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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 …
29 Jan 2016
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Data Privacy Day 2016The Bangalore chapter of Data Privacy Day was organized by Data Security Council of India on January 28, 2016 at Electronic City in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham was a panelist.
29 Jan 2016
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Books at a ClickThe OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
28 Jan 2016
27 Jan 2016
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GI-tagged products to get Wiki pagesEver realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?
26 Jan 2016
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Trai promises final call on differential pricing by month-end after 'lively' open houseThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will take a final call on differential pricing by the end of January , its chairman said, describing the open house discussions on the regulator's contentious consultation paper as "lively".
18 Jan 2016
17 Jan 2016
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Why Indians are turning down Facebook's free internetImagine a billion of the world’s poorest gaining overnight access to health information, education, and professional help — for free. Add to this one rich man who wants to make that dream a reality.
17 Jan 2016
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A billion mobile users: new startup profiles and innovation insights from Mobile India 2016The annual Mobile India conference, for which YourStory was the media partner, wrapped up recently in Bengaluru with a startup showcase and a wide range of insights on mobile innovation in India.
13 Jan 2016
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Mobile India 2016COMSNETS in association with Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Digital India, et.al. organized the event in Bangalore from January 5 to 9, 2016. Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker in Session 4: Law, regulation and …
12 Jan 2016
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What are People's Rights in Digital WorldVanya Rakesh participated in this workshop organized by IT for Change on December 4, 2015 in Bangalore.
12 Jan 2016
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Elite Capture of Governance in BangaloreVanya Rakesh participated in the event held in Bangalore on December 16, 2015.
11 Jan 2016
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Will India win net neutrality battle?There is more than what meets the eye in Facebook’s ‘noble mission’ of providing internet for all.
10 Jan 2016
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Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries growContent Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
7 Jan 2016
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Nasscom wants board to protect Net neutrality, regulate pricingThe debate against differential pricing of data services at the cost of net neutrality doesn’t seem to be getting over yet. While internet activists have gone out on streets in Bengaluru and Hyderabad to protest in favour of net neutrality, …
7 Jan 2016
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Facebook Free Basics vs Net Neutrality: The top arguments in the debateOn Twitter, there's a whole conversation around Facebook Free Basics and whether zero-rating platforms should be allowed in India. Here's a look at the debate.