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February 2019 Newsletter
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<b>Our newsletter for February month below.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> aims to highlight developments in copyright and patent, free speech and expression, privacy, cyber security, telecom, etc. as well as Industry 4.0, big data, additive manufacturing and so on which are revolutionizing and moving the digital world forward. Through this <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> we look to engage you with our research and build a strong bond by bringing you insightful articles and blog posts which will be beneficial for you and your business. Throughout the year we will send you stories and insights from our board, staff and community leaders. We welcome your feedback, suggestions or comments regarding our <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> or any other aspect of our research.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights for February 2019</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make Wikimedia movement inclusive and diverse in these geographical regions as well as in their social strata. Keeping this in view CIS-A2K <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-fortnight-workshops-2019">conducted five workshops</a> in different parts of the state.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Marathi language department of Goa University <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university">has initiated the process to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons</a>. Subodh Kulkarni reports this in a blog entry.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Khetrimayum Monish Singh and Rajiv K. Mishra <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/media-infrastructures-digital-practices-north-east-of-india-presentation">co-authored a research paper</a> which was presented at the Young Scholars International Conference on “Margins and Connections,” organised by the Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on February 7-8, 2019.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Following consultations with data protection, civil society, industry and others, during the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) meeting from 29 November 2018 onwards, the Cybercrime Convention Committee had sought additional contributions regarding the provisional draft text for a Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (“Budapest Convention”). Vipul Kharbanda <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vipul-kharbanda-february-25-2019-comments-on-draft-second-protocol-to-convention-on-cybercrime-budapest-convention">submitted comments on behalf of CIS</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-submission-to-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-surveillance-industry-and-human-rights">responded to the call for submissions</a> from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS and University of Munich, Germany are co-organizing an event<a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/internet-speech-perspectives-on-regulation-and-policy"> 'Internet Speech: Perspectives on Regulation and Policy' </a>at India Habitat Centre on April 5, 2019.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Akriti Bopanna on behalf of CIS <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/akriti-bopanna-february-8-2019-comment-on-icann-draft-fy-20-operating-plan-and-budget">provided comments on the proposed draft of ICANN’s FY20 Operating Plan and Budget</a> along with their Five-Year Operating Plan Update. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Harsh Bajpai, Ambika Tandon, and Amber Sinha have co-authored a case study '<a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/future-of-work-in-automotive-sector.pdf">The Future of Work in the Automotive Sector in India</a>'. The case study highlights the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence, industry 4.0, internet of things, and so on at industry workplace. The case study was edited by Rakhi Sehgal. Manav Mehta provided research assistance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">In a response to the <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/response-to-the-draft-of-the-information-technology-intermediary-guidelines-amendment-rules-2018">Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018</a>, CIS examined whether the draft rules meet tests of constitutionality and whether they are consistent with the parent Act. The submission also examined potential harms that may arise from the Rules as they are currently framed and make recommendations to the draft rules that may enable government to meet its objectives while remaining situated within the constitutional ambit. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A UN high-level panel on Digital Cooperation issued a call for inputs that called for responses to various questions. <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-submission-to-un-high-level-panel-on-digital-cooperation">CIS responded to the call for inputs</a>. The response was drafted by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok. </li>
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<h3>CIS and the News</h3>
<p>The following news pieces were authored by CIS and published on its website in January:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/epw-engage-february-9-2019-data-infrastructures-inequities-why-does-reproductive-health-surveillance-india-need-urgent-attention">Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?</a> (Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon; EPW Engage , Vol. 54, Issue No. 6, February 9, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/business-standard-february-9-2019-sunil-abraham-intermediary-liability-law-needs-updating">Intermediary liability law needs updating</a> (Sunil Abraham; Business Standard; February 9, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindu-businessline-february-19-2019-arindrajit-basu-resurrecting-the-marketplace-of-ideas">Resurrecting the marketplace of ideas</a> (Arindrajit Basu; Hindu Businessline; February 22, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://https//cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-february-24-2019-what-i-learned-from-going-offline-for-48-hours"><span class="external-link">What I learned from going offline for 48 hours</span></a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; February 24, 2019).</li>
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<h3>CIS in the News</h3>
<p>CIS was quoted in these news articles published elsewhere:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/jessica-corbett-common-dreams-february-5-2019-civil-liberties-groups-warn-proposed-eu-terrorist-content-rule-threat-democratic">Civil Liberties Groups Warn Proposed EU 'Terrorist Content' Rule a Threat to Democratic Values</a> (Jessica Corbett; Common Dreams; February 5, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-february-10-2019-smriti-kak-ramachandran-and-vidhi-choudhary-willing-to-participate-in-parliamentary-panel-hearing">‘Willing to participate, but need more time’: Twitter on parliamentary panel hearing</a> (Smriti Kak Ramachandran and Vidhi Choudhary; February 10, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-abhijit-ahaskar-february-12-2019-what-the-governments-draft-it-intermediary-guidelines-say">What the government's draft IT intermediary guidelines say</a> (Abhijit Ahaskar; Livemint; February 12, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-nilanjana-bhowmick-february-13-2019-make-our-digital-backyard-safe">Make our digital backyard safe</a> (Nilanjana Bhowmick; Economic Times; February 13, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/zack-whittaker-natasha-lomas-february-15-2019-tech-crunch-even-years-later-twitter-doesnt-delete-your-direct-messages">Even years later, Twitter doesn't delete your direct messages</a> (Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas; Tech Crunch; February 15, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-february-20-2019-are-rss-fears-about-tik-tok-true">Are RSS's fears about Tik Tok true? Here's what you should know</a> (Economic TimZack Whittaker and Natasha Lomases; February 20, 2019). Also published in Moneycontrol News on the same day.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/gulf-times-february-24-2019-dr-r-seetharaman-risk-integration-is-key-to-better-cybersecurity-management">Risk integration is key to better cybersecurity management</a> (Dr. R. Seetharaman; Gulf Times; February 24, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/kashmir-watch-february-25-2019-any-failure-to-resolve-the-kashmir-problem-could-lead-the-south-asia-to-a-nuclear-disaster">Any failure to resolve the Kashmir problem could lead the South Asia to a nuclear disaster</a> (Kashmir Watch; February 25, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-pti-february-28-2019-over-30-organisations-industry-bodies-oppose-proposal-to-ban-vape-content">Over 30 organisations, industry bodies oppose proposal to ban vape content</a> (Times of India; February 28, 2019).<br />.</li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipdedia</h3>
<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><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university">Marathi Wikipedia Workshop & 1lib1ref session at Goa University</a> (Subodh Kulkarni; February 1, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-fortnight-workshops-2019">Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019</a> (Subodh Kulkarni February 26, 2019).</li>
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<p><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-february-20-2019-goa-university-students-update-goa-marathi-articles-on-wikipedia">Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia</a> (Times of India; February 20, 2019).</li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" 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 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>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Cyber Security</h3>
<p><b>Submission</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vipul-kharbanda-february-25-2019-comments-on-draft-second-protocol-to-convention-on-cybercrime-budapest-convention">Comments on the Draft Second Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention)</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; February 25, 2019).</li>
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<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p><b>Submissions</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-submission-to-un-high-level-panel-on-digital-cooperation">CIS Submission to UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation</a> (Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok; February 7, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-submission-to-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-surveillance-industry-and-human-rights">CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights</a> (Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Akriti Bopanna, Shweta Mohandas and Martyna Kalvaityte; February 20, 2019). </li>
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<div><b>Participation in Event</b></div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/participation-in-the-meeting-of-bis-litd-17">BIS LITD 17</a> (Organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards; February 26, 2019). Gurshabad Grover participated in the meeting conducted online.</li>
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<h3>Gender</h3>
<p><b>Workshop Organized</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/unbox-2019-festival">Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops</a> (Organized by CIS; Bangalore; February 15 - 17, 2019). CIS organized two workshops on What is your Feminist Infrastructure Wishlist? and AI for Good.</li>
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<div><b>Participation in Events</b></div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/imagine-a-feminist-internet-research-practice-and-policy-in-south-asia">Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South Asi</a>a (Organized by Internet Democracy Project and Point of View; Sri Lanka; February 21 - 22, 2019). Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data Problem? Unpacking ‘Dataveillance’ in India' which was co-authored by herself and Aayush Rathi. </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/firn-convening-design">Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) Convening Design</a> (Organized by Association for Progressive Communications; Malaysia; February 27 - March 1, 2019). Ambika Tandon attended the event.</li>
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<h3>Free Speech and Expression</h3>
<p><b>Submissions</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/response-to-the-draft-of-the-information-technology-intermediary-guidelines-amendment-rules-2018">Response to the Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018</a> (Gurshabad Grover, Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu and Akriti Bopanna; February 7, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/akriti-bopanna-february-8-2019-comment-on-icann-draft-fy-20-operating-plan-and-budget">CIS Comment on ICANN's Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget</a> (Akriti Bopanna; February 12, 2019).</li>
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<div><b>Upcoming Event</b></div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/internet-speech-perspectives-on-regulation-and-policy">Internet Speech: Perspectives on Regulation and Policy</a> (Organized by CIS and the University of Munich (LMU), Germany; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; April 5, 2019).</li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/webinar-on-counter-comments-to-the-draft-intermediary-guidelines">Webinar on counter-comments to the draft Intermediary Guidelines</a> (Organized by CCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter; February 11, 2019). Gurshabad Grover attended the event.</li>
