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- Governance issues for private data stores — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 10:30 AM
- Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event co-hosted by Harvard Faculty Club and Web Science Trust at 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge on March 28, 2014.
- Fishing is the New Black: Contemporary Art Imitates the Digital — by Anirudh Sridhar — last modified Mar 28, 2014 12:51 PM
- Marshall Mcluhan once said, “Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” Philosophers, on the other hand, think about things in retrospect and hence, as much as Derrida’s writings about the collapse of the semiotic structures of capture and meaning say about the Digital age, Mark Rothko’s art, a generation ahead of Derrida in depicting this collapse, can say about the future that it saw in visceral and energetic forms. To understand Rothko’s paintings we must sit through a short history of the different epochs of Being and their epistemological shifts before we get to the Digital Age about which Rothko had violent and destructive premonitions.
- Structure, Sign and Play in the Digital — by Anirudh Sridhar — last modified Mar 28, 2014 08:49 AM
- I have come to realize, in my research, that I have been looking for and staring at the various entry points of the Digital Humanities by looking at the primordial lighting arrangements and formative forces that are in play in it. So far, there have been some clear emergent patterns like the fact that the Digital Humanities is the story of the University itself and a condition of the socio-political and economic forces shaping our education system.
- Cyber Dialogue Conference 2014 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 05:09 AM
- The Cyber Dialogue conference, presented by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, will convene an influential mix of global leaders from government, civil society, academia and private enterprise to participate in a series of facilitated public plenary conversations and working groups around cyberspace security and governance.
- Digitize any Book in the Public Domain — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AM
- The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
- Sessions on Kannada Wikipedia at Tumkur University — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 06, 2014 04:50 AM
- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a session on Kannada Wikipedia for students of M.Sc. Library and Information Sciences followed by an advanced Kannada Wikipedia session for students of M.A. Literature on March 27, 2014. The event was organized by Tumkur University.
- Odia Wikipedia to digitize 14 books — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 10:40 AM
- On the occasion of the 79th Odisha Day, the Odia Wikipedia has decided to take up a new project for the digitization of 11 books of the eminent Odia author Dr Jagannath Mohanty.
- ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଦିବସ: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ଭିତ୍ତିରେ ରାଜ୍ୟ ଗଠନର ୭୯ ବର୍ଷ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 08:30 AM
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ସମ୍ପାଦକମାନଙ୍କ ତରଫରୁ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରଠାରେ ଏହି ୨୯ ତାରିଖରେ “ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଦିବସ ୨୦୧୪” ପାଳନ କରାଯାଉଛି ।
- CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public Forum — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jun 04, 2014 05:31 AM
- This was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process provides an opportunity to address this.
- Panel Discussion – Intermediary Liability & Freedom of Expression in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 10:10 AM
- Bhairav Acharya will participate in a panel discussion on ‘Intermediary Liability & Freedom of Expression’ on Wednesday evening (26th March 2014) from 6:00 pm onwards at the India International Centre Annex. The event is organized by the Centre for Communication Governance at NLU Delhi in association with the Global Network Initiative, Washington D.C.
- Wikipedia taps students for Kannada content — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 10:01 AM
- Conducts workshops in Ujire, Moodbidri for training in vernacular editing.
- Enabling Elections — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified May 10, 2014 12:12 AM
- For making the 2014 General Elections in India participatory and accessible for voters with disabilities the Centre for Law and Policy Research and the Centre for Internet and Society have come up with a report. The report addresses the barriers that people with disabilities face during elections and recommends solutions for the same.
- Accessibility of Political Parties Websites in India — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Mar 24, 2014 10:22 AM
- Given the impending elections in India across April and May 2014, a test was conducted to determine the accessibility of websites of the Election Commission of India, the Parliament and some key political parties in India. This report summarises the results of the test.
- ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 09:54 AM
- A conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00. Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN. Geetha Hariharan participated in this event.
- Twenty-five distinguished experts appointed to Global Commission on Internet Governance’s Research Advisory Network — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 07:20 AM
- Twenty-five distinguished scholars and internationally recognized experts have been appointed to the Global Commission on Internet Governance’s (GCIG) new Research Advisory Network (RAN).
- No to homosexuals, yes to their vote — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:54 AM
- The ad appears at the bottom of the page. It has BJP’s symbol and Modi’s photograph displayed prominently.
- C-DoT's surveillance system making enemies on internet — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:45 AM
- Reporters Without Boundaries says it gives unbridled power to law- enforcement agencies to snoop on citizens.
- Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 07, 2014 04:07 AM
- Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ: ତିନି ବର୍ଷର ସକ୍ରିୟ ଅବଦାନ ୧୦ ବର୍ଷର ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପକୁ ପୁନର୍ଜୀବନ ଦେଲା — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 11:20 AM
- The post is about the journey of Odia Wikipedia and the last three years of active contribution
- Vachana Sanchaya: 11th century Kannada literature to enrich Wikisource — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 11:13 AM
- Kannada Wikipedian Omshivaprakash, Pavithra and I co-authored this article on digitizing Vachana Sahitya, a 11th century Kannada literature on WikiSource.
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