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by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Sep 13, 2015 10:41 AM

Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM

This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) 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.

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Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition

Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition

by Zeenab Aneez — last modified Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM

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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Digital native: The View from My Bubble

by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 05, 2016 03:15 PM

In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.

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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06)

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:41 AM

The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The discussion will be held at 12:30 on Tuesday, December 06. It will be moderated by Amy Jensen Mowl, CFI Fellow at IFMR, and M.S. Sriram, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Development of Research in Banking Technology. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will participate as a panelist.

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Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads

Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads

by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 22, 2016 02:23 AM
November 22, 2016

What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 12, 2016 01:37 PM

We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).

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CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)

Nov 03, 2016 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM CIS, First Floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khas, near G Block Market, afte Crunch, by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: <[email protected]>.

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Digital Native: The Future is Now

Digital Native: The Future is Now

by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:12 AM

The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.

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Love in the Time of Tinder

Love in the Time of Tinder

by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:07 AM
October 17, 2016

Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.

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Learning through Archives: A Colloquium on Digital Scholarship

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 05, 2016 11:27 AM
November 05, 2016

FLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.

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