore, December 3, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1j4mzgu">http://bit.ly/1j4mzgu</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Cyber Security</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Laird Brown, a strategic planner and writer with core competencies on brand analysis, public relations and resource management and Purba Sarkar who in the past worked as a strategic advisor in the field of SAP Retail are working in this project:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Video Interview</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Part 12: An Interview with Namita A. Malhotra (November 15, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1j8MCjN">http://bit.ly/1j8MCjN</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Documentary Film</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>First Look: Cyber Security Film (by Purba Sarkar, November 18, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1alHhVu">http://bit.ly/1alHhVu</a>. The trailer was presented by Laird Brown recently at the IGF.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Upcoming Event</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>DesiSec: Episode 1 - Film Release and Screening (December 11, 2013): Screening of the first documentary film on cyber security in India.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a></h3>
<p>CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>EC guidelines on social media: Welcome move, but not enough (by Shruti Dhapola, FirstPost, November 1, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1c3fNkt">http://bit.ly/1c3fNkt</a>. </li>
<li>NSA leaks helping India become 'Big Brother' state? (British Broadcasting Corporation, November 1, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1b7ftDG">http://bit.ly/1b7ftDG</a>. </li>
<li>Spy agencies, IB and RAW, put spanner in proposed privacy law (by Nagender Sharma and Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times, November 2, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1aox4HP">http://bit.ly/1aox4HP</a>.</li>
<li>India must support UN's e-snooping move: Human rights activists (by Indu Nandakumar, Economic Times, November 11, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/18LrI5s">http://bit.ly/18LrI5s</a>. </li>
<li>Social media promotions can backfire, too (by Ratna Bhushan and Varuni Khosla, The Times of India, November 11, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1gMj7rg">http://bit.ly/1gMj7rg</a>. </li>
<li>YouTube is the answer to what has changed in India (by Moulishree Srivastava, Livemint, November 20, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fg214A">http://bit.ly/1fg214A</a>. </li>
<li>When the virtual world wakes up the real one (by Malini Nair, November 24, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1hovyd3">http://bit.ly/1hovyd3</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is doing a research project titled “Making Change”. The project will explore new ways of defining, locating, and understanding change in network societies. Having the thought piece 'Whose Change is it Anyway' as an entry point for discussion and reflection, the project will feature profiles, interviews and responses of change-makers to questions around current mechanisms and practices of change in South Asia and South East Asia.:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Making Change</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Methods to Conceive and Condense Social Change (by Denisse Albornoz, November 30, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ezrBhw">http://bit.ly/1ezrBhw</a>.</li>
<li>Blank Noise and the Active Citizen Dissonance (by Denisse Albornoz, November 30, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/IwOHu9">http://bit.ly/IwOHu9</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entry</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Digitally Enhanced Civil Resistance (by Denisse Albornoz, November 20, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/18ndc7p">http://bit.ly/18ndc7p</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Shyam Ponappa, a Distinguished Fellow at CIS is a regular columnist with the Business Standard. The articles published on his blog Organizing India Blogspot is mirrored on our website:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Newspaper Column</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Predictability in Infrastructure (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, November 6, 2013 and Observer India Blogspot, November 10, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dLZ0Fp">http://bit.ly/1dLZ0Fp</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project to create a knowledge repository on Internet and society. This repository will comprise content targeted primarily at civil society with a view to enabling their informed participation in the Indian Internet and ICT policy space. The repository is available at the Internet Institute website: <a href="http://bit.ly/1iQT2UB">http://bit.ly/1iQT2UB</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Upcoming Event</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Institute on Internet and Society (organised by Ford Foundation and CIS, Yashada, Pune, February 11-17, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/180mQi9">http://bit.ly/180mQi9</a>. The application form is available at <a href="http://internet-institute.in/form">http://internet-institute.in/form</a>. Registrations close on December 15, 2013. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Modules</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Internet Engineering Task Force (by Anirudh Sridhar, November 30, 2013). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards body with no requirements for membership and does not have a formal membership process either: <a href="http://bit.ly/1c4aOQr">http://bit.ly/1c4aOQr</a>. </li>
<li>World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) (by Anirudh Sridhar, November 30, 2013). The World Summit on Information Society was first proposed by the International Telecommunication Union in 1998. The main focus of the WSIS was to address issues related to the global digital divide. However, the scope of the WSIS was broadened later to include internet related public policy issues: <a href="http://bit.ly/186dbnV">http://bit.ly/186dbnV</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Event Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque (organised by University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, November 4-7, 2013): <a href="http://bit.ly/19b6IW1">http://bit.ly/19b6IW1</a>. Nishant Shah taught this course and also presented on a panel on 'Secrets of Digital Culture'.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Follow us elsewhere</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceDigital HumanitiesOpenness2014-01-04T04:38:08ZPageNovember 2012 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2012-bulletin
<b>Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="visualHighlight"><b>Jobs</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/jobs/research-manager">Research Manager</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/jobs/programme-officer-internet-governance">Programme Officer – Internet Governance</a>. To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h2>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">India has an estimated 70 million disabled persons who are unable to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. The disabled need accessible content, devices and interfaces facilitated via copyright law and electronic accessibility policies:</td>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/human-machine-interfaces-the-history-of-an-uncertain-future">Human Machine Interfaces: The History of an Uncertain Future</a> (by Sharath Chandra Ram, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/itu-int-itu-d-asp-cms-events-2012-nepal-itu-nta-workshop-on-making-ict-and-mobile-phones-accessible-for-persons-with-disabilities-in-nepal" class="external-link"><span class="external-link">Workshop on Making ICT and Mobile Phones Accessible for Persons with Disabilities in Nepal</span></a></li>
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(organised by ITU, November 9, 2012). Nirmita Narasimhan was a speaker in the session "Introduction: ICT and Telecom Accessibility, Good Practices in Policy and Industry Initiatives".
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers, developing countries, human rights, and creativity/innovation from excessive regimes of copyright, patents, and other such monopolistic rights over knowledge:</p>
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<p><b>WIPO Transcripts</b></p>
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<p>We are providing archival copies of the transcripts of the 25th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights held in Geneva from November 19 to 23, 2012:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-1-november-19-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 1, November 19, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-2-november-20-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 2, November 20, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-3-november-21-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 3, November 21, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-4-november-22-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 4, November 22, 2012</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/wipo-sccr-25-day-5-november-23-2012.txt">WIPO SCCR 25 Day 5, November 23, 2012</a></li>
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<p><b>Comments</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/comments-on-broadcast-treaty-and-exceptions-and-limitations-for-libraries-and-archives">Comments on the Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives</a> (by Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 29, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/comments-on-science-technology-and-innovation-policy-draft">Comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft)</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, submitted to the Ministry of Science and Technology, November 26, 2012).</li>
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<h3>Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a part of the Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace research project, CIS is researching upon 12 gray-market mobile devices to generate a better understanding of the intellectual property implications of the pervasive mobile technologies available in the Indian market:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Workshop Report</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/exploring-the-internals-of-mobile-devices">Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices — Report from a One-day Workshop at TERI</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/icomm-2012-report">ICOMM2012: International Communications and Electronics Fair</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 14, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/pervasive-mobile-technologies-meet-our-grey-market-devices">Pervasive Mobile Technologies: Meet Our Mobile Devices!</a> (by Jadine Lannon, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip">2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a> (FGV Law School, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, December 15 – 17, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/openness">Openness</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 'Openness' programme critically examines alternatives to existing regimes of intellectual property rights, and transparency and accountability. Under this programme, we study Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/autonomy-access-infrastructure-future-a-discussion-with-cs-lakshmi-on-sparrow-archive" class="external-link">Autonomy, Access, Infrastructure and Future — A Discussion with C S Lakshmi</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 29, 2012). A video of the event is published.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age">Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://http//cis-india.org/openness/blog/informatics-nic-in-neeta-verma-alka-mishra-d-p-mishra-july-2012-open-government-platform">Open Government Platform</a> (by Neeta Verma, Alka Mishra and D.P. Mishra, Informatics Magazine, July 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/science-gallery-workshop">Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti</a> (organised by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology and Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Srishti School of Art Design and Technology (N2 campus), Bangalore, November 23, 2012). Sunil Abraham participated in this event.</li>
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<h3>Access to Knowledge Programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Delhi: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>. Program Manager, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Shiju Alex</a> left the organisation. November 16, 2012 was his last working day.</p>
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<p><b>Events Organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kolkata-tasting-the-sweetness-of-wikipedia">Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!</a> (Kolkata, November 3, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-odia-wikipedia-education-program-to-be-rolled-out-at-iimc-dhenkanal">First Odia Wikipedia Education Program</a> (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, November 8, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wiki-workshop-at-aml">Odia Wikipedia Workshop at AML</a> (Academy of Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, November 10, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi">A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi</a> (CIS, New Delhi, November 11, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller">Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller</a> (CIS, Bangalore, November 12, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar">An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB</a> (KMBB College, Bhubaneswar, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/follow-up-to-wikipedia-introductory-session-at-bharati%20vidyapeeth">Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session</a> (Bharati Vidyapeeth, Delhi, November 19, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Events Participated</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hackathon-hyderabad">Wikipedia Hackathon</a> (organised by BITS, Hyderabad, October 25 – 27, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-womens-workshop-in-mumbai">Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai</a> (by Noopur Raval, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala, Mumbai, November 4, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>News and Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li>‘<a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-article-kalyan-subramani-nov-15-2012-some-indian-laws-could-be-challenging">Some Indian laws could be challenging</a>’ (Bangalore Mirror, November 15, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad">A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar</a> (Sambad, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-november-23-2012-pravuprasad-routray">OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team</a> (Orissa Diary, November 23, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar">વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે</a> (by Harish Kothari, Cybersafar, November 28, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles">Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 19, 2012).</li>
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<h3>HasGeek</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">HasGeek creates discussion spaces for geeks and has organised conferences like the <a href="http://fifthelephant.in/2012/">Fifth Elephant</a>, <a href="http://droidcon.in/2011">Droidcon India 2011</a>, <a href="http://androidcamp.hasgeek.com/">Android Camp</a>, etc. HasGeek is supported by CIS and works out from CIS office in Bengaluru. The following event was organised by HasGeek in the month of November: <a href="http://droidcon.in/2012/">Droidcon India</a> (November 2 and 3, 2012, MLR Convention Centre, Whitefield, Bangalore).</p>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h2>
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The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes:
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<p><b>Analysis of IT Act</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/breaking-down-section-66-a-of-the-it-act">Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, November 25, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/livemint-opinion-november-28-2012-pranesh-prakash-fixing-indias-anarchic-it-act">Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, Livemint, November 28, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/times-crest-pranesh-prakash-november-24-2012-draft-nonsense">Draft nonsense</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, The Times of India, November 24, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Analysis of Justice AP Shah Report</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/question-and-answer-to-report-of-group-of-experts-on-privacy">Q&A to the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, November 9, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Comments / Submissions to ITU</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/statement-of-civil-society-members-and-groups-at-best-bits-pre-igf-meeting" class="external-link">Statement of Civil Society Members in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF Meeting</a>. CIS was one of the signatories of this submission made to the ITU.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/submission-on-indias-draft-comments-on-proposed-changes-to-itus-itrs">Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRs</a>. CIS was one of the signatories along with Society for Knowledge Commons, Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and Media for Change.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/submission-on-proposals-for-future-itrs-and-related-processes" class="external-link">Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Future ITRs and Related Processes. </a>CIS was one of the signatories of this submission in response to ITU’s call for public comments.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-govts-submission-to-itu">Indian Government's Submission to ITU</a>: We have put up the text of the submission made by the Government of India to the World Conference of International Telecommunications, Dubai on November 3, 2012.</li>
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<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/will-the-international-telecommunication-regulations-itrs-impact-internet-governance-a-multistakeholder-perspective">India Internet Governance Conference</a> (organised by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, FICCI and Internet Society, October 4 -5, 2012). Pranesh Prakash made a presentation. CIS was one of the supporting organisations.</li>
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<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bal-thackeray-comment-arbitrary-arrest-295A-66A">Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray's Death</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, November 19, 2012). This was re-posted in <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283033">Outlook</a> (November 19, 2012), <a href="http://kafila.org/2012/11/19/social-media-regulation-vs-suppression-of-freedom-of-speech-pranesh-prakash/">KAFILA</a> (November 19, 2012), and <a href="http://shailsnest.com/2012/11/20/4445/">Shail's Nest</a> (November 20, 2012). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/dot-blocks-domain-sites">DoT Blocks Domain Sites — But Reasons and Authority Unclear</a> (by Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 21, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Upcoming Events</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/technology-culture-and-events-in-south-east-asia">Technology Culture and Events in South East Asia — A Presentation by Preetam Rai</a>(CIS, Bangalore, Near Domlur Club and TERI Complex, December 18, 2012, 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/dml-conference-2013">DML Conference 2013</a> (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - Chicago, Illinois, March 14 – 16, 2012).</li>
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<p><b>Internet Governance Forum</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh Prakash, Chinmayi Arun, Malavika Jayaram and Elonnai Hickok participated in the Internet Governance Forum held in Baku, Azerbaijan in the month of November 2012. In total, CIS spoke in 12 panels:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/best-bits">Best Bits 2012</a> (organised by Best Bits, Baku, Azerbaijan<b> </b>November 3 and 4, 2012). Pranesh Prakash and Elonnai Hickok participated in this event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/privatisation-of-censorship">The Privatisation of Censorship: The Online Responsibility to Protect Free Expression</a> (organized by Index on Censorship, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 5, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/new-trends-in-industry-self-governance">New Trends in Industry Self-Governance</a> (organised by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Nominet, UK, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012 from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/intgovforum-cms-w2012-proposals">Civil Rights in the Digital Age, about the Impact the Internet has on Civil Rights</a> (organised by ECP on behalf of the IGF-NL, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012, 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.). Malavika Jayaram was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/solutions-for-cross-border-data-flows">Solutions for Enabling Cross-border Data Flows</a> (co-organised by ICC BASIS and the Internet Society, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/cloudy-jurisdiction-addressing-the-thirst-for-cloud-data-in-domestic-legeal-processes">Cloudy Jurisdiction: Addressing the thirst for Cloud Data in Domestic Legeal Processes</a> (co-organised by Electronic Frontier Foundation (Peru) and University of Ottawa, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 7, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/frameworks-for-cross-border-online-communities-and-services">What Frameworks for Cross-Border Online Communities and Services</a> (hosted by the Internet & Jurisdiction Project, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Chinmayi Arun was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/intgovforum-cms-w2012-proposals-governing-identity-on-the-internet">Governing Identity on the Internet</a> (co-organised by Brenden Kuerbis, Citizen Lab and Christine Runnegar, Internet Society, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012, 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.). Malavika Jayaram was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/mag/116-workshop-proposals/1051-igf-2012-workshop-proposal-no-118-law-enforcement-via-domain-names-caveats-to-dns-neutrality">Law Enforcement via Domain Names: Caveats to DNS Neutrality</a> (organised by Hong Xue, Vivekanandan, Wei Mao and Leo Liu, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Chinmayi Arun was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/who-is-following-me">Who is Following Me: Tracking the Trackers</a> (organised by Internet Society and the Council of Europe, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Malavika Jayaram was a speaker at this event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/national-ig-mechanisms">National IG Mechanisms – Looking at Some Key Design Issues</a> (Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/steady-steps-foss-and-mdgs">Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG's</a> (organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 8, 2012). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/privacy-in-social-networked-world">Privacy in the Social Networked World</a> (hosted by the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network, November 19 – 20, 2012). Elonnai Hickok spoke on Transparency and Privacy in India.</li>
