# Code Swaraj

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Code Swaraj
Field Notes from the Standards Satyagraha
​This publication has no rights reserved and has been contributed to the public domain.
The interview with The Wire is reprinted with permission. The essay by Aaron Swartz originally appeared on his blog in 2009 and then in Laurel Ruma and Daniel Lathrop, editors, Open Government, O'Reilly Media (Sebastopol, 2011).
The authors wish to thank Martin R. Lucas, Dominik Wujastyk, Beth Simone Noveck, Darshan Shankar, Anirudh Dinesh, and Alexander Macgillivray for their helpful reviews of the text.
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The Gandhi photos are from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) and the authors would like to thank the Sabarmati Ashram for making the electronic edition available. The historical photos are from the Ministry of Information of the Government of India and the authors would like to thank the Ministry for making them available online.
Source code for this book: https://public.resource.org/swaraj
Published by Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Sebastopol, California. 2018. No rights reserved.
ISBN 978-1-892628-04-6 (paperback edition) ISBN 978-1-892628-05-3 (ebook edition)
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Code Swaraj
Field Notes from the Standards Satyagraha
Carl Malamud Sam Pitroda
CWMG, vol. 5, p. 368, Gandhi-ji, Leader of the Indian Ambulance Corps, 1906.
​Table of Contents
* To The Reader................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* October 3, 2016, Ahmedabad
* Sam Pitroda, Additional Remarks, Institution of Engineers (India)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................7
* October 5, 2016, Aboard Air India 173
* Carl Malamud, Note on Visit to Sabarmati Ashram................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................17
* June 14, 2017, San Francisco
* Internet Archive, Remarks of Sam Pitroda................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
* Internet Archive, Remarks of Carl Malamud................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................43
* July 8, 2017, New Delhi
* The National Herald: Satyagraha in the Digital Age: What can one individual do?................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................55
* October 15, 2017, Bengaluru
* NUMA Bengaluru: Right to Information, Right to Knowledge, Remarks of Sam Pitroda................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................63
* NUMA Bengaluru: Right to Information, Right to Knowledge, Remarks of Carl Malamud................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................75
* October 26, 2017, New Delhi
* The Wire: 'This Little USB Holds 19,000 Indian Standards. Why Should it Not Be Made Public?'................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................93
* December 4–25, 2017, Sebastopol
* Carl Malamud, Note on Code Swaraj................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................113
* Appendix: Tweets on Knowledge................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................183
* Appendix: Aaron Swartz, On Transparency................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................187
* Selected Readings................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................199
* Table of Links................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................207
CWMG, vol.5 (1905-1906), Frontispiece, Undated.
​CODE SWARAJ is the story of a modern-day campaign of civil resistance which takes inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and his campaigns of satyagraha that changed the nature of how our governments interact with their citizens. In their quest for universal access to knowledge, democratizing information, and decolonizing knowledge, Malamud and Pitroda apply those Gandhian values to our modern times and lay out a compelling agenda for change for India and the world.
DR. SAM PITRODA was advisor to two Prime Ministers of India, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and Dr. Manmohan Singh, with the rank of a cabinet minister and is widely credited for having led India's telecommunications revolution in the 1980s. Sam holds 20 honorary PhDs, close to 100 worldwide patents, and helped create the first digital PBXs in the 1960s. He is also a serial entrepreneur who built several technology companies in the US.
CARL MALAMUD started the first radio station on the Internet and is considered one of the pioneers of the modern U.S. open government movement. Carl runs Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit organization which has placed hundreds of millions of pages of government information online for free and unrestricted use, including all 19,000 Indian Standards. He is the author of eight previous books.
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