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International Open Data Charter: First Public Draft
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 29, 2015
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Jun 02, 2015 03:51 PM
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Open Data,
Homepage,
Openness
The first public draft of the International Open Data Charter was released at the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, May 28-29, 2015. It is being developed by a range of organisations led by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Open Data Working Group (co-chaired by Government of Canada and the Web Foundation), the Government of Mexico, the Open Data for Development (OD4D) Network, and Omidyar Network. CIS has contributed comments to a previous version of the draft, and also took part in the pre-release meeting of potential stewards of the Charter on May 26 in Ottawa. Here is the text of the draft Charter. Please visit opendatacharter.net/charter/ to submit your comments.
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Mathematisation of the Urban and not Urbanisation of Mathematics: Smart Cities and the Primitive Accumulation of Data - Accepted Abstract
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 25, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:47 AM
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Data Systems,
Space,
Research,
Smart Cities,
Researchers at Work
"Many accounts of smart cities recognise the historical coincidence of cybernetic control and neoliberal capital. Even where it is machines which process the vast amounts of data produced by the city so much so that the ruling and managerial classes disappear from view, it is usually the logic of capital that steers the flows of data, people and things. Yet what other futures of the city may be possible within the smart city, what collective intelligence may it bring forth?" The Fibreculture Journal has accepted an abstract of mine for its upcoming issue on 'Computing the City.'
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Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 10, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
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Humanitarian OSM: Mapping Nepal
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Apr 27, 2015
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Apr 27, 2015 07:46 AM
To support the disaster relief work in progress in Nepal, the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) is busy mapping roads, settlements, and buildings in Nepal. Creating a detailed map of the area in OpenStreetMap will give the relief workers much valuable open data that can be used for planning their efforts. Contribute to the efforts of the Humanitarian OSM to map features in Nepal to support relief work.
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Featured
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 10, 2015
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 10:54 AM
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Posts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 08, 2015
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last modified
Sep 13, 2015 10:41 AM
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Networked Expressions
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:21 AM
Networked expressions refer to our daily practices, habits and experiences of self-articulations in and through digital media, online spaces and virtual networks. This cluster is configured to focus our studies on the networked lives of human, non-human, and cyborg being in the digital era; the questions of expressions of body, sexuality, gender, caste, class, abilities, religion, and power as mediated by digital conditions and virtual contexts; the practices of art, representation, instrumental communication, and self-making through digital artifacts, interfaces, technologies, and networks. We are especially interested in foregrounding the networked technologies that shape the socio-material context of such expressions. Also, this cluster is specifically driven by applied and curatorial works.
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Web Politics
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Apr 06, 2015
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Aug 28, 2015 06:21 AM
In the recent years, the Indian cyberspace has experienced a rising volume of political content, communication, and interactions. This cluster focuses on questions arising from the various forms that social, cultural, economic, and technological power takes in its online articulations, such as web-based political practices of social activists, policy advocates, change-makers, marginalised groups, and mainstream political parties in India. We are especially interested in the political expressions and activities of 'digital natives' and young users of the Internet; and the conceptualisations, articulations, and actualisations of 'change,' and the related emerging visions of political forms and social transformation, in the online discourse in India.
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Internet Histories
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Oct 25, 2015 03:59 AM
The RAW programme has been interested in the histories of computing and Internet in India from its very inception. This cluster addresses the making of Internet in India – from questions of communication infrastructures, regulatory practices and formation of expertise, labour and industries of connecting India to the Internet, integration of Internet and computers into the functioning of the public and private sector agencies in India, coming of Internet-based solutions into the human development topics and practices, to early net cultures and netizens in India, roles of Internet in media and device cultures in India, spaces and geographies of Internet in India; and the making of the Indian cyberspace in terms of contents, users, and real/virtual practices. It is also interested in excavating the longer history(ies) of electronic communication in its various forms in India, and locating its implications and remnants in the contemporary experiences of Internet in India.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
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Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Notices,
Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
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