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<p><b>Featured in the Media</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hindustan-times-india-news-new-delhi-nov-3-2012-power-to-youth">Power to youth</a> (The Hindustan Times, November 3, 2012). The article names Sunil Abraham and Lawrence Liang as some of the young people who are shaping the future.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ft-magazine-nov-16-2012-25-indians-to-watch">25 Indians to watch</a> (FT Magazine, November 16, 2012). Sunil Abraham is one among the 25 rising Indian stars to watch out for.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/whoswholegal-profiles-malavika-jayaram" class="external-link">Malavika Jayaram named a top lawyer for Internet and e-Commerce in India</a> (WHO’s WHO LEGAL, November 20, 2012).</li>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/live-mint-politics-surabhi-agarwal-nov-6-2012-information-security-policy-on-govt-agenda">Information security policy on govt agenda</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 6, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-sandhya-soman-and-pratiksha-ramkumar-nov-7-2012-law-yet-to-catch-up-with-tech-enabled-peeping-toms">Law yet to catch up with tech-enabled peeping toms</a> (by Sandhya Soman & Pratiksha Ramkumar, Times of India, November 7, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-sci-tech-internet-karthik-subramanian-nov-14-2012-india-second-in-requesting-user-info-google">India second in requesting user info: Google</a> (by Karthik Subramaniam, Hindu, November 14, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/telegraphindia-opinion-story-kavitha-shanmugham-nov-14-2012-post-and-be-damned">Post and be Damned</a> (by Kavita Shanmugham, November 14, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-india-times-tech-tech-news-internet-ishan-srivastava-nov-15-2012-india-second-in-keeping-tabs-on-netizens">India second in keeping tabs on netizens</a> (by Ishan Srivastava, The Times of India, November 15, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/thinkdigit-internet-kul-bhushan-nov-15-2012-india-ranks-second-globally-in-accessing-private-details-of-users">India ranks second globally in accessing private details of users</a> (thinkdigit, November 15, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/articles-economic-times-nov-17-2012-indu-nandakumar-googles-transparency-report-sketchy-inconclusive">Google's 'Transparency Report' sketchy, inconclusive: Government</a> (by Indu Nandakumar, Economic Times, November 17, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/india-blogs-nytimes-nov-19-2012-neha-thirani-hari-kumar-women-arrested-in-mumbai-for-complaining-on-facebook">Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook</a> (by Neha Thirani and Hari Kumar, New York Times, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-nov-19-2012-girls-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-thackeray-get-bail">Girls arrested for Facebook post on Thackeray get bail</a> (FirstPost, November 19, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-india-nov-19-2012-arrest-of-girl-over-thackeray-fb-update-clear-misuse-of-sec-295a">Arrest of girl over Thackeray FB update a clear misuse of Sec 295A</a> (FirstPost, November 19, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/india-blogs-nytimes-november-20-2012-how-to-steer-clear-of-indias-strict-internet-laws">How to Steer Clear of India’s Strict Internet Laws</a> (by Sangeeta Rajesh and Heather Timmons, New York Times, November 20, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ibnlive-news-nov-20-2012-netizens-flay-mumbai-girls-arrest-over-facebook-post">Internet users flay Mumbai girls' arrest over Facebook post</a> (IBN Live, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-politics-venky-vembu-nov-20-2012-arrests-over-facebook-posts-why-were-on-a-dangerous-slide">Arrests over Facebook posts: Why we’re on a dangerous slide</a> (Venky Vembu, FirstPost, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-arun-dev-nov-20-2012-girl-arrest-draws-flak-on-social-media">Girl's arrest draws flak on social media</a> (The Times of India, November 20, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/indiatimes-sonal-bhadoria-nov-21-2012-indias-shame-world-reacts-to-fb-post-arrest">India's Shame: World Reacts to FB Post Arrest</a> (by Sonal Bhadoria, India Times, November 21, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/whdi-reviews-nov-22-2012-indian-government-at-second-position-after-usa-for-demanding-user-data-from-google">Indian government at second position after U.S.A for demanding user data from Google</a> (WHDI Reviews, November 22, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/indolink-november-2012-indians-rank-second-for-online-shopping">Indians Rank Second For Online Snooping</a> (Indolink, November 23, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-nov-23-2012-shalini-singh-civil-society-and-industry-oppose-indias-plans-to-modify-itrs">Civil society & industry oppose India’s plans to modify ITRs</a> (by Shalini Singh, The Hindu, November 23, 2012). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/business-standard-november-28-2012-nirmalya-behera-amnesty-international-calls-for-review-of-66a-of-it-act">Amnesty International calls for review of 66A of IT act</a> (by Nirmalya Behera, Business Standard, November 28, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dnaindia-nov-29-2012-apoorva-dutt-thousands-go-online-against-66a">Thousands go online against 66A</a> (by Apoorva Dutt, DNA, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-businessline-november-29-2012-the-flaw-in-cyber-law">The flaw in cyber law</a> (by S Ronendra Singh, Hindu Business Line, November 29, 2012). Sunil Abraham and Snehashish Ghosh are quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-politics-november-29-2012-surabhi-agarwal-govt-tweaks-enforcement-of-it-act-after-spate-of-arrests">Govt tweaks enforcement of IT Act after spate of arrests</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-atlantic-wire-november-29-2012-david-wagner-you-can-get-arrested-for-facebook-status-update-now">Yes, You Can Get Arrested for a Facebook Status Update Now</a> (by David Wagner, Atlantic Wire, November 29, 2012). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/first-post-politics-lakshmi-chaudhry-november-30-2012-the-real-sibals-law-resisting-section-66a-is-futile">The real Sibal’s law: Resisting Section 66A is futile</a> (by Lakshmi Chaudhry, FirstPost, November 30, 2012). Pranesh Prakash’s blog post on section 66A which was also published in Outlook is quoted.</li>
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<h3>Videos</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ndtv-video-ndtv-special-ndtv-24x7">Women arrested for Facebook post: Did cops act under Sena pressure?</a> (NDTV, November 19, 2012). YP Singh, Alyque Padamsee, Rohan Joshi, Karuna Nundy and Pranesh Prakash took part in a discussion about the arrest of two girls over a Facebook comment.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ibnlive-videos-november-20-2012-the-last-word-is-there-a-need-to-review-information-technology-act">The Last Word: Is there a need to review Information Technology Act?</a> (CNN-IBN, November 20, 2012). Aryaman Sundaram, Pavan Duggal, Pranesh Prakash and Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad took part in a discussion with Karan Thapar on section 66A of the IT Act.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-november-30-2012-video-interview-with-pranesh-prakash">Interview with Pranesh Prakash</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While the potential for growth and returns exist for telecommunications in India, a range of issues need to be addressed. One aspect is more extensive rural coverage and the other is a countrywide access to broadband which is low. Both require effective and efficient use of networks and resources, including spectrum:</p>
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<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/knowledge-and-capacity-around-telecom-policy">Building Knowledge and Capacity around Telecommunication Policy in India</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ford Foundation has given a grant of USD 2,00,000 to CIS to build expertise in the area of telecommunications in India. The knowledge repository deals with these modules: Introduction to Telecommunications, Telecommunications Infrastructure and Technologies, Government of India Regulatory Framework for Telecom, Telecommunication and the Market, Universal Access and Accessibility, The International Telecommunications Union and other international bodies, Broadcasting, Emerging Topics and Way Forward. Dr. Surendra Pal, Satya N Gupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Payal Malik, Dr. Rakesh Mehrotra and Dr. Nadeem Akhtar are the expert reviewers.</p>
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<p>The following are the new outputs:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/dot-its-powers-and-responsibilities">DoT — Its Powers and Responsibilities</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/govt-policy-and-guidelines">Government Policy and Guidelines</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/trai-regulations">TRAI Regulations</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/telecom-knowledge-repository/trai-telecommunication-tariff-orders">TRAI Telecommunication Tariff Orders</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, November 30, 2012).</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/organizing-india-blogspot-in-2012-nov-3-2012-shyam-ponappa-super-wifi-shared-spectrum">Super WiFi & Shared Spectrum: A Time to Start Sharing</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Organizing India Blogspot on November 3, 2012 and Business Standard, November 1, 2012).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/the-hindu-businessline-november-24-2012-jayna-kothari-folly-of-mandating-spectrum-auctions">Folly of Mandating Spectrum Auctions</a> (by Jayna Kothari, Hindu Business Line, November 24, 2012).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/eventmodule/latest/detail/674/22969">2nd MPL Faculty Workshop (North Zone) on Teaching Public Policy, Media and Law</a> (Central University, Rajasthan, November 1-2, 2012). Snehashish Ghosh made a presentation on "Building a Telecom Knowledge Repository."</p>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Natives with a Cause? examines the changing landscape of social change and political participation in light of the role that young people play through digital and Internet technologies, in emerging information societies. Consolidating knowledge from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it builds a global network of knowledge partners who critically engage with discourse on youth, technology and social change, and look at alternative practices and ideas in the Global South:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway">Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013</a>: As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ueRSm1TTw">video</a> on YouTube.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc. CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO, and has given policy briefs to delegations from various countries, our Programme Manager, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post published in Global Voices on February 11, 2016 quotes Pranesh Prakash and Subhashish Panigrahi.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the latest development in the negotiations between the United States and European Union over data transfer rules, Reuters reports France’s data protection authority gave Facebook<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-france-privacy-idUSKCN0VH1U1"><span> </span><span>three months to stop tracking</span></a> non-users’ Web activity without their consent, and ordered Facebook to cease some transfers of personal data to the United States or face fines. In response, Facebook asserted it does not use the now-defunct<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles"><span> </span><span>Safe Harbor</span></a> agreement to move data to the United States and instead has set up alternative legal structures to keep its data transfers in line with EU law. Despite this, Facebook was forced last year to<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/08/french-data-privacy-regulator-to-facebook-you-have-3-months-to-stop-tracking-non-users/"><span> </span><span>stop tracking Belgian non-users</span></a> after it was taken to court by the Belgian regulator. Last week, the United States and European Union agreed upon a new legal framework to replace Safe Harbor, but as it is not yet operational, several European data protection authorities are still deciding whether data transfers should be restricted.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Big Blow for Facebook’s Free Basics</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian regulators <a href="http://inbministry.blogspot.in/2016/02/telecom-regulatory-authority-of-india.html"><span>officially banned “differential pricing”</span></a>or discriminatory tariffs placed on data services depending on their content. This means that Internet users in India are guaranteed equal access to any website they want, regardless of how they connect to the Internet, <a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/02/09/a-good-day-for-the-internet-everywhere-india-bans-differential-data-pricing/"><span>ays Global Voices’ Subhashish Panigrahi</span></a>. The decision is a particular blow to Facebook’s Free Basics application, which uses differential pricing mechanisms to make accessing Facebook, WhatsApp and a limited number of other websites free to users who do not pay for mobile data plans. Though Facebook promotes the program as a means to increasing digital access, it has come under backlash in India and a number of other countries. Internet policy expert <a href="https://twitter.com/pranesh/status/696732814083907584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span>Pranesh Prakash emphasized</span></a>that though the ruling is a win for open access in India, these efforts must continue until India is truly and equally connected.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Google’s new scheme to combat online extremism </strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In an effort to combat groups like ISIS that recruit online, Google has launched a<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/02/google-pilot-extremist-anti-radicalisation-information"><span>pilot scheme</span></a>to point users who search for extremist terms toward anti-radicalization links. It announced the new effort on February 2 at a<a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/countering-extremism/oral/28376.html"><span> meeting</span></a> with the U.K. Home Affairs Select Committee on Countering Extremism. Representatives of Twitter and Facebook were also challenged by members of Parliament on their role in combatting the spread of terrorist material. Twitter<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/technology/twitter-account-suspensions-terrorism.html"><span> announced</span></a>that it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with extremism since mid-2015 in response to pressure from the US government. However, as the New York Times’ Mike Isaac notes, “these companies must walk a fine line between bearing responsibility for their platforms and avoiding becoming the arbiter of what constitutes free speech.”</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>What’s going to happen to Ukraine’s database of ‘explicit content’?</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Ukrainian censorship body, National Expert Commission for Protection of Public Morality, dissolved last year, but its<a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/02/05/ukrainian-censors-explicit-content-database-is-up-for-grabs/"><span> legacy lives on</span></a> as a database of “explicit content” that no one in the government seems to know what to do with. The database includes a sizeable amount of content “containing elements of sexual nature and erotica,” but the commission was also well known for its <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ukraine-govt-wants-to-ban-spongebob-promotes-homosexuality/"><span>attempt to ban</span></a> Spongebob Squarepants, Shrek, and Teletubbies. Users have suggested the team responsible for dissolving the commission make the content more widely available, so they can see where taxpayers’ money went.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>How to protect yourself from government hacking</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hacking human rights workers, journalists, and NGOs has become <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/01/brief-history-of-government-hacking-human-rights-organizations/"><span>common practice </span></a>for governments around the world, according to Amnesty International’s Morgan Marquis-Boire and Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Eva Galperin. In a post for Amnesty International, the two provide a brief history of government hacking and give suggestions for NGOs and human rights organizations to protect themselves.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Taking on Russia’s invasive surveillance </strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two Russian Internet service providers are taking the Federal Security Service to court to<a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/02/03/isps-take-kremlin-to-court-over-online-surveillance/"><span> challenge the surveillance system</span></a> employed by Russian federal police to spy on Internet use. ISPs play a critical role in making surveillance possible, by installing expensive equipment that provides police access—making this case a significant affront to Russia’s invasive surveillance apparatus.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Telegram in Iran</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Messaging app Telegram’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/telegram-the-instant-messaging-app-freeing-up-iranians-conversations?CMP=share_btn_tw"><span>growing influence</span></a> is being characterized as a major factor in the dissemination and spread of information leading up to Iran’s Feb. 26 parliamentary elections, but <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2015/08/28/is-telegrams-compliance-with-iran-compromising-the-digital-security-of-its-users/"><span> the platform</span></a>’s susceptibility to state manipulation is also becoming more apparent. After the arrest of former BBC journalist Bahman Doroshafaei, the government<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/read/iran-telegram-account-bbc-journalist"><span> took over his Telegram account</span></a> and started to message his contacts. Some believe this was an effort to extract sensitive information or to distribute spyware. Fatemeh Shams, a friend of Doroshafaei, posted the following warning to her Facebook account:</p>
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<p>Someone has been talking to me for two hours from Bahman's hacked Telegram account and now is chatting with my friends with my account..If anyone messaged you on Telegram [from my account] please ignore it. I've lost access to my account.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><em><strong>Mahsa Alimardani, </strong><a href="https://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/author/ellery-roberts-biddle/"><strong><span>Ellery Roberts Biddle</span></strong></a><strong>, Hae-in Lim and</strong><a href="https://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/author/sarahbmyers/"><strong><span> Sarah Myers West</span></strong></a> <strong>contributed to this report.</strong></em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/global-voices-february-11-2016-netizen-report'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/global-voices-february-11-2016-netizen-report</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaInternet GovernancePrivacy2016-02-27T07:39:01ZNews ItemNet Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing
<b>India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.</b>
<p>The article by Subhashish Panigrahi was <a class="external-link" href="http://odishatv.in/opinion/net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing-125476/">published by Odisha TV </a>on February 9, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning differential pricing without discriminating services. In their notes TRAI has explained, “In India, given that a majority of the population are yet to be connected to the internet, allowing service providers to define the nature of access would be equivalent of letting TSPs shape the users’ internet experience.” Not just that, violation of this ban would cost Rs. 50,000 every day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook planned to launch Free Basics in India by making a few websites – mostly partners with Facebook—available for free. The company not just advertised aggressively on bill boards and commercials across the nation, it also embedded a campaign inside Facebook asking users to vote in support of Free Basics. TRAI criticized Facebook’s attempt to manipulate public opinion. Facebook was also heavily challenged by many policy and internet advocates including non-profits like Free Software Movement of India and Savetheinternet.in campaign. The two collectives strongly discouraged Free Basics by moulding public opinion against it with Savetheinternet.in alone used to send over 2.4 million emails to TRAI to disallow Free Basics. Furthermore, 500 Indian start-ups, including major names like Cleartrip, Zomato, Practo, Paytm and Cleartax, also wrote to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting continued support for Net Neutrality – a concept that advocates equal treatment of websites – on Republic Day. Stand-up comedians like Abish Mathew and groups like All India Bakchod and East India Comedy created humorous but informative videos explaining the regulatory debate and supporting net neutrality. Both went viral.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Technology critic and Quartz writer Alice Truong reacted to Free Basics saying; “Zuckerberg almost portrays net neutrality as a first-world problem that doesn’t apply to India because having some service is better than no service.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The decision of the Indian government has been largely welcomed in the country and outside. In support of the move, Web We Want programme manager at the World Wide Web Foundation Renata Avila has said; “As the country with the second largest number of Internet users worldwide, this decision will resonate around the world. It follows a precedent set by Chile, the United States, and others which have adopted similar net neutrality safeguards. The message is clear: We can’t create a two-tier Internet – one for the haves, and one for the have-nots. We must connect everyone to the full potential of the open Web.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are mixed responses on the social media, both in support and in opposition to the TRAI decision. Josh Levy, Advocacy Director at Accessnow, has appreciated saying, “India is now the global leader on #NetNeutrality. New rules are stronger than those in EU and US.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Had differential pricing been allowed, it would have affected start-ups and content-based smaller companies adversely as they could never have managed to pay the high price to a partner service provider to make their service available for free. On the other hand, tech-giants like Facebook could have easily managed to capture the entire market. Since the inception, the Facebook-run non-profit Internet.org has run into a lot of controversies because of the hidden motive behind the claimed support for social cause.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/odisha-tv-february-9-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-net-neutrality-advocates-rejoice-as-trai-bans-differential-pricing</a>
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No publishersubhaSocial MediaFree BasicsNet NeutralityFreedom of Speech and ExpressionInternet Governance2016-02-23T02:10:42ZBlog EntryNational Level Seminar on, Computer Application and Odia Language
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/seminar-letter.pdf
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/seminar-letter.pdf'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/seminar-letter.pdf</a>
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No publisherpraskrishna2014-07-07T07:08:39ZFileMozilla Brings Indian Communities Together
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together
<b>I took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published on the website of Opensource.com on July 13, 2014. It can be <a class="external-link" href="http://opensource.com/community/14/7/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together">read here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mozilla organized two national events in India during the month of June this year: <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/India/Indic_FirefoxOS_L10n_Sprint_2014" target="_blank" title="Mozilla wiki">Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014</a> and <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamps_2014" target="_blank" title="Mozilla wiki">Mozcamp Beta 2014</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 was more of an implementation-based sprint with the goal to motivate Indic language localization teams to translate strings for its upcoming Firefox OS based $25 phone. Mozcamp India Beta was an event for meeting mentors, planning for the future, and strategizing Mozilla’s mission in India.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 was held at Red Hat’s Pune office, June 7 and 8, 2014. This was the first time 13 Indic language communities came under one roof to translate interface strings together, commented Mozilla Community Manager, <a href="https://reps.mozilla.org/u/arky/" target="_blank" title="profile on Mozilla">Arky</a>. During the two day sprint, most language groups (2 - 4 members strong) completed more than 40% of the localizations that will appear as interface strings for Firefox OS, an upcoming operating system for mobile and tablet devices. Mozilla released its developer test phones, starting with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone_Keon" target="_blank" title="on Wikipedia">GeeksPhone Keon</a> in April of last year, started thinking of the mobile users from the emerging nations leaving the west for Android, iOS, and Windows 8. Bringing cheaper phones to people with an interface in their own language could help to make phones smarter for common users. Assamese, Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, and Urdu are the 13 language communities that took part in the event.</p>
