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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 15, 2011
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
RAW Publications,
Campaign,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Blank Noise Project,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Publications,
Beyond the Digital,
Digital subjectivities,
Books,
Researchers at Work
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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Blog
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Locating Constructs of Privacy within Classical Hindu Law
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by
Ashna Ashesh and Bhairav Acharya
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published
Dec 29, 2014
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last modified
Jan 01, 2015 01:56 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
This white paper seeks to locate privacy in Classical Hindu Law, and by doing so, displace the notion that privacy is an inherently ‘Western’ concept that is the product of a modernist legal system.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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National IPR Policy Series : CIS Comments to the First Draft of the National IP Policy
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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published
Feb 04, 2015
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last modified
Feb 09, 2015 12:59 AM
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filed under:
Call for Comments,
Access to Knowledge,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Featured,
Homepage
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India invited comments on the First Draft of India's National IPR Policy. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) made this submission. The comments were prepared by Nehaa Chaudhari, Pranesh Prakash and Anubha Sinha. We also thank our intern, Varnika Chawla for her assistance.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Preliminary Submission on "Internet Governance Issues" to the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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published
Feb 12, 2015
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last modified
Feb 12, 2015 02:52 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Internet Governance
On January 30, 2015, Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) held a consultation on Internet governance. A committee was set up to draft a report on Internet governance, with a focus on issues relevant to India. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is represented on the committee, and has provided its preliminary comments to ASSOCHAM.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Feb 10, 2015
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last modified
Feb 14, 2016 04:39 AM
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Featured,
Homepage,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
After the government introduced the "Make in India" and "Digital India" programmes, the air is thick with the promise of reduced imports, new jobs, and goods for the domestic market. In light of the patent wars in India, the government can ill-afford to overlook the patent implications in indigenously manufactured mobile phones. CIS proposes that the Government of India initiate the formation of a patent pool of critical mobile technologies and a five percent compulsory license.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
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filed under:
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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RAW
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The Technology behind Big Data
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by
Geethanjali Jujjavarapu and Udbhav Tiwari
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published
Nov 30, 2016
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last modified
Dec 04, 2016 09:53 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Homepage
The authors undertakes a high-level literature review of the most commonly used technological tools and processes in the big data life cycle. The big data life cycle is a conceptual construct that can be used to study the various stages that typically occur in collecting, storing and analysing big data, along with the principles that can govern these processes.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
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by
Zeenab Aneez
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published
Dec 09, 2016
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last modified
Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM
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filed under:
Digital News,
RAW Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Research,
Digital Media,
Featured,
Publications,
Homepage
This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The report comes out of a collaboration between the CIS and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and was supported by the latter. The research was undertaken by Zeenab Aneez, with contributions from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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RAW
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FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security Commitments
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by
Aayush Rathi and Shweta Mohandas
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published
Apr 30, 2019
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last modified
May 02, 2019 11:20 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The unprecedented growth of the fintech space in India has concomitantly come with regulatory challenges around inter alia privacy and security concerns. This report studies the privacy policies of 48 fintech companies operating in India to better understand some of these concerns.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Open Data and Land Ownership
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 22, 2019
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last modified
May 22, 2019 11:32 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Featured,
Openness
In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership field highlight the political nature of data, and illustrate the importance of politically aware interventions when creating open data standards, infrastructure, and ecosystems. State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini, is published by African Minds and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Openness