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by Ben Bas last modified Jul 30, 2012 10:44 AM
Getting the net out of its web by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:11 PM
Article by Malvika Tegta in Daily News and Analysis (DNA), 8 March 2009
First Meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information Technology by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
This is a report on the first meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information Technology, which was held in New Delhi on 5 March 2009.
Applications to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under the Right to Information Act by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society filed two applications to the MSJE under the Right to Information Act seeking certain information relating to the implementation of the National Policy for Electronic Accessibility and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
Report from DigiActive’s Bangalore Meet-up by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM
A blog entry by Mary Joyce on the meet-up hosted at CIS, Bangalore
Bloggers battle India's supreme court over prosecution for internet threats by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:17 PM
Article by Randeep Ramesh in the Guardian, 26 February 2009
Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2] by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the technology offered by the West.
Department of Information Technology Meeting on a National Policy on E-Accessibility by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:32 PM
On 30 January 2009, the Department of Information Technology hosted a meeting in New Delhi bringing together important stakeholders to discuss the issue of electronic accessibility for the disabled and persons with special needs in India.
Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1] by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of technology are separate from the tool, machine, or instrument.
Archives and Access: Land, Museum, Legacy by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Aug 02, 2011 05:46 AM
This blog entry is the third in a series of posts on Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya's Archives and Access project. The entry, by Rochelle Pinto, describes her visit to a museum of agricultural implements in Goa and touches upon some questions of land use and ownership in Goa and how this would be affected by public access to documents proving land rights.
Accessible websites could become a reality by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:17 PM
Article by L. Subramani in the Deccan Herald, 11 February 2009
Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [I] by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:34 AM
This is the first in a series of blog posts documenting Zainab Bawa's CIS-RAW project on Transparency and Politics. This post briefly explains how the notion of transparency has developed over time, and the changes that it has been through.
Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown by Namita A. Malhotra — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
This blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is able to cite and draw on various sources including legal studies, film studies and philosophy, academic and historical work on sexuality, art, film and pornography itself.
Updated List of Signatories for Letter Supporting WIPO Treaty for the Reading Disabled by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:35 AM
The list of signatories to a letter in support of the WIPO Treat for the Reading Disabled has been updated.
Report on the 26-27 December 2008 Meeting of the Daisy Forum of India by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Feb 11, 2009 04:51 PM
The fourth meeting of the DFI was held in Bhopal on 26 and 27 December 2008 and was attended by Nirmita Narsimhan of CIS.
Lecture by Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM
The Software Freedom Law Center, National Law School, and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a lecture by Mishi Choudhary and Eben Moglen for students of NLS on Saturday, December 13, 2008.
Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian Historian by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:44 AM
This post is the second in a series by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto. It comes to the question of how we can extend some of the questions and concerns that have arisen around contemporary archives to the documentary archive. It argues that the conventional understanding of the print archive as a fragile, irreplaceable national cultural legacy is a limited one and tries instead to rethink questions of ownership and access, issues thrown up in sharp relief by the digital archive.
Archives and Access: Introduction by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM
The members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This intial post tries to outline the concerns underlining this project which will attempt to critically examine archiving practices and policies in India in order to conceptualize ideas about ownership and use towards the goal of the greatest public good; reflect on issues of digitization and access; and facilitate public conversations and the articulation of a collective voice by historians and other users on possible interventions in these institutions.
Report on the Internet Governance Forum by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM
CIS attended the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, December 3-7, 2008.
Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization System by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:56 AM
On Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to Innovate South Africa, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, Ashish Gautam of IBM India, and Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Government IT Officers' Council, OSS Working Group, Republic of South Africa, who moderated the session.
Report on Open Standards for GISW2008 by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.

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