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<h3>Mozcamp Beta 2014</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Mozcamp India beta event aimed to bring core contributors from multiple communities housed under the Mozilla umbrella and engage with them in a participatory and learning way. Staffers from Mozilla who are responsible for various projects and products worked with these contributors over three days (June 20 - 22) building strategies for best practices for recruiting new contributors, mentoring them, and sustaining the communities in a long run. The project page says, "MozCamp Beta is an experiment. This is the first time Mozilla is testing how to train contributors to bring in more contributors across the project."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mozilla’s core product, the Firefox browser's expanding wing, Firefox OS, was the center of attention. Mozilla is working with two Indian brands, Spice and Intex, to produce phones that are expected to be around $25, thus revolutionizing the smartphone world. Some of the sessions during the event focused on breaking the notion that app making so technical that it can only be done by some. New projects like Mozilla's <a href="https://apps.webmaker.org/" target="_blank" title="website">Appmaker</a> give users the option to create a web app and flash it into the Firefox OS device without knowing any code. Similarly, a session covered the <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamps_2014#User_Centered_Design" target="_blank" title="Mozilla wiki">User Centered Design</a> process, a new way for users to create an app by drawing it on paper and brainstorming on paper about useful functionalities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These two events were a grand display of user contribution and what makes Mozilla a creativity-seeking organization. "Mozilla is committed to make the web free and fun. We aim to have the maximum number of <a href="https://party.webmaker.org/" target="_blank" title="Mozilla maker parties">Maker parties</a> in India this year to promote web literacy and having students to create and curate Open Educational Resources," says Mozilla’s Global Strategist and Manager of the Webmaker mentor team, <a href="http://michellethorne.cc/category/mozilla-2/" target="_blank" title="bio on Mozilla">Michelle Thorne</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessAccess to Knowledge2014-07-23T07:30:06ZBlog EntryMore Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-october-18-2014-more-than-400-million-people-await-launch-of-odia-wikisource
<b>Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain. </b>
<p>The <a class="external-link" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/10/18/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-launch-of-odia-wikisource/">article by Subhashish Panigrahi</a> was published in Global Voices on October 18, 2014 and thereafter <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/21/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-launch-of-odia-wikisource/">mirrored on the Wikimedia Blog</a> on October 21, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Authors and publishers are also invited to donate their copyrighted work, possibly bringing open access to large volumes of books and manuscripts, creating a vast archive of educational resources. And everything will be in Odia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One of the biggest advantages of Wikisource is that all its books are available in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" target="_blank">Unicode</a>, meaning that Google's search engine indexes the texts’ entirety, and readers are able to copy easily what they wish. (Most conventional archival systems lack this feature.) A volunteer community administers Wikisource. To upload a book's content, volunteers either retype the books word-for-word, or, when possible, use Optical Character Recognition (commonly known as “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" target="_blank">OCR</a>“), which converts scanned images into editable text. Available at or.wikisource.org, Odia is Wikisource's eleventh Indic language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are more than 40 million native Odia speakers in the world. Most live in the Indian state of Odisha and its neighboring states, but there is a large diaspora in countries like the US, UK, UAE, and across South and East Asia. Despite being spoken by so many people, Odia's online presence is relatively small.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As of October 2014, <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia</a> hosted <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE" target="_blank">8,441 articles</a>. The state government's websites have Odia-language content, naturally, but none of the text is in Unicode, making the materials invisible to search engines and difficult to share. Thanks to individual and organizational efforts, some Odia-language websites have recently emerged with Unicode content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With support from the non-profit organization Pragati Utkal Sangha and the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, a Bhubaneswar-based outfit has digitized about 740 books through the <a href="http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/" target="_blank">Open Access to Oriya Books</a> (OAOB) project. Most of these texts were published between 1850 and 1950. The OAOB project is the largest existing digital archive of Odia literature, but the archived books are only available as scanned PDFs, restricting readers’ ability to search within the texts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a Wikimedia project, Odia Wikisource underwent a long approval process, after running as an active incubator project for nearly two years. Both the Language Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation's Board reviewed and endorsed the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikisource has already digitized and proofread three books entirely. In collaboration with the Wikimedia-funded <a href="http://cis-india.org" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society</a>‘s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge</a>, the <a href="http://kiss.ac.in/" target="_blank">Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences</a> (KISS) has partially digitized another book, as well. KISS is also busy digitizing another Nine books by Odia-language author Dr. Jagannath Mohanty that were <a href="http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2014/04/10/odia-loves-wikipedia/" target="_blank">relicensed </a>to CC-BY-SA 3.0 earlier this year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In response to posts on Twitter and Facebook, four new contributors recently joined Wikisource to help digitize “The Odia Bhagabata,” a literary classic compiled in the 14th century. “Content that have already been typed with fonts of non-Unicode encoding systems could be converted by <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/20/odia-language-gets-a-new-unicode-font-converter/">converters</a> which was the case of Odia Bhagabata. New contributors did not face the problem of retyping the text, as the book was already available on a website Odia.org and is out of copyright”, says Manoj Sahukar, who (along with yours truly) designed a converter that helped to transcribe “Bhagabata”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Rising Voices contacted some of those whose efforts made this happen.</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">Mrutyunjaya Kar (MK), Long time Wikimedian who has proof-read the books on Odia Wikisource<br /> Rising Voices (RV): Youre there with Odia Wikisource since its inception. How you think it will help other Odias?<br /> MK: Odias around the globe will have access to a vast amount of old as well as new books and manuscripts online in the tip of their finger. Knowing more about the long and glorious history of Odisha will become easier.<br /><br /> Nihar Kumar Dalai (NKD), Wikisource writer<br /> RV: How does it feel to be one of the few contributors to digitize Odia Bhagabata. How you want to get involved in future?<br /> NKD: This is a proud opportunity for me to be a part of digitization of such old literature. I, at times, think if I could get involved with this full time!<br /><br /> Nasim Ali (NA), Oldest active Odia Wikimedian and Wikisource writer<br /> RV: Do you think any particular section of the society is going to be benefited by this?<br /> NA: Books contain the gist of all human knowledge. The ease of access and spread of books are the markers of the intellectual status of a society. And in this e-age Wikisource can be helpful by not just providing easy access to a plethora of books under free licenses but also aiding the spread of basic education in developing economies. Together with Wikisource and cheaper internet this could catalyze a Renaissance of 21st century.<br /><br /> Pankajmala Sarangi (PS), Wikisource writer<br /> RV: You have digitized almost two books, are the highest contributor to the project and also one of the main reasons for Odia Wikisource getting approved. What are your plans next to grow it and take to masses?<br /> PS: I would be happy to contribute by typing more books on Odia so that they can be stored and available to all. We can take this to masses through social, print and audio & visual media and organizing meetings/discussions.<br /><br /> Amir Aharoni (AA), Wikimedia Language Committee member and Software Engineer at the Language Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation<br /> RV: What you feel Wikisource could do to a language like Odia with more than 40 million speakers?<br /> AA: In schools in Odisha, are there lessons of Odia literature? If the answer is yes, then it can do a very simple thing – make these lessons more fun and help children learn more! Everybody says that in Kerala this worked very well with Malayalam literature.</blockquote>
<p>Clearly, strong passions motivate Odia Wikisource's volunteers, like Nihar Kumar Dalai, who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NiharKumarDalai/posts/10204764416691715" target="_blank">writes</a> on Facebook:</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi and English are fine, but our native language it bit more special! Who of us does not now about the art, culture, noted personalities, tourist spots and festivals of Odisha? But if you search online about all of these then there is very little available. There comes a simple and easy solution Odia Wikipedia. Like Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource is another great place and this is my small contribution to bring Odia Bhagabata on Odia Wikisource.</blockquote>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-october-18-2014-more-than-400-million-people-await-launch-of-odia-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-october-18-2014-more-than-400-million-people-await-launch-of-odia-wikisource</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-11-04T13:58:48ZBlog Entry Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language
<b>The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.</b>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The post was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/28/meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23rd-in-a-south-asian-language/">Global Voices</a> on August 28, 2016.</p>
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<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The project waited <span class="c3">as long as </span><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece&sa=D&ust=1472239163179000&usg=AFQjCNFhEa10SoPM41ILK0p3GgaQe86nQA">eight years</a></span><span class="c3"> in the Incubator before becoming the </span><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/indias-23rd-regional-language-wikipedia-goes-live-in-tulu-870353&sa=D&ust=1472239163180000&usg=AFQjCNGa1k1Afhym8NjZgMDwY0APc-EeZA">23rd South Asian language</a></span> Wikipedia<span class="c3">. </span><span class="c3">Available at </span><span class="c3"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/&sa=D&ust=1472239163181000&usg=AFQjCNEKWWR-RYG-VSLf0CkXrVS07XLK5A">https://tcy.wikipedia.org</a></span><span class="c3">, the Tulu Wiki space has a total of 1,285 articles contributed by 198 editors, about 5-10 of which are active with over five edits every month. </span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c3">The announcement about the project going live was made by Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation during the <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/south-asias-largest-wikimedia-conference-kicks-off-in-india/">WikiConference India</a>.</span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c3">Wikimedia Incubator is a sister project of Wikipedia and before any new language Wikipedia is created, an Incubator project is created and grown by volunteer editors. </span><span class="c3">Once the project gains momentum with more editors developing more content more often, the project goes live as a new Wikipedia project.</span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulu_language&sa=D&ust=1472239163182000&usg=AFQjCNFo-b-NX-C_KUICQTe52tZAy2H-EQ">Tulu language</a></span> is spoken by about three to five million people in the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, and there is a sizeable diaspora living in US and the Gulf countries.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Eight years back in 2008, Tulu Wikipedia was created in Incubator with just a handful of editors. But apart from a few sporadic edits every so often, there was little impetus to take the project forward.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">A community in a real sense is one that engages in discussion, consensus and collaboration. This never existed for Tulu Wikipedia as individual editors were working in isolation from each other.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">There was therefore a need for them to meet and form a strategic plan to grow the community and the Incubator by brining in more active contributors.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">In 2014, the need to connect the Tulu Wikipedia editors and foster an interactive editorial group was discussed and a meetup was organized in Mangalore by the <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K&sa=D&ust=1472239163183000&usg=AFQjCNHZ7fPYArPhGG24IGPh5PjNSygKNQ">Centre for Internet and Society—Access to Knowledge</a></span> (CIS-A2K) program, a catalytic program funded by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and grow Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects in the Indian subcontinent.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">As an offshoot of that meeting, more community meetups started to happen. A few workshops were organized in Mangalore to provide hands-on training to participants and the city's <a href="http://staloysiuscollege.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Al-Shodana-July-2013.pdf">St. Aloysius College</a> opened its door to include Wikipedia editing as part of its syllabus.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">A <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education&sa=D&ust=1472239163183000&usg=AFQjCNFJ6zG6VfMhlwbsMMXK28yhAzFmrg">Wikipedia Education Program</a></span> was promptly organized for the undergraduate students in this college where students started editing Wikipedia as a classroom assignment and the faculty was involved both in providing training and evaluating the articles.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c4 c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vishwanatha_Badikana&sa=D&ust=1472239163184000&usg=AFQjCNF3mG-hIIQWupw03q_kT8O3FcbKXg">Vishwanatha Badikana</a></span>, assistant professor of the Kannada language department at St. Aloysius College, became an active Tulu Wikipedia editor himself and led outreach activities at the institution. His students have enriched the Tulu Wikipedia with articles across a broad range of topics.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">However, what has been achieved so far is still only the tip of the iceberg. The community is still fairly small and has to grow beyond one supporting institution. The larger Tulu language community also has to take ownership and become stewards in growing Tulu Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Despite its long, rich linguistic heritage, Tulu is still <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://opensource.com/life/16/8/how-wikimedia-helped-birth-tulu-wikipedia&sa=D&ust=1472239163184000&usg=AFQjCNH03LorX3azpcQT3ExivdqJQYEAwg">struggling</a></span> in terms of achieving wider usage in written form, especially in its native script. The lack of promotion is also quite evident as the Karnataka<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/&sa=D&ust=1472239163185000&usg=AFQjCNGuiW4ebaOSfA2ajHEEiNGQ5CVeeg"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/&sa=D&ust=1472239163185000&usg=AFQjCNGuiW4ebaOSfA2ajHEEiNGQ5CVeeg">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a></span>, an official body set up by the Karnataka government uses<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/ml/&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNFD2HE41R5ExCYOcaiGVorQ4sfpLw"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/ml/&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNFD2HE41R5ExCYOcaiGVorQ4sfpLw">Kannada</a></span> and English for its official portal.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The biggest challenge of all is the lack of <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNHWYHml2DNGOk6HsFvIstldJsNYZg">Unicode</a></span> support. Unicode is a global standard for scripts, and the<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNHmsVQ-fbGDHq6FKm_00yQJFIC9og"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNHmsVQ-fbGDHq6FKm_00yQJFIC9og">Tigalari script</a></span> that is used to write in Tulu is not encoded in Unicode. At the moment, all the articles in the Tulu Wikipedia are written in the<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNG-r_p0kAGpwOX1GP7Lp6MoriO3kw"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163188000&usg=AFQjCNHrKJib2xMw_WIlQyZ22JgKHIRyQA">Kannada script</a></span> as most of the speakers are based in the state of Karnataka, and speak Kannada as a second language.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The only possibility of using Tigaliri script is tied to standardizing the script on Unicode, releasing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces#Licensing">freely licensed</a> typeface so that it can be bundled as a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WebFonts">web font</a> to display the script in the case of any mobile or desktop user not having the font installed on their device.Finally the script for existing content<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_multiple_writing_systems"> must be converted</a> from Kannada to Tigaliri.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">There is a series of eight<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial&sa=D&ust=1472239163188000&usg=AFQjCNFke7XyUvuyW2lHuF_ee8pX3XSMew"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNH-8wkOnFZaCnJH8KEADI6E4Gab6g">how-to video tutorials</a></span> that have been created to help new and existing editors to learn more about<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNGnq2K21jd7wjAlllj2EJ9kLgIpmA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNGnq2K21jd7wjAlllj2EJ9kLgIpmA">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a></span>,<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style&sa=D&ust=1472239163190000&usg=AFQjCNFjRSA5-hgW6ekOZSk8txcAOKU9XA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style&sa=D&ust=1472239163190000&usg=AFQjCNFjRSA5-hgW6ekOZSk8txcAOKU9XA">style</a></span> and the editing process.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">“Many students have contributed by creating these tutorials,” says Dr. Badikana.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The current set of editors are doing their best to spread the word about the project while safeguarding the core values of Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">In an interview to the media portal<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id%3D408455&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNEkMJ_8hrzgYI9gNDwlDyr_9fM7YA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id%3D408455&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNEkMJ_8hrzgYI9gNDwlDyr_9fM7YA">Daijiworld</a></span>, <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BHARATHESHA_ALASANDEMAJALU&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNHDO7zseddsVIJrIFcQTNt6AvLXPA">Bharathesha Alasandemajalu</a></span>, an active editor based in Oman said, “Anyone can write or edit articles on Wikipedia Tulu, but it should not be plagiarised [..] Photos should be one's own or uploaded with valid permission from the owner. This will help the future generation to know more about the language and act as a source of information on Tulu language and culture.”</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Badikana moreover shared in an interview with this author that he is hopeful of seeing more Tulu speakers contributing to Tulu Wikipedia, as he feels that growing language content online, combined with work in conventional classrooms, is the best approach to preserving the language.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-30T02:14:13ZBlog EntryMay 2016 Newsletter
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2016-newsletter
<b>Welcome to the May 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Early last year, thanks to the fund raising efforts of a friend of CIS - Suhail Kazi, we received Rs. 1.9 lakhs as donations from 19 individuals. In January this year, we set up an online giving feature on our website which would ease the donation process, but we haven’t got a single donation so far! Today, we are unable to find a single donor who is interested in our Accessibility, Telecom, or RAW programmes. In other words, we need your support. Would you to consider making a small donation to CIS? <strong>Click <a href="http://imojo.in/CISDonations">here</a> to donate.</strong></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 along with 20 other organisations <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/accessible-ict-procurement">petitioned the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information Technology</a> to bring in accessibility considerations within the draft Procurement Bill.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Pavishka Mittal <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/rbi-consultation-paper-on-p2p-lending-legality-and-implications">wrote a blog post</a> on the legality and implications of the Reserve Bank of India's proposed classification of Peer-to-Peer lending companies as non-banking financial institutions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The sixth section of our extended survey of digital initiatives in the practice of arts and humanities in India is <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/new-modes-and-sites-of-humanities-practice">now online</a>. The final report will be published serially, and will comprise seven sections in total.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/call-for-essays-studying-internet-in-india-2016">invites abstracts for essays that explore how we study the Internet in India today</a>. Please send the abstracts (no more than 200 words) to <a>raw@cis-india.org</a> by <strong>Sunday, June 12, 2016</strong>. CIS will select up to 10 abstracts and announce them on <strong>Monday, June 20, 2016</strong>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS filed RTI applications seeking information from institutes such as <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iim-bangalore">IIM Bangalore</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nlu-jodhpur">NLU Jodhpur</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nlsiu">NLSIU</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iit-kanpur">IIT Kanpur</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iit-kharagpur">IIT Kharagpur</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nalsar">NALSAR</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nujs">NUJS</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-delhi-university">Delhi University</a>; and <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iim-ahmedabad">
