Category: Tech Work
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Ideas from diverse lenses: Facilitating an ideation workshop for OpenCity
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have .” — Émile Chartier Just like in many areas of life, this famous quote by French philosopher Émile Chartier holds a lot of truth when it comes to the design and development of technology. While ideas are the life-breath of any…
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Overview: Deploying Glific on AWS ECS fargate with CD in place
The Glific project is being built by a distributed team, working across timezones. In addition to that, we have sub-teams for frontend and backend applications. This results in short release cycles, where we fix issues and release them quickly. To allow for quick integration and assessment of the work, the need for Continuous Integration and…
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Open City: Asking the right questions
As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly. It was exciting to start this because it let us…
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WHEN COOKIES TELL STORIES: insights for opencity from google analytics
Three months ago, Oorvani Foundation and CivicDataLab embarked on a collaborative journey to redesign OpenCity, an urban data portal visited by over 50,000 unique users every month. We set out to learn about our users, their experiences on the platform and their dreams for the future of this city based open data hub. An important…
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Github Badges: How it fulfills Glific’s need
GitHub badges, a consolidated way to present concise pieces of information about a project. These badges help in increasing the readability of the readme file because they provide metrics about the repositories that help the readers to get a clear idea of the repository very quickly just by scanning the attached badges. For Glific, we’ve…
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66A zombies continue to menace free speech on the internet: Update on Internet Freedom Foundation’s 66A Zombie Tracker Project
Tl;dr Last week a flurry of complaints were filed against news anchor Arnab Goswami for, amongst other things, “inciting communal hatred” under various provisions of the IPC and also included, was a charge under the now defunct Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act). S. 66A of the IT act has been…
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A data driven approach to curb the zombie that is 66A
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has over the past year conducted a broad range of work, including original research, approaching the supreme court and citizen engagement to stop the menace of Section 66A. IFF, which works with an objective to protect our digital rights, is now taking yet another step, with support from CivicDataLab and…