Centre for Internet and Society (India)


The Centre for Internet and Society is a Bangalore-based non-profit organisation looking at multidisciplinary research and advocacy. CIS works on digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society.

Wikimedia Projects

granted a project to CIS to promote and support the Indic language Wikimedia’s Indic language free knowledge projects, including Wikipedia in Indic languages and English. The grant is also aimed to support wider distribution of Wikimedia’s free knowledge within India. The award amount for the first year of the two-year project was INR 1,10,00,000.

Swatantra 2014

CIS supported and participated in Swatantra 2014, the fifth international free software conference event, organised at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 18–20 December 2014.