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by kaeru — last modified Jan 03, 2012 05:28 AM

Digital Natives with a Cause? is a knowledge programme initiated by CIS, India and Hivos, Netherlands. It is a research inquiry that seeks to look at the changing landscapes of social change and political participation and the role that young people play through digital and internet technologies, in emerging information societies. The collaboration has produced a four book collective around 'digital revolutions' in a post Arab spring world, a position paper, a scouting report and three international workshops in Taipei, Johannesburg and Santiago.

Key Research

Books

Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, 15 September 2011.
Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers, edited by Nishant Shah, Josine Stremmelaar and Fieke Jansen, 3 December 2010.
Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report, Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham, 3 December 2009.

Peer Review Essay

Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, Democracy & Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, 23 August 2011.

featured: Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune

by Samantha Cassar

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: Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze; Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make; Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That; The Right Words for Love; Digital Native: #MemeToo

Events: Celebrating 5 Years of CIS; Essay Review: Digital AlterNatives with a Cause; Tweet a Review of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause Books; Digital Native Video Contest Announcement; Pathways 3rd Faculty Workshop & Regional Facilitators Meeting at CSCS

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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and regulatory practices around internet, technology, and society in India, and elsewhere.