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<h3>Artificial Intelligence</h3>
<p><b>Case Study</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/harsh-bajpai-ambika-tandon-and-amber-sinha-february-8-2018-the-future-of-work-in-automotive-sector-in-india">The Future of Work in the Automotive Sector in India</a> (Harsh Bajpai, Ambika Tandon and Amber Sinha; February 8, 2019). Case study was edited by Rakhi Sehgal.</li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/2019-international-asia-conference">2019 International Asia Conference </a>(Organized by ITECHLAW; Bangalore; January 31 - February 1, 2019). Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Policy Making for the Emerging Tech in India". </li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work (RAW)</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Research Paper</h3>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/media-infrastructures-digital-practices-north-east-of-india-presentation">Media Infrastructures and Digital Practices: Case Studies from the North East of India</a> (Khetrimayum Monish Singh; February 5, 2019).</li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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No publisherAdminInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2019-03-14T16:40:12ZPageMarathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-fortnight-workshops-2019
<b>Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make Wikimedia movement inclusive and diverse in these geographical regions as well as in their social strata. </b>
<h3>Collaboration for organizing events</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge wing (CIS-A2K) launched the concept of organizing state-wide workshops to spread awareness and train editors in the nitty-gritties of Wikipedia editing and creating digital content. The campaign is now regularly conducted by Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha (RMVS), the language department of Maharashtra government with support from CIS-A2K and various institutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These events were conducted during the Marathi language fortnight (1 – 15 January 2019) upto Marathi Language Day on 27 February 2019. The objectives of the event such as creating awareness about digital knowledge in Marathi, open knowledge resources and Wikimedia projects; explaining the history of Wiki movement; training participants in basic editing skills in Wikipedia; exploring ways to find reliable references; presenting article structure, were broadly covered in the sessions. Trainers also explained participants on copyright, community guidelines, uploading images, and so on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K had collaborated with the state language department from 2017 onwards. In the first series of workshops, three events were conducted. In the second series in 2018 six workshops out of a total 17 workshops were conducted across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more educational institutions located in different regions of the state. In the third series, CIS-A2K conducted five workshops out of total 21 workshops conducted. CIS facilitated the process and supported some workshops remotely.</span></p>
<h3><span>The Workshops</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SangliWorkshop.png/@@images/ac8d36b2-0bb1-483c-917b-09b99f4dc5cb.png" alt="Sangli workshop" class="image-left" title="Sangli workshop" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The first workshop was conducted at Chintamanrao College of Commerce at Sangli. The awareness session about open knowledge sources and Wikimedia projects was organized for students and faculty in the beginning of workshop. After this one hour session, actual skill training in Wikipedia editing was done for three hours for 24 participants. They created the account and learnt the editing and image upload on Commons. The practice was done in sandboxes before working in main namespace. The students of pre-university course and graduate course attended the workshop. The commerce and management related articles were edited.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/KolhapurWorkshop.png/@@images/e0343faf-e757-452b-bc12-ae44cbbfd087.png" alt="Kolhapur workshop" class="image-right" title="Kolhapur workshop" /><br />The second workshop was conducted at Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The Marathi language department took the initiative to organize this workshop for the second consecutive year. The participants were selected from 4 colleges affiliated to university. The faculty was also actively involved. The introductory session was attended by 50 students. The editing training of three hours was conducted in computer lab, in which 24 new users participated. The editors practiced the manual of style, providing links and references, etc. on their sandboxes before working on the main namespace articles. The editors mostly worked on locally relevant topics.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/DayanandCollegeWorkshop.png/@@images/5aec339d-eed9-4cfe-98dd-8b47a0a2cd8a.png" alt="Dayanand college workshop" class="image-left" title="Dayanand college workshop" /><br /><br />The third workshop was conducted in Dayanand College at Solapur. This institution organized this event for the second consecutive year. The thematic discussion on history of Solapur was facilitated by a senior editor of Sakal newspaper. The plan for documentation of local festival - </span><i>Gadda Yatra</i><span> and history of Solapur was discussed. It is proposed to start this activity with thematic workshop. Total 15 new and old users participated in the workshop.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SolapurWorkshop.png/@@images/0bcdf350-1af5-43a8-8e2a-ac7eebc4678c.png" alt="" class="image-right" title="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: justify; "><br />The fourth workshop was conducted at Mass Communication & Journalism department of Solapur University. The faculty of this department took the initiative to organize this event for the second time. Total 25 new and old users participated in the workshop. The participants edited the articles related to journalism and also uploaded the images on Commons. Some editors completed the task of adding references to articles. After the meeting with the faculty, group of post graduate students were assigned 50 articles about reputed Marathi newspapers. They will complete this task as part of their online academic submissions.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/KaranjaLad.png/@@images/c87be0c1-110b-41f1-a21b-28c4df9cd0ab.png" alt="Karanja Lad" class="image-inline" title="Karanja Lad" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The fifth wokshop was conducted at SSSKR Innani College at Karanja Lad in district Washim. This was the first Wikipedia programme in this region of the state. As it was the first Wiki event, we decided to organise a two day workshop. The management and faculty participated actively in this workshop. In the workshop, references and images were added to existing articles about local heritage, tourist places and personalities. The images were uploaded to newly created categories - Karanja Lad and SSSKR Innani College on Commons. Over 100 members participated in this two day event, while 45 users edited actively on Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow-up</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the workshop, quarterly refresher sessions are planned in these institutions. The active students' WhatsApp groups will be formed for support and online training sessions. This cadre of Wiki Guides would facilitate the programs for other students. The meeting with faculty and board of studies would be held for integration of Wikimedia activities with the academic assignments.</p>
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<p>More info check out the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Marathi_Language_Fortnight_Workshops_(2019)">Meta report</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-fortnight-workshops-2019'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-fortnight-workshops-2019</a>
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No publishersubodhOpennessFeaturedMarathi WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-03-01T00:39:33ZBlog EntryGoa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-february-20-2019-goa-university-students-update-goa-marathi-articles-on-wikipedia
<b>Faculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in the <a class="external-link" href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/gu-students-update-goa-marathi-articles-on-wiki/articleshowprint/68071126.cms">Times of India</a> on February 20, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">They have also added information related to the state focused on freedom fighters, Marathi literature and cultural heritage, tourism, biodiversity and the environment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The two-day effort was carried out under the supervision of Subodh Kulkarni from the Centre for Internet and Society, the Indian partner of the Wikimedia Foundation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The history of Goan villages collected by students was uploaded on Wikipedia in Marathi Devanagari Unicode. They also participated in #1Lib1Ref campaign supported by Wikipedia Library and uploaded new articles and 25 photos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Other than editing the 164 Marathi articles, the faculty and students also edited reference for articles on Wikipedia and contributed to important facts about Goa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kulkarni served as the resource person for the session, while director of digital learning and initiative at Goa University Prof Ramrao Wagh, head of department of Hindi Vrushali Mandrekar; librarian at GU library Gopakumar, head of department of Marathi Sunita Umraskar, and coordinator of the workshop Vinay Madgaonkar, oversaw the effort.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-february-20-2019-goa-university-students-update-goa-marathi-articles-on-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-february-20-2019-goa-university-students-update-goa-marathi-articles-on-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherAdminCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpenness2019-02-22T02:27:14ZNews ItemMini MediaWiki Training Theni
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-mediawiki-training-theni
<b>CIS-A2k is trying to strengthen the MediaWiki movement in India, and over the last six months, the team has collaborated with different Indian Wikimedians and started a project called Indic-TechCom.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indic-TechCom provides technical support to the Indic Wikimedia community and as of now has supported community members in <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/IndicOCR">Indic OCR</a> and <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/">Indic Wikisource stats</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To increase the awareness on MediaWiki, Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background and help them understand how to contribute on MediaWiki. As a pilot project, we reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology and organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on 22nd and 23rd of January 2019.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the training, On Day 1, students were explained about MediaWiki and were introduced to Git, GitHub, Phabricator and Gerrit. We helped them to install MediaWiki software on their system and also helped them to understand the structure of MediaWiki.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the second day, students were introduced to the extensions and skins, understanding the structure of extension and special pages. We also taught them how to submit patches through Gerrit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This training had a group of 20 students and 2 faculty members who were supporting the students and guiding them in their native language. The first day of the event started slowly as students were lacking in having the knowledge of Wikimedia and its structure. After setting up the relation of the Wikimedia platform the students were able to understand the use and benefits of MediaWiki. Then the installation of MediaWiki and hosting of own MediaWiki server was done. Seven students were successfully able to install and play with Localsettings.php to get the grip of their sites.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the end of the sessions, two[1][2] students were able to submit the patch to Gerrit and it was approved by Volker_E (Sr. User Experience Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">[1]. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214470">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214470</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">[2]. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214468">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214468</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-mediawiki-training-theni'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-mediawiki-training-theni</a>
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No publisherAnanthWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-02-13T02:34:40ZBlog EntrySupporting Indian Community 2018: Needs Assessment
https://cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment
<b>The Wikimedia Foundation and Google worked in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages.
