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14 Dec 2015
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Press Release: India to Host 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public InterestThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is happy to announce that 4th edition of the Global Congress will be held at the National Law University, New Delhi (NLU-D) on 15-17 December 2015. The Congress is jointly organised by CIS, NLU-D, …
14 Dec 2015
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Living in the Archival MomentAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
13 Dec 2015
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Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Shamnad BasheerThe next discussion in our pre-GCIP discussion series is with Prof. Shamnad Basheer.
13 Dec 2015
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IRC16 - Proposed Session - #PoliticsOnSocialMediaThis is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Dr. Rinku Lamba and Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta, with Dr. Mohinder Singh, Professor Valerian Rodrigues and Professor Shefali Jha as co-members.
12 Dec 2015
12 Dec 2015
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Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Zakir ThomasWith only a few more days to go for the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 (“Congress”), we will be putting out a number of blog posts as a precursor of things to come. In this first series, Job …
12 Dec 2015
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Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Susan K. SellAfter Mr. Zakir Thomas and Dr. Michael Geist, our third discussion is with Prof. Susan K. Sell.
12 Dec 2015
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Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Michael GeistContinuing the lead-up to the GCIP, the following discussion is with Dr. Michael Geist.
12 Dec 2015
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Intellectual Property Rights & TRIPS: An OverviewThe Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariff began in 1986 with a Ministerial Deceleration in Punta del Este.
11 Dec 2015
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IRC16 - Proposed Session - #KnowledgeCommunity (Computing, Community and Knowledge Production: Problems and Prospects)This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Ravikant.
9 Dec 2015
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Abuse of Dominant Position in Indian Competition Law: A Brief GuideEvery car owner would give a knowing nod when spoken to about the struggle of finding reasonably priced spare parts for their cars. While original parts can only be found at limited dealerships (which would invariably be miles away from …
8 Dec 2015
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Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Edit-a-thonAs part of the "Sau Dhuni Teen Project" a multilingual Wikipedia Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune.
7 Dec 2015
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The Infrastructure Turn in the HumanitiesAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
7 Dec 2015
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Reading from a Distance – Data as TextAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
5 Dec 2015
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TTT 2015The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia …
5 Dec 2015
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Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, ManagaloreCIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
5 Dec 2015
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Community Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada WikisourceCIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation in order to prioritise and streamline the work on Wikisource projects across FLA. Due to the commitment of volunteers from the respective FLA and the institutional partnerships that A2K has …
5 Dec 2015
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Analysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning LabsUniversity of Mysore considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in the country has been famous for its innovative pedagogic techniques and opening up for students various avenues of knowledge acquisition.
4 Dec 2015
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IRC16 - Proposed Session - #WikiShadows (Techno-Political Contours of Knowledge Production on Wikipedia)This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Tanveer Hasan and Rahmanuddin Shaik.
4 Dec 2015
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CIS's Position on Net NeutralityAs researchers committed to the principle of pluralism we rarely produce institutional positions. This is also because we tend to update our positions based on research outputs. But the lack of clarity around our position on network …
4 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015
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Security ResearchThe Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
3 Dec 2015
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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand booksAs the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi …
3 Dec 2015
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IRC16 - Proposed Session - #SmartThings (Conceptualizing Internet/Digital Technologies in the Age of "Smartness")This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Ravi Shukla and Bharath Palavalli.
3 Dec 2015
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IRC16 - Proposed Session - #MinimalComputingThis is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Padmini Ray Murray and Sebastian Lütgert.
3 Dec 2015
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Guru-G Learning Labs and CIS A2K Institutional PartnershipIncorporated in 2013, Guru-G is the world’s first gamified platform for teaching and teacher training.
2 Dec 2015
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UID ResearchThe Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
2 Dec 2015
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Sectoral Privacy ResearchThe Centre for Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy in India since the year 2010, with special focus on the following issues.
2 Dec 2015
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Privacy Policy ResearchThe Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
2 Dec 2015
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FOV Podcast - Data, People, and Smart CitiesFor the second part of the Smart City podcast series, Sruthi Krishnan and Harsha K from Fields of View spoke with Sumandro Chattapadhyay on data, people, and smart cities. Here is the podcast. We are grateful to Fields of View for producing …