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FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008

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The Centre for Internet & Society Bangalore
http://cis-india.org/

Goobimama's Soggy Blog
http://goobimama.blogspot.com/

Sawood Alam <ibnesayeed@...> has proposed to
PRC/Sarai.net to create an Urdu OCR (optical character
recognition) product.

Sawood Alam Khan's bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/ibnesayeed/

Sawood Alam Khan's blog:
http://ibnesayeed.wordpress.com

Sawood Alam Khan's
homepage: http://ibnesayeed.heroku.com/

Atanu Dey's blog:
http://www.deeshaa.org/

Urdu computing group
http://tinyurl.com/4l7rpl

Urdu touch typing details
http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavaro

Urdu touch typing tutor
http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/en/

Cameras for a Cause:
http://groups.to/camerasforacause

Open Access Day Oct 14, 2008 (Delhi):
http://tinyurl.com/4xlp8f

12th National Conference on e-Governance, Goa
http://tinyurl.com/4b7du8

India e-Governance Standards (policy on open standards):
http://tinyurl.com/4t7ujg

[GNU]Linux Bangalore-Jobs:
http://tinyurl.com/4ty5q8

Mozilla's Frank Hecker on Politics 2.0, Open Source, and
Participatory Democracy http://tinyurl.com/4ndjt9

GNU/Linux distros and Free Software
http://linuxdvdsale.tripod.com

Dr Pavanaja (a votary of Kannada computing, etc) on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/pavanaja

A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
http://tinyurl.com/44xgc5

Why Do We Need Open Access to Science?: A Developing Country
Perspective http://tinyurl.com/4lfp8x

Open access day:
http://tinyurl.com/4erul9

FLOSS, open access:
http://tinyurl.com/45d2sl

Software for Kids:
http://softwareforkids.wordpress.com

Techkriti, IIT Kanpur's 2009 version:
http://www.techkriti.org/

India, on Global Voices:
http://tinyurl.com/4rmfen

Satyam Computers Launches New Facility in Pune
http://tinyurl.com/4ej8q2

Bizedia featured on Techpluto http://tinyurl.com/3o5vzo 08:19
PM September 26, 2008 from TwitterFox

Portal for teachers in India:
http://teachersofindia.org/

@anantshri 2009 Techkriti site is up
http://www.techkriti.org/

Joyojee Pal, Rabin Patra and Sergiu Nedevschi's ICTD study:
http://tinyurl.com/3thvn2

SMS for Mumbai early warning:
http://tinyurl.com/4yq9pg

Cell banking only for card holders
http://tinyurl.com/4bx6d7

RBI sets limits for single, daily transactions thru mobile
phones http://tinyurl.com/3zoq4u

Bangla open source articles:
http://tinyurl.com/3lwfmc

Indus Sci Tech dot Net
http://www.indusscitech.net

'Learning, teaching, learning: Free Software'
http://tinyurl.com/4l8g8g

The meek shall inherit the web
http://tinyurl.com/6hupqm

In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to
AltruismNamas Bhojani for The International Herald Tribune
http://tinyurl.com/3jzuzh

Cell phones: Saviour of Bihar flood victims
http://tinyurl.com/6bwapd

Create your own E-Learning
http://tinyurl.com/4xxveo

SMS and Web 2.0 for Mumbai Early Warning/Response Project
http://tinyurl.com/4yq9pg

Kashmir's mobile phone chroniclers
http://tinyurl.com/4zcrkw

Bangladesh Telecentre Network:
http://www.mission2011.net.bd/

Free Software, Colombia, India
http://tinyurl.com/3owpto

Will patenting take the byte out of IT here? * Deepa Kurup
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461910300.htm

Why is it important to go the 'free' way?
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461920300.htm

Black-and-white, with some grey areas
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461930300.htm

*How would it be if you read only one type of book? *
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461820300.htm

PG diploma in IT in agriculture:
http://tinyurl.com/3vtzs4

Creating website using mobile phone
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/15141520.htm

Mobilesitegalore.com
http://www.mobisitegalore.com

M-commerce is telecom's next gold rush
http://tinyurl.com/5jjr3o

Mobile phone cloning gang busted
http://tinyurl.com/5pzpz6
[Cloning?]

India's new mantra: Talk more, work more
http://tinyurl.com/5vae8t

Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
http://tinyurl.com/5koe2w

Anant Shrivastava: Techno Enthusiast "My journey into the
world of virtual reality." http://blog.anantshri.info/

Newsweek on the Rajesh Jain $100 "Un-PC".
http://www.newsweek.com/id/42955/output/print

Kerala Khadi Board's plan for a paperless office:
http://tinyurl.com/5hxx8x

Satya Bhat on running Google Chrome on GNU/Linux (using Wine)
http://tinyurl.com/6d8ncx

Greasemonkey improves IIT-Delhi student registration:
http://ishanarora.googlepages.com/greasemonkeyuserscriptforthestudentregis

India's e-governance draft standards, seeking your feedback:
http://tinyurl.com/57yug3

Silklist (tech discussions, India-focussed):
http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/silklist

Pratul dot in:
http://pratul.in/

Sarai FLOSS position available:
http://tinyurl.com/6hbg66

Software Freedom Day, Delhi:
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/http/softwarefreedomdayorg/teams/fsud

Swapnil's Why Be Free...
http://ybfree.blogspot.com/

Sajan Venniyoor, one view of community radio in India.
http://tinyurl.com/6np77q

Classmate PC... what's in it, from Intel?
http://tinyurl.com/57u44c

Taking FLOSS to the Classroom, Industry-Style
http://tinyurl.com/58qaxd

On EDC, the Bangalore-based Education Development Centre
http://tinyurl.com/6sam2q

Quest Alliance: promising quality education, skills upgrading
http://tinyurl.com/64esaw

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