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Indic Scripts and the Internet
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Dibyajyoti Ghosh
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Jun 30, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:23 AM
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Language,
RAW Blog,
Indic Computing,
Researchers at Work,
Indic Scripts
This post by Dibyajyoti Ghosh is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Dibyajyoti is a PhD student in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. He has four years of full-time work experience in projects which dealt with digital humanities and specially with digitisation of material in Indic scripts. In this essay, Dibyajyoti explores the effects the English language has on the Internet population of India.
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Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
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Denisse Albornoz
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Dec 26, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Web Politics,
Making Change,
Digital Natives
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
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Making Change
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Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)
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Denisse Albornoz
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Dec 27, 2013
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Apr 17, 2015 10:34 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Web Politics,
Making Change,
Digital Natives
This is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
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Making Change
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Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
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Denisse Albornoz
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Mar 12, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Net Cultures,
Making Change,
Research
In our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
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Making Change
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Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations
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Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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Dec 22, 2020
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Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM
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Submissions,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2020. Here are the overview, full text of the submitted inputs, and names of organisations and individuals who endorsed them.
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Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Dec 30, 2020
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Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
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Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Economy,
Data Governance,
Submissions
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
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Samantha Cassar
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Mar 07, 2014
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Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Wikimedia,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
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Blog
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Interface Intimacies
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Audrey Yue and Namita A Malhotra
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Mar 23, 2012
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Oct 24, 2015 01:40 PM
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Interface Intimacies,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
Sherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, talked about how the digital technologies, replacing interface time with face-time, are slowly alienating us from our social networks. There has been an increasing amount of anxiety around how people in immersive and ubiquitous computing and web environments are living lives which are connected online but not connected with their social and political contexts.
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Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 - Studying Internet in India: Call for Sessions (Extended to Nov 22)
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Oct 07, 2015
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Nov 15, 2015 07:48 AM
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Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC16,
Researchers at Work
With great excitement, we are announcing the beginning of an annual conference series titled Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC), the first edition of which is to take place in Delhi during February 25-27, 2016 (yet to be confirmed). This first conference will focus on the theme of 'Studying Internet in India.' The word 'study' here is a shorthand for a range of tasks, from documentation and theory-building, to measurement and representation. We invite you to propose sessions for the conference by Sunday, November 22, 2015. Final sessions will be selected during December and announced by December 31, 2015. Below are the details about the conference series, as well instructions for proposing a session for the conference.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2016 (IRC16)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Feb 10, 2016
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last modified
Feb 27, 2016 06:19 AM
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Conference,
CDIF,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC16,
Researchers at Work,
Event
The first Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC16) will be organised at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, on February 26-28, 2016. The focus of the Conference is on the experiences, adventures, and methods of 'studying internet in India.' We are deeply grateful to the Centre for Political Studies (CPS), JNU, for hosting the Conference, and to the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) for the generous support. It is a free and open conference. Please use the form to register.
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