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- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 4 Live Blog: Finding and Funding the Masses — by Alok Vaid-Menon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 06:55 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Eivind Rossaak on Archives in Motion — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 06:39 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 30, 2012 01:25 PM
- Pursuant to the announcement made on July 30, 2012 and as reflected in the FAQ accompanying the announcement, the India Program will become a project of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) an established non-profit organisation working in India whose own goals and objectives are in close alignment with that of the Wikimedia movement.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Rijuta Mehta on Militant Hindu Nationalist Networks — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 06:34 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Joshua Neves on Media Archipelagos — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 06:04 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad! — by Noopur Raval — last modified Feb 13, 2013 11:40 AM
- This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and strengthen the local community.
- Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar — by Shiju Alex — last modified Oct 04, 2012 04:11 PM
- After Ludhiana and Patiala we came to Amritsar, which we all know is home to the Golden Temple and the spiritual centre of Sikh religion, to introduce Punjabi Wikipedia. The workshop was held at the Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar on August 17, 2012.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 3 Live Blog: Akansha Rastogi's Performance on Exhibition Space — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 06:09 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telugu Wikipedia — by Nitika Tandon — last modified Sep 29, 2012 12:13 PM
- Nitika Tandon tells us about the Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telegu Wikipedia, how it will run, its necessity and the future steps.
- A Public Meeting on DNA Profiling Bill in Delhi — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Oct 10, 2012 10:58 AM
- On September 27, 2012, the Centre for Internet and Society hosted a public talk at the Indian International Centre focused on the draft DNA Profiling Bill. Presenting at the meeting were international experts Dr. Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK and Jeremy Gruber, president and executive director of the Council for Responsible Genetics US, and Dr. Anupuma Raina, senior scientist at AIIMs.
- Feedback to Draft Copyright Rules, 2012 — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Oct 04, 2012 04:53 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society submitted its written comments on the Draft Copyright Rules, 2012 to Mr. G.R. Raghavender, Registrar of Copyrights & Director (BP&CR), Ministry of Human Resource Development.
- Creating a National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities: An Introduction — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Mar 18, 2013 05:58 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society is engaged in a two-and-a-half year project starting from August 2012 to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. This project is supported by the Hans Foundation. The Resource Kit will be brought out in both English and Hindi and disseminated to policy makers from panchayat to ministry levels throughout India.
- Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala — by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 04, 2012 12:18 PM
- Patiala is the home to the famous Punjabi University. A Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Punjabi University's Punjabi Department on August 16, 2012.
- WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired — Moving from a Treaty on Paper to a Treaty that is Workable on the Ground — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Sep 28, 2012 04:41 AM
- After many years of hard lobbying by the World Blind Union, it appears that the WIPO Treaty on limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons/persons with print disabilities (TVI) could become a reality next year. However, due to pressure from the European Union and the United States, and their insistence on several untenable provisions, there is a real risk that the TVI could become unworkable on the ground.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: Radhika Gajjala Lectures on e-Philanthropy — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 05:40 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multi-disciplinary scholars and practitioners. The aim of the workshop is to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and to produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Breaking News on Electronic Accessibility — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Sep 28, 2012 03:57 AM
- The Parliamentary Standing Committee constituted to study the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill has in its report explicitly recognized the concept of electronic accessibility and reasonable accommodation. This is the first time in the country that these two concepts have been reflected at the level of a Parliamentary Standing Committee in relation to a non-disability specific law.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: On Technology and Affective Indian Feminism(s) — by Alok Vaid-Menon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 09:39 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The workshop aims to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Habits of Living Thinkathon — Day 2 Live Blog: Deepak Menon on Water in India — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Oct 09, 2012 05:14 AM
- The Habits of Living Thinkathon (Thinking Marathon) is being hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bengaluru, India, from September 26 to 29, 2012. The event brings together a range of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The workshop aims to generate a dialogue on the notion of surrogate structures that have become visible landmarks of contemporary life, and produce new conceptual frameworks to help us understand networks and the ways in which they inform our everyday practice and thought.
- Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2012 10:37 AM
- A recently released global report on the internet freedom rated India 39th in 2012, a slip from two places last year.
- Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 04, 2012 12:08 PM
- A Wikipedia workshop was organized in Chandigarh by the British Library over two days on August 24 and 25, 2012. Bipin Kumar, Head of British Library and Christina, Deputy Manager had pivotal roles in designing this workshop with support from Piyush, a wikipedian.
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