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Festival scan on social media — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2016 03:20 AM
Authorities in a south Karnataka district have started keeping tighter watch on rumour-mongering and hate messages on social media platforms ahead of religious festivals.
International Conference on Innovation for Shared Prosperity — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2016 02:40 AM
Rohini Lakshane attended a conference on IP Rights, Competition and Standard Setting in the IT industry on August 20 and 21, 2016. The conference was organized by O.P. Jindal Global University and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition.
Bridging the Digital Divide — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2016 04:50 PM
Nirmita Narasimhan will be a panelist at an annual event called "All Hands Meet" organized by Wipro on August 25, 2016 in Bangalore.
Extending Aadhaar to more areas is a hare-brained idea, it should be dropped — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2016 03:05 AM
News reports that the mandatory use of Aadhaar could be extended to a host of new areas are extremely disturbing. According to these reports, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has identified 20 new areas for which Aadhaar can be made mandatory. This includes registration of companies and NGOs, insurance, competitive examinations and property and vehicle registration.
Policy Brief on the Report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on ICT — by Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Aug 23, 2016 03:37 PM
In light of the complex challenges and threats posed to, and by, the field of information telecommunications in cyberspace, in 1998 the draft resolution in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly was introduced and adopted without a vote (A/RES/53/70) ]. Since then, the Secretary General to the General Assembly has invited annual reports on the issue.
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 23, 2016 03:16 PM
Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.
Accessing pirated content might lead to prison term & Rs 3-lakh fine — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2016 02:47 AM
India puts onus of downloading and viewing pirated content on individuals.
Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 22, 2016 02:43 AM
Sitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their views about issues related to India on Wikipedia. While the talks were still in progress, Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foun-dation, USA, paused to make an announcement.
Tulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated team — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 22, 2016 04:38 PM
Tulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, allowing it to boast of its own Wikipedia
Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
Public Panel Discussion: Digitalisation for Social Change — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 19, 2016 01:47 PM
Sunil Abraham is participating as a panelist in a discussion co-organized by Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office in Bangalore on August 22, 2016.
Nirmita Narasimhan gets NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Award — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 18, 2016 01:26 PM
The NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Awards were given away in the capital on August 14, 2016. Nirmita got the award in the "Persons with Disabilities" category.
Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune — by Abhinav Garule — last modified Aug 18, 2016 11:14 AM
A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
Responses to Trai’s consultation paper on free data contain some good suggestions — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 17, 2016 03:05 AM
Trai has announced that it will come up with a final consultation paper on ‘Free Data’, and also a pre-consultation paper on Net Neutrality by the end of this month.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:43 AM
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps — by Elisachang — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:37 AM
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:24 AM
The Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about Wikimedia projects and the contributor community, and at times, encouraging the audience to contribute.
Tulu Wikipedia Conference in Mangaluru — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2016 11:50 PM
A Tulu Wikipedia conference organized by the Times of Kudla (Tulu name for Mangaluru) newspaper was held at Malki, near Mangaluru on August 13 and 14, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia.
Using technology to address issues — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 15, 2016 04:26 AM
Can technology help the visually-disabled, who have no access to books and reading resources in their schools?
Rational Internet laws essential to fulfil India’s digital goals — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 15, 2016 04:13 AM
India has emerged as a digitally-connected nation but experts suggest the country still lacks pragmatic Internet laws.
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