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23 Nov 2010
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The internet’s new billionNew web users — in countries like Brazil and China — are changing the culture of the internet.
23 Nov 2010
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Open standards policy in India: A long, but successful journeyLast week, India became another major country to join the growing, global open standards movement. After three years of intense debate and discussion, India's Department of IT in India finalized its Policy on Open Standards for …
23 Nov 2010
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‘Piracy is now a mainstream political phenomenon'“Piracy has become a mainstream political phenomenon,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society in the city. The piracy that he was referring to was not the piracy of the high seas but the piracy of …
22 Nov 2010
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Information, the world's new capital - Digital NativesInformation is the new capital and currency of the world, Nishant Shah, of the India-based Digital Natives with a Cause, told Bizcommunity.com yesterday, 10 November 2010, as the three-day workshop on digital and internet technologies that …
17 Nov 2010
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What it means to be a child todayThey move seamlessly between reality and virtual reality. The digital landscape they inhabit comprises generations — not of family — but of technology such as Web 2.0, 3G, PS4 and iPhone5. Their world has moved beyond their neighbourhood, …
15 Nov 2010
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Wi-Fi Direct promises range, bandwidth higher than BluetoothSharing, printing and connecting for Wi-Fi devices is going to be more convenient than ever with soon-to-be-launched technology Wi-Fi Direct, which enables devices to connect to each other without a conventional Wi-Fi hub. This article by …
15 Nov 2010
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Report: Digitally Open: Innovation and Open Access Forum, 23 Oct 2010, Doha, QatarA summary of the event "Digitally Open: Innovation and Open Access Forum" held in Doha.
15 Nov 2010
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DOC 2.0: A Resources Sharing Mela by NGO Documentation CentresA Resource Sharing Mela and Meet of DCM (Document Centres Meet) at the Centre for Education & Documentation in Domlur, Bangalore.
15 Nov 2010
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Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual PropertyAccess to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property charts the rise of the access to knowledge movement, a movement in which Open Society Foundations have played a key role. It maps the vast terrain of legal, cultural, and technical …
12 Nov 2010
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Social Mashup!Save the Date Join us to meet India’s most passionate, innovative, and curious start-up social entrepreneurs for two groundbreaking days of conversations, connections and inspiration. This event will be held on 2-3 December 2010 at the …
24 Oct 2010
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
22 Oct 2010
14 Oct 2010
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Internet, szabadonA polgárjogi aktivisták konfrontálódtak és panaszkodtak, a Google és a Facebook hárított és panaszkodott az Internet at Liberty konferencián, amelyet kedden és szerdán rendezett a Google és a CEU Budapesten.
13 Oct 2010
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Konferencia az internetes szólásszabadságról BudapestenAz internet és szólásszabadság viszonyát vitatják meg Budapesten, a Közép-Európai Egyetem és a Google szervezte, háromnapos konferencián
13 Oct 2010
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How the UID project can be a cause for concernThe Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), headed by Nandan Nilekani, is the UPA government's most ambitious project, where one billion Indians are branded with a unique identity number.
13 Oct 2010
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Hogyan szűrik a kormányok az internetes tartalmakat?Az internet szabadságáról tartanak háromnapos konferenciát Budapesten a Google és a Közép-Európai Egyetem (CEU) szervezésében. Kedden az internetes tartalmak szűrése volt a legfontosabb téma a rendezvényen.
11 Oct 2010
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In new Facebook features, a comeback for communityNearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? …
1 Oct 2010
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Stiff Resistance Dogs India's ID PlanAn article about the UID project by Indrajit Basu in Asia Times Online.
1 Oct 2010
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Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in IndiaGlover Wright of the Center for Internet and Society talks about Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School on 24 September 2010.
21 Sep 2010
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Conference: Internet at Liberty 2010This conference is being held in Budapest from 20 to 22 September 2010. It is co-sponsored by Google and Central European University. Sunil Abraham and Anja Kovacs are attending the conference.
9 Sep 2010
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WEBINAR: Closed for BusinessA Global Panel Discusses International Copyright Laws and Their Impact on the Open Internet
9 Sep 2010
9 Sep 2010
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INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID ProjectFears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
7 Sep 2010
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The madness of software patentsIndia’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted, writes Lata Jishnu in an article published in Down to Earth.
6 Sep 2010
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Why piracy is tough to rein in“Video market is being treated as a poor cousin of the film industry”
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24 Aug 2010
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Information is Beautiful hacks in India with David CameronThe Prime Minister took some of the UK's top hackers and data experts with him to India this week. David McCandless was with them.