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UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures (Bangalore, August 27)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 22, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 01:25 PM
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filed under:
Exclusion,
Digital Governance,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Welfare Governance,
UID
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a one day workshop, on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services. We look forward to making this a forum for knowledge exchange and a learning opportunity for our friends and colleagues.
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Events
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Beyond Scale: How to make your digital development program sustainable
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by
Admin
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published
Feb 26, 2018
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Digital Governance
A dissemination workshop was organized by BBC Media Action, with support from the Digital Impact Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on February 21, 2018 in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham participated in the workshop.
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News & Media
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 02, 2009
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories,
Digital Governance
This research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. The term itself comes from communication theory, with in turn an ancestry in social anthropology, and concerns itself with (1) identifying the eventual recipient/beneficiary of any communication message, (2) discovering new ways by which messages can be delivered intact, i.e. without either distortion of decay. Exploring the intersection of government policy, technology intervention and the users' expectations, with a specific focus on Internet Technologies and their space in the good governance protocols in India, the project aims at revisiting the last mile problem as one of cultural practices and political contexts in India.
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Blogs
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The Last Cultural Mile
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 10, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM
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filed under:
ICT4D,
Digital Governance,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Letter to ICANN on NCSG
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 28, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
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filed under:
Public Accountability,
Digital Pluralism,
Digital Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society sent the following mail to ICANN regarding their attempt to impose their own charter for a Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), instead of accepting the one drafted by the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC).
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Blog
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IT Act and Commerce
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 11, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Digital Governance,
Data Protection,
Authentication,
Security
This is a guest post by Rahul Matthan, partner in the law firm Trilegal, and widely regarded as one of the leading experts on information technology law in India. In this post, Mr. Matthan looks at the provisions in the amended Information Technology Act of interest to commerce, namely electronic signatures and data protection.
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Blog
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Primer on the New IT Act
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 29, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Digital Governance,
Public Accountability,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
With this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments.
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Blog