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22 Sep 2016
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Internet Rights and WrongsWith a rise in PIL's for unwarranted censorship, do we need to step back and inspect if it's about time unreasonable trends are checked?
18 Sep 2016
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବାSoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant …
18 Sep 2016
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Who Owns Your Phone?The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
18 Sep 2016
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source SoftwareSoftware Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a …
18 Sep 2016
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Glaring Errors in UIDAI's RebuttalThis response note by Pranesh Prakash questions Unique Identification Authority of India’s reply to Hans Verghese Mathews' article titled “Flaws in the UIDAI Process” (EPW, March 12, 2016), which found “serious mathematical errors” in the …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
17 Sep 2016
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ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବାI authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference …
17 Sep 2016
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Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an …
17 Sep 2016
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom DaySoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include …
17 Sep 2016
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IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and SocietyA workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying …
14 Sep 2016
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Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device PatentsIn India, if a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a compulsory license, and if the patent is not adequately worked within two years of the grant of such a compulsory license, it may be …
12 Sep 2016
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Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed?The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted.
9 Sep 2016
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this yearWith the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
6 Sep 2016
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Making Telugu Suitable for InternetIn brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language …
6 Sep 2016
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Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?India has banned various large-scale torrent sites for a long time — this is old news. But under a new federal policy in India, one can be jailed for three years and fined 300,000 Indian Rupees (~US $4464) for downloading content on any of …
6 Sep 2016
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IIRC: Reflections on IRC16The first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series was held on February 26-28, 2016. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digitial Innovation …
1 Sep 2016
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Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, KarnatakaKarnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to …
1 Sep 2016
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Submitted Comments on the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016Last month, the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the Government of Telangana released the first public draft of the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016, and sought comments from various stakeholders in …
1 Sep 2016
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Digital India Needs These Policy ChangesAppropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions.
31 Aug 2016
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We Truly are the Product being SoldWhatsApp has announced it will begin sharing user data such as names, phone numbers, and other analytics with its parent company, Facebook, and with the Facebook family of companies. This change to its terms of service was effected in order …
31 Aug 2016
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We Tested 18 Government Apps, and Most are not Fully Accessible to the DisabledWhen you wake up in the morning, the odds are one of the first things you look at is your phone. You might check WhatsApp, review the news, look at the day’s schedule, and book a taxi to work.
31 Aug 2016
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Report on Understanding Aadhaar and its New ChallengesThe Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University collaborated with the Centre for Internet and Society, and other individuals and organisations to organise a two day workshop on “Understanding …
31 Aug 2016
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A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureatesMany articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel …
31 Aug 2016
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3 Copyright Tips for Students and EducatorsCopyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy. How do you know what is copyrighted? Recently Frederico Morando …
30 Aug 2016
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The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in IndiaThis essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and …
30 Aug 2016
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Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.
30 Aug 2016
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Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licensesA campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
28 Aug 2016
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CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation on Proliferation of Broadband through Public WiFi NetworksThe Centre for Internet and Society (“CIS”) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on this Consultation Paper (“Paper”). The comments were prepared by Sunil Abraham, Sharath Chandra Ram, Vidushi Marda, and Thejaswi Melarkode. Special …