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2 Jul 2017
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Indian Patent Office updates Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions, yet againBy discarding a test brought into force last year, the updated Guidelines take no concrete position to help clarify the ambiguity around patentability of software inventions in India.
30 Jun 2017
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Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thonOdia Wikipedians, in conjunction with Indian Athletics Federation and Sports and Youth Services collaborated to document the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships. Hundreds of photos were uploaded and new Wikipedia content added to inform the …
28 Jun 2017
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Wikidata workshop (South India) conducted in BangaloreWikidata workshop (South India) has been conducted in Bangalore on 10 and 11 June 2017. 11 Wikimedians from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the workshop. Here is a report.
24 Jun 2017
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GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with DisabilitiesThe Centre of Internet & Society made a submission on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which will be coming into play from July 2017 onwards. In this blog post Nirmita Narasimhan assesses the impact of GST on persons with disabilities.
24 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the PeopleWe are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without …
21 Jun 2017
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Dalit History Month 2017 edit-a-thon in Delhi, IndiaDalit History Month edit-a-thon was conducted in Delhi on 20 May 2017. Here is a report.
18 Jun 2017
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Cybersecurity Compilation: Indian ContextThis document intends to serve as a comprehensive source compiling all the cyber-security related regulations, policies, guidelines, notifications, executive orders, court rulings, etc.
17 Jun 2017
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Report of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017Aditya Tejas attended the Global Accessibility Awareness Day event organized at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. The event had multiple panels and presentations, including a talk on coding for accessibility, a panel on why …
11 Jun 2017
11 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is CurrencyThe increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
10 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017
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Broadband Reforms for Local ManufacturingBroadband in India needs reforms for local manufacturing and for infrastructure expansion and utilisation.
31 May 2017
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Comments from the Centre for Internet and Society on Renewal of .NET Registry AgreementThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposed renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement.
30 May 2017
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34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Proposal for Analysis of Copyright related to the Digital EnvironmentObservers made the following statements on GRULAC's proposal on analysis of copyright related to the digital environment on 5th May 2017.
30 May 2017
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34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and ArchivesObservers made the following statements on the agenda of limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives on 3rd May 2017.
30 May 2017
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34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Limitations and Exceptions for Educational and Research InstitutionsObservers made the following statements on discussion around limitations and exceptions for educational and research institutions on 3rd May 2017.
30 May 2017
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34th SCCR: A Summary ReportThe 34th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) was held from 1st- 5th May 2017 at Geneva, Switzerland. Anubha Sinha attended the session and provides an update on the status of discussions and noteworthy …
28 May 2017
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapCreating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
22 May 2017
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Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in IndiaSince June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) …
20 May 2017
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Policies to Sustain India's MarketThe question is whether policies can be better framed to harness the market potential. Why is so much investment flowing into India's securities markets?
19 May 2017
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Comments on the draft Policy on IT Accessibility for People with DisabilitiesThe Centre for Internet & Society gave inputs on a document on implementing digital accessibility to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on May 2, 2017.
16 May 2017
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with …
15 May 2017
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34th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposal for Analysis of Copyright Related to the Digital EnvironmentAnubha Sinha, attending the 34th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 1 May, 2017 to 5 May, 2017, made this statement during the …
15 May 2017
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34th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Discussion on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and ArchivesAnubha Sinha, attending the 34th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 1 May, 2017 to 5 May, 2017, made this statement during the …
14 May 2017
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
10 May 2017
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Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, PuneA Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
5 May 2017
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeRage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
4 May 2017
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SoI’s Open Series Maps Fails to Implement Public Sharing of Govt DataAlthough it has made the topographic maps or the Open Series Maps available to general public, Survey of India’s (SoI) Nakshe portal will have to go through a variety of litmus test, as the initiative fails to implement the mandates of …
3 May 2017
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Aadhaar Case: Beyond Privacy, An Issue of Bodily IntegrityThe insertion of Section 139AA in the Income Tax Act has been challenged and is being heard by a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court.
2 May 2017
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Comments on the Statistical Disclosure Control ReportThis submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (“CIS”) on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report published on March 30th by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.