Here is the needs-assessment report.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment</a>
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No publishertitoAccess to Knowledge2019-02-06T21:46:14ZBlog EntryMarathi Wikipedia Workshop & 1lib1ref session at Goa University
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university
<b>Marathi language department of Goa University has initiated the process to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As this was the first exposure to Wikimedia projects, a two day extensive training workshop was planned. In the same event, a three hour session in library as part of 1lib1ref session was also conducted. CIS-A2K has partnered Goa University for conducting the event which attracted a footfall of 36 participants.</p>
<h3>Primary objectives</h3>
<p>The following objectives were broadly covered in the sessions held at Goa University campus on 31 January and 1 February 2019:</p>
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<li>Awareness about digital knowledge in Marathi, Open knowledge resources and Wikimedia projects.</li>
<li>Explain participants the history of Wiki movement and the pillars of Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Train the participants in basic editing skills in Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Explore the ways to find reliable and verifiable references.</li>
<li>Present the article structure, manual of style, and categorization.</li>
<li>Explain copyright, Commons guidelines and uploading images on Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Discuss follow-up plan and integration with academic activities.</li>
<li>Add reliable references as part of 1lib1ref session in library.</li>
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<h3>The Workshop</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out through preparing articles as Word document. The students selected the articles on history of Goa, writers and artists of Goa, tourism in Goa and villages in Goa. Participants learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading on Commons. They worked first in sandboxes on their new articles. The content addition is in progress. The verified content would be moved to main namespace under the guidance of experienced editors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The concept of 1lib1ref campaign was shared with Chief Librarian of Goa University. The response was very positive. As a result, in the last two sessions of the workshop on 1 February, the participants added references to the articles. The session was conducted in the library. The library staff and faculty facilitated the process.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow-up</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The editors are preparing the articles in sandboxes and offline also. It is proposed to conduct another iteration to verify and publish this content in main namespace. The students are also taking the images of issues related to Goan culture. The exclusive session on Commons is also proposed. The librarian has suggested making separate rack of reference books related to Goa culture and heritage for utility. This idea will be explored in the next 1lib1ref iteration in May-June 2019.</p>
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<p>For more info see the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Marathi_Wikipedia_Workshop_%26_1lib1ref_session_at_Goa_University">Meta report</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university</a>
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No publishersubodhMarathi WikipediaCIS-A2KAccess to Knowledge2019-03-01T00:35:44ZBlog EntryJanuary 2019 Newsletter
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-19-newsletter
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> aims to highlight developments in copyright and patent, free speech and expression, privacy, cyber security, telecom, etc. as well as Industry 4.0, big data, additive manufacturing and so on which are revolutionizing and moving the digital world forward. Through this <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> we look to engage you with our research and build a strong bond by bringing you insightful articles and blog posts which will be beneficial for you and your business. Throughout the year we will send you stories and insights from our board, staff and community leaders. We welcome your feedback, suggestions or comments regarding our <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">newsletter</span> or any other aspect of our research.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Welcome to r@w blog!</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS researchers@work programme (RAW) is delighted to <a class="external-link" href="https://medium.com/rawblog">announce the launch of its new blog hosted on Medium</a>. The RAW blog will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society. The blog will also feature highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights for January 2019</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi have produced <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/ambika-tandon-and-aayush-rathi-december-19-2018-a-gendered-future-of-work">a research paper that contextualises the narrative around Industry 4.0 and the future of work</a> with reference to the female labour force in India. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Gurshabad Grover, Nikhil Srinath and Aayush Rathi (with inputs from Anubha Sinha and Sai Shakti) presented a response to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s Consultation Paper on <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/response-to-trai-consultation-paper-on-regulatory-framework-for-over-the-top-ott-communication-services">Regulatory Framework for Over-The-Top (OTT) Communication Services</a>. <i>CIS appreciates the continual efforts of TRAI to have consultations on the regulatory framework that should be applicable to OTT services and Telecom Service Providers (TSPs)</i>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Pranesh Prakash, Karan Saini and Elonnai Hickok <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/pranesh-prakash-elonnai-hickok-karan-saini-january-23-2019-leveraging-the-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-process-to-improve-the-state-of-information-security-in-india">authored a policy brief that recommends several changes</a> pertaining to current legislation, policy and practice to the Government of India regarding coordinated vulnerability disclosure (“CVD”) for improving the overarching information and cyber security posture of the country. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a multi-stakeholder initiative comprised of eminent individuals across the globe opened a public comment procedure to solicit comments and obtain additional feedback. Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover and Elonnai Hickok <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-gurshabad-grover-elonnai-hickok-january-22-2019-response-to-gcsc-on-request-for-consultation">responded to the public call-offering comments on all six norms and proposing two further norms</a>. </li>
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<h3>CIS and the News</h3>
<p>The following news pieces were authored by CIS and published on its website in January:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-times-of-india-december-9-2018-pranesh-prakash-how-to-make-evms-hack-proof-and-elections-more-trustworthy">How to make EVMs hack-proof, and elections more trustworthy</a> (Pranesh Prakash; Times of India; December 9, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/business-standard-january-2-2019-registering-for-aadhaar-in-2019">Registering for Aadhaar in 2019</a> (Sunil Abraham; Business Standard; January 2, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/newslaundry-elonnai-hickok-and-shweta-mohandas-january-14-2019-dna-bill-has-a-sequence-of-problems-that-need-to-be-resolved">The DNA Bill has a sequence of problems that need to be resolved</a> (Shweta Mohandas and Elonnai Hickok; Newslaundry; January 15, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindustan-times-gurshabad-grover-january-24-2019-india-should-reconsider-its-proposed-regulation-of-online-content">India should reconsider its proposed regulation of online content</a> (Gurshabad Grover; Hindustan Times; January 24, 2019). <i>Akriti Bopanna and Aayush Rathi provided feedback for the article</i>.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/nishant-shah-indian-express-january-27-2019-indias-proposed-new-internet-bill-is-as-repressive-as-the-worst-of-chinese-laws">India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; January 27, 2019).</li>
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<h3>CIS in the News</h3>
<p>CIS was quoted in these news articles published elsewhere:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/news-minute-sanyukta-dharmadhikari-january-10-2019-creeped-out-by-netflixs-you">Creeped out by Netflix's 'You'? Here's how you can avoid online stalkers, data thieves</a> (Sanyukta Dharmadhikari; The News Minute; January 10, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bangalore-mirror-january-13-2019-sowmya-rajaram-civic-activism-over-whatsapp-and-stories-of-and-from-cab-drivers-are-part-of-a-new-narrative-in-bengaluru">Civic activism over WhatsApp and stories of and from cab drivers are part of a new narrative in Bengaluru</a> (Sowmya Rajaram; Bangalore Mirror; January 13, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tini-sara-anien-deccan-herald-january-17-2019-they-know-where-you-are">They know where you are</a> (Tini Sara Anien; Deccan Herald; January 17, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bloomberg-quint-nishant-sharma-january-16-2019-oyo-hotels-real-time-digital-record-database-sparks-privacy-fears">Oyo Hotels’ Real-Time Digital Record Database Sparks Privacy Fears</a> (Nishant Sharma; Bloomberg Quint; January 16, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-in-january-18-2019-devarsi-ghosh-is-the-viral-10yearchallenge-just-another-sneaky-way-for-tech-firms-to-gather-users-personal-data">Is the viral #10YearChallenge just another sneaky way for tech firms to gather users’ personal data?</a> (Devarsi Ghosh; Scroll.in; January 18, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wired-january-22-2019-google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages">Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools</a> (Wired; January 22, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-surupasree-sarmmah-january-23-2019-new-movies-lose-out-due-to-piracy">New movies lose out due to piracy</a> (Surupasree Sarmmah; Deccan Herald; January 23, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-better-india-vidya-raja-january-24-2019-aadhaar-biometric-privacy-safety-online-india">Submitted Your Biometrics for Aadhaar? Here’s How You Can Lock/Unlock That Data</a> (Vidya Raja; Better India; January 24, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tech-crunch-zak-whittaker-january-30-2019-indias-largest-bank-sbi-leaked-account-data-on-millions-of-customers">India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers</a> (Zack Whittaker; Tech Crunch; January 30, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-next-web-abhimanyu-ghoshal-january-30-2019-open-standards-can-disrupt-facebooks-messaging-monopoly">Open standards can disrupt Facebook’s messaging monopoly</a> (Abhimanyu Ghoshal; The Next Web; January 30, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-tushar-kaushik-january-30-2019-conmen-seed-fake-phone-numbers-in-google-to-trap-people-looking-for-customer-care-details">Conmen seed fake phone numbers in Google to trap people looking for customer care details </a>(Tushar Kaushik; Economic Times; January 30, 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/q-13-fox-january-31-2019-amazon-and-walmart-are-about-to-take-a-big-hit-in-india">Amazon and Walmart are about to take a big hit in India</a> (Q13 Fox; January 31, 2019).</li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" 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 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>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Cyber Security</h3>
<p><b>Submission</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-gurshabad-grover-elonnai-hickok-january-22-2019-response-to-gcsc-on-request-for-consultation">Response to GCSC on Request for Consultation: Norm Package Singapore</a> (Gurshabad Grover, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok; January 22, 2019).</li>
</ul>
<div><b>Policy Brief</b></div>
<div>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/pranesh-prakash-elonnai-hickok-karan-saini-january-23-2019-leveraging-the-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-process-to-improve-the-state-of-information-security-in-india">Leveraging the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Process to Improve the State of Information Security in India</a> (Pranesh Prakash; Karan Saini and Elonnai Hickok; January 23, 2019).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p><b>Submission</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-submission-to-un-high-level-panel-on-digital-co-operation">CIS Submission to UN High Level Panel on Digital Co-operation</a> (Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok; January 30, 2019).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gender</h3>
<p><b>Research Paper</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/ambika-tandon-and-aayush-rathi-december-19-2018-a-gendered-future-of-work">A Gendered Future of Work</a> (Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi; December 19, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Event Organized</h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/rfcs-we-love-meetup">RFCs We Love meetup</a> (Organized by CIS and India Internet Engineering Society; CIS, Bangalore; January 19, 2019).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Events Participated / Partnered In</h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/webinar-on-the-draft-intermediary-guidelines-amendment-rules">Webinar on the draft Intermediary Guidelines Amendment Rules</a> (Organized by CCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter; New Delhi; January 10, 2019). Gurshabad Grover was a discussant in the panel.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/medianama-roundtables-on-intermediary-liability-rules">MediaNama roundtables on intermediary liability rules</a> (St. Marks Hotel, Bangalore; January 25, 2019). CIS was a community partner. Gurshabad Grover participated in the meeting.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/dscis-bangalore-chapter-meet">DSCI's Bangalore chapter meet</a> (Organized by Data Security Council of India; Bangalore; January 29, 2019). Karan Saini and Gurshabad Grover participated in the meet.</li>
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<h2><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The growth in telecommunications in India has been impressive. While the potential for growth and returns exist, a range of issues need to be addressed for this potential to be realized. One aspect is more extensive rural coverage and the second aspect is a countrywide access to broadband which is low at about eight million subscriptions.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Submission</h3>
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<li> <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/response-to-trai-consultation-paper-on-regulatory-framework-for-over-the-top-ott-communication-services">Response to TRAI Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-The-Top (OTT) Communication Services</a> (Gurshabad Grover, Nikhil Srinath and Aayush Rathi with inputs from Anubha Sinha and Sai Shakti; January 10, 2019).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">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; "><b>Announcement</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list">Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan</a> (P.P. Sneha; January 9, 2019).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaResearchers at WorkInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2019-03-03T16:34:21ZPageGoogle Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
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<b>Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.</b>
<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/">published by WIRED</a> on January 22, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A little over a third of those funds will go toward sustaining current efforts at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, and the remaining $2 million will focus on long-term viability through the organization’s <a href="https://wikimediaendowment.org/" target="_blank">endowment</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Google will also begin allowing Wikipedia editors to use several of its machine learning tools for free, the tech giant said. What's more, Wikimedia and Google will soon broaden <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program" target="_blank">Project Tiger</a>, a joint initiative they launched in 2017 to increase the number of Wikipedia articles written in underrepresented languages in India, and to include 10 new languages in a handful of countries and regions. It will now be called GLOW, Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It’s certainly positive that Google is investing more in Wikipedia, one of the <a href="https://www.alexa.com/topsites" target="_blank">most popular</a> and generally trustworthy online resources in the world. But the decision isn’t altruistic: Supporting Wikipedia is also a shrewd business decision that will likely benefit Google for years to come. Like other tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, Google already uses Wikipedia content in a number of its own products. When you search Google for “Paris,” a “<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-california-gop-nazism/">knowledge panel</a>” of information about the city will appear, some of which is sourced from Wikipedia. The company also has used Wikipedia articles to train machine learning algorithms, as well as <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-will-link-directly-to-wikipedia-to-fight-conspiracies/">fight misinformation</a> on YouTube.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Even efforts like GLOW—which will now expand to Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria, as well as the Middle East and North Africa—can help Google’s own bottom line. When the initiative first launched in India, Google provided Chromebooks and internet access to editors, while the <a href="https://cis-india.org/" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society</a> and the Wikimedia India Chapter organized a three-month article writing competition that resulted in nearly 4,500 new Wikipedia articles in 12 different Indic languages. Smartphone penetration in India is <a href="https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-50-countries-by-smartphone-penetration-and-users/" target="_blank">only around</a> 27 percent; as more people in the country start using Android smartphones and Google Search, those articles will make the tech giant’s products more useful. Wikipedia’s <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/22/google-and-wikimedia-foundation-partner-to-increase-knowledge-equity-online/" target="_blank">blog post</a> announcing Google’s new investment makes this strategy fairly clear, noting that the company also provided Project Tiger with “insights into popular search topics on Google for which no or limited local language content exists on Wikipedia.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Google is also providing Wikipedia free access to its <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/" target="_blank">Custom Search API</a> and its <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/" target="_blank">Cloud Vision API</a>, which will help the encyclopedia’s volunteer editors more easily cite the facts they use. Each time a Wikipedia editor adds a new piece of information to an article, they need to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/">cite the source</a> where they learned it. The Search API will allow them quickly look up sources on the web without having to leave Wikipedia, while the vision tool will let editors automatically digitize books so they can be used to support Wikipedia articles too. Earlier this month, Wikimedia also <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/09/you-can-now-use-google-translate-to-translate-articles-on-wikipedia/" target="_blank">announced</a> Google Translate was coming to Wikipedia, allowing editors to convert content into 15 additional languages, bringing the total available to 121.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These machine learning tools will absolutely make it easier for Wikipedia to reach people who speak languages currently underrepresented on the web. But the encyclopedia is also the reason many AI programs exist in the first place. For example, Google-owned Jigsaw has used Wikipedia, in part, to <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-troll-fighting-ai-now-belongs-world/">train</a> its open source troll-fighting AI. The encyclopedia is also used by hundreds of other AI platforms, particularly <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59ydmx/copyright-law-artificial-intelligence-bias" target="_blank">because</a> every Wikipedia article is under Creative Commons—meaning it can be reproduced for free without copyright restrictions. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa smart assistants use information from Wikipedia to answer questions, for instance. (Both <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-just-donated-1-million-to-wikipedia-2018-9" target="_blank">companies</a> also have <a href="https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/donors.html" target="_blank">donated</a> to the Wikimedia Foundation as well.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Google’s new investments in Wikipedia, specifically in GLOW, will address a genuine problem. The majority of Wikipedia’s tens of millions of articles are in English or European languages like French, German, and Russian. (There are also lots of articles in Swedish and two versions of Filipino, but most of these pages <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-this-author-10-000-wikipedia-articles-is-a-good-days-work-1405305001" target="_blank">were created</a> by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot#cite_note-arts-5" target="_blank">prolific bot</a>). As the <a href="https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/opb/pol/S-POL-BROADBAND.18-2017-PDF-E.pdf" target="_blank">estimated half</a> of Earth’s population that still lacks an internet connection comes online, it will be important that reliable information is available in the native languages people speak. That doesn’t mean, though, that in helping solve these issues companies like Google—<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/what-happened-to-facebooks-grand-plan-to-wire-the-world/">or Facebook</a>—don’t also have something to gain.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wired-january-22-2019-google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wired-january-22-2019-google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-02-02T12:52:37ZNews ItemDecember 2018 Newsletter
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<b>We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the twelfth issue of its newsletter (December) for the year 2018: </b>
<h3><b>Highlights</b></h3>
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<li>CIS <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy">signed a MoU</a> with Odia Virtual Academy to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019.</li>
<li>Natalia Khaniejo, in a <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/natalia-khaniejo-december-31-2018-economics-of-cybersecurity">four-part report</a> has attempted to document the various approaches that are being adopted by different stakeholders towards incentivizing cybersecurity and the economic challenges of implementing the same. The literature review was edited by Amber Sinha.</li>
<li>Arindrajit Basu, Karan Saini, Aayush Rathi and Swaraj Barooah <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-karan-saini-aayush-rathi-and-swaraj-paul-barooah-december-23-mapping-cyber-security-in-india-infographic">created an infographic</a> which has mapped the key stakeholder, areas of focus and threat vectors that impact cybersecurity policy in India. The authors have stated that broadly policy-makers should concentrate on establishing a framework where individuals feel secure and trust the growing digital ecosystem.</li>
<li>In April 2018 European Union issued the proposal for a new regime dealing with cross border sharing of data and information by issuing two draft instruments, an E-evidence Regulation (“Regulation”) and an E-evidence Directive (“Directive”), (together the “E-evidence Proposal”). Vipul Kharbanda <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vipul-kharbanda-december-23-2018-european-e-evidence-proposal-and-indian-law">has analysed</a> how service providers based in India whose services are also available in Europe would be affected by these proposals.</li>
