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28 Feb 2016
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Violence call key to 'sedition'Words, whether spoken or shouted, that question or even malign the government cannot be labelled as sedition, unless they specifically incite violence, lawyers and human rights experts familiar with fundamental rights and sedition laws have …
28 Feb 2016
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India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO modelAbility to access 'net from mobe no longer considered a miracle.
27 Feb 2016
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Why India snubbed Facebook's free Internet offerThe social media giant wanted to give the people of India free access to a chunk of the Internet, but the people weren't interested.
27 Feb 2016
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Netizen Report: The EU Wrestles With Facebook Over PrivacyGlobal Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world.
27 Feb 2016
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International Mother Language DayOn 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about …
26 Feb 2016
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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia LanguageThe Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
21 Feb 2016
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ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವನಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ
20 Feb 2016
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2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") ColloquiumProf. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by …
19 Feb 2016
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National Koha ConclaveInformatics Publishing organized an event at Fortune Park JP Celestial in Bangalore on February 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham delivered the inaugural address on the occasion.
15 Feb 2016
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Zuckerberg's Plan Spurned as India Backs Full Net NeutralityFacebook Inc.’s plans for expansion in India have suffered a major setback.
15 Feb 2016
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What does Sri Lanka’s ratification of the Disability Convention mean?The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations in 2006 according to the universal declaration of Human Rights and international conventions on human rights. Sri Lanka has signed the …
15 Feb 2016
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Trai upholds Net Neutrality in setback to Facebook’s Free BasicsTrai says Internet service providers will not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services.
15 Feb 2016
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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networksHow many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with …
15 Feb 2016
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Facebook’s Free Basics hits snag in IndiaIndian regulators have dealt a major blow to Facebook’s controversial Free Basics online access plan by forbidding so-called differential pricing by internet companies, in effect banning the programme in the country.
14 Feb 2016
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
14 Feb 2016
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UNICEF & Nasscom Foundation Workshop on Child Online ProtectionJyoti Panday attended UNICEF & Nasscom Foundation Workshop on Child Online Protection (COP) held on 8 February 2016 at Hotel Claridges in New Delhi.
14 Feb 2016
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Net neutrality advocates hail Trai verdictFacebook 'disappointed' with the ruling on differential pricing.
14 Feb 2016
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Linking Facebook use to free top-up dataJust before the Trai notification, the Ambani brothers signed a spectrum sharing pact and they have been sharing optic fibre since 2013.
11 Feb 2016
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India Sets Strict New Net Neutrality RulesIn India, advocates of net neutrality have welcomed new rules by the telecom regulator that have blocked efforts by Facebook to offer free but limited access to the web in the country’s fast growing Internet market.
10 Feb 2016
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India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poorIndia’s telecom regulator said Monday that service providers cannot charge discriminatory prices for Internet services, a blow to Facebook’s global effort to provide low-cost Internet to developing countries.
5 Feb 2016
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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016
4 Feb 2016
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A Megacorp’s Basic InstinctBolstered by academia and civil society, TRAI stands its ground against FB’s Free Basics publicity blitz.
3 Feb 2016
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India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from FacebookALWAR, India — Connecting people to the Internet is not easy in this impoverished farming district of wheat and millet fields, where working camels can be glimpsed along roads that curve through the low-slung Aravalli Hills.
31 Jan 2016
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Youth is responsible for protecting TeluguG. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia …
31 Jan 2016
30 Jan 2016
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Wikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola CollegeAccess to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to …
30 Jan 2016
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OER16: Open CultureThe 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on April 19 and 20, 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. The event is organized by Association for Learning Technology.
30 Jan 2016
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Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a priceWho could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims Facebook’s Free Basics service “protects net neutrality”.
30 Jan 2016
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#NetNeutrality, Data Protection Laws among topics at ITechLaw ConferenceThe who’s-who of the technology law sector convened at the ITechLaw India International Conference held from January 27-29 in Bangalore.
29 Jan 2016
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Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes onlineBlack is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver …