Centre for Internet and Society

Govt for legalising parallel import of copyright works; publishers oppose

praskrishna — 2011-08-30T04:24:05Z

This article by Shamnad Basheer was published in the Economic Times on 17 March 2011.

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Open Access Logo 2

thomas — 2011-11-15T07:43:32Z

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Francis Jayakanth's Presentation

praskrishna — 2012-02-29T10:54:33Z

Dr. Jayakanth gave a presentation on Open Access.

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April 2011 Newsletter

praskrishna — 2011-06-15T10:55:26Z

newsletter issue of April 2011

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April Newsletter

praskrishna — 2011-06-03T09:52:27Z

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March 2011 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2011-05-03T07:19:30Z

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The Centre for Internet and Society - Bulletin - January 2011

praskrishna — 2011-03-11T07:30:57Z

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November 10 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-31T11:07:42Z

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August 2010 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-04T10:50:51Z

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September 2010 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-03T14:41:28Z

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Bridging the Divide: Opportunities and Challenges

admin — 2008-10-11T10:27:58Z

This paper by Nirmita Narasimhan approaches the digital divide from multiple perspectives, looking at what "access" means and the factors responsible for the digital divide (income, gender, ethnicity, literacy and education, disability, law, etc.), surveys some digital divide initiatives in India, and presents some suggestions to tackle the divide.

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Public Access to the Internet

admin — 2008-10-11T10:25:41Z

Paper by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam. The advent of the Internet brought with it hitherto unheard of possibilities for human creativity, information access, and global communication. When did these possibilities actually translate into widespread public access to the Internet? It is difficult to specify a date, but possible to identify a few key developments and the key actors behind those developments.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/sunil/Public-access-to-the-internet.pdf

Design in urban democracy: A question of survival

admin — 2008-10-11T09:49:21Z

Urban dynamics dissected by John Thackara and Sunil Abraham; questions and answers on the anatomy of cities. An article from the August issue of Cluster Magazine.

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Once Upon a Flash

nishant — 2008-11-03T20:25:38Z

The essay was published as a part of Sarai Annual Reader titled 'Turbulence' and explores the aesthetics, politics and form of the flashmobs and their manifestation in India. It looks at the potentials of the flashmob to produce turbulent physical spaces and identities and their encounter with legalities. The essay is also available at http://www.sarai.net/journal/06_pdf/03/04_nishant_shah.pdf

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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall

nishant — 2008-12-14T12:13:09Z

The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.

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