<li>Feminist research methodology is a vast body of knowledge, spanning across multiple disciplines including sociology, media studies, and critical legal studies. A <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/ambika-tandon-december-23-2018-feminist-methodology-in-technology-research">literature review by Ambika Tandon</a> aims to understand key aspects of feminist methodology across these disciplines, with a particular focus on research on technology and its interaction with society.</li>
<li>CIS and design collective Design Beku came together <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/paromita-bathija-padmini-ray-murray-and-saumyaa-naidu">for a workshop on Illustrations</a> and Visual Representations of Cybersecurity. The authors Paromita Bathija, Padmini Ray Murray, and Saumyaa Naidu have stated that images play a vital role in the public’s perception of cybercrime and cybersecurity. </li>
<li>A list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers">has been published</a>. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019.</li>
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<h3><b>Articles</b></h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-hindu-businessline-december-24-2018-private-public-partnership-for-cyber-security">Private-public partnership for cyber security</a> (Arindrajit Basu; Hindu Businessline; December 24, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/newslaundry-elonnai-hickok-vipul-kharbanda-shweta-mohandas-and-pranav-bidare-december-27-2018-is-the-new-interception-order-old-wine-in-a-new-bottle">Is the new ‘interception’ order old wine in a new bottle?</a> (Elonnai Hickok, Vipul Kharbanda, Shweta Mohandas and Pranav M. Bidare; Newslaundry.com; December 27, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-december-30-2018-digital-native-system-needs-a-robot">Digital Native: System Needs a Reboot</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; December 30, 2018).</li>
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<h3><b>Media Coverage</b></h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-rajitha-menon-december-6-2018-many-sites-bypass-porn-ban">Many sites bypass porn ban</a> (Rajitha Menon; Deccan Herald; December 6, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-rahul-sachitanand-december-9-2018-how-data-privacy-and-governance-issues-have-battered-facebook">How data privacy and governance issues have battered Facebook ahead of 2019 polls</a> (Rahul Sachitanand; Economic Times; December 6, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bloomberg-quint-december-16-2018-is-aadhaar-essential-to-achieve-error-free-electoral-rolls">Is Aadhaar Essential To Achieve Error-Free Electoral Rolls?</a> (Bloomberg Quint; December 16, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-abhishek-dey-december-22-2018-centres-order-on-computer-surveillance-threatens-right-to-privacy">Centre’s order on computer surveillance threatens right to privacy, experts say</a> (Abhishek Dey; Scroll.in; December 22, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-nehaa-chaudhari-and-tuhina-joshi-december-23-2018-centres-order-on-computer-surveillance-is-backed-by-law-but-the-law-lacks-adequate-safeguards">Centre’s order on computer surveillance is backed by law – but the law lacks adequate safeguards</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari and Tuhina Joshi; Scroll.in; December 23, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/vpn-compare-david-spencer-december-24-2018-ten-government-agencies-can-now-snoop-on-peoples-internet-data">Ten Indian government agencies can now snoop on people’s internet data</a> (David Spenser; VPN Compare; December 24, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/new-indian-express-keerthana-sankaran-december-26-2018-big-brother-is-here-amid-snooping-row-govt-report-says-monitoring-system-practically-complete">Big Brother is here: Amid snooping row, govt report says monitoring system 'practically complete'</a> (Keerthana Sankaran; New Indian Express; December 26, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-print-december-28-2018-mha-snoop-order-bid-to-amend-it-rules-china-like-clampdown-or-tracking-unlawful-content">MHA snoop order & bid to amend IT rules: China-like clampdown or tracking unlawful content?</a> (Fatima Khan; The Print December 28, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-dipanjan-sinha-december-29-2018-the-dark-side-of-future-tech">The dark side of future tech: Where are we headed on privacy, security, truth? </a>(Dipanjan Sinha; Hindustan Times; December 29, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/nehaa-chaudhari-asian-age-december-30-2018-constitutionality-of-mha-surveillance-order">The constitutionality of MHA surveillance order</a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; Asian Age; December 30, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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>
<h3><b>Wikipedia</b></h3>
<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>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala">Punjabi Wikisource Training Workshop, Patiala</a> (Jayanta Nath; December 6, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018">Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</a> (Jayanta Nath; December 8, 2019).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy">CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy</a> (Sailesh Patnaik; December 19, 2018).</li>
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<h3><b>Openness</b></h3>
<p 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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Guest Lecture</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course">Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)</a> (Organized by ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research; November 13 - 22, 2018). Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p>
<h3><b>Privacy</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Guest Lecture</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/teaching-at-shristi-interlude">Teaching at Shristi Interlude</a> (Organised by Shristi; Bangalore; December 7, 2018). Shweta Mohandas participated as a mentor.</li>
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<h3><b>Gender </b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Paper</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/ambika-tandon-december-23-2018-feminist-methodology-in-technology-research">Feminist Methodology in Technology Research: A Literature Review</a> (Ambika Tandon with contributions from Mukta Joshi; research assistance by by Kumarjeet Ray and Navya Sharma; design by Saumyaa Naidu; December 23, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/intermediary-liability-and-gender-based-violence">Event Report on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence </a>(Akriti Bopanna; edited by Ambika Tandon; December 20, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/international-network-on-feminist-approaches-to-bioethics-2018">International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018</a> (Co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama; St. John's Medical College; Bangalore; December 3 - 5, 2018). Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon were speakers at the event.</li>
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<h3><b>Cyber Security</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Papers</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/vipul-kharbanda-december-23-2018-european-e-evidence-proposal-and-indian-law">European E-Evidence Proposal and Indian Law</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; December 23, 2018).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/natalia-khaniejo-december-31-2018-economics-of-cybersecurity">Economics of Cybersecurity: Literature Review Compendium</a> (Natalia Khaniejo; edited by Amber Sinha; December 31, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Infographic</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-karan-saini-aayush-rathi-and-swaraj-paul-barooah-december-23-mapping-cyber-security-in-india-infographic">Mapping cybersecurity in India: An infographic</a> (information contributed by Arindrajit Basu, Karan Saini, Aayush Rathi and Swaraj Barooah; designed by Saumyaa Naidu; December 23, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/paromita-bathija-padmini-ray-murray-and-saumyaa-naidu">A Critical Look at the Visual Representation of Cybersecurity</a> (Paromita Bathija, Padmini Ray Murray, and Saumyaa Naidu; December 11, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/india-china-tech-forum">India-China Tech Forum 2018</a> (Organised by ORF and Peking University at the Ji Xianlin Centre for India-China Studies; Mumbai; December 11 - 12, 2018). Arindrajit Basu was a speaker.</li>
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<h3><b>Artificial Intelligence </b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/future-tech-and-future-law">Future Tech and Future Law</a> (Organised by Dept. of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka; Palace Grounds; Bangalore; November 29 - December 1, 2018). Arindrajit Basu was a speaker.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/unescap-and-google-ai-december-13-bangkok-ai-for-social-good-summit">AI for Social Good Summit</a> (Co-organised by Google AI and United Nations ESCAP; Bangkok; December 13, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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; "><b>Selected Papers</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers">Internet Researchers' Conference 2019</a> (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and Papers (P.P. Sneha; January 2, 2019).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> <b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at tanveer@cis-india.org.</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/december-2018-newsletter'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2018-newsletter</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaResearchers at WorkInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2019-01-08T16:15:38ZPageCIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy
<b>On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The internet is increasingly significant as a knowledge repository today. Especially relevant in this context is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contains information on almost every topic under the sun, across many languages spoken globally, and is used extensively all people to seek information and produce knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">From past one year (since July 2017), The Government of Odisha has been actively participating in the open knowledge movement by publishing the content of their seven websites and eight social media accounts under Creative Commons 4.0 International license. This active collaboration with Government of Odisha and an active Odia Wikimedia community seeking to create and distribute knowledge in Odia language over the internet has resulted in improving 1,200 articles on different Wikimedia projects, and together has received a near about 16 Million page views. Further, the Government of Odisha adopting an open content policy will provide a significant boost in institutionalising creation, sharing, and re-use of open knowledge resources - including government documents, official statistics, open educational resources, and open cultural resources - in Odia language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://ova.gov.in/en/" target="_blank">Odia Virtual Academy (OVA)</a> is an organisation established by Government of Odisha for development, promotion and popularization of Odia language, literature, and lexicography for general use. It is an organised initiative to encourage expeditious evolution and popularisation of Odia books, magazines, journals, old songs, manuscripts, assembly speeches, and archival records by digitising and providing internet based resources and opportunities for all odia people living across the globe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a MoU with the Odia Virtual Academy to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and its activities are structured by the following objectives:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Open Content Policy for the Government of Odisha:</b> The open content policy will include guidelines for the use of open licenses and open standards to enable the resource (text, resources or otherwise) publishing entity to share resources in a manner that it can be easily and freely be accessed, shared, and re-used by entities, without asking for prior permission, while ensuring that full attribution to the creator/publisher is provided and the resources are not misused, or the creator/publisher is not misrepresented in the process.