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20 Mar 2014
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Vachana Sanchaya: 11th century Kannada literature to enrich WikisourceKannada Wikipedian Omshivaprakash, Pavithra and I co-authored this article on digitizing Vachana Sahitya, a 11th century Kannada literature on WikiSource.
20 Mar 2014
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Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp DealPrivacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as …
20 Mar 2014
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Net Neutrality and PrivacyThe highly contentious and polarising debate on net-neutrality will have a large impact on shaping the future of the internet and ultimately on the users of the internet. One important issue which needs to be prioritized while debating the …
20 Mar 2014
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European Union Draft Report Admonishes Mass Surveillance, Calls for Stricter Data Protection and Privacy LawsEver since the release of the “Snowden files”, the secret documents evidencing the massive scale of surveillance undertaken by America’s National Security Agency and publically released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, surveillance in the …
20 Mar 2014
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Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and PracticeDr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
20 Mar 2014
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Broadcast Treaty: An OverviewIn this blog post, CIS intern Varun Baliga, a third year law student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, presents an overview of the Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, currently being deliberated by nations at the …
20 Mar 2014
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A Question of Digital HumanitiesThe emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping …
19 Mar 2014
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Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses OnlineThe post was co-authored by Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash H L and Subhashish Panigrahi and published in the March issue of Foss Force.
18 Mar 2014
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WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 26th Session- Consolidated Notes (Part 1 of 3)From December 16 to 20, 2013, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met for the 26th Session. This blog post (Part 1 of 3) summarizes Days 1 and 2 of the …
18 Mar 2014
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NVDA e-Speak Text-to-Speech Project Update (March 2014)CIS in partnership with the Daisy Forum of India is engaged in a project supported by The Hans Foundation to develop enhancements to the open source screen reader for Windows NVDA (Non Visual desktop Access) and e-Speak text-to-speech …
18 Mar 2014
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NTIA to give up control of the Internet's rootOn Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and …
17 Mar 2014
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004: A License to ShareIn this blogpost Devika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, takes a first look at the Creative Commons 4.0 Licence.
14 Mar 2014
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Report on the 9th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on EnforcementThe 9th Session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement ended here in Geneva last week. In this report, I look at the major issues discussed at the Session and the deadlock over future work of the Committee.
14 Mar 2014
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Open Education Week: Interview with Subhashish PanigrahiNoopur Raval interviewed Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team about sharing information resources and attribution in academia.
14 Mar 2014
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NGO Profile: Third World NetworkIn the second blog in this series, I profile the work of the IP team of Third World Network (TWN) at the various International Organisations in Geneva.
13 Mar 2014
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New Standard Operating Procedures for Lawful Interception and MonitoringGovernment issues new guidelines to TSP’s to assist Lawful Interception and Monitoring.
12 Mar 2014
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Information Structures for Citizen Participation - JanaagrahaIn our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from …
12 Mar 2014
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Digital Humanities: The Ecto-ParasiteThis blog entry, exploring Jacques Derrida's Mochlos can be read in three ways. The numbers below refer to the cells which should be read in the specified order. A.) 1-3-4: This essay views knowledge and the University as a technology and …
11 Mar 2014
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NGO Profile: Knowledge Ecology InternationalAs CIS’ observer in Geneva, I will be profiling NGOs and other prominent actors at the WIPO. In the first in a series of blogs, I profile the work of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) at the various International Organisations in …
9 Mar 2014
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Extractive Charges on Spectrum & PetroleumThe author examines whether government levies on these critical inputs are beneficial or detrimental.
8 Mar 2014
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Wikipedia Editathon on India Women's History at CBIT, Hyderabad“Wikipedia Editathon on India Women's History” and “Work-Life Balance: Women in Engineering” were organized parallelly at Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad on March 8, 2014. These events had a common session during …
7 Mar 2014
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, PuneLast month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in …
6 Mar 2014
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Indian Wikimedia community coordinates Women’s History MonthThe Indian Wikimedia community is pleased to invite you to participate in Women’s History Month events, 2014. We started off with a pre-event Wikipedia workshop at Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work, in Mangalore on the 26th of February.
5 Mar 2014
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Odia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Roleକମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା (Odia language in computer) is an essay published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja's Sunday supplement" on March 2. It is about the journey of Odia language in the digital era and the challenges faced during digitization …
4 Mar 2014
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First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, HyderabadDuring the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an …
4 Mar 2014
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Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita BeansWhat comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at …
3 Mar 2014
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Comparison of Section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and Section 4 of the Identification Act Revised Statute of CanadaA comparison of section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, section 4 of the Identification Act, Revised Statute of Canada, and a review of international best practices.
28 Feb 2014
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Big Democracy, Big Surveillance: India's Surveillance StateIn India, surveillance is on the rise by the state to tackle crime and terrorism, and private companies are eager to meet the demand.
27 Feb 2014
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2This post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 …
25 Feb 2014
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UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent RulesUIDAI practices and section 43A of the IT Act are analyzed in this post.