<div>IIM Ahmedabad.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Adya Garg <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/protecting-the-territory-killing-the-map">wrote an article for the Wire</a> in which they analyzed the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016. They argue that the Bill seems to be undoing various economic and humanitarian efforts, and hindering other opportunities offered by maps.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-draft-new-icann-bylaws">sent its comments on the Draft New ICANN By-Laws</a> in which it observed that the draft by-laws are overwrought and that rather than producing a broad constitutional document for ICANN the by-laws read like the worst of governmental regulations and create more problems than they solve.</li></ul>
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<h3><a href="http://cis-india.org/news">CIS in the News</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS gave inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/exercise-to-correct-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia-begins">Exercise to correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia begins</a> (The Hindu; April 28, 2016). This was mirrored on CIS website on May 1, 2016.</li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mathrubhumi-may-1-2016-thiruvananthapuram-to-host-wikipedia-workshop-on-may-4-5">T’puram to host Wikipedia workshop on May 4, 5</a> (Mathrubhumi; May 1, 2016).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-times-of-india-may-5-2016-spread-awareness-through-malayalam-wikipedia">Spread awareness through Malayalam Wikipedia: Gadgil</a> (The Times of India; May 5, 2016).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-may-6-2016-promoting-online-content-through-wiki-malayalam">Promoting Online Content Through 'Wiki Malayalam'</a> (New Indian Express; May 6, 2016).</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-newsminute-may-6-2016-why-indias-attempt-to-polic-digital-maps-and-satellite-images-is-a-dumb-idea">Why India’s attempt to police digital maps and satellite images is a ‘dumb’ idea </a>(News Minute; May 6, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/economic-times-aman-sharma-neha-alawadhi-may-9-2016-google-apple-and-microsoft-may-need-licence-for-satellite-mapping-in-india">Google, Apple and Microsoft may need licence for satellite mapping in India</a> (Aman Sharma and Neha Alawadhi; Economic Times; May 9, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindu-businessline-may-10-2016-varun-aggarwal-geospatial-info-regulation-bill-will-hurt-start-ups-small-firms">Geospatial Info Regulation Bill will hurt start-ups, small firms</a> (Varun Aggarwal; Hindu BusinessLine; May 10, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/why-the-new-government-policy-mandating-panic-buttons-on-phones-isn2019t-going-to-protect-women">Why The New Government Policy Mandating Panic Buttons On Phones Isn’t Going To Protect Women</a> (The Ladies Finger; May 14, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/voice-of-america-may-17-2016-anjana-pasricha-india-proposed-map-law-prompts-outcry">India's Proposed Map Law Prompts Outcry</a> (Anjana Pasricha; Voice of America; May 17, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-quint-rohit-pathak-may-21-2016-suckly-attacks-national-stock-exchange-tech-vendor-among-others">Suckfly Attacks National Stock Exchange Tech Vendor, Among Others</a> (Rohit Pathak; The Quint; May 21, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/voice-of-america-may-27-2016-india-seeks-to-limit-use-of-maps-and-satellite-images">India Seeks to Limit Use of Maps and Satellite Images</a> (Anjana Pasricha; Voice of America; May 27, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/the-times-of-india-may-29-2016-how-tech-brings-self-reliance-to-students-with-disabilities">How tech brings self-reliance to students with disabilities</a> (The Times of India; May 29, 2016).</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS members wrote the following pieces:</p>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/huffington-post-subhashish-panigrahi-january-25-2016-why-its-essential-to-grow-indian-language-wikipedias">Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Huffington Post; February 2016). The post was mirrored in <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/02/26/why-its-essential-to-grow-indian-language-wikipedias/">Global Voices</a>. The post was translated <a href="https://el.globalvoices.org/2016/05/33834">into Greek</a> by Maria Souli. It was translated <a href="https://es.globalvoices.org/2016/03/26/la-importancia-de-cultivar-las-wikipedias-sobre-los-idiomas-de-la-india/">into Spanish</a> by Daniela Diaz and <a href="https://ru.globalvoices.org/2016/04/20/47945/">into Russian</a> by GV Russian.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-april-3-2016-nishant-shah-a-large-byte-of-your-life">A Large Byte of Your Life</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; April 3, 2016). This was mirrored on the website recently.</li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/open-source-april-15-2016-a-four-year-action-packed-experience-with-wikipedia">A four year, action-packed experience with Wikipedia</a> (Sailesh Patnaik; Opensource.com; April 15, 2016). This was mirrored on CIS website recently.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-nishant-shah-april-17-2016-online-censorship-on-the-rise">Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things Offline</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; April 17, 2016). This was mirrored on the website recently.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-nishant-shah-may-8-2016-facebook-a-platform-with-little-less-sharing-of-personal-information">Facebook: A Platform with Little Less Sharing of Personal Information</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; May 8, 2016). </li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history">Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons</a> (Nahid Sultan and Shailesh Patnaik; Wikimedia Blog; May 9, 2016).</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/identity-of-the-aadhaar-act-supreme-court-and-the-money-bill-question">Identity of the Aadhaar Act: Supreme Court and the Money Bill Question</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Vanya Rakesh; The Wire; May 9, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/criminal-defamation-and-the-supreme-court2019s-loss-of-reputation">Criminal Defamation and the Supreme Court’s Loss of Reputation</a> (Bhairav Acharya; The Wire; May 14, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-wire-may-16-2016-sumandro-chattapadhyay-and-aditya-garg-before-geospatial-bill-a-long-history-of-killing-the-map-in-order-to-protect-the-territory">Before Geospatial Bill: A Long History of Killing the Map in Order to Protect the Territory</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Adya Garg; The Wire; May 16, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/protecting-the-territory-killing-the-map">Protecting the Territory, Killing the Map</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; The Wire; May 17, 2016).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gender-it-rohini-lakshane-may-19-2016-womens-safety-there-is-an-app-for-that">Women's Safety? There is an App for That</a> (Rohini Lakshané; Gender IT.org; May 19, 2016).</div>
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<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40">ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ "ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ" ବିକାଶ ପାଇଁ ଏକାଠି ହେଲେ ପୁରୀର ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; YourStory Odia, May 20, 2016).</li></ul>
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<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-may-22-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-celebrating-13-years-of-kannada-language-wikipedia">Celebrating 13 Years of the Kannada-language Wikipedia</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; DNA; May 22, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/modi2019s-new-intellectual-property-rights-policy-will-only-benefit-players-with-deep-pockets">Modi’s New Intellectual Property Rights Policy Will Only Benefit Players with Deep Pockets</a> (Anubha Sinha; May 28, 2016).</div>
</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>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/May%20Report%202016.pdf" class="external-link">May 2016 Report</a></div>
</li></ul>
<p>►Other</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/accessible-ict-procurement">Accessible ICT Procurement</a> (Pranesh Prakash; May 9, 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;">►Pervasive Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS gathered information from various educational institutions in response to several RTI applications. All of these have been published as different blog posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-jnu">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from JNU</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 15, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iit-kharagpur">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Kharagpur</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 15, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nalsar">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from NALSAR</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 15, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nujs">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from NUJS</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 15, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-delhi-university">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from Delhi University</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 15, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iim-ahmedabad">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIM, Ahmedabad</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 17, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iim-bangalore">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIM, Bangalore</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 21, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nlu-jodhpur">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from NLU, Jodhpur</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 26, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-nlsiu">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from NLSIU</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 27, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mhrd-ipr-chair-series-information-received-from-iit-kanpur">MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Kanpur</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 31, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<p><em>Nisha S. Kumar assisted in the preparation of all these documents.</em></p>
<p>Participation in Event</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/national-conference-on-competition-ipr-in-ict-telecom-mobile-sets">National Confererence on Competition & IPR in ICT, Telecom and Mobile Sets</a> (Organized by CMAI; May 18, 2016; Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi). Rohini Lakshané and Anubha Sinha attended this conference.</li></ul>
<p>Other Blog Entry</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/sectoral-innovation-councils-intellectual-property-rights-2013-rti-requests-dipp-responses">Sectoral Innovation Councils on Intellectual Property Rights – RTI Requests + DIPP Responses</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari and Saahil Dama; May 21, 2016).</li></ul>
<p>►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>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/images-and-links-matter-quality">Images and Links Matter Quality</a> (Rahmanuddin Shaik; May 4, 2016).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/nvvchar-1500-dyk">Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles</a> (Tito Dutta; May 9, 2016).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedias-13-year-old-journey-of-knowledge-sharing">Celebrating the 13th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; May 19, 2016). Ananth Subray contributed to this blog.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- </strong><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /><strong> -----------------------------------</strong></p>
<p>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>►Freedom of Expression</p>
<p><strong>Submission and Comment</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-draft-electronic-health-records-standards">Comments on Draft Electronic Health Records Standards</a> (Amber Sinha; May 28, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-draft-new-icann-bylaws">Submission by the Centre for Internet and Society on Draft New ICANN By-laws</a> (Pranesh Prakash, Vidushi Marda, Udbhav Tiwari and Swati Muthukumar with inputs from Sunil Abraham; May 30, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/criminal-defamation-remains-and-so-does-the-debate">Criminal Defamation Remains and so does the Debate</a> (Japreet Grewal; May 19, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<p>►Privacy</p>
<p><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-issues-with-drm">Privacy Issues with DRM</a> (Jalaj Pandey; May 3, 2016).</li></ul>
<p>Event Organized</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/understanding-aadhaar-and-its-new-challenges-may-26-27-2016">Understanding Aadhaar and its New Challenges</a> (Organized by Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU and CIS; May 26 - 27, 2016; New Delhi). The event was supported by the Centre for Communication Governance at NLU Delhi, Free Software Movement of India, Knowledge Commons, PEACE, and Center for Advancement of Public Understanding of Science & Technology.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong><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 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Announcement</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/call-for-essays-studying-internet-in-india-2016">Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; May 20, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/new-modes-and-sites-of-humanities-practice">New Modes and Sites of Humanities Practice</a> (P.P. Sneha; May 19, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/rbi-consultation-paper-on-p2p-lending-summary">RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Summary</a> (Pavishka Mittal; May 18, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/rbi-consultation-paper-on-p2p-lending-legality-and-implications">RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Legality and Implications</a> (Pavishka Mittal; May 23, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/rbi-consultation-paper-on-p2p-lending">RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Data Security and Privacy Concerns</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; May 31, 2016).</div>
</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 diverse abilities, 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>
<p style="text-align: justify;">► Follow us elsewhere</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">► Support Us</p>
<div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">► Request for Collaboration</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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<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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2016-newsletter'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2016-newsletter</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaNewsletter2016-06-10T19:34:10ZNews ItemMay 2015 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2015-bulletin
<b>Newsletter for the month of May can be accessed below.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Editor’s Note: After seven years of having used Inigo Tech headed by Khairil Yousuf for its email server, CIS shifted recently to <a href="https://greenhost.net/about-us/">Greenhost Projects</a>, founded in 2001 by Mart van Santen and Sacha van Geffen. Greenhost offers a fresh approach to ICT and sustainability and also supports various projects in the fields of education, culture and journalism. While being grateful to Inigo Tech for providing secure services over the years, CIS takes this opportunity to welcome Greenhost on board. During this migration there was a total disruption of service and CIS couldn’t send its monthly bulletins earlier. CIS further apologises for the delay in the June newsletter which will also be sent shortly. From July onwards we will be back on track.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------<br />Highlights<br />-------------------------------</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>G3ict and CIS jointly researched and published a report titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services-global-trends-in-accessibility-requirements" target="_blank">Inclusive Financial Services - Global Trends in Accessibility Requirements</a>. The research paper comprises a Foreword and Introduction, four chapters — Barriers to Access for Persons with Disabilities and Diverse Abilities, International Framework, Integrating Accessibility into the System, and State of Practice - Impact of the Convention on Inclusive Finance and Accessibility Efforts around the Globe. Pina D’ Intino from Scotiabank and Mohan Tanksale of Indian Banks Association were also contributors to the report.</li>
<li>During the month NVDA team conducted training in basic computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-espeak-assamese">Assamese</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-training-workshop">Tamil</a>. NVDA team also conducted a <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-30-days-summer-course-on-basic-computer-competencies-and-language-proficiency">30 Days Summer Course on Basic Computer Competencies and Language Proficiency</a>.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS has prepared <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/joining-the-dots-in-indias-big-ticket-mobile-phone-patent-litigation">an analysis</a> of the commonalities in big-ticket patent infringement lawsuits pertaining to mobile devices.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/international-open-data-charter-first-public-draft">first public draft of the International Open Data Charter</a> was released at the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa in May. CIS had contributed comments to a previous version of the draft, and also took part in the pre-release meeting of potential stewards of the Charter on May 26 in Ottawa.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Fibreculture Journal has accepted an abstract from Sumandro Chattapadhyay for its upcoming issue on 'Computing the City.' The paper titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/smart-cities-and-the-primitive-accumulation-of-data-abstract">Mathematisation of the Urban and not Urbanisation of Mathematics: Smart Cities and the Primitive Accumulation of Data</a> proposes that production, circulation, and ownership of data must be considered as a central problematique in the discussions of smart cities.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>An <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/making-in-the-humanities-2013-some-questions-and-conflicts">abstract for a proposed chapter</a> on 'making' in the humanities has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press.</li>
<li>Chinmayi Arun has authored a research paper titled <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/paper-thin-safeguards-and-mass-surveillance-in-india">Paper-thin Safeguards and Mass Surveillance in India</a> that tells readers of Indian government’s new mass surveillance systems and the threats it has on right to privacy.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in March 2015 invited comments on its Consultation Paper for the regulation of over-the-top (OTT) services. In an unprecedented wave of public participation, TRAI received over a million e-mails in support of net neutrality. CIS has <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-and-the-disclosure-of-personal-information">prepared a note</a> which sets out the law in relation to the unauthorized disclosure of personal information.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Shyam Ponappa’s op-ed titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-op-ed-may-6-2015-shyam-ponappa-stranded-capacities-and-greater-expectations">Stranded Capacities and Greater Expectations</a> in the Business Standard on May 6 highlights India’s infrastructure problems.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Vacancies at CIS</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/intern-for-pervasive-technologies-project">Intern</a> (Pervasive Technologies Project)</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/internship-application">Interns</a> (Other Projects) for its offices in Bangalore and Delhi.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility and Inclusion</a><br /> ----------------------------------------------<br /> Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing two projects. The first project is on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. CIS in partnership with CLPR (Centre for Law and Policy Research) compiled the National Compendium of Policies, Programmes and Schemes for Persons with Disabilities (29 states and 6 union territories). The project was completed, books in English and Hindi were printed and are being sent to ministries, departments, panchayats and NGOs around the country. The publication can be accessed on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/national-resource-kit-project">project page</a>. The second project is on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►NVDA and eSpeak</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Monthly Updates</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/may-2015-report.pdf">May 2015 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; April 30, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Training Programmes</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-at-tiruchirappalli">eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA</a> (Centre for Differently-abled Persons, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli; May 4 – 8, 2015). Seventeen delegates attended.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-espeak-assamese">Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Assamese</a> (Monfort School, Guwahati; May 9 – 10, 2015). Eleven delegates attended.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/espeak-indian-languages-during-tot-conducted-by-enable-india">Training in the Use of eSpeak for Indian Languages during TOT</a> (Organized by Enable India; May 11 – 20, 2015; Blind Empowerment Association, Kolkata). Twenty-six delegates attended.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-training-workshop">Tamil Language</a> (Differently Abled Children Section, District Central Library, Coimbatore; May 25 – 29, 2015). Twenty-one delegates attended.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-use-of-espeak-hindi-on-windows-and-android-platforms">Training on the Use of eSpeak Hindi on Windows and Android Platforms</a> (Indian Association for the Blind, Delhi; May 28, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-30-days-summer-course-on-basic-computer-competencies-and-language-proficiency">Report on 30 Days Summer Course on Basic Computer Competencies and Language Proficiency</a> (Karna Vidya Technology Centre, Thiru-Vi-Ka, Industrial Estate, Chennai, May 1 – 30, 2015). Twenty delegates attended.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entry</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-manipuri-language-testing">Report on the Progress in Manipuri Language Testing</a> (May 10, 2015). This blog post captures the key updates of the work done by CIS team for Manipuri language.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>White Paper</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services-global-trends-in-accessibility-requirements">Inclusive Financial Services - Global Trends in Accessibility Requirements</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; May 3, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a><br /> -----------------------------------------------------------<br /> As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/literature-survey-patent-landscaping-in-the-indian-marketplace">Literature Survey: Patent Landscaping in the Indian Marketplace</a> (Rohini Lakshané; December 31, 2014). This post has been updated.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2015-ustr-report-old-wine-in-new-bottle">2015 USTR Report: Old Wine in New Bottle</a> (Anubha Sinha; May 11, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/call-for-participation-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest">Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a> (Anubha Sinha; May 14, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-who-is-a-public-authority-under-rti-act">National IPR Policy Series: Who is a 'public authority' under the RTI Act?</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari and Devrupa Rakshit; May 21, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/report-global-intellectual-property-convention-2015">Report: Global Intellectual Property Convention 2015</a> (Rohini Lakshané; May 22, 2015). Anna Liz Thomas and Nayana Dasgupta assisted with the making of this report.