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Access to Knowledge
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15 Dec 2016
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Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editingPavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh …
15 Dec 2016
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25th Session of the WIPO SCP: Statement on Assessment of Inventive StepStatement emailed by Rohini Lakshané on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society to the Secretariat for the WIPO Standing Committee for the Law of Patents, Twenty Fifth Session, with reference to agenda item 7, "Sharing session on …
14 Dec 2016
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A Shortcut to FreedomIn our everyday life we need access to knowledge and information, we need books (and magazines, newspapers), movies (and documentaries, animations), music for education and entertainment purposes. Now, a delighting fact is almost everything …
9 Dec 2016
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The Digital Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Questions Raised by the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in IndiaThis is an edited version of part three of a study that considers the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) through aspects of intellectual property in India, namely, mobile patents, free and open source …
8 Dec 2016
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Freedom in Feb — an awareness increasing campaignYou have heard about the Ice bucket challenge (and the rice bucket challenge). You may have heard about the 100happinessdays challenge (and its Wikipedia version 100wikidayschallenge). You may have heard and participated in the November no …
1 Dec 2016
28 Nov 2016
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Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University WorkshopAn Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
27 Nov 2016
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Sambalpur University WorkshopAn Odia Wikipedia Orientation program cum workshop was organized by CIS-A2K team in Sambalpur University on November 27, 2016. Sailesh Patnaik attended the workshop.
26 Nov 2016
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Improving Telugu Village ArticlesTelugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.
26 Nov 2016
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Free Knowledge and Indian Government WorkIndian Government works are not available under free and open licenses. On the other hand a large number countries such as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, …
23 Nov 2016
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100wikidays: the journey so farIn this article we'll chat with Bulgarian Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova (User:Spiritia) on the journey of 100wikidays so far, initial difficulties, and participation of Indian Wikipedia communities in the challenge.
21 Nov 2016
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CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge SourcesCentre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC), National Law university, Delhi as part of its Open Science Project, had organised WikiEdit2016 a two day workshop regarding orientation on editing Wikipedia and …
18 Nov 2016
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33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital EnvironmentAnubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the …
16 Nov 2016
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33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting OrganizationsAnubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the …
14 Nov 2016
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33rd SCCR: Opening Statement by India on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific GroupDr. Sumit Seth(Economic Affairs) of the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva delivered the Opening Statement on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group at 33rd Session of the of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights on …
1 Nov 2016
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Using Kannada in technology made easier with smartphonesWith the IT revolution, many believed that the younger generation would prefer to type and communicate in English than Kannada.
30 Oct 2016
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Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 NovemberThe second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of …
25 Oct 2016
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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language WikipediasMobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like …
25 Oct 2016
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‘Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession’ – 25 quotes from Indian startup journeysFrom success to status, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the …
22 Oct 2016
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in IndiaThe number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
21 Oct 2016
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Workshop on Competition Law and PolicyNational School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and …
21 Oct 2016
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Querying Wikipedia DataRecently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One …
20 Oct 2016
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UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in WikipediaOne of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about …
20 Oct 2016
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Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media ExtensionsThis post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along …
20 Oct 2016
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web StandardsWorld Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a …
9 Oct 2016
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Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report formThis form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For …
4 Oct 2016
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Changing Wikipedia’s (and society’s) male bias is work in progressShyamal Lakshminarayanan was on the trail of Maude Lina West Cleghorn, a little-known amateur British entomologist who lived in Calcutta in the early 1900s.
3 Oct 2016
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Indian language localization community meets in New DelhiLocalization is one of the less glamorous aspects of computing. Despite the fact that less than 6% of the world speaks English, a majority of projects don't feel inclined to accommodate the rest of the population. One of the primary reasons …
28 Sep 2016
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Workshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and ChinaAnubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané presented at the SMU-JINDAL-RENMIN Workshop on “Innovation, Economic Development, and IP in India and China,” co-organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin …
24 Sep 2016
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Delhi High Court’s Ruling Against Publishers is a Triumph For KnowledgeThe court conclusively stated that the reproduction of any work by a teacher or a pupil in the course of instruction would not constitute infringement.