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25 Sep 2013
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Three Years Later, IPaidABribe.com Pays OffAfter reporting a bribe on IPaidABribe.com, one Bangalore student has had the satisfaction of seeing action taken against a corrupt public official.
25 Sep 2013
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Reclaim Open Learning SymposiumThis international convening is the culmination of the Reclaim Open Learning Innovation Challenge, committed to surfacing individuals and organizations that are transforming higher education toward connected and creative learning, open in …
25 Sep 2013
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Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrowThe Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to …
25 Sep 2013
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Indian biometric ID plan faces court hurdleSupreme Court in India rules -- for now -- against plan to make biometric ID mandatory for receiving services.
25 Sep 2013
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Goa university re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societie's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is re-releasing its four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia).
23 Sep 2013
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Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the InternetT.Vishnu Vardhan delivered a lecture at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in the Digital Humanities class to students of Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University on September 23, 2013.
18 Sep 2013
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Indian Languages Mela 2013 in MumbaiCentre for Indian Languages in Higher Education is organizing The Indian Languages Mela in Mumbai. Tejaswini Niranjana will participate in the event.
17 Sep 2013
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'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation'The functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B.
13 Sep 2013
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Privacy and Surveillance in IndiaSunil Abraham, Executive Director from the Centre for Internet and Society will give a talk on privacy and surveillance in India at this event organised by the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia on September 18, …
12 Sep 2013
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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius CollegeSt. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
12 Sep 2013
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDMThe Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.
12 Sep 2013
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A dangerous trend: social media adds fire to Muzaffarnagar clashesAs access to the Internet grows, especially in small Indian towns and cities, social media has revealed a darker side as a hatred-mongering tool capable of setting off serious violence.
9 Sep 2013
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Young Scholar TutorialsCommunication Policy Research South organised this workshop on September 3 and 4, 2013. Nehaa Chaudhari participated in the event organised by CPR South.
6 Sep 2013
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The Law and Economics of Copyright Users RightsProgram on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law is organizing a conference on law and economics of copyright users at Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC, on September 26, 2013. …
5 Sep 2013
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Indien: Regierung will Nutzung von US-Mailprovidern in Verwaltungen verbietenDie indische Regierung wird in Kürze all ihre Mitarbeiter auffordern, keine US-amerikanischen Mailprovider, allen voran Gmail, für ihre offizielle Kommunikation zu nutzen.
3 Sep 2013
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Syllabus: “Policy and regulation conducive to rapid ICT sector growth in Myanmar: An introductory course”A five-day course is being offered by LIRNEasia in collaboration with Myanmar ICT Development Organization, with support from the Open Society Foundation and the International Development Research Centre of Canada in Myanmar from September …
2 Sep 2013
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Cyberspying: Government may ban Gmail for official communicationThe government will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google's Gmail for official communication, a move intended to increase security of confidential government information after revelations of widespread cyberspying by the US.
1 Sep 2013
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Gmail ban looms for Indian gov't workersGovernment workers in India will soon be banned from using Google’s Gmail service for official communication in a move said to be in response to revelations of widespread cyberspying by the US, a national paper reported.
1 Sep 2013
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Global Consultation Report on ICTs and Disability Launched at the UN High Level Meeting on Disability and DevelopmentA new report released on Monday, 23 September 2013 demonstrates how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have become a positive force of transformation and a crucial element of any personal development, empowerment and …
29 Aug 2013
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వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాద్/ఆగష్టుT.Vishnu participated in the Telugu meet-up held in Hyderabad on August 25, 2013, via Skype.
28 Aug 2013
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The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs at World Social Science Forum 2013The World Social Science Forum 2013 organized by International Social Science Council will take place in Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada from October 13 to 15, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah is participating in the event as a panelist and …
28 Aug 2013
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Mixed signals? Supreme Court notices to states on Facebook arrestsIn wake of the recent arrests of UP-based scholar Kanwal Bharti and Andhra-based PUCL activist Jaya Vindhyala over their Facebook posts, NDTV aired a discussion on the grey areas of the IT Act. Pranesh Prakash, Shreya Singhal and Faizal …
28 Aug 2013
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International Summer School: "Digitization and its Impact on Society"Dr. Nishant Shah will be the key note speaker in the session "Social Networks and the Revolution of Political Communication". The event is being hosted by the Dresden Center for Digital Linguistics from September 29 to October 5, 2013.
27 Aug 2013
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India's Internet Privacy Woes“For the sake of national security and to protect the privacy of its citizens, India should develop its own social media platforms,” says Dr Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO of Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a Nasscom-promoted ‘self-regulatory’ …
27 Aug 2013
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Dictionary words in software patent guidelines puzzle industryTerms not defined in draft guidelines on patents for computer-related inventions leaves room for misinterpretation
26 Aug 2013
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Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia ConferenceWikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and …
26 Aug 2013
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Election campaign: parties draw battle lines on media platformsIn the run-up to the 2014 polls, parties are drawing up media strategies that have a focus on young voters.
25 Aug 2013
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WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 in Hong KongWikiSym + OpenSym took place in Hong Kong on August 5-7, 2013. The event emphasized the open collaboration aspect of WikiSym both for researchers as well as practitioners. The event was organized by the International Symposium on Open …
24 Aug 2013
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Workshop on e-Content DevelopmentT. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.
24 Aug 2013
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Wikipedia writes a new scriptWikipedia is available in over 30 Indian languages. Add Konkani to that list. The Centre for Internet and Society has just completed a programme of training students to write for Konkani Wikipedia.