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Blog Entry Who the Hack?
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 25, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:16 PM — filed under: , ,
A hacker is not an evil spirit, instead he can outwit digital systems to bring about social change, writes Nishant Shah in this column published in the Indian Express on April 24, 2011.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Blog Entry Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
by Nishant Shah — published Nov 08, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.
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Blog Entry Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 31, 2015 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:41 AM — filed under: , , , ,
My paper titled 'Whose Open Data Community is it? Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the 3rd International Open Data Conference <http://opendatacon.org/> in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015. The final paper will be shared by second week of May. Here is the accepted abstract.
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Blog Entry Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
by Nishant Shah — published Jul 31, 2019 — filed under:
Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
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Women at (gig) work: When financial freedom comes at a cost
by Aiswarya Raj — published Jul 04, 2023 — filed under: ,
Chiara Furtado was quoted in a news article on women’s experiences working on ride-hailing and delivery platforms.
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Workshop on Archival Standards and Digitisation Workflow
by Admin — published Aug 22, 2019 — last modified Aug 22, 2019 02:04 AM — filed under:
P.P. Sneha attended a workshop on Archival Standards and Digitization Workflow organised by the British Library at NCBS, Bangalore, on August 19 - 20, 2019.
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Blog Entry Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 14, 2016 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
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Blog Entry You auto-complete me: romancing the bot
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jul 11, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:00 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Blog Entry Zothan Mawii - COVID-19 and Relief Measures for Gig Workers in India
by Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research) — published Apr 14, 2020 — last modified May 19, 2020 05:41 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
CIS is cohosted a webinar with Tandem Research on the impact of the COVID-19 response on the gig economy on 9 April 2020. It was a closed door discussion between representatives of workers' unions, labour activists, and researchers working on gig economy and workers' rights to highlight the demands of workers' groups in the transport, food delivery and care work sectors. We saw this as an urgent intervention in light of the disruption to the gig economy caused by the nationwide lockdown to limit proliferation of COVID-19. This is a summary of the discussions that took place in the webinar authored by Zothan Mawii, a Research Fellow at Tandem Research.
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