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-cis-letter-to-ipr-think-tank">National IPR Policy Series - CIS Letter to IPR Think Tank</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; May 26, 2015). CIS acknowledges Varun Baliga and Devrupa Rakshit for their research.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/joining-the-dots-in-indias-big-ticket-mobile-phone-patent-litigation">Joining the Dots in India's Big-Ticket Mobile Phone Patent Litigation</a> (Rohini Lakshané; May 31, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b><br />CIS gave inputs for the following:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-times-of-india-april-10-2015-evelyn-fok-and-varun-aggarwal-one-reason-startups-are-moving-out-of-india">One reason startups are moving out of India</a> (Evelyn Fok and Varun Aggarwal; The Times of India; April 10, 2015). This was also mirrored in <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/economic-times-april-10-2015-evelyn-fok-varun-aggarwal-better-intellectual-property-values-luring-indian-startups-abroad">Economic Times</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/iam-media-jack-ellis-april-28-2015-indian-businesses-crave-ip-certainty-but-better-patent-values-are-tempting-them-overseas">Indian businesses crave IP certainty, but better patent values are tempting them overseas</a> (IAM Magazine; April 28, 2015).</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; "><b>Articles</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-may-31-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikipedia-set-to-celebrate-13-years-of-volunteer-contributions">Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; May 13, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/the-samaja-op-ed-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikipedia-journey-13-years">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ: ନୂତନ ଯୁଗର ଆରମ୍ଭ</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; May 31, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/opensource-subhashish-panigrahi-may-31-2015-odia-language-wikipedia-page-grows-to-800k-page-views-a-month">Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A Month</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; May 31, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/international-open-data-charter-first-public-draft">International Open Data Charter: First Public Draft</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; May 29, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/phandeeyar-event-open-street-map-mapping-workshop">Open Street Map "Mapping Workshop"</a> (Organized by Phandeeyar; Yangon; May 13, 2015). Sumandro Chattapadhyay conducted a workshop. Twenty delegates attended.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/phandeeyar-event-what-is-open-data-movement-and-why-does-it-matter">What is the Open Data Movement & Why Does it Matter?</a> (Organized by Phandeeyar; Yangon; May 13, 2015). Twenty-five delegates attended. Sumandro Chattapadhyay gave a talk.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a><br /> -----------------------------------------------<br /> 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 International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/paper-thin-safeguards-and-mass-surveillance-in-india">Paper-thin Safeguards and Mass Surveillance in India</a> (Chinmayi Arun; May 20, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-transformative-power-of-online-activism">The Transformative Power of Online Activism</a> (Organized by Hertie School of Governance; Berlin; May 4, 2015). Rohini Lakshané was a panelist. The event was part of the re:thinking tomorrow series.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/consilience-nls-2015">Consilience</a> (Organized by National Law School of India University, Bangalore; May 9 – 10, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">---------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a><br /> ---------------------------------<br /> CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-sanjay-vijaykumar-may-10-2015-pranesh-prakash-on-definition-of-net-neutrality">Definition of Net Neutrality should be flexible: Pranesh Prakash</a> (Sanjay Vijaykumar; The Hindu; May 10, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/anti-harassment-app-wins-hackathon-for-women">Anti-harassment app wins hackathon for women</a> (Sci Dev Net; May 15, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tnwnews-may-28-2015-abhimanyu-ghoshal-indian-music-streaming-service-gaana-hacked-millions-of-users-details-exposed">Indian music streaming service Gaana hacked, millions of users’ details exposed</a> (Abhimanyu Ghoshal; TNW News; May 28, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/mxmindia-may-27-2015-dyanne-coelho-your-phone-is-a-surveillance-device-your-isp-a-surveillance-provider">Your phone is a surveillance device, your ISP a surveillance provider…: Pranesh Prakash</a> (Dyanne Coelho; mxmindia.com; May 27, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-may-29-2015-jochelle-mendonca-and-neha-alawadhi-digital-india">Digital India: PM Modi to launch BJP's flagship programme likely in July</a> (Jochelle Mendonca and Neha Alawadhi; Economic Times; May 29, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-jochelle-mendonca-neha-alawadhi-may-29-2015-digital-india-launch-likely-in-july">Digital India launch likely in July</a> (Jochelle Mendonca and Neha Alawadhi; The Times of India; May 29, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-telegraph-may-31-2015-only-digital-sex-please">Only digital sex, please</a> (Prasun Chandhuri and Avijit Chatterjee; The Telegraph; May 31, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a><br /> --------------------------------<br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It is interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/making-in-the-humanities-2013-some-questions-and-conflicts">Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts</a> (P.P. Sneha; May 22, 2015).</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/smart-cities-and-the-primitive-accumulation-of-data-abstract">Mathematisation of the Urban and not Urbanisation of Mathematics: Smart Cities and the Primitive Accumulation of Data - Accepted Abstract</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; May 25, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a><br /> --------------------------------<br /> 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 had worked with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Comments</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-and-the-disclosure-of-personal-information">TRAI and the Disclosure of Personal Information</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari and Vidushi Marda; May 10, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Op-ed</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-op-ed-may-6-2015-shyam-ponappa-stranded-capacities-and-greater-expectations">Stranded Capacities & Greater Expectations</a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; May 6, 2015 and Organizing India Blogspot; May 8, 2015).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/news/5-g-workshop-schedule.pdf">5G Technologies Workshop</a> (Organized by IEEE Communications Society Bangalore Chapter; The Capitol Hotel, Bangalore; May 22 – 23, 2015). Rohini Lakshané attended the workshop.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">---------------------------------<br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a><br /> ---------------------------------<br /> The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Follow us elsewhere</p>
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<li>Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
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<li>Visit us at:<a href="https://cis-india.org/"> </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge</a></li>
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<li>E-mail: <a href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Support Us</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Request for Collaboration:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at <a href="mailto:tanveer@cis-india.org">tanveer@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>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, The Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.</i></p>
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No publishernirmita2015-07-29T14:29:08ZPageMay 2014 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2014-bulletin
<b>Our newsletter for the month of May is below:</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcome you to the fifth issue of the newsletter (May) for the year 2014. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed at: <a href="https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2>
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<li>We have published a summary of the various landmark judgments given by the Supreme Court and some of the high courts in a blog post as part of our National Resource Kit project.</li>
<li>CIS submitted its comments on the Open Licensing Policy Guidelines to the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.</li>
<li>The Access to Knowledge team from CIS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College to introduce “Indian Language Wikipedias in the Indian Under Graduate and Post Graduate Classroom”.</li>
<li>Sunil Abraham wrote an article “Net Freedom Campaign Loses its Way” in the Hindu Businessline which analyses the recently concluded NETMundial. </li>
<li>Divij Joshi gives a comparative analysis of the United States of America and India with regards to search and seizure and the right to privacy in digital age. </li>
<li>Anirudh Sridhar has produced an essay “Binary Code Invades the Universal Problematic” looks at language as an archive and posits, through a reading of Foucault, Derrida, Saussure and Jakobson that the means of perceiving language in the digital has changed.</li>
<li>As part of its Making Change project CIS is holding a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at CIS office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014.</li>
<li>Earlier this year (February 11 – 17) we organized the second Institute on Internet in Pune. A draft of the Knowledge Repository on Internet Access was presented at the event. We are uploading digital versions of the repository for archival purposes. Three units (The Body in Cyberspace, Access to Knowledge and Openness) have been published.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility and Inclusion</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing two projects. The first project is on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. We compiled the first draft of the kit (29 states and 6 union territories). The chapters along with the quarterly reports can be accessed on the <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/national-resource-kit-project">project page</a>. The second project is on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">NVDA and eSpeak</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Monthly Update</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/nvda-e-speak-update-may-2014.pdf">Work Report for May</a> (by Suman Dogra, May 31, 2014). </li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">National Resource Kit</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/summary-of-judgments-on-disability-rights">Summary of Judgements on Disability Rights</a> (by CLPR, May 15, 2014). </li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Other</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/the-road-to-financial-inclusion">The Road to Financial Inclusion</a> (by Amba Salelkar, May 12, 2014). </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/open-house-with-george-abraham">Open House with George Abraham: Mainstreaming Persons with Disabilities</a> (by Anandhi Viswanathan, May 22, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/events/open-house-session-with-george-abraham">An Open House Session with George Abraham</a> (co-organized by Ashoka India and CIS, Ashoka-Innovators for the Public, Bangalore, May 21, 2014). </li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Submission</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/comments-on-open-licensing-policy-guidelines-of-national-mission-on-education-through-information-and-communication-technology">Comments on the Open Licensing Policy Guidelines of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology</a> (by Sunil Abraham and Nehaa Chaudhari, May 28, 2014). The comments were submitted to the NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/france-greece-india-eu-sign-marrakesh-treaty">France, Greece, India and the European Union Sign the Marrakesh Treaty</a> (by Nehaa Chaudhari, May 2, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/open-govt-partnership-asia-pacific-regional-conference-may-6-7-2014">OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference</a> (co-organized by Web Foundation, World Bank, and UKP-PPP, Bali, May 6 – 7, 2014). Sunil Abraham was a speaker in the session on “Open Data in Asia-Pacific: a Cross-Country Learning Discussion”. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/third-world-network-may-5-2014-wipo-scope-and-rights-of-potential-broadcasting-treaty-clarified">WIPO: Scope and rights of potential broadcasting treaty clarified</a> (by Alexandra Bhattacharya, SUNS – South-North Development Monitor, May 5, 2014 and cross-posted in Third World Network, May 6, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/ip-watch-catherine-saez-may-1-2014-wipo-authors-civil-society-watchful-of-rights-for-broadcasters">At WIPO, Authors, Civil Society Watchful of Rights for Broadcasters</a> (by Catherin Saez, IP Watch, May 1, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/open-government-partnership-michael-canares-may-6-2014-pushing-the-boundaries-in-open-governance">Pushing the Boundaries in Open Governance: Insights from OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Bali, Indonesia (Day 1)</a> (by Michael Canares, Open Government Partnership, May 6, 2014 and cross-posted in Open Data Research Network, May 27, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following has been done under <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Announcement</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/cis-signs-mou-with-sdm-college">CIS Signs MoU with Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College</a> (by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, May 27, 2014): to introduce “Indian Language Wikipedias in the Indian Under Graduate and Post Graduate Classroom”. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on behalf of the CIS-A2K team signed the MoU. The signing event took place earlier on April 21, 2014. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Articles</b></p>
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<b> </b>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/opensource-education-may-2-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-books-and-more-are-relicensed-to-creative-commons">Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Opensource.com, May 2, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-glam-may-22-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-glam-in-india-10-tips-for-successful-glam-projects">GLAM in India: 10 tips for successful GLAM projects</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, OpenGLAM, May 27, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-education-working-group-may-27-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources">Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Open Education Working Group, May 27, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-workshop-udupi">Tulu Wikipedia Workshop</a> (co-organized by CIS-A2K and the Regional Research Centre, MGM College, Udupi, May 25, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>News and Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-15-2014-wikipedia-ug-education-christ-university">Wikipedia in UG Education program at Christ University</a> (Prajavani, May 15, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/open-glam-working-group-members-subhashish-panigrahi">Subhashish Panigrahi joins Open GLAM Working Group</a>: Subhashish recently joined the OpenGLAM Working Group (a global network of people who work to open up cultural data and content.) as a member and OpenGLAM Local (a local affiliate of OKFN's OpenGLAM project) as an ambassador for India. Both the positions will be voluntary.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h2>
<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 International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">FOEX Live</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of our MacArthur project on free speech and expression we are posting a selection of news from across India implicating online freedom of expression and use of digital technology:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>News Compilation</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/foex-live-may-26-27-2014">May 26-27, 2014</a>; <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/foex-live-may-28-29-2014">May 28-29, 2014</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Articles</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-hindu-business-line-may-10-2014-sunil-abraham-net-freedom-campaign-loses-its-way">Net Freedom Campaign Loses its Way</a> (by Sunil Abraham, Hindu Businessline, May 10, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/dml-central-april-17-2014-nishant-shah-networks-what-you-dont-see-is-what-you-for-get">Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get</a> (by Nishant Shah, DML Central, April 17, 2014 and cross-posted in Hybrid Publishing Lab, May 13, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/ecj-rules-internet-search-engine-operator-responsible-for-processing-personal-data-published-by-third-parties">European Court of Justice rules Internet Search Engine Operator responsible for Processing Personal Data Published by Third Parties</a> (by Jyoti Panday, May 14, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-neutrality-free-speech-and-the-indian-constitution-2013-iii-conceptions-of-free-speech-and-democracy">Net Neutrality, Free Speech and the Indian Constitution – III: Conceptions of Free Speech and Democracy</a> (by Gautam Bhatia, May 18, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/freedom-of-expression-scholars-conference-2">Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 2</a> (organized by Yale Law School, May 2-4, 2014). Pranesh Prakash participated as a discussant in the session “Speech and Safety Laboratories”.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/re-publica-2014-looking-for-freedom">Re:publica 2014: Looking for Freedom</a> (organized by Re:publica in partnership with DAIMLER, Global Innovation Gathering, Microsoft and Science: Lab, Berlin, May 6 – 8, 2014). Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at the session “The Architecture of Invisible Censorship: How Digital and Meatspace Censorship Differ”.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/harvard-university-may-13-2014-does-size-matter">Does Size Matter? A Tale of Performing Welfare, Producing Bodies and Faking Identity</a> (organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, May 13, 2014). Malavika Jayaram gave a talk on “Does Size Matter? A Tale of Performing Welfare, Producing Bodies and Faking Identity”.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/future-of-cyber-governance">The Future of Cyber Governance</a> (organized by Hague Institute for Global Justice in association with the Observer Research Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands, and the Netherlands Institute for International Relations – Clingendael, The Hague, May 13 – 15, 2014). Sunil Abraham was a speaker in the session “Do users of major social media platforms have adequate protection of their rights to privacy and freedom of expression?” and “Expert Panel on the Future of Cyber Governance”.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wsis-high-level-event-open-consultation-process">WSIS+10 High-Level Event: Open Consultation Process</a> (organized by ITU, UNESCO, United Nations and UNDP, WIPO Conference Room, Geneva, May 28 – 31, 2014). Jyoti Panday participated in this event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/events/national-elections-2014-how-technology-powered-campaigns">National Elections 2014: How Technology Powered Campaigns</a> (organized by HasGeek and CIS, Bangalore, May 23, 2014). Vijay Grover, founder of Bangalore Media Foundation, Viral Shah, part of Nandan Nilekani's campaign management team, and BG Mahesh, founder and managing director at Oneindia.in, made presentations.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Privacy</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Articles</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/filtering-content-on-the-internet">Filtering content on the internet</a> (by Chinmayi Arun, The Hindu, May 6, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-hoot-may-20-2014-bhairav-acharya-legislating-for-privacy">Legislating for Privacy - Part II</a> (by Bhairav Acharya, The Hoot, May 20, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/search-and-seizure-and-right-to-privacy-in-digital-age">Search and Seizure and the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: A Comparison of US and India</a> (by Divij Joshi, May 31, 2014). </li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-times-of-india-may-6-2014-laxmi-ajai-prasanna-civil-society-pushes-for-privacy-panel">Civil Society Pushes for Privacy Panel</a> (by Laxmi Ajai Prasanna, The Times of India, May 6, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-may-21-2014-sruthy-susan-ullas-students-lead-the-way-with-apps-for-ideas">Students lead the way with apps for ideas</a> (by Sruthy Susan Ullas, The Times of India, May 21, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/business-standard-may-23-2014-surabhi-agarwal-india-needs-better-cyber-police">India needs better cyber police</a> (by Surabhi Agarwal, Business Standard, May 23, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-times-of-india-may-25-2014-purnima-sharma-digital-death-log-off-in-peace">Digital death: Log off in peace</a> (by Purnima Sharma, The Times of India, May 25, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/binary-code-invades-the-universal-problematic">Binary Code Invades the Universal Problematic</a> (by Anirudh Sridhar, May 26, 2014).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Newspaper Column</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/organizing-india-blogspot-shyam-ponappa-may-1-2014-an-infrastructure-road-map">An Infrastructure Road Map</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, April 30, 2014 and Organizing India Blogspot, May 1, 2014).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of our research (with Ford Foundation) on the origins of the Internet in India, its impact on the Indian GDP and topics and debates surrounding the Internet in today's world we published the following units:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/body-in-cyberspace">The Body in Cyberspace</a> (by Nishant Shah, May 13, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/access-2-knowledge">Access to Knowledge</a> (by Anirudh Sridhar, May 22, 2014).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/openness">Openness</a> (by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Anirudh Sridhar, May 30, 2014).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►<b> Follow us elsewhere</b></p>
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<li>Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>Facebook group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k">https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k</a></li>
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<li>E-mail: <a href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">► <b>Support Us</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► <b>Request for Collaboration</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>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.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2014-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2014-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishna2014-07-04T04:59:03ZPageMay 2013 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/may-2013-bulletin
