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File The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
by Nishant Shah last modified Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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File DNA Databases and Human Rights
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 17, 2012 — filed under: ,
Using DNA to trace people who are suspected of committing a crime has been a major advance in policing.
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File SCCR 26
by Prasad Krishna published May 01, 2014
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Blog Entry Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points
by Elonnai Hickok published Dec 28, 2012 — filed under: ,
A symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.
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Blog Entry Report: Global Intellectual Property Convention 2015
by Rohini Lakshané published May 22, 2015 last modified Jun 21, 2015 01:36 PM — filed under: ,
The Global Intellectual Property Convention was held in January 2015 in Mumbai. Interns Anna Liz Thomas and Nayana Dasgupta assisted with the making of this report.
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Blog Entry Policy Paper on Surveillance in India
by Vipul Kharbanda published Aug 03, 2015
This policy brief analyses the different laws regulating surveillance at the State and Central level in India and calls out ways in which the provisions are unharmonized. The brief then provides recommendations for the harmonization of surveillance law in India.
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Blog Entry India’s Role in Global Cyber Policy Formulation
by Arindrajit Basu published Nov 13, 2019 — filed under: ,
The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues—including intermediary liability, data localization and e-commerce—the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulting in battle lines being drawn by governments, industry and civil society actors both in India and across the globe.
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Blog Entry That’s the unkindest cut, Mr Sibal
by Sunil Abraham published Dec 12, 2011 — filed under: ,
There’s Kolaveri-di on the Internet over Kapil Sibal’s diktat to social media sites to prescreen users’ posts. That diktat goes far beyond the restrictions placed on our freedom of expression by the IT Act. But, says Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, India is not going to be silenced online.
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File WIPO SCCR 24 Pre-lunch Text (July 19, 2012)
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 24, 2012 last modified Jul 25, 2012 03:36 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is a rough transcript of the WIPO-SCCR discussions.
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Blog Entry Reading from a Distance — Data as Text
by Sneha PP published Jul 23, 2014 last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the debates around the notion of text as object, method and practice, to understand how it has changed in the digital context.
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