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- First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad — by Syed Muzammiluddin — last modified Apr 07, 2014 01:06 AM
- During the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.
- Internet Governance Round-table at British High Commission — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2014 10:32 AM
- A Internet Governance Round-table was hosted at the residence of the British High Commissioner in Delhi on March 4, 2014. Geeta Hariharan participated in the round-table.
- RightsCon 2014 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 05:04 AM
- RightsCon Silicon Valley 2014 was an incredible mixture of more than 700 attendees from more than 65 countries and 375 institutions. Pranesh Prakash and Malavika Jayaram were speakers at this event organized by RightsCon at San Francisco on March 3 and 4, 2014.
- Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita Beans — by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:29 PM
- What comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at accessibility challenges for digital immigrants and the importance of behavioral science for the design of digital technologies. We interview Amruth Bagali Ravindranath from Vita Beans.
- Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijayavani) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 11, 2014 10:15 AM
- Vijayavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held in Sagara.
- Comparison of Section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and Section 4 of the Identification Act Revised Statute of Canada — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 03, 2014 08:20 AM
- A comparison of section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, section 4 of the Identification Act, Revised Statute of Canada, and a review of international best practices.
- Zero Project Conference on Accessibility: Innovative Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2014 08:44 AM
- Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre convened an international conference at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria on February 27 and 28, 2014. Pranesh Prakash participated in the conference as a speaker. On February 27 he spoke on e-speak and on the following day (February 28) he spoke in a session on Copyright & the Marrakesh Treaty: Opportunities and Challenges.
- Big Democracy, Big Surveillance: India's Surveillance State — by Maria Xynou — last modified Feb 28, 2014 10:35 AM
- In India, surveillance is on the rise by the state to tackle crime and terrorism, and private companies are eager to meet the demand.
- India ‘tea parties’ enable politicians to woo urban youth with technology — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2014 12:13 PM
- Babalal Patel’s tiny tea stall in southern Mumbai is a long way from Silicon Valley. It is not even that close to Bangalore, the Indian equivalent.
- Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2 — by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PM
- This post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
- National Conference on Use of Technology in Higher Education — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2014 07:30 AM
- The Ministry of Human Resource and Development and Planning Commission in partnership with Microsoft Research and British Council organized a conference at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay on February 25, 2014.
- Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 3: The Public/Private Distinction and the Supreme Court’s Wrong Turn — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:02 PM
- After its decision in Gobind, the Supreme Court's privacy floodgates opened; a series of claims involving private parties came before its docket, and the resulting jurisprudence ended up creating confusion between state-individual surveillance, and individual-individual surveillance.
- Questions to Nishant Shah — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2014 08:54 AM
- Dr. Nishant Shah had a text interview with the Hybrid Publishing Lab around questions on Digital Humanities.
- UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent Rules — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 06, 2014 07:00 AM
- UIDAI practices and section 43A of the IT Act are analyzed in this post.
- Pranesh Prakash: Influencing India's IP Laws — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 25, 2014 06:20 AM
- Pranesh Prakash believes intellectual property laws need to evolve and change with time.
- Open Call for Comments: The Privacy Protection Bill 2013 drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Feb 25, 2014 05:38 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing an Open Call for Comments to the CIS Privacy Protection Bill 2013.
- Defending the Humanities in the Digital Age — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:40 AM
- The author says that he is trying to take the formulation of digital humanities as a history-in-making where we might still be able to salvage the humanities from being soft-skills and our pedagogies from becoming reduced to MOOCs.
- An Introduction to Spectrum Sharing — by Beli — last modified Mar 20, 2014 09:34 AM
- We will look at how current technology – mainly GSM, but also CDMA and touching upon LTE - shares spectrum, how they might share spectrum, the trade-off between spectral (in this case, 'trunking') and 'economic' efficiency in the traditional, purely intra-operator shared scenario, and how it might be overcome by inter-operator sharing.
- CIS Welcomes 52nd Report on Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, and Right to Privacy — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Feb 24, 2014 10:49 AM
- The “Fifty Second Report on Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, and Right to Privacy” issued by the 2013 -2014 Standing Committee on Information Technology on February 12th 2014, highlights the urgent need for reform in India’s cyber security framework and the need for the much awaited privacy legislation to be finalized and made into a law.
- Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1 — by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PM
- This post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. This post looks at the stages of pre-production and the screenplay to explore methods and narratives in storytelling.
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