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the fifth issue of its newsletter for 2013. We bring you an overview of our research, report of events held by us and announcement of upcoming ones, events we participated in, and recent media coverage.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/celebrating-5-years-of-cis">Celebrating 5 Years of CIS</a></b><br />CIS is now 5 years old and we just celebrated this by holding an open exhibition in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, showcasing our work and accomplishments over the period. We had about 170 visitors from the general public coming in to our office. Renowned artists like Tara Kelton, Kiran Subbaiah, Navin Thomas, Abhishek Hazra and Sharath Chandra Ram exhibited their work. The four day event attracted press coverage: <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-18-2013-ngo-invites-public-to-peruse-its-accounts">Bangalore Mirror</a> (May 18, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dna-india-may-19-2013-subir-ghosh-a-lifetime-of-five-years-on-the-internet">DNA</a> (May 19, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-may-22-2013-cis-highlights-changes-ushered-in-by-the-internet">Hindu</a> (May 22, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-pavanaja-talk-at-cis">Prajavani</a> (May 23, 2013), <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-report-on-cis-5-years-celebration">Udayavani</a> (May 25, 2013) and <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-31-2013-shooting-cyber-cafes-before-they-die">Bangalore Mirror</a> (May 31, 2013). <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-5-years-all-posters.zip">Download all posters that were part of the exhibition here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/google-policy-fellowship-call-for-applications-2013"><b>Google Policy Fellowship</b></a><br />CIS is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India fellow who will be selected by July 1, 2013. The Fellowship focus areas include Access to Knowledge, Openness in India, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Telecom. Send in your applications for the position by June 15, 2013.</p>
<p><b>Jobs</b><br /> CIS invites applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-developer">Developer</a> (NVDA Screen Reader Project), and <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-internet-governance">Programme Officer</a> (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> and <a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is doing two projects in partnership with the <b>Hans Foundation</b>. One is to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India and another for developing a screen reader and text-to- speech synthesizer for Indian languages. CIS is also working with the World Blind Union and other similar organisations to develop a Treaty for the Visually Impaired helped by the WIPO:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities<br /></b>Anandhi Viswanathan from CIS and Manojna Yeluri from the Centre for Law and Policy Research are working in this project. Draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the chapters on Sikkim and Odisha:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-sikkim-chapter-call-for-comments">The Sikkim Chapter</a> (by Manojna Yeluri, May 30, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-odisha-call-for-comments">The Odisha Chapter</a> (by Anandhi Viswanathan, May 31, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: <i>All of these are early drafts and will be reviewed and updated</i>.</p>
<p><b>Banking Accessibility</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/survey-on-banking-accessibility">Survey on Banking Accessibility</a> (by Vrinda Maheshwari, May 30, 2013). G3ict is a survey on accessibility of financial services in banks for persons with disabilities around the world. The survey is available <a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1187917/Survey-on-Banking-Accessibility">here</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/global-accessibility-awareness-day-event">Global Accessibility Awareness Day</a> (May 9, 2013, TERI, Southern Regional Centre, Domlur, Bangalore).</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikimedia Foundation <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop the growth of Indic language communities and projects by community collaborations and partnerships. This is being carried out by the Access to Knowledge team based in Delhi. CIS is also doing a project (Pervasive Technologies) on examining the relationship between production of pervasive technologies and intellectual property. CIS also promotes openness including open government data, open standards, open access, and free/libre/open source software through its Openness programme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia)</b><br />Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Bangalore: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and one team member <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a> who is working from Delhi office. <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>, Programme Officer has left the organisation. April 24, 2013 was her last working day.</p>
<p><b>Announcements</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/resources/access-to-knowledge-work-plan">Access to Knowledge Work Plan</a> (April 2013 - June 2014): CIS has announced its detailed plan detailed plan with projection of outcomes and expected impact of the A2K programme activities. The document has been made in consultation with various stakeholders and keeping in mind the objectives, opportunities and challenges faced by each of the Indian language Wikimedia projects. Feel free to share any feedback.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">WMF-A2K Revised Budget (draft) and Utilization (Sept 2012 - Feb 2013): In our effort to increase transparency with the working of CIS-A2K programme, we are <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf">sharing</a> with you the A2K Programme Budget along with the Utilization for the period Sept. 2012 to February 2013. The proposed revisions to the budget along with some notes are <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Revised_Budget_%28draft%29_and_Utilization_Sept_12-Feb_13.pdf">here</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf">WMF-A2K Grant Budget and Utilization</a> (Sept 2012 – February 2013): CIS has given an open disclosure of the Access to Knowledge budget to Wikimedia India and the global community.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/cis-signs-mou-with-tiss">CIS Signs MOU with TISS, Mumbai</a>: has signed a MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">India Access to Knowledge IRC can be accessed here: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/IRC/13th_May">May 13, 2013</a> (All Language Discussion) and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/IRC/26th_May">May 26, 2013</a> (Odia Language Discussion). </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment">Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 11, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/access-to-knowledge-work-plan-synopsis-of-feedback-by-wikipedians">Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians</a> (by Nitika Tandon, May 20, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-introductory-session">Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 30, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Participated In</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-irc-meet-may-7-2013">Kannada IRC Meet</a> (organised by the Wikipedia Community, May 7, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-humanities-for-indian-higher-education">Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education</a> (co-organised in collaboration with HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS (IISc), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 13, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Press Coverage</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-cis-celebrates-5-years">CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Prajavani</a> (Prajavani, May 23, 2013). Prajavani published a report of Dr. U.B. Pavanja’s talk “From Palm Leaf to Tablet – Journey of Kannada”.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-cis-celebrates-5-years">CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Udayavani</a> (Udayavani, May 25, 2013). Udayavani published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Access to Knowledge (Previously IP Reforms)</span><br />Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/unfortunate-rise-of-india-slapp-suit">On the Unfortunate Rise of the Indian SLAPP Suit</a> (by Ujwala Uppaluri, May 27, 2013).</li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Openness</b></span><br /><b>Research Papers</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/current-science-vol-101-10-1287-s-gunasekharan-s-arunachalam-use-of-open-access-journals-by-indian-researchers">Use of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers</a> (by Subbiah Gunasekharan and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, May 27, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/use-made-of-open-access-journals-by-indian-researchers-to-publish-their-findings">Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their Findings</a> (by Madhan Muthu and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, May 28, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Comments</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/comments-on-draft-icar-open-access-policy">Draft ICAR Open Access Policy</a> (by Nehaa Chaudhari, May 28, 2013). The comments were submitted to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research.</li>
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<p><b>Event Hosted</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/rhok-bangalore-2013">RHoK Global Event</a> (Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, June 1 – 2, 2013). A report of the event would be published soon.</li>
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<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes. We began two new projects earlier this year. The first one, with Privacy International, London to facilitate research and events around surveillance, and freedom of speech and expression and the second one with Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto on mapping of cyber security actors in South Asia and South East Asia:</p>
<p><b>Cyber Stewards Project</b><br />Laird Brown, a strategic planner and writer with core competencies on brand analysis, public relations and resource management and Purba Sarkar who in the past worked as a strategic advisor in the field of SAP Retail are working in this project.</p>
<p><b>Video Interview</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-cybersecurity-series-part-1-christopher-soghoian">An Interview with Christopher Soghoian</a> (May 28, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/geo-politics-of-information-controls">The Geopolitics of Information Controls: A Presentation by Masashi Crete-Nishihata</a> (TERI, Bangalore, June 19, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Privacy</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comparative-analysis-of-dna-profiling-legislations-across-the-world">Comparative Analysis of DNA Profiling Legislations from Across the World</a> (by Srinivas Atreya, May 23, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Events Co-organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/report-on-the-third-privacy-round-table-meeting">3rd Privacy Round Table meeting</a> (co-organised with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Data Security Council of India, Chennai, May 18, 2013). Maria Xynou participated in this event and gives an overview of the discussions and recommendations.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/consilience-2013-law-technology-committee-nls-bangalore">Consilience – 2013</a> (co-organised with the Law and Technology Committee of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, May 25, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Events Participated In</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/towards-a-global-network-of-internet-and-society-cultures">ICT, Law and Innovation: Recent Developments, Challenges and Lessons Learned</a> (organised by Bilgi University, Istanbul, May 2013). Chinmayi Arun was a speaker on the Internet Governance panel at Towards a Global Network of Internet and Society Centres.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">India’s Politics of Free Expression (co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Centre, Free Speech Debate, the Oxford India Society and Ideas for India Oxbridge Exchange, May 31, 2013 at Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford). Chinmayi Arun was a speaker at the <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/sant-ox-ac-uk-may-31-2013-bapsybanoo-marchioness-winchester-lectures">Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lectures</a> on 'India's Politics of Free Expression'.</li>
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<p><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-mumbai">Privacy Round Table, Mumbai</a> (Mayfair Banquets, Mumbai, June 15, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-surveillance-industry-in-india-at-least-76-companies-aiding-our-watchers">The Surveillance Industry in India: At Least 76 Companies Aiding Our Watchers!</a> (by Maria Xynou, May 2, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/mumbai-mirror-anand-holla-may-4-2013-sex-on-the-go">Sex on-the-go</a> (by Anand Holla, Mumbai Mirror, May 4, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-business-line-may-5-2013-cis-anniversary">CIS anniversary</a> (Hindu Business Line, May 5, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-indu-nandakumar-may-7-2013-cms-to-make-govt-privy-to-phone-calls-text-messages-and-social-media-conversations">Central Monitoring System to make government privy to phone calls, text messages and social media conversations</a> (by Indu Nandakumar, May 7, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/quartz-may-8-2013-leo-mirani-messaging-apps-find-another-foe-in-indias-market-regulator">Messaging apps find another foe in India’s market regulator</a> (Quartz, May 8, 2013). Elonnai Hickok is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/tech-2-may-9-2013-indias-rs-400-crore-central-monitoring-system-to-snoop-on-all-communication">India's Rs 400-crore Central Monitoring System to snoop on all communication</a> (Tech 2, May 9, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/global-post-talia-ralph-jason-overdorf-may-9-2013-is-indias-govt-becoming-big-brother">Is India's government becoming Big Brother?</a> (by Talia Ralph and Jason Overdorf, May 9, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-op-ed-may-15-2013-world-wide-playground">Worldwide Playground</a> (Telegraph, May 15, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-18-2013-ngo-invites-public-to-peruse-its-accounts">NGO invites public to peruse its accounts</a> (by Vandana Kamath, May 18, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-anirban-sen-may-19-2013-online-privacy-should-not-come-at-the-cost-of-security">Online privacy should not come at the cost of security: Sunil Abraham</a> (by Anirban Sen, May 19, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dna-india-may-19-2013-subir-ghosh-a-lifetime-of-five-years-on-the-internet">A lifetime of five years on the internet</a> (by Subir Ghosh, DNA, May 19, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-may-22-2013-cis-highlights-changes-ushered-in-by-the-internet">CIS highlights changes ushered in by the Internet</a> (Hindu, May 22, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/asian-correspondent-chan-myae-khine-may-22-2013-burma-to-host-internet-freedom-forum">Burma to host first Internet freedom forum</a> (by Chan Myae Khine, Asian Correspondent, May 22, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/businesswire-may-30-2013-inet-bangkok-to-explore-internet-impact-on-thailand-economy-and-society">INET Bangkok to Explore Internet’s Impact on Thailand’s Economy and Society</a> (BusinessWire, May 30, 2013). Sunil Abraham is participating in this conference. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/bangalore-mirror-vandana-kamath-may-31-2013-shooting-cyber-cafes-before-they-die">Shooting cyber cafes before they die</a> (by Bangalore Mirror, May 31, 2013). CIS’s film on Cyber Cafes is mentioned in this article.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="visualHighlight"><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a></span><br />CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project on Internet Access. It covers the history of the internet, technologies involved, principle and values of internet access, broadband market and universal access and will touch upon various polices and regulations which has an impact on internet access and bodies and mechanism which are responsible for formulation policies related to internet access. The blog posts and modules will be published in a new website: <a href="http://www.internet-institute.in">www.internet-institute.in</a>.</p>
<p><b>Ongoing Event</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/institute-on-internet-and-society">Institute on Internet and Society</a> (supported by Ford Foundation, Golden Palms Resort, Bangalore, June 8 – 14, 2013). The <a href="http://internet-institute.in/repository/agenda-revised-by-sv">agenda</a> for the event has been finalised.</li>
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<p>The following unit was published recently:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/network-connections-modes-of-access">Network Connections and Modes of Access</a> (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, May 30, 2013).</li>
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<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility of 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>
<p><b>Newspaper Column</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-may-9-2013-shyam-ponappa-configuring-a-non-toothless-trai">Configuring a 'Non-Toothless' Regulator</a> (TRAI) (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, May 9, 2013 and Organizing India Blogspot, May 10, 2013).</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceOpennessResearchers at Work2013-08-13T11:51:46ZPageMarch 2016 Bulletin
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<b>CIS Newsletter for the month of March 2016 is here.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to share its March 2016 newsletter. Previous issues of the newsletters can be accessed at <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS published and circulated two press releases on March 11 and 15, 2016, as the Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016: '<a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/press-release-aadhaar-11032016-the-law-cannot-fix-what-technology-has-broken">The Law cannot Fix what Technology has Broken!</a>' and '<a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/press-release-aadhaar-15032016-the-new-bill-makes-aadhaar-compulsory">The New Bill Makes Aadhaar Compulsory!</a>'</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS submitted <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/list-of-recommendations-on-the-aadhaar-bill-2016">an initial list of recommendations to the Members of Parliaments</a> to highlight the aspects of the Bill that require immediate attention. The recommendations were prepared by Amber Sinha, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Sunil Abraham, and Vanya Rakesh.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">In an article titled <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/epw-27-february-2016-hans-varghese-mathews-flaws-in-uidai-process">Flaws in the UIDAI Process published in the Economic and Political Weekly</a>, Hans Varghese Mathews. He stated that the Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Vipul Kharbanda <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-of-aadhaar-act-in-context-of-shah-committee-principles">wrote an analysis of Aadhaar Act in the context of Justice A.P. Shah Committee Principles</a>. The analysis has thrown light on the substantial aspects of the Act in relation to privacy concerns which have been raised by a number of experts.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Pooja Saxena and Amber Sinha produced two infographics that 1) <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/aadhaar-bill-2016-evaluated-against-the-national-privacy-principles">evaluate the Aadhaar Bill 2016 against the National Privacy Principles</a>, and 2) <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vulnerabilities-in-the-uidai-implementation-not-addressed-by-the-aadhaar-bill-2016">highlight the vulnerabilities in the UIDAI implementation process not addressed by the Aadhaar Bill, 2016</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS has initiated the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/papers/ebola-a-big-data-disaster">humanitarian use of big data and its discontents</a> by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">With the objective to sensitize and impart the skillset in handling NVDA – the Screen Reader and the usage of BookShare Online Library for the print disabled to the Special Educators, Karna Vidya Technology Centre in collaboration with Computer and Internet Society <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-nvda-with-e-speak-and-bookshare-online-library">conducted a one-day workshop</a> on February 27, 2016. 48 special educators participated and benefited from the workshop.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">An article titled 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias by Subhashish Panigrahi was first published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/8-of-many-challenges-in-g_b_9457704.html">Huffington Post</a> on March 19, 2016. This was cross-posted in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.medianama.com/2016/03/223-indic-wikipedia-growth-slow-subhashish-panigrahi/">Medianama</a> titled as Multiple key factors preventing Indic Wikipedia growth on March 21, 2016.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS has published a <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/report-of-the-30th-session-of-the-wipo-sccr-by-the-centre-for-internet-society">report on the 30th Session of WIPO-SCCR</a> giving an analysis of the Broadcast Treaty Negotiations and the Negotiations on International Instrument for Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Anubha Sinha wrote an essay titled <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-asia-hub-the-good-life-in-asias-21-st-century-anubha-sinha-fueling-the-affordable-smartphone-revolution-in-india">Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India</a> as part of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.digitalasiahub.org/thegoodlife/">The Good Life in Asia's Digital 21st Century essay collection</a>. She stated that smartphones have emerged as the exemplar of mankind's quest for shrinking technologies. They embody the realization of a simple premise – that computing devices would do more and cost less. This realization has been responsible for modern society's profound transformations in communication, governance, and knowledge distribution. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rohini Lakshané wrote an analysis of the patent landscape in a research paper titled <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/patents-and-mobile-devices-in-india-an-empirical-survey">Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey</a>. The paper has indicated that although India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 mobile device vendors, it has, until recently, remained relatively unaffected by the global smartphone wars.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 3, 2016. <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/consultation-on-national-geospatial-policy-03022016">Anubha Sinha attended the meeting</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The glue that allows infrastructures to link and operate efficiently is standards as they make technologies interoperable and efficient tells Vanya Rakesh in a blog entry titled <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/adoption-of-standards-in-smart-cities-way-forward-for-india">Adoption of Standards in Smart Cities - Way Forward for India</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">P.P. Sneha <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/studying-digital-creative-industries-in-india-initial-questions">wrote a blog post </a> which <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/studying-digital-creative-industries-in-india-initial-questions">studies the digital creative industries in India</a> while examining some initial questions. She stated that the term ‘creative industries’ has been around for a while now, but with the advent of the digital, and with interest from different sectors, especially with a focus on policy and economic development, it would be essential to critically examine the discourse around the term, and see where it may be changing to open up new possibilities, particularly for the arts, humanities and design.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS strongly <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-statement-on-sexual-harrasment-at-icann55">condemns the acts of sexual harassment that took place against one of its representatives</a> Padmini Baruah during ICANN 55 in Marrakech. It is completely unacceptable that an event the scale of an ICANN meeting does not have in place a formal redressal system, a neutral point of contact or even a policy for complainants who have been put through the ordeal of sexual harassment. ICANN cannot claim to be inclusive or diverse if it does not formally recognise a specific procedure or recourse under such instances. </li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">-------------------------------------- <br /><strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility & Inclusion</a></strong> <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;">The workshops were conducted earlier but published recently on our website:</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-with-nvda-screen-reader-and-assistive-technology-for-visually-challenged">Report on eSpeak with NVDA Screen Reader and Assistive Technology for Visually Challenged</a> (Organized by National Association for the Blind, New Delhi, Centre for Differently Abled Persons, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, and CIS; January 21, 2016; Tiruchirappalli).</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-nvda-with-e-speak-and-bookshare-online-library">Report on NVDA with E-Speak and BookShare Online Library</a> (Organized by Karna Vidya Technology Centre, Computer and Internet Society, and CIS; February 27, 2016; Chennai).</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> ----------------------------------- <br /></strong>As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Pervasive Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Article</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-asia-hub-the-good-life-in-asias-21-st-century-anubha-sinha-fueling-the-affordable-smartphone-revolution-in-india">Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India</a> (Anubha Sinha; The Good Life in Asia's 21st Century Essay Collection; March 16, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/report-of-the-30th-session-of-the-wipo-sccr-by-the-centre-for-internet-society">Report of the 30th Session of the WIPO SCCR by the Centre for Internet & Society</a> (edited by Nehaa Chaudhari with assistance from Nisha S.K., Aarushi Bansal, Amulya P., and Saahil Dama; March 16, 2016).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dataset-patent-landscape-of-mobile-device-technologies-in-india">Dataset: Patent Landscape of Mobile Device Technologies in India</a> (Rohini Lakshané; March 31, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/patents-and-mobile-devices-in-india-an-empirical-survey">Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey </a>(Rohini Lakshané; March 31, 2016)</div>