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Developing Digital and Open Knowledge Resources in Odia Language:</b> The CIS team will undertake awareness-building, training, and outreach activities to develop Odia language content on Wikimedia ecosystem, as well as to enable content creators from across institutions, with a focus on state government officials at district headquarters and college students. The broad mandate of the digital resource generation workshop is to introduce teachers, students, and interested citizens to tools of collaborative knowledge production on the internet and methods for generating new online content or reintroduce offline content in Odia language.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>‘Revive Odia’ Activities:</b> Odia as a language has a long tradition and has been medium of expression for the native speakers of Odisha. While Odia as a language of communication is not under any immediate threat, its role and responsibility as a language of Knowledge needs to be examined carefully. ‘Revive Odia’ activities have a simple objective: <i>To bring Odia under limelight in the digital domain</i>. Wikimedia projects in Odia language are working actively to increase the presence of Odia language on the Internet. If such projects can be supported new projects can be incubated, Odia will emerge as the language of knowledge production and distribution as well.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Partnerships:</b> Wikimedia ecosystem offer several platforms for using the power and opportunities of internet to (digitally) preserve, enable access to, and creative re-use of historical, cultural, and social artefacts, and channel the expertise of local populations to build narratives around these artefacts. The CIS team is particularly interested in initiating engagement with public GLAM institutions at various locations and levels, and work with academic and research community to build scientific metadata of these objects. The metadata will be used to represent the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Odisha in projects such as Wikidata.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Building and Supporting FOSS for Odia Language:</b> To promote and enable usage of Odia language on the web, the CIS team will facilitate development of an Odia font, an input tool, and a spell-check dictionary - all of which will be released as FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) resources.</li>
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<p>To undertake these activities, CIS will receive a grant of Rs 20,00,000 (~$28,000) from OVA.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy</a>
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No publishersaileshOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KOpen LicenseAccess to KnowledgeOpen DataWikipediaOpen ContentOdia WikipediaOpen AccessWikimedia2018-12-20T00:24:44ZBlog EntryIndic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018
<b>A group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</b>
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<p>There was a long time required of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition">Optical Character Recognition (OCR)</a> for Indic language computing. There was not at per OCR available in Indic languages before 2015. Most of the Indic subdomain was created in 2007 to 2011, but due to not availability of OCR, the Indic Wikisource Community used to type the whole book or import the Unicoded text from other non-reliable sources. In 2015 the after Google Drive OCR released Indic community relief from the typing era.</p>
<p>Later <a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan">Shrinivasan T</a><strong> </strong>developed an <a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource">OCR4wikisource</a> script to use the Google Drive OCR as Bot. Since the implementation of the OCR, there has been a lot of progress in Indic Wikisource. But we have realized the there should be a common platform where we can share our knowledge. Then one-month planning we have organized <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</a>. in Kolkata. this is first such consultation at this scale, convened by the CIS A2K team. </p>
<p>The meeting had a representation of one volunteer from the Assamese, Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sanskrit language Wikisource communities. <a title="User:Ananth subray" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ananth_subray">Ananth Subray</a> (Kannada ) <a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa">Bodhisattwa</a> (Bengali) <a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&action=edit&redlink=1">Hrishikes</a> Sen (English ) <a title="User:Gurlal Maan" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gurlal_Maan">Gurlal Maan</a> (Punjabi ) G<a title="User:Gitartha.bordoloi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gitartha.bordoloi">itartha Bordoloi</a> (Assamese ) <a title="User:Pooja Jadhav" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_Jadhav">Pooja Jadhav</a> (Marathi ) <a title="User:Pmsarangi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pmsarangi">Pankajmala Sarangi</a> (Oriya ) <a title="User:Shubha" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shubha">Shubha</a> (Sanskrit ) <a title="User:Sushant savla" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sushant_savla">Sushant Savla</a> (Gujurati ) R<a title="User:Ranjithsiji" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji">anjith siji</a> (Malayalam ) <a title="User:अजीत कुमार तिवारी (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80&action=edit&redlink=1">A</a>jit Kumar Tiwari (Hindi ) <a title="User:Ramesam54 (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ramesam54&action=edit&redlink=1">Ramesam54</a> (Telugu ) <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> (Indic Tech team) <a title="User:Chinmayee Mishra" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayee_Mishra">Chinmayee Mishra</a> (Oriya ) as well as Tito Dutta, Tanveer Hasan, Subodh Kulkarni and Jayanta Nath, four members of the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_%28India%29">Centre for Internet and Society</a> (CIS-A2K) .</p>
<p>The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018#Objectives">objectives</a> of the consultation are:</p>
<ol><li>Share views and preferences on the most effective ways to pursue our shared vision of creating and sharing free knowledge in India and in the Indian languages (including English) around the world through the Indic Wikisource Project.</li><li>Attempt to come to an agreement on a roadmap for a future where our resources are better utilized, our volunteers are better served, and progress on our mission is more steadily attained.</li></ol>
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<p>We have started our discussion on day zero with the agenda of the main aims of this consultation and what all participants want from this program. The discussion was started at 6 PM and ended at 10 PM night. After discussion, we have summarized and set-up for two days agenda which was actually coming from the participants. The CIS-A2K team arranged for the travel and stay of all participants, as well as a night stay for all participants between the zero and second day, to ensure that the programme started on time on.</p>
<p>Day one started with Introduction of Wikisource by me were introduce the workflow of Wikisource, adding text, finding the source, basic copyright checking, creating Index pages, OCRed the page, Proofreading, layout with typography, Validation, Transclusion and Finishing touch. Later on, <a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&action=edit&redlink=1"><span id="gmail-1205" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1205 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Hrishikes</span></a> Sen demonstrated each segment broadly. <a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa"><span id="gmail-1204" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1204 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Bodhisattwa</span></a> (Bengali) demonstrated Wikisource Tool, like IA-UPLOAD, Vicuna Uploader, URL2COMMONS, Fill index Gadget etc. And all participants implement hands-on. Bodhisatta showed the <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC.webm">Bengali Wikisource promotional videos.</a></p>
<p>Day two was started with Google <span id="gmail-94" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_94 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Punctuation gmail-only-ins gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Drive</span> OCR without using Bot solution developed by <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> (Indic Tech team). Later on OTRS process by Jayanta Nath, Wikisource Roadmap by Tanveer Hasan, Institutional Partnership - by Subodh Kulkarni and Transclusion in Wikisource by Susant Salva presented. The most achievements of this meeting were the second day, <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> leads the task myself to clear the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Requests/IWCC2018">Wikisource technical backlog</a>. </p>
<p>There were also some ideas coming up by the session by Tanveer. This included awareness, outreach, followups, and evaluation. A report about this meeting was published at <a href="https://www.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily">Asomiya Pratidin</a>. Some feedback from the participants can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018'>https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018</a>
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No publisherjayantaCIS-A2KOdia WikisourceAccess to KnowledgeCommonsIndic WikisourceAutomationWorkshoparchivesWikisourceKannada WikisourceIndic ScriptsMobile AppsMarathi Wikisource2018-12-08T18:22:29ZBlog EntryPunjabi Wikisource Training Workshop, Patiala
https://cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala
<b>A two-day long First Indic Wikisource Workshop training programme was organised by Punjabi Wikimedian during November 17-18th 2018 in Patiala, Punjab to better capacity of Wikisourcers both technically, and outreach and community building.</b>
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<p>This is the second time when I met Punjabi Community. They had organized a Wikisource Workshop at Patiala specific for Punjabi Wikisource. When I reached the workshop venue, I was showing that all fifteen participants were eager to learn. The workshop event page can be viewed <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians/Punjabi_Wikisource_Training_Workshop,_Patiala">here</a>.</p>
<p>It was scheduled from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on November 17-18th 2018. The advantage of this present <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians">Punjabi Wikimedia Community</a>, most of the member is coming from Punjabi Literature students. And I was surprised that two of them are so little class, Eight Standard students. This was the first Workshop happening in India about Wikisource. Prior to the event, I had prepared with <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Shared_Scripts">all Gadgets</a>.</p>
<p>The event started half an hour later than planned, as most of the participants took longer to make it to the venue. We found it difficult to demonstrate the examples. The biggest challenge was not a technical one, but connecting with the audience. We ended up lecturing less and demonstrating more. I started with a small introduction to Wikisource with details What is Wikisource & What is the aim of the Wikisource and <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats">Indic Wikisource Stats</a> explanation.</p>
<p> After introduction I explained and demonstrated the workflow of Wikisource, adding text, finding the source, basic copyright checking, creating Index pages, OCRed the page, Proofreading, layout with typography, Validation, Transclusion and Finishing touch. Then I was demonstrated <a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert">Character Insert Tool: with Gadget-charinsert</a>. After watching this all the participants were so happy because the proofreading will be reduced and make easy. Show the most used templates as best practice in Wikisource world.</p>
<p>In the workflow, we had started with uploading a file in commons and local as per copyrights status, as tool <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Chunked_upload">Chunked_upload</a> and <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Vicu%C3%B1aUploader">Vicuna uploader</a>. The first day was ended with few edithon and interface change in Punjabi Wikisource.</p>
