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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.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, had a simple message to the world: email is outdated since it can no longer handle the sort of digital communication that we’ve got used to.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.
Located in News & Media
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.
Located in News & Media
November 2010 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 24, 2010 — last modified Aug 07, 2012 11:46 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society!
Located in About Us / Newsletters
The internet’s new billion
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 23, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:31 AM — filed under:
New web users — in countries like Brazil and China — are changing the culture of the internet.
Located in News & Media
‘Piracy is now a mainstream political phenomenon'
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 23, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:44 AM — filed under:
“Piracy has become a mainstream political phenomenon,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society in the city. The piracy that he was referring to was not the piracy of the high seas but the piracy of intellectual property.
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Open standards policy in India: A long, but successful journey
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 23, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:40 AM — filed under:
Last week, India became another major country to join the growing, global open standards movement. After three years of intense debate and discussion, India's Department of IT in India finalized its Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, joining the ranks of emerging economies like Brazil, South Africa and others. This is a historic moment and India's Department of Information Technology (DIT) deserves congratulations for approving a policy that will ensure the long-term preservation of India's e-government data.
Located in News & Media
Blog Entry Just Where We Like It
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:25 AM — filed under:
The micro space for status updates might become the new public space for discussion. Nishant Shah's column on Digital Natives was published in the Sunday Eye of the Indian Express on 21 November 2010.
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Information, the world's new capital - Digital Natives
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:41 AM — filed under:
Information is the new capital and currency of the world, Nishant Shah, of the India-based Digital Natives with a Cause, told Bizcommunity.com yesterday, 10 November 2010, as the three-day workshop on digital and internet technologies that brought together young delegates from nine African countries ended in Johannesburg, South Africa. "If the 20th century was the age of the industrial revolution, the 21st century is now actually the age of the knowledge information," Shah said.
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Blog Entry Archive and Access: Call for Review
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 18, 2010 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:15 PM — filed under:
The Archive and Access research project by Rochelle Pinto, Aparna Balachandran and Abhijit Bhattacharya is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The project that attempts to look at the ways in which the notion of the archive, the role of the archivist and the relationship between the state and private archives that has undergone a transition with the emergence of Internet technologies in India has been put up for public review.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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