</li></ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<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><strong>Articles</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-wire-march-17-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-eight-challenges-that-indian-language-wikipedias-need-to-overcome">Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; The Wire; March 17, 2016). A version of the article was also mirrored by <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/3/8-challenges-improving-indian-language-wikipedias">Opensource.com </a>on March 28, 2016.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/huffington-post-march-19-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-8-challenges-in-growing-indian-language-wikipedias">8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Huffington Post; March 19, 2016). This was cross-posted in Medianama titled as <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2016/03/223-indic-wikipedia-growth-slow-subhashish-panigrahi/">Multiple key factors preventing Indic Wikipedia growth</a> on March 21, 2016.</li>
<li><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/open-source-march-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-8-challenges-for-improving-indian-language-wikipedias">8 Challenges for Improving Indian Language Wikipedias</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; March 28, 2016). The article was originally published in <a href="http://thewire.in/2016/03/17/eight-challenges-that-indian-language-wikipedias-need-to-overcome-25062/">the Wire</a> on March 17, 2016 and later mirrored on <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/3/8-challenges-improving-indian-language-wikipedias">Opensource.com </a>on March 28, 2016.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/bhasha-indian-languages-digital-festival">BHASHA-Indian Languages Digital Festival</a> (Organized by news media YourStory; March 11, 2016; New Delhi). Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk in the panel “The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/8th-iba-international-conference">8th IBA International Conference</a> (Organized by Indus Business Academy; March 24 - 26, 2016; Bangalore). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of Knowledge Access- Case of Regional Language Wikipedia.</li></ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong> <strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a> <br /> -----------------------------------</strong></div>
<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;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Submission</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/consultation-on-national-geospatial-policy-03022016">Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission</a> (Anubha Sinha; March 29, 2016)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong> <strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /> -----------------------------------</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div 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 International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">►Big Data</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Article</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-wire-march-21-2016-vanya-rakesh-too-clever-by-half-strengthening-indias-smart-cities-plan-with-human-rights-protection">Too Clever By Half: Strengthening India’s Smart Cities Plan with Human Rights Protection</a> (Vanya Rakesh; The Wire; March 22, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/adoption-of-standards-in-smart-cities-way-forward-for-india">Adoption of Standards in Smart Cities - Way Forward for India</a> (Vanya Rakesh; March 19, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<div><br />►Freedom of Expression</div>
<div><strong>Statements</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sexual-harassment-at-icann">Sexual Harassment at ICANN</a> (Padmini Baruah; March 18, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-statement-on-sexual-harrasment-at-icann55">CIS' Statement on Sexual Harassment at ICANN55 </a>(Vidushi Marda; March 21, 2016).</li></ul>
<div> </div>
<div>►Privacy</div>
<div><strong>Submission</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/list-of-recommendations-on-the-aadhaar-bill-2016">List of Recommendations on the Aadhaar Bill, 2016 - Letter Submitted to the Members of Parliament </a>(Amber Sinha, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Sunil Abraham, and Vanya Rakesh; March 16, 2016).</li></ul>
<div><strong>Articles</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/epw-27-february-2016-hans-varghese-mathews-flaws-in-uidai-process">Flaws in the UIDAI Process</a> (Hans Varghese Mathews; Economic & Political Weekly, Journal, Vol. 51, Issue No. 9, February 27, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/livemint-march-7-2016-pranesh-prakash-aadhaar-still-too-many-problems">Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems</a> (Pranesh Prakash; Livemint; March 7, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-bill-fails-to-incorporate-suggestions-by-the-standing-committee">Aadhaar Bill fails to incorporate suggestions by the Standing Committee </a>(Amber Sinha; The Wire; March 10, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/dna-amber-sinha-march-10-2016-are-we-losing-right-to-privacy-and-freedom-of-speech-on-indian-internet">Are we Losing the Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech on Indian Internet?</a> (Amber Sinha; March 10, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindustan-times-amber-sinha-pranesh-prakash-march-12-2016-privacy-concerns-overshadow-monetary-benefits-of-aadhaar-scheme">Privacy Concerns Overshadow Monetary Benefits of Aadhaar Scheme </a>(Pranesh Prakash and Amber Sinha; Hindustan Times; March 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-quint-march-31-2016-nehaa-chaudhari-will-aadhaar-act-address-indias-dire-need-for-a-privacy-law">Will Aadhaar Act Address India’s Dire Need For a Privacy Law?</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; Quint; March 31, 2016).</li></ul>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Blog Entries</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/a-comparison-of-the-2016-aadhaar-bill-and-the-2010-nidai-bill">A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill</a> (Vanya Rakesh; March 9, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-bill-2016-niai-bill-2010-text-comparison">Aadhaar Bill 2016 & NIAI Bill 2010 - Comparing the Texts</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; March 9, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-new-aadhaar-bill-in-plain-english">The New Aadhaar Bill in Plain English</a> (Amber Sinha, Vanya Rakesh and Vipul Kharbanda; March 11, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/an-urgent-need-for-the-right-to-privacy">An Urgent Need for the Right to Privacy</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; March 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/press-release-aadhaar-11032016-the-law-cannot-fix-what-technology-has-broken">The Law cannot Fix what Technology has Broken!</a> (Japreet Grewal and Sunil Abraham; March 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/press-release-aadhaar-15032016-the-new-bill-makes-aadhaar-compulsory">The New Bill Makes Aadhaar Compulsory!</a> (Amber Sinha; March 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-of-aadhaar-act-in-context-of-shah-committee-principles">Analysis of Aadhaar Act in the Context of A.P. Shah Committee Principles </a>(Vipul Kharbanda; March 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vulnerabilities-in-the-uidai-implementation-not-addressed-by-the-aadhaar-bill-2016">Vulnerabilities in the UIDAI Implementation Not Addressed by the Aadhaar Bill, 2016</a> (Pooja Saxena and Vipul Kharbanda; March 21, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong>Participation in Events</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/gni-industry-dialogue-learning-session-human-rights-impact-assessments-and-due-diligence-in-the-ict-sector">GNI-Industry Dialogue Learning Session: Human Rights Impact Assessments and Due Diligence in the ICT sector</a> (Organized by Global Network Initiative; March 11, 2016; Washington D.C.). Elonnai Hickok attended the event.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/rightscon-silicon-valley-2016">RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016</a> (Organized by RightsCon; Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California; March 30 - April 1, 2016).</li></ul>
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<div><strong> </strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom"><strong>Telecom</strong></a><strong> <br /> ----------------------------------- <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:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<ul></ul>
<div><strong>Op-ed</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/connectivity-lets-apply-what-we-know">Connectivity: Let's Apply What We Know</a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; March 2, 2016).</li></ul>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Submission</strong></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-consultation-on-differential-pricing-for-data-services">TRAI Consultation on Differential Pricing for Data Services - Post-Open House Discussion Submission</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; March 30, 2016). </li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>----------------------------------- <br /></strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw"><strong>Researchers at Work</strong></a><strong> <br /> ----------------------------------- <br /></strong> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It is interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/studying-digital-creative-industries-in-india-initial-questions">Studying Digital Creative Industries in India: Initial Questions</a> (P.P. Sneha; March 17, 2016).</div>
</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">----------------------------------- <br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a> <br /> -----------------------------------</p>
<div style="text-align: justify;">CIS gave inputs to the following media coverage:</div>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/motherboard-march-4-2016-joseph-cox-crypto-wars-are-global">The Crypto Wars Are Global </a>(Joseph Cox; Motherboard; March 4, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-march-8-2016-shreeja-sen-govt-narrative-on-aadhaar-has-not-changed-in-last-six-years-sunil-abraham">Govt narrative on Aadhaar has not changed in the last six years: Sunil Abraham </a>(Shreeja Sen; Livemint; March 8, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-march-9-2016-shreeja-sen-aadhaar-govt-will-not-compromise-on-national-security">Aadhaar: Govt will not compromise on national security</a> (Shreeja Sen; Livemint; March 9, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/governance-now-march-9-2016-taru-bhatia-hard-to-broad-ban">Hard to broad ban! </a>(Taru Bhatia; Governance Now; March 9, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll.in-anumeha-yadav-march-24-2016-seven-reasons-why-parliament-should-debate-the-aadhaar-bill-and-not-pass-it-in-a-rush">Seven reasons why Parliament should debate the Aadhaar bill </a>(and not pass it in a rush) (Anumeha Yadav; March 11, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-standard-sahil-makkar-march-12-2016-aadhaar-is-actually-surveillance-tech-sunil-abraham">Aadhaar is actually surveillance tech: Sunil Abraham</a> (Sahil Makkar; Business Standard; March 12, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/new-indian-express-march-14-2016-will-only-legal-backing-for-aadhaar-suffice">Will Only Legal Backing For Aadhaar Suffice?</a> (Indian Express; March 14, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/reuters-march-16-2016-sanjeev-miglani-and-manoj-kumar-indias-billion-member-biometric-database-raises-privacy-fears">India's billion-member biometric database raises privacy fears </a>(Sanjeev Miglani and Manoj Kumar; March 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/a-scheme-in-india-to-help-the-poor-raises-privacy-concerns">A scheme in India to help the poor raises privacy concerns </a>(John Ribeiro; IDG News Service and CSO; March 16, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/gov-now-pratap-vikram-singh-17032016-why-aadhaar-is-baseless">Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?</a> (Governance Now; March 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-march-17-2016-aloke-tikku-forget-privacy-aadhaar-bill-gives-too-much-power-to-the-executive">Forget privacy, Aadhaar Bill gives too much power to the executive </a>(Aloke Tikku; Sunil Abraham; March 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/voice-of-america-anjana-pasricha-march-18-2016-in-india-biometric-data-storage-sparks-demands-for-privacy-laws">In India, Biometric Data Storage Sparks Demands for Privacy Laws</a> (Anjana Pasricha; Voice of America; March 18, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-jayanthi-madhukar-sowmya-rajaram-march-20-2016-dead-and-clicking">Dead and Clicking</a> (Jayanthi Madhukar and Sowmya Rajaram; Bangalore Mirror; March 20, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tech-dirt-march-22-2016-india-still-trying-to-turn-optional-aadhaar-identification-number-into-mandatory-national-identity-system">India Still Trying To Turn Optional Aadhaar Identification Number Into A Mandatory National Identity System</a> (TechDirt; March 22, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-wire-march-23-2016-reetika-khera-debate-five-aadhaar-myths-that-dont-stand-up-to-scrutiny">Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny </a>(Reetika Khera; March 23, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll.in-march-24-2016-rajshekhar-anumeha-yadav-how-the-govt-gains-when-private-companies-use-aadhaar">How the government gains when private companies use Aadhaar</a> (M. Rajshekhar and Anumeha Yadav; March 24, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ndtv-march-20-2016-making-aadhaar-mandatory-gamechanger-for-governance">Making Aadhaar Mandatory: Gamechanger For Governance?</a> (NDTV; March 24, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-wire-march-24-2016-icann-sexual-harassment-case-highlights-lack-of-procedure-at-global-internet-body">ICANN Sexual Harassment </a>Case Highlights Lack of Procedure at Global Internet Body (Wire; March 24, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-business-line-march-25-2016-bhavya-dore-securing-internets-future">Securing the internet’s future</a> (Hindu Businessline; March 25, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-times-of-india-march-25-2016-kim-arora-on-google-maps-jnu-top-result-in-search-for-anti-national">On Google Maps, JNU top result in search for 'anti-national'</a> (Kim Arora; The Times of India; March 25, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-march-30-2016-kavita-patil-woman-alleges-harassment-at-major-international-conference">Woman Alleges Harassment at Major International Conference </a>(Kavita Patil; Bangalore Mirror; March 30, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong>----------------------------------- <br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> ----------------------------------- </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 diverse abilities, 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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<div 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>.</div>
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<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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No publisherpraskrishnaNewsletter2016-04-13T08:05:42ZPageMarch 2015 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/march-bulletin-2015
<b>Newsletter for the month of March.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are happy to share with you the third issue of the CIS newsletter (March 2015). The past editions of the newsletter can be accessed at <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2>
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<li>In a landmark judgement upholding the freedom of expression, the Supreme Court of India on March 24, 2015 struck down a provision (Section 66 A of the IT Act) which provided the power to arrest anyone for posting offensive comments online. Geetha Hariharan in her <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/no-more-66a">blog post</a> captures the happenings which led to the court ruling.</li>
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<li>CIS in partnership with Privacy International is doing the GSMA project that seeks to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India. The research outputs published thus far are now online in a <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gsma-research-outputs">consolidated blog post</a>.</li>
<li>CIS as part of its RAW programme is inviting abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.</li>
<li>CIS is pleased to announce that the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is supporting a new collaborative publishing project led by T.A.J. Residency / SKE Projects and or-bits.com. The first volume of the series titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/announcing-silicon-plateau-01">'Silicon Plateau'</a> will feature contributions by a group of well-known artists, researchers, and writers.</li>
<li>Sumandro Chattapadhyay's paper titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/whose-open-data-community-is-it-abstract">'Whose Open Data Community is it?</a> Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015.</li>
<li>CIS has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001 - 2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil society organisations in Asia and India, respectively, in national, regional, and global Internet governance processes. <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/civil-society-organisations-and-internet-governance-in-asia-and-india-outlines"> Draft outlines of the sections are shared here </a> . Comments and suggestions are invited. </li>
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<li> CIS has prepared an <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form">open proposal</a> to the Wikimedia Foundation to support its annual plan with USD 208,603. </li>
<li> CIS has prepared a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2015_-_June_2016"> draft work plan for the period July 2015 to June 2016 </a> . This work plan consists of 18 programs across 6 verticals.</li>
<li>On December 24, 2015, Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest telecom players, announced the introduction of a new 'VOIP' usage policy for its mobile users. Tarun Krishnakumar <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-ing-times-the-story-so-far">analyses the developments in a blog post</a>. </li>
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<li> In his <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-opinion-article-shyam-ponappa-march-4-2015-railway-takeaways-for-digital-india"> monthly column published in the Business Standard </a> on March 4, 2015, Shyam Ponappa writes "systems and methods for access through elements that provide connectivity - spectrum, fibre-optic cable, coaxial cable, or "twisted-pairs" for ADSL - must be devised in an integrated manner and made available at low cost.</li>
<li>NVDA team as part of its project on developing text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages has published key updates of<a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-the-progress-in-bengali-language-testing">Bengali</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-assamese-language-testing">Assamese</a> language testing.</li>
<li>In the year 2013 Nehaa Chaudhari had worked on a module on IP Rights for UNESCO's Open Access Curriculum. The <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/unesco-nehaa-chaudhari-march-19-2015-communication-and-information-resources-news-and-in-focus-articles-unesco-open-access-curriculum-is-now-online"> module was published </a> recently and is available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO license. </li>