<p>2nd day was started with On the brighter side, there were many interesting and engaging queries from few of the participants who had already proofread pages on Wikisource. Next workflow started with creating an Index file with <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:IndexForm.js">IndexForn.js Gadget</a> and fill with all meta from commons and remaining data was filled by participants. Then I explained the method of <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30061329">OCR4Wikisource</a> by python script and offline <a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr">Tesseract OCR</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the namespace and extension needed on Punjabi Wikisource I explained about Author Namespace, Publisher Namespace, Short URL Extension ticket on phabricator, Book2scrol tool needed for better pagination and Transclusion, Install/Update the "tesseract-pan" package on Tool Forge for OCR</p>
<p>One of the best lessons we learned from the event was that it is very important to know the audience well in advance and to structure the workshop accordingly. The participants seemed to prefer the visual editor over editing the wiki markup for proofreading.</p>
<p>The final achievement was every participant understand the importance of Wikisource and the last one is the best for my motivation.</p>
<p>"After this workshop by <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth">Jayanta Nath</a>, I understand the significance of Wikisource and also that it is not a project which is secondary to Wikipedia."</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charan_Gill">Charan Gill</a> (Highest contributor on Punjabi Wikipedia)</p>
<p>The event was a success in that it introduced the Wikisource to various ways of getting involved with the Wikimedia movement, thereby changing the perception that the only way to get involved is by proofreading online.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala'>https://cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala</a>
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No publisherjayantaPunjabi WikisourceIndic WikisourceAccess to KnowledgeWikisource2018-12-08T16:08:57ZBlog EntryIndic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily
<b>Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily</b>
<p><em>Volunteers from various Indic Wikisource projects took part in a discussion organized by Centre for Internet and society: access to knowledge (CIS:A2K) in Kolkata recently. Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi participated in this consultation on behalf of the Assamese Wikisource which included other Indic languages like Bengali, Odia, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu and Sanskrit. It is worth mentioning here that Wikisource is another important project like Wikipedia, Wiktionary etc operated by Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone can contribute to this wikisource project which stores copyright-free books, plays, lyrics, speeches, translated works etc. Such works are first scanned and digitalized and then converted to unicode so that everything becomes searchable. Assamese Wikisource (<a href="http://as.wikisource.org/" target="_blank">as.wikisource.org</a>), started in 2013, so far includes various literary works of Guru Sankardeva and Madhavdev, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Padmanath Gogain Baruah, Chandraprasad Agarwala, Amulya Barua, Dandinath Kalita etc. Measures to popularize Wikisource among masses, increasing numbers of readers and contributors, correct techniques to digitalize a book etc were discussed at the event in Kolkata.</em></p>
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<p><em>Translated from Assamese by Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi </em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily'>https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily</a>
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No publisherjayantaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeIndic WikisourceBooksDigitisationWikisourceIndic ComputingWorkshopIndic Scripts2018-12-10T15:08:56ZNews ItemNovember 2018 Newsletter
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2018-newsletter
<b>Our newsletter for the month of November.</b>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS has <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/about/statement-on-serious-allegations-on-social-media-24112018">published a statement</a> on its website in response to the serious allegations against CIS members and the CIS workplace on social media. CIS has taken note of the concern raised on a social platform, and its Internal Committee (IC), constituted as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, has taken some critical steps. CIS has engaged <a class="external-link" href="https://www.poshatwork.com/">POSH at Work</a> to review the case and make recommendations to the Executive Director of CIS.</li>
<li>Anubha Sinha attended the 37th meeting of WIPO SCCR held in Geneva in the month of November 2018. During the week she made two statements on behalf of CIS and participated in a panel discussion and a closed door meeting to brief government delegates from the Asia pacific region on the WIPO limitations and exceptions agenda. CIS made statements on <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions">limitations and exceptions</a> and the <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">proposed treaty for the protection of broadcasting organizations</a>. Transcript of her talk can be <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">accessed here</a>.</li>
<li>A <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-and-elonnai-hickok-november-30-2018-cyberspace-and-external-affairs">memorandum outlining India's strategy to global cyber norms formulation processes</a> authored by Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu and edited by Aayush Rathi and Shruti Trikanad. The memorandum seeks to summarise the state of the global debate in cyberspace; outline how India can craft it’s global strategic vision and finally, provides a set of recommendations for the Ministry of External Affairs as they craft their cyber diplomacy strategy. </li>
<li>The institution of open standards is as a formidable regulatory regime governing the Internet while facilitating its growth as a network of networks. As a nation digitising rapidly and facing concerns in cybersecurity and Internet governance, there is a need for the Government of India to meaningfully participate at standards development organisations to represent the interests of the Indian populace and become a voice for the global South. Authors Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulating-the-internet-the-government-of-india-standards-development-at-the-ietf">examine this in a policy brief</a>.</li>
<li>The Convention on Cybercrime adopted in Budapest (“Convention”) is the first and one of the most important multilateral treaties addressing the issue of internet and computer crimes. Vipul Kharbanda has analyzed this in his research paper titled <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/budapest-convention-and-the-information-technology-act">Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act</a>.</li>
<li>Amber Sinha was one of the stakeholders who provided inputs to the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics in June 2018 during their visit to New Delhi. The Expert Group has prepared and <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/danish-expert-group-on-data-ethics">submitted its final report</a>. </li>
<li>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), CIS invited sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*. The list of proposed sessions are finalized and <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-sessions">posted on this page</a>.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Articles</h2>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindu-businessline-arindrajit-basu-october-30-2018-lessons-from-us-response-to-cyber-attacks">Lessons from US response to cyber attacks</a> (Arindrajit Basu; edited by Elonnai Hickok; Hindu Businessline; October 30, 2018). <i>Mirrored on CIS website on November 1</i>.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/nishant-shah-indian-express-november-11-2018-digital-native-one-selfie-does-a-tragedy-make">Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; November 11, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in the Media</h2>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-chronicle-november-21-2018-open-street-maps-help-tackle-disaster-experts">Open Street Maps help tackle disasters: Experts</a> (Deccan Chronicle; November 21, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-november-22-2018-abhijit-ahaskar-are-connected-tech-toys-too-smart-for-their-own-good">Are connected tech toys too smart for their own good?</a> (Abhijit Ahaskar; Livemint; November 22, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/girls-schools-womens-pgs-the-shocking-results-when-you-google-bitches-near-me">Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'</a> (News Minute; November 26, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-november-28-2018-kul-bhushan-amazon-launches-machine-learning-based-platform-for-healthcare-space">Amazon launches Machine Learning-based platform for healthcare space</a> (Kul Bhushan; Hindustan Times; November 28, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/report-from-oppression-to-liberation-reclaiming-the-right-to-privacy">Report: From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy</a> (Privacy International; November 28, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-nilesh-christopher-november-30-2018-are-chinese-video-apps-violating-the-indian-law">Are Chinese video apps violating the Indian law?</a> (Nilesh Christopher; Economic Times; November 30, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Copyright and Patent</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations">37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions">37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Agenda on Limitations and Exceptions</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">Views on on the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at side-event organised by Knowledge Ecology International</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).<br /> <br /> </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>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/aditya-365">Aditya 365</a> (Pavan Santhosh; November 7, 2018).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p>
<p 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. <b><br /> Teaching</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course">Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR</a> (short course) (ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research; Bangalore; November 13 - 22, 2018). Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /> <b> -----------------------------------</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Cyber Security</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Papers<br /> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/budapest-convention-and-the-information-technology-act">Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; November 20, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-and-elonnai-hickok-november-30-2018-cyberspace-and-external-affairs">Cyberspace and External Affairs:A Memorandum for India Summary </a>(Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok; edited by Aayush Rathi and Shruti Trikanad; November 30, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulating-the-internet-the-government-of-india-standards-development-at-the-ietf">Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF</a> (Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham; November 30, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Co-organized</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations">Workshop on Cybersecurity Illustrations</a> (CIS, Bangalore; November 15, 2018).</li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/connections-2018">Connections 2018</a> (Organized by Internet Engineering Task Force; Bangalore; October 31 - November 1, 2018). Gurshabad Grover attended the event.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ietf-103">IETF103</a> (Organized by Internet Engineering Task Force; Bangkok; November 3 - 9, 2018). Gurshabad Grover attended the event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><br />►Free Speech and Expression</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Paper<br /> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/icann-work-stream-2-recommendations-on-accountability">ICANN Workstream 2 Recommendations on Accountability</a> (Akriti Bopanna; November 23, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-31-on-icanns-fellowship-program">DIDP #32 On ICANN's Fellowship Program</a> (Akriti Bopanna; November 12, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/internet-freedom-at-crossroads-common-paths-towards-strengthening-human-rights-online">Internet Freedom at Crossroads - Common Paths towards Strengthening Human Rights Online</a> (Organized by Freedom Online; Berlin; November 28 - 30, 2018). Elonnai Hickok was a speaker.