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- CIS Signs MoU with Mysore University — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified May 05, 2014 06:29 AM
- CIS-A2K signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore for converting to Unicode and re-releasing their encyclopaedia under Creative Commons License. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on behalf of the CIS-A2K team signed the MoU.
- Privacy Law in India: A Muddled Field - I — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified May 05, 2014 06:17 AM
- The absence of a statute expressing the legislative will of a democracy to forge a common understanding of privacy is a matter of concern, says BHAIRAV ACHARYA in the first of a two part series.
- Exploring the Digital Landscape: An Overview — by Sneha PP — last modified Apr 14, 2014 03:48 PM
- One component of the Digital Humanities mapping exercise was a series of six research projects commissioned by HEIRA-CSCS, Bangalore over November 2013-March 2014. These studies attempted to chart various aspects of the digital landscape in India today, with a focus on emerging forms of humanistic enquiry engendered by the Internet and new digital technologies. This blog post presents a broad overview of some of the key learnings from these projects.
- Very Big Brother — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 14, 2014 11:39 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society, the organization I work for, currently serves on a committee established by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology in January 2013. The committee has been charged with preparing a report on the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill.
- Lok sabha polls: Social media companies launch special pages for polls — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 14, 2014 11:28 AM
- Internet and social media giants such as Google and Facebook have launched special campaigns, pages and services around the Indian Lok Sabha elections to make the most of the world's largest democratic exercise that kicked off on Monday.
- Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 14, 2014 10:57 AM
- Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
- M'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 14, 2014 10:36 AM
- A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
- The Machinistic Paradigm Collapse — by Anirudh Sridhar — last modified Apr 15, 2014 05:03 PM
- Looking at the example of the scientific practices surrounding protein folding study, this blog explores the modern relevance of Thomas Kuhn’s conception of a paradigm. This blog posits that because of the heavy reliance on computational technology and simulation, the philosophical basis of Kuhnian scientific paradigm has ceased to exist and hence science, along with the Digital Humanities has moved into a post structuralist age.
- Odia Loves Wikipedia — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 14, 2014 09:56 AM
- Odia is a 2,500 year old language native to the area of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The language has recently gained the status of an Indian classical language.
- Bridging the Information Divide - Political Quotient — by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
- On this post, we will unpack 'information poverty'- a problem lying at the very foundation of the crises that inspired this project and a barrier impacting political action. We interview Surabhi HR, the founder director of the political consulting firm Political Quotient, an initiative that seeks to change how youth interacts with politics in India
- ‘Doing’ Digital Humanities: Reflections on a project on Online Feminism in India — by Sneha PP — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:48 PM
- A core concern of Digital Humanities research has been that of method. The existing discourse around the field of DH assumes a move away from traditional humanities and social sciences research methods to more open, collaborative and iterative forms of scholarship spanning some conventional and other not so conventional practices and spaces. In this guest blog post, Sujatha Subramanian reflects upon her experience of undertaking a research study on online feminist activism in India and its various challenges.
- Animating the Archive – A Survey of Printed Digitized Materials in Bengali and their Use in Higher Education — by Sneha PP — last modified Apr 14, 2014 07:12 AM
- With the advent of digital technologies and the internet, archival practice has seen much change in its imagination and function, such as to extend its scope beyond preservation to a collaborative, open source model which facilitates new modes of knowledge production. In this blog post, Saidul Haque reflects upon his research project on a survey of digitized materials in Bengali, and some of the impediments to their use in higher education and research.
- Confession in the Digital Age — by Sneha PP — last modified Apr 14, 2014 07:06 AM
- The pervasive influence of digital technology, particularly the Internet in our lives today seems to have blurred the boundaries between the real and virtual, public and private. The perceived condition of anonymity made available by the digital sphere brings forth questions about identity and the self, and more importantly the conditions that have come together in creating a new notion of the private sphere. In this guest post Rimi Nandy reflects upon her research study on the trend of Facebook confessions in India, and its implications for questions of identity and self-representation.
- Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Apr 14, 2014 06:10 AM
- Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
- Net Neutrality, Free Speech and the Indian Constitution - I — by Gautam Bhatia — last modified Apr 29, 2014 08:03 AM
- In this post, I will explore net neutrality in the context of Indian law and the Indian Constitution.
- No party's got a clear stand, Aadhaar's fate hangs in balance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 06:01 AM
- A non-UPA government for sure will review the multi-crore UID programme, but none of the parties have yet talked about scrapping it.
- Parties give short shrift to privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 05:54 AM
- Both the Congress and BJP vision documents disappoint, but the real surprise is the CPI-M document that deals with cyber issues in a substantial manner.
- El idioma oriya ama a Wikipedia — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 05:14 AM
- Este post es de Rising Voices, un proyecto de Global Voices que ayuda a difundir los medios ciudadanos en lugares que normalmente no tienen acceso a ellos.
- The Critical Life of Information — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 04:41 AM
- Nishant Shah and Malavika Jayaram will be speaking at the event organized by Yale University on April 11, 2014.
- App Developers Series: Products-Services Dichotomy & IP (Part I) — by Samantha Cassar — last modified Jul 21, 2014 01:43 AM
- Recently, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) held a series of interviews in attempts to better understand the ecosystem in which India's mobile app industry is emerging, how it is governed by India's current laws, and how mobile app developers are affected as a result. The following written series maps out the given responses and presents our findings from these interviews and accompanying conversations.
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