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<li> Rohini Lakshané in a <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/compilation-of-mobile-phone-patent-litigation-cases-in-india">blog post</a> chronicles information about big-ticket lawsuits pertaining to mobile technology patents filed in India. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Vacancies at CIS</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for these posts:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-assistant-project-manager">Assistant Project Manager</a> : To assist the Project Manager on all tasks relating to the organization of the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which will take place in New Delhi from December 15-17, 2015. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/internship-application">Internship</a> : CIS is providing opportunities for students enrolled in graduate programmes to undertake internship at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi. Eligible candidates are welcome to participate in our internship programme. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">---------------------------------------------- <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility"> <br /> Accessibility and Inclusion </a> <br /> ---------------------------------------------- <br /> Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing two projects. The first project is on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. CIS in partnership with CLPR (Centre for Law and Policy Research) compiled the National Compendium of Policies, Programmes and Schemes for Persons with Disabilities (29 states and 6 union territories). The publication has been finalised and is being printed. The draft chapters and the quarterly reports can be accessed on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/national-resource-kit-project">project page</a>. The second project is on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►NVDA and eSpeak</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Monthly Updates</b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/march-nvda-e-speak-report.pdf">March 2015 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; March 31, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Language Testing Reports</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-assamese-language-testing">Assamese Language</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-the-progress-in-bengali-language-testing">Bengali Language</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; March 24, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-nvda-and-e-speak-in-hindi"><b> </b>Report on Training on the Use of eSpeak in Hindi with NVDA </a> (Organized by NVDA team; Dr. Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow; March 16 - 29, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------- <br /> As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Pervasive Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the Pervasive Technologies project, Rohini Lakshané has written a blog entry that chronicles information on big-ticket lawsuits pertaining to mobile technology patents filed in India. As part of broader Access to Knowledge work UNESCO published a module on Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Alternative to a Strict Copyright Regime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Module Units</b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/unesco-nehaa-chaudhari-march-19-2015-communication-and-information-resources-news-and-in-focus-articles-unesco-open-access-curriculum-is-now-online"> Intellectual Property Rights - Open Access for Researchers </a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; March 19, 2015, UNESCO). Nehaa worked on a module on Intellectual Property Rights for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Open Access Curriculum (Curriculum for Researchers) as part of a project for the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia. UNESCO published the module this year. Nehaa Chaudhari and Varun Baliga were among the Module preparation team. Nehaa Chaudhari was the writer for Units 1, 2 and 3: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Alternative to a Strict Copyright Regime. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mobile-app-developer-series-terms-of-agreement-iv"><b> </b>Mobile App Developer Series: Terms of Agreement - Part IV </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/compilation-of-mobile-phone-patent-litigation-cases-in-india"> Compilation of Mobile Phone Patent Litigation Cases in India </a> (Rohini Lakshané; March 15, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/interviews-with-app-developers-open-source-community-and-contradictions-iii"> Interviews with App Developers: Open Source, Community, and Contradictions - Part III </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/interviews-with-app-developers-name-of-the-game-part-iv"> Interviews with App Developers: Name of the Game - Part IV </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 24, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><br /> <b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/conference-on-standards-setting-organisations-and-frand"><b> </b>Conference on Standards Setting Organisations (SSOs) and FRAND </a> (Organized by MHRD Chair on Intellectual Property Rights, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School of India University, Bangalore, in association with Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.; Bangalore; March 21-22, 2015). Rohini Lakshané participated in this event. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/fourth-ipr-researchers-confluence">4th IPR Researchers Confluence</a> (Organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai and National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai with support from Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi; March 27 - 28, 2015). Maggie Huang presented intermediary findings of the research entitled "India's Music Copyright Management in the Age of Music Streaming". </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/economic-times-evelyn-fok-shonali-advani-march-20-2015-the-perils-of-not-protecting-intellectual-property-for-new-ventures"><b> </b>The perils of not protecting intellectual property for new ventures </a> (Evelyn Fok and Shonali Advani; Economic Times; March 20, 2015). Sunil Abraham gave his inputs. </li>
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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; "><b>Announcements</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form"><b> </b>Open Proposal for Funding </a> : CIS has prepared an open proposal for funding for about USD 208,603 from the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS is inviting comments on the proposal. CIS is proposing to contribute to the qualitative and quantitative growth of 12 Wikimedia projects across 9 Indian languages and associated communities, in addition to providing need based support to other Indic communities. </li>
<li> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2015_-_June_2016">Access to Knowledge Work Plan</a> : CIS has prepared the India Access to Knowledge work plan (July 2015 to June 2016). The work plan consists of 18 programs across 6 verticals. These include eight programs in five language areas, two community strengthening initiatives, five stand-alone Wikimedia projects, creating movement resources, publicity, research and documentation, and general support and service to the movement. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015">Train the Trainer Program</a> (CEO Centre; Dodda Gubbi; Bangalore; February 26 - March 1; 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/hindustani-language-we-are-wikipedia">Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia</a> (Syed Muzamiluddin; March 27, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar">2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar</a> (Organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research; Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; March 30 - April 2, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>News and Media Coverage</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/train-the-trainer-event-report-march-2-2015-udayavani-report">Train the Trainer</a> (Udayavani; March 2, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia">More articles for Tulu Wikipedia</a> (The Hindu; March 10, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/medianama-march-13-2015-sneha-johari-goi-body-national-mission-for-manuscripts-has-digitised-3-million-manuscripts"> GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts </a> (Sneha Johari; Medianama; March 13, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2015-bangla-wiki-turns-ten">Bangla Wiki turns 10</a> (Sudeshna Banerjee, Showli Chakraborty and Abhinanda Datta; The Telegraph; March 29, 2015). </li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015">Women's History Month - India</a> (Organized by CIS-A2K and Wikimedia India; India, March 2015). March 8 is International Women's Day, and to celebrate this women in India organized edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. Online events were organized for these Wikipedias: <a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%A8/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8"> Bengali </a> , <a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86:%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8C%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BE%E0%A9%9C%E0%A8%BE_2015_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A5%E0%A8%A8"> Punjabi </a> , <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3-%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE&redirect=no"> Odia </a> , <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8-_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AB#.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.AD.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.97.E0.A5.80_.E0.A4.B9.E0.A5.8B.E0.A4.A3.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.AE.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.B2.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.A6.E0.A4.B8.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.82.E0.A4.A8.E0.A5.80"> Marathi </a> , <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%86_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%A8_%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86"> Kannada </a> and <a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9E%E0%B4%82-2015"> Malayalam </a> . </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/idg-news-service-march-29-2015-john-riberio-india-backs-open-source-software-for-e-governance-projects"><b> </b>India backs open source software for e-governance projects </a> (originally published by IDG News Service was mirrored on the website of<a href="http://www.cio.com/article/2903513/india-backs-open-source-software-for-egovernance-projects.html">CIO</a> and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2903512/india-backs-open-source-software-for-egovernance-projects.html">PC World</a>; March 29, 2015). Sunil Abraham gave his inputs. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /> ----------------------------------------------- <br /> 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 International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Freedom of Expression</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India's Apex Court in a landmark decision struck down section 66A of the IT Act. The judgment provided great relief for advocates of freedom of speech on the Internet. The development attracted lots of media coverage to which CIS gave its inputs:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Articles</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-times-of-india-march-25-2015-sunil-abraham-internet-censorship-will-continue-in-opaque-fashion"><b> </b>Internet censorship will continue in opaque fashion </a> (Sunil Abraham; The Times of India; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-vidushi-marda-march-25-2015-historic-day-for-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-in-india"> Historic day for freedom of speech and expression in India </a> (Vidushi Marda; Bangalore Mirror; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-march-25-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain"> India's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges Remain </a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Global Voices Online; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-march-29-2015-sunil-abraham-big-win-for-freedom-of-speech-really"> Big win for freedom of speech. Really? </a> (Sunil Abraham; Bangalore Mirror; March 29, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/times-of-india-march-29-2015-pranesh-prakash-three-reasons-why-66a-is-momentous"> Three reasons why 66A verdict is momentous </a> (Pranesh Prakash; The Times of India; March 29, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/what-does-facebook-transparency-report-tell-us-about-indian-government-record-on-free-expression-and-privacy"><b> </b>What Does Facebook's Transparency Report Tell Us About the Indian Government's Record on Free Expression & Privacy? </a> (Pranesh Prakash; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/no-more-66a">No more 66A!</a> (Geetha Hariharan; March 24, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">· Requests to ICANN: CIS sent ICANN six requests to ICANN regarding ICANN's expenditure on travels and meetings, granular revenue, cyber-attacks on ICANN, ICANN's implementation of the NETmundial principles, complaints under the Ombudsman process, and information regarding revenues received from gTLD auctions. These were prepared by Geetha Hariharan:<a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-7-globalisation-advisory-groups">DIDP Request #7: Globalisation Advisory Groups</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-8-organogram">DIDP Request #8: ICANN Organogram</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tech-law-forum-at-nalsar">Tech Law Form @ NALSAR</a> (Organized by NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad; March 7 and 8, 2015). Geetha Hariharan participated as a speaker. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/roundtable-on-icann-accountability">Roundtable on ICANN Accountability</a> (Organized by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), National Internet Exchange of India and Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi; March 13, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Outputs</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in collaboration with Privacy International, UK as part of GSMA project is conducting research to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India. The following outputs have been published: Indian Law and the Necessary Proportionate Principles (Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/security-surveillance-and-data-sharing.pdf"> Security, Surveillance and Data Sharing Schemes and Bodies in India </a> (Maria Xynou and Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/export-and-import-of-security-technologies-in-india.pdf"> Export and Import of Security Technologies in India: QA </a> (Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulation-of-cctvs-in-india.pdf">Regulation of CCTV's in India</a> (Elonnai Hickok), Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/mlats-and-cross-border-sharing-of-information-in-india.pdf"> Cross Border Sharing of Information in India </a> (Maria Xynou and Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/composition-of-service-providers-in-india.pdf">Composition of Service Providers in India</a> (Lovisha Aggarwal), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/surveillance-and-security-industry-in-india.pdf"> The Surveillance and Security Industry in India - An Analysis of Indian Security Expos </a> (Divij Joshi), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-of-news-items-and-cases-on-surveillance-and-digital-evidence-in-india.pdf"> An Analysis of News Items and Cases on Surveillance and Digital Evidence in India </a> (Lovisha Aggarwal), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/policy-recommendations-for-surveillance-law-in-india-and-analysis-of-legal-provisions-on-surveillance-in-india-and-the-necessary-and-proportionate-principles.pdf"> Policy Recommendations for Surveillance Law in India and an Analysis of Legal Provisions on Surveillance in India and the Necessary & Proportionate Principles </a> (Maria Xynou), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/surveillance-industry-india.pdf">The Surveillance Industry in India</a> (Maria Xynou), and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/state-of-cyber-security-and-surveillance-in-india.pdf"> State of Cyber Security and Surveillance in India: A Review of the Legal Landscape </a> (Elonnai Hickok).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/talk-on-cybersecurity-and-internet-of-things">Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things</a> (Organized by US Consulate Chennai, Cyber Security & Privacy Foundation and CIS; Hotel Atria, Palace Road, Bangalore; March 19, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/connecting-the-dots-options-for-future-action"><b> </b>CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action </a> (Organized by UNESCO; March 3 - 4, 2015; Paris). Elonnai Hickok participated in the event. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/vox-pol-workshop-on-the-role-of-social-media-and-internet-companies-in-responding-to-violent-online-extremism-5-6-march-budapest"> Vox Pol Workshop on the Role of Social Media and Internet Companies in Responding to Violent Online Extremism </a> (Organized by VOX-Pol network; March 5-6, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a> <br /> ---------------------------------</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-march-6-2015-uploaded-and-blocked-a-daylong-battle-rages-on-web-over-bbc-documentary"> Uploaded and blocked, a daylong battle rages on the web over BBC documentary </a> (Kim Arora; The Times of India; March 6, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-march-17-2015-neha-alawadhi-india-tops-list-of-content-restrictions-requests-says-facebook"> India tops list of content restrictions requests, says Facebook </a> (Neha Alawadhi; Economic Times; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-insider-march-17-2015-if-you-thought-india-is-a-country-where-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-are-fundamental-rights-think-twice"> If you thought India is a country where freedom of speech and expression are fundamental rights, think twice! </a> (Business Insider; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-17-2015-aadhaar-an-identity-crisis">Live Chat: Aadhaar: An identity crisis?</a> (Hindu; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tele-analysis-gyana-ranjan-swain-delhi-govt-sets-up-wifi-task-force"> Delhi Govt Sets Up WiFi Task Force </a> (Originally published by Press Trust of India; TeleAnalysis; March 18, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-mridula-chari-march-19-2015-indias-plan-to-offer-citizens-digital-lockers-poses-a-privacy-threat-say-experts"> India's plan to offer citizens digital lockers poses a privacy threat, say experts </a> (Scroll.in; March 19, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/governance-now-march-23-2015-ankita-lahiri-internet-becomes-vernacular-with-relaunch-of-e-bhasha"> Internet becomes vernacular with relaunch of e-bhasha </a> (Ankita Lahiri; Governance Now; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/wall-street-journal-niharika-mandhana-march-24-2015-indian-supreme-court-overturns-law-barring-hate-speech-online"> Indian Supreme Court Overturns Law Barring 'Offensive Messages' Online </a> (Niharika Mandhana; Wall Street Journal; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/huffington-post-indrani-basu-betwa-sharma-march-24-2015-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-it-act"> Supreme Court Strikes Down Section 66A Of IT Act </a> (Indrani Basu and Betwa Sharma; Huffington Post; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bbc-march-24-2015-indias-section-66-a-scrapped"> India's section 66A scrapped: Win for free speech </a> (Prasanto K. Roy; BBC; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/voice-of-america-march-24-2015-anjana-pascricha-indias-online-freedom-advocates-hail-court-ruling-on-free-speech"> India's Online Freedom Advocates Hail Court Ruling on Free Speech </a> (Anjana Pasricha; Voice of America; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-24-2015-live-chat-win-for-free-speech">Live Chat: Win for Free Speech</a> (Hindu; March 24, 2015). Geetha Hariharan participated in the live chat. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/washington-post-annie-gowen-march-24-2015-indias-sc-strikes-down-law-that-led-to-fb-arrests"> India's Supreme Court strikes down law that led to Facebook arrests </a> (Annie Gowen; Washington Post; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/new-indian-express-march-25-2015-parina-dhilla-netizens-rejoice-over-sc-ruling-to-keep-the-net-free"> Netizens Rejoice Over SC Ruling to Keep the Net Free </a> (Parina Dhilla; New Indian Express; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-25-2015-a-safe-internet-and-a-free-internet-can-co-exist"> 'A safe Internet and a free Internet can co-exist' </a> (Hindu; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bloomberg-bna-march-25-2015-madhur-singh-india-high-court-no-takedown-requests-on-social-sites-without-court-govt-order"> India High Court: No Takedown Requests On Social Sites Without Court, Gov't Order </a> (Madhur Singh; Bloomberg BNA; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-star-march-25-2015-annie-gowen-indias-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-that-led-to-arrests-over-facebook-posts"> India's Supreme Court strikes down law that led to arrests over Facebook posts </a> (Annie Gowen; Star.com; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-25-2015-what-the-experts-said-on-live-chat"> What the experts said on live chat </a> (Hindu; March 25, 2015). Geetha Hariharan was one of the panelists. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ndtv-nida-najar-and-suhasini-raj-march-25-2015-indian-court-strikes-down-section-of-law-punishing-offensive-posts"> Indian Court Strikes Down Section of Law Punishing Offensive Posts </a> (Nida Najar and Suhasini Raj; NDTV; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cio-in-march-25-2015-it-leaders%2C-lawyers-welcome-sc-ruling-on-66a-of-the-it-act"> IT Leaders, Lawyers Welcome SC Ruling on 66A of the IT Act </a> (Cio.in; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-march-25-2015-vishakha-saxena-i-dare-you-i-double-dare-you"> I dare you, I double dare you: Social media celebrates Sec 66A verdict </a> (Vishakha Saxena; Hindustan Times; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/boston-globe-march-25-2015-annie-gowen-ruling-in-india-shields-web-posts"> Ruling in India shields Web posts </a> (Originally published by Washington Post and mirrored in Boston Globe; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/digital-news-asia-gabey-goh-march-26-2015-noose-tightens-on-freedom-of-speech-on-internet"> The noose tightens on freedom of speech on the Internet </a> (Gabey Goh; Digital New Asia; March 26, 2015). This was also mirrored in Malaymail Online. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/open-magazine-march-27-2015-kumar-anshuman-section-66a-delete">SECTION 66A: DELETE</a> (Kumar Anshuman; Open Magazine; March 27, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-dhamini-ratnam-march-28-2015-sc-has-set-a-high-threshold-for-tolerance"> SC has set a high threshold for tolerance: Lawrence Liang </a> (Dhamini Ratnam; Livemint; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-week-march-28-2015-soni-mishra-66a-dead-long-live-66a">66A DEAD. LONG LIVE 66A!</a> (Soni Mishra; The Week; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cpj-march-28-2015-sumit-galhotra-indias-landmark-online-speech-ruling-is-step-toward-greater-press-freedom"> India's landmark online speech ruling is step toward greater press freedom </a> (Sumit Galhotra; CPJ; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-march-30-2015-kim-arora-you-can-still-get-into-trouble-for-online-posts"> You can still get into trouble for online posts: Digital law experts </a> (Kim Arora; The Times of India; March 30, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-citizen-march-31-2015-marianne-de-nazareth-smack-the-trolls">'Smack' the Trolls!</a> (Marianne De Nazareth; Citizen; March 31, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /> -------------------------------- <br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It is interested in producing 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><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/call-for-essays-studying-internet-in-india">Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India</a> : CIS is inviting abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today, the many experiences of Internet(s) in India; its histories and archaeologies; how we use it to read, write, create, relate, learn, and share. Please send abstracts (200 words) to <a href="mailto:raw@cis-india.org">raw@cis-india.org</a>. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/announcing-silicon-plateau-01">Announcing Silicon Plateau #01</a> : The RAW programme is supporting a new collaborative publishing project led by T.A.J. Residency / SKE Projects and or-bits.com. The first volume of the series titled 'Silicon Plateau' will feature contributions by a group of artists, researchers, and writers, including IOCOSE, Tara Kelton, Anil Menon, Sunita Prasad, Achal Prabhala and Sreshta Rit Premnath, along with contextual writing and documentation material. Here is an excerpt from the editorial note written by Marialaura Ghidini, the co-editor of the volume. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/whose-open-data-community-is-it-abstract">Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; March 31, 2015). The paper 'Whose Open Data Community is it? Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the <a href="http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/erik-waddell/2015/02/02/3rd-international-open-data-conference-iodc"> 3rd International Open Data Conference </a> in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015. </li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-activism-in-asia-reader-announcement">Digital Activism in Asia Reader</a> (Organized by CIS; Bangalore; March 6-7, 2015). The project is a collaborative effort of CIS and the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Germany, which aims to bring together local knowledge, debates and conversations around Digital Activism in Asia. The Digital Activism in Asia Reader is expected to be published by the <a href="http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/hybrid-publishing-lab/" target="_blank">Hybrid Publishing Lab</a> in mid-2015. </li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/figures-of-learning-the-reader">Figures of Learning: The Reader</a> (P.P.Sneha; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/civil-society-organisations-and-internet-governance-in-asia-and-india-outlines"> Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India - Section Outlines </a> : CIS has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /> -------------------------------- <br /> 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><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-opinion-article-shyam-ponappa-march-4-2015-railway-takeaways-for-digital-india"><b> </b>Railway Takeaways for Digital India </a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard and Organizing India Blogspot; March 4, 2015). </li>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-ing-times-the-story-so-far">TRAI-ing Times: The Story So Far</a> (Tarun Krishnakumar; March 19, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> --------------------------------- <br /> The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Request for Collaboration:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i> 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. </i></p>
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