site updates
by
Ben Bas
—
last modified
Jul 30, 2012 10:44 AM
- Government websites: Access denied to special users — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:17 PM
- Article by L. Subramani in the Deccan Herald, 8 December 2008
- DCOS Agreement on Procurement — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:58 AM
- On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
- Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories' — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:43 AM
- CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
- Digital Empowerment Foundation--Internet Governance Forum Workshop, 5 December 2008, Hyderabad — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:16 PM
- CIS Director (Policy) Sunil Abraham will be a panelist at a workshop on Low Cost Sustainability Access to be held at the Internet Governance Forum 2008.
- An Open Letter on Internet Governance to the UN Internet Governance Forum — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:40 AM
- This open letter brings up concerns of democratic deficit in internet governance worldwide, and is addressed to the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It is to be delivered at the IGF's 3rd Annual Meeting at Hyderabad, India, from 3rd to 6th December, 2008. The signatories are Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, Delhi Science Forum, New Delhi, Free Software Foundation - India, IT for Change, Bangalore, and Knowledge Commons, New Delhi.
- Accessibility Test Results: Government and Other Popular Websites — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
- The CIS conducted some automated accessibility tests on a few Government web sites, including that of the National Informatics Centre, and on the web sites of some banks, medical and educational institutions. This is a report of the results.
- The Accessibility Campaign--Intervention Where and How? — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
- As a follow up to our first meeting on a national policy for accessibility, this blog entry looks at some of the important international and national provisions that deal specifically with accessibility over the internet.
- Berlin 6 Open Access Conference — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:16 PM
- The Berlin 6 Open Access conference was attended by Subbiah Arunachalam, Centre for Internet and Society Distinguished Fellow.
- The Future of the Moving Image — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
- All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
- Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources) — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM
- Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
- First Meeting on a National Policy for Web Accessibility — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:38 AM
- The first meeting to discuss having a national policy for web accessibility to ensure universal and inclusive participation was held at the Centre for Internet and Society's office on 7 November 2008. It was aimed at formulating an action plan to work with the government and other private and public bodies to ensure conformity to accessibility standards for web sites.
- of doctors and maps - Snippet two — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:45 AM
- This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
- of doctors and maps - Snippet one — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM
- The clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?
- Visually impaired seek access to print materials — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 16, 2013 06:20 AM
- An article in the Deccan Herald (November 3, 2008, page 4) by L. Subramani on the CIS signature campaign.
- The Anxiety of the Future and Internet Technologies — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 06, 2008 05:18 AM
- Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham attended the "Writing the Future" conference organised by the Humanities Department at the IIT Delhi, and supported by the CIS and the Kusuma Trust. Nishant made a presentation at the conference entitled "Some Knowledge in Search of Authority: Cyberspace, Collaborations and Confusions".
- Writing the Future - IIT Delhi — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 05, 2008 05:57 AM
- The First Ever Asia-Pacific Festival of Writing: An internationally-supported event for emerging and established writers, scholars of contemporary literature from Asia and the Pacific, publishers, and all those interested in new writing from the region -- New Delhi and Shimla, India, October 2008
- Proposed WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for the Visually Impaired and Reading Disabled — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 26, 2011 05:44 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society is organising a signature campaign in India to lobby Indian government support for the proposed WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for the Visually Impaired and Reading Disabled. Signatories so far include Vidyavriksha, National Association for the Blind (Delhi), Saksham, National Federation for the Blind, Samarthanam (Bangalore), Mitrajyoti (Bangalore), Accessibility, Score Foundation, Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore), Acrodelon Technologies, Barrier Break Technologies and Enable India. This is a call for all Indian organisations and individuals to become part of this global movement to secure the rights to full and complete access and participation of the visually and reading disabled community of the world.
- i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM
- Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
- Meeting on National Policy for e-Access for All — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 26, 2011 05:13 AM
- The world over, there is a move towards making the internet more accessible for persons with visual and print disabilities and for elderly persons. Many countries like the USA and UK have adopted legislation to make adherence to web accessibility standards mandatory. In India we are still relatively unaware of the importance of web accessibility. On Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 am, the Centre for Internet and Society will host a meeting at the CIS office to discuss strategies and a plan of action to launch a campaign for making web content accessibility standards mandatory in India.
- Open Access Day celebrated in India — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance co-organised joint celebrations of Open Access Day in Jamia Millia Islamia campus on the 14th of October 2008. Around 50 people attended the event from different departments in Jamia there were also some participants from the Indian Linux Users Group. CIS also published an Open Access flyer on this day featuring quotations from Sam Pitroda, MS Swaminathan, Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Frederick Noronha, Barbara Kirsop and Samir Brahmachari.
Document Actions