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry<br /> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/clarification-on-the-information-security-practices-of-aadhaar-report">Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar Report</a> (Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali; November 5, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/building-a-community-of-practice-reflections-from-2nd-all-partners">Building a Community of Practice: Reflections from 2nd All Partners</a> (Organized by Partnership on AI; San Francisco, California; November 14 - 15, 2018). Elonnai Hickok spoke on the panel on the PAI working groups and co-lead the AI Labor and Economy working group meeting as co-chair of the group.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/briefing-on-bbc-news-pan-india-research-on-how-fake-news-digital-misinformation-spreads">Briefing on BBC News pan-India research on how 'fake news' / digital misinformation spreads</a> (Organized by BBC; New Delhi; November 16, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/dsci-bangalore-chapter-meet">DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet</a> (Organized by Data Security Council of India; 10K NASSCOM Startup Warehouse; Bangalore; November 22, 2018). Gurshabad Grover and Karan Saini attended the DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/informational-privacy-in-india-an-emerging-discourse">Informational Privacy in India: An Emerging Discourse</a> (Organized by Centre for Policy Research and supported by Omidyar Network; New Delhi; November 29, 2018). Amber Sinha was a speaker on the first panel on privacy and its tradeoffs.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/facebook-privacy-design-sprint">Facebook Privacy Design Sprint</a> (Organized by Facebook and Quicksand; WeWork, Bangalore; November 30, 2018). Pranav Bidare and Saumyaa Naidu participated in the event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Miscellaneous <b></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Co-organized</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/sotm-asia-2018"><span class="external-link">SOTM Asia 2018</span></a> (Co-organized by CIS and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; November 17-18, 2018). Saumyaa Naidu, Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/speculative-futures-lab-on-artificial-intelligence-in-media-entertainment-and-gaming">Speculative Futures Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Media, Entertainment, and Gaming</a> (Organized by Quicksand; Bangalore; November 16 - 18, 2018). Pranav Bidare was a panelist.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/future-tech-and-future-law">Future Tech and Future Law</a> (Organized by Dept. of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka as part of Bengaluru Tech Summit; November 29 - December 1, 2018). Aayush Rathi was a speaker.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Gender <b></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Statement</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/about/statement-on-serious-allegations-on-social-media-24112018">Statement on Serious Allegations against CIS Members and the CIS Workplace on Social Media</a> (Sunil Abraham; November 24, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/roundtable-on-intermediary-liability-and-gender-based-violence-at-the-digital-citizen-summit-2018">Roundtable on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2018</a> (Organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation; India International Centre, New Delhi; November 1, 2018).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/international-network-on-feminist-approaches-to-bioethics-2018">International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018</a> (Co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health; St. John's Medical College; Bangalore; December 3 - 5, 2018). Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event as speakers. Aayush presented a paper 'Sexual Surveillance and Data Regimes: Development in the Data Economy' co-authored by himself and Ambika.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /> ----------------------------------- <b><b><br /> </b></b>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>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Article</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-november-1-2018-shyam-ponappa-a-great-start-on-wifi-reforms">A great start on Wi-Fi reform</a>s (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; November 1, 2018 and Organizing India Blogspot; November 1, 2018).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>-----------------------------------</b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><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; "><b>IRC19</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">List of proposed sessions:<br /> <b> </b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-ayushmanbhavah" target="_blank">#AyushmanBhavah</a> - Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-butitisnotfunny" target="_blank">#ButItIsNotFunny</a> - Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-callingoutandin" target="_blank">#CallingOutAndIn</a> - Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-digitalplatformattributes" target="_blank">#DigitalPlatformAttributes</a> - Nandakishore K N and Dr. V. Sridhar</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-enlistingprivacy" target="_blank">#EnlistingPrivacy</a> - Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-fomo" target="_blank">#FOMO</a> - Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-legitlists" target="_blank">#LegitLists - Form follows function: List by design</a> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listinterface" target="_blank">#ListInterface</a> - Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listsasdatabase" target="_blank">#ListsAsDatabase</a> - Ria De and Samata Biswas</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-loshaandwhatfollowed" target="_blank">#LoSHAandWhatFollowed</a> - Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-powerlisting" target="_blank">#PowerListing</a> - Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-socialmediationasgenderedjustice" target="_blank">#SocialMediationAsGenderedJustice</a> - Esther Anne Victoria Moraes and Manasa Priya Vasudevan</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-storiesrecordslegendsrituals" target="_blank">#StoriesRecordsLegendsRituals</a> - Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelecomResearchers at WorkInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2018-12-19T02:41:01ZPageViews on on the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at side-event organised by Knowledge Ecology International
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<b>On November 27, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) organised a side event during deliberations of the 37th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Electronic Information for Libraries (eiFL.net), Corporacion Innovarte, Creative Commons, and Knowledge Ecology International appraised the current text for the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Revised Consolidated Text on Definitions, Object of Protection, Rights to be Granted and Other Issues, SCCR/36/6).
Speakers provided an overview of the treaty, explained the potential risks and problems caused, and proposed solutions to narrow the Treaty’s scope and limit the damage.
Below is a transcript of the remarks made by Anubha Sinha who represented CIS at this event.</b>
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<p>Good afternoon, everyone.</p>
<p>My presentation will be in reference to the revised
consolidated text <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_36/sccr_36_6.pdf">SCCR 36/6</a> and the US proposal <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_37/sccr_37_7.pdf">SCCR 37/7</a>.</p>
<p>In essence, this treaty is trying to create a new set of
rights for broadcasters operating in both mediums (first, traditional –
satellite, airwaves, cables, and second, the internet), ostensibly to counter
signal piracy. We are looking at updating a neighbouring rights or related
rights regime to protect signals across both mediums.</p>
<p>The intent of treaty is to exclude entities exclusively delivering their
programmes over the internet. I fear that the results would create
an unequal playing field between broadcasters and internet streaming entities.
This would be the first, immediate impact. To then catch up, perhaps, internet
streaming services would look to satisfy the treaty requirements to avail
protection. This would involve satisfying the definition of a broadcasting
organisation (as in SCCR 36/6), and for their country to have ratified the
treaty. The characteristics of a broadcasting organisation can be satisfied by
acquiring any traditional broadcasting service, for such an entity, as per the
current text of the treaty. This would require serious capital, and most start
up innovations in the area would not be in a position to undertake such a step.
And then there is the question of asserting the rights and enforcing them in
other countries – this will be an extremely expensive affair. The point I’m
trying to make is that this treaty seems to be set to protect a narrow slice of
broadcasters, with significant market power in their home markets.</p>
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co-panelists will discuss specific harms that this will have on the building
of commons, and other damaging effects on global efforts to build an
affordable and accessible knowledge system. This is unfortunate, and hence we
urgently need text that provides for a mandatory list of limitations and
exceptions, and not work with the soft language that is present right now. We have to accept
that multilateral norm-setting at the international level sets the tone for
countries to enact their own national legislations – indeed, before the
Marakkesh treaty there were hardly any developing countries which had an
expansive beneficial copyright exception for the visually impaired (except India - that I'm aware of), and look
who the first few countries to ratify the treaty were – India, Argentina, El
Salvador, Paraguay, Uruguay, etc – all developing countries leading to adopt this international
standard.</p>
<p>The <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_37/sccr_37_7.pdf">US delegation’s proposal</a>, introduced yesterday, pushes the idea of
limiting exclusive rights granted under this treaty to broadcasting
organisations, so long as the countries provide adequate protection against
piracy in other bodies of law. This seems like a promising idea – one that does
not upend the legal theories of neighbouring rights and also shrinks the
proposed model in the treaty that seeks to grant monopolistic property rights
for a long and unclear period of time to powerful organisations –
organisations that by their very nature and functions are chroniclers of our
times and keepers of valuable cultural heritage.</p>
<p>At a <a class="external-link" href="https://www.keionline.org/29025">seminar</a> on this very
treaty organised last month by KEI, Proffessor Bernt Hugenholtz flagged off the
problematic justifications provided for increasing the strength of this
neighbouring right. He said that the
justifications should indicate a corresponding increase in cost of
disseminating content. Should new exclusive rights be created for
gradation-like increase in investment? He was not convinced that the costs had
gone up significantly, and he also pointed out that this cost should not
account for money spent on acquiring the rights to broadcast the content. Further, going back to the US proposal, the
proposal recognises the persistent conceptual difficulties of distinguishing
between signal protection and content protection. This very difficulty has been
raised by many civil society organisations in the past, and more recently it
cropped up at a discussion on the treaty in New Delhi, where both civil
society organisations and representatives of broadcasters were present. Another
practical challenge (that remains) will be to separate the computer network based operations
from the non-computer network based operation; however, in this age, is it
technically possible to do that?</p>
<p>To conclude, I think that fundamental concepts and terms
need to be properly clarified to arrive at an understanding that is shared
across all stakeholders; and a corresponding strengthening of limitations and
exceptions is urgently needed. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>For a complete list of speakers at the event, please click <a class="external-link" href="https://www.keionline.org/29234">here</a>. </strong></p>
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