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Intellectual Property Rights as seen in a graphic novel
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 02, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:32 AM — filed under:
While most engagements with the issue of Intellectual Property Rights take the form of academic papers and scholarly articles, the Centre for Internet and Society is approaching the subject through another medium – an online graphic novel. Commissioned by the organisation, and conceived, written and drawn by Mumbai-based Anand Ramachandran (a man who keeps himself busy in a number of ways, from writing satire columns to developing videogame designs), the novel, titled Learning to Floo, is being serialised on the CIS website.
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Meeting on the Refreshable Braille Displays and Copyright Frameworks for Open Hardware Development
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 02, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:49 AM — filed under:
A meeting on Refreshable Braille Displays and Copyright Frameworks for Open Hardware Development will be held in the office of the Centre for Internet and Society on 4 December 2010.
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UID elicits mixed response
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 01, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:32 AM — filed under:
Which is the root cause for pilferage of welfare funds in India: fake identity or corruption?
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Information Security Summit 2010
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:33 AM — filed under:
The Information Security Summit 2010 will be held between 2-3 December 2010 in Chennai. The following is the agenda for the event.
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Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson to lecture at Development Café meet-up
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Mar 07, 2011 11:11 AM — filed under: ,
Development Café (DC) is hosting its second meet-up at the Centre for Internet and Society on Friday, 3 December 2010. Mr. Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, serial entrepreneur and founder of Akvo, a non-profit foundation with focus on water and sanitation, will give a lecture.
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This Is All India Radia
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:28 AM — filed under:
Our news media blanked it out, but the Internet forced the issue, says Debarshi Dasgupta in an article published in the Outlook Magazine.
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The Niira Radia Tapes: Scrutinizing the Snoopers
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:29 AM — filed under:
There’s been plenty of outrage in India over taped phone calls between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and local journalists, revealing what some people believe is evidence that star reporters at the country’s newspapers and TV channels are too cozy with the subjects they’re supposed to be reporting on.
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 2)
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM — filed under:
In the last post, I have articulated the nature of understanding and imagination of our urban and rural geography. As mentioned, the understanding of the land, its water and people is an essentially one, that comes through living and experiencing. In this post I will be posing issues around the historical legacy of maps in the Indian context. The issues of imagination of our cities is very much related to this legacy along with the shift that we are witnessing in geographical representation of maps on the Internet.
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Time to bury e-mail?
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:30 AM — filed under:
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, had a simple message to the world: email is outdated since it can no longer handle the sort of digital communication that we’ve got used to. Facebook Messages, which integrates email, SMS, instant messaging and social networking, is the way forward, he claimed.
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Mobile banking set to get a boost from IMPS
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:38 AM — filed under:
Customers will now be able to transfer money from their accounts to any other account in the country using their cellphones, through the National Payment Corporation of India's Inter-bank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS). The facility allows transactions without the need for a computer or an Internet-enabled phone.
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