Centre for Internet and Society

Kiran Subbaiah

praskrishna — 2013-05-10T18:10:29Z

Kiran Subbaiah

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KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative

praskrishna — 2014-02-03T09:57:50Z

Centre for Internet and Society is a Bangalore based Non profit organization which works primarily in the broader domains ofinternet and policy research, accessibility, open knowledge and open education.

The blog post was published by India Education Diary.com on January 20, 2014.

Its Access To Knowledge program is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and works in fostering the volunteer Wikimedia community that contributes in enhancing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Its primary mandate is upbringing Wikipedia editors by outreach, creating primary resources for sources of reference in multiple ways that lead to enrich Wikipedia.

From a technical institution, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology has grown to a multidisciplinary world class University. KIIT University is a world class university spread over 25 sq. km. of land accommodating 20 sprawling wi-fi campuses with 10 million sq.ft. built up area. The university has 25 constituent schools offering more than 100 programmes. Being accredited by NAAC of UGC and NBA of AICTE, KIIT has 20,000 students pursuing under graduate and post graduate studies in the fields of Engineering, Computer Application, Management, Rural Management, Law, Biotechnology, MBBS, M.D., BDS, Nursing, Fashion Technology, Cinema & Media Studies and Languages. KIIT stands out as one of the finest universities in India declared under section 3 of the UGC Act of 1956. KIIT educational conglomerate is unique in offering a wide spectrum of academic programmes from kindergarten to postgraduate level, earning it a place in the Limca Book of Records.

Wikipedia has a critical stand in academia when it comes to peer academic research. But on the other side students ofter access and use Wikipedia for their assignment work despite of the non acceptance of Wikipedia content by the teacher community. The primary reason of Wikipedia's factual errors in many Indic related articles being Wikipedia's low contribution from the global south needs more contribution. Academicians and subject experts who are in charge of building the infrastructure of providing free knowledge to everyone often were stuck because of this setback.

This led to an conjugation of subject experts and Wikimedia contributor communities to set up a system called Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) where editing, correcting and enhancing Wikipedia articles become part of the curriculum.

To begin with the students in different schools at KIIT University the local Wikipedia community with the support from CIS-A2K is going to conduct classroom Wikipedia workshops to pilot Wikipedia contribution. KIIT University would be one of world's few universities to pilot student Wikipedia contribution as part oftheir curricula in any regional language.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/india-education-diary-january-20-2014-kiit-university-to-lead-building-free-knowledge-repository-initiative

Kick Off Meeting for the Politics of Data Project

praskrishna — 2016-01-12T16:42:29Z

Tactical Technology Collective (TTC) on December 7 and 8, 2015 organized this event in Phnom Penh. Amber Sinha participated in it.

The areas TTC is planning to focus on in the Politics of Data project include:

Politics of Data: exploring questions about what it means to live in a data society and how it impacts our autonomy and privacy. Me and My Shadow is one of the projects under Politics of Data that looks at the digital traces that we leave behind and how these pieces of information are created, stored and collected. It provides people with resources to learn about how these digital traces can create stories or profiles about you, and how to minimise your digital traces online.
Digital Security and Privacy: through this programme, they intend to work with rights advocates, journalists, activists and others to build their digital security skills.
Exposing and Shaping Issues: this part of the programme will explore new forms of finding, creating and representing evidence by advocacy and activist groups and individuals.

The meetings saw participation from a host of organisations in Asia including Bytes for All, Cambodian Center for Human Rights, OpenNet, Community Legal Education Center, Engage Media, iPlural and Mido.

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Khoya

praskrishna — 2012-02-28T08:59:38Z

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Khetrimayum

praskrishna — 2019-08-15T16:43:28Z

Khetrimayum

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KG

praskrishna — 2010-10-19T12:28:36Z

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Key Googlers

praskrishna — 2018-06-11T14:17:25Z

Key Googlers

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Kerala Notifications (Word Files)

praskrishna — 2013-08-09T09:26:38Z

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Kerala Notifications (PDF)

praskrishna — 2013-08-09T09:06:18Z

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Kerala (Govt.) Notifications

praskrishna — 2013-08-09T09:34:03Z

Given below are the notifications issued by the Kerala government:

The zip files below contain the following:

Citizen Charter Handbook
Notification of Rules issued by the Social Welfare Department
Letter from the State Commissionerate for Persons with Disabilities

Click on the links below to download your files:

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KEI Side Talk Events

praskrishna — 2015-01-08T02:47:44Z

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Kavita Philip

praskrishna — 2012-10-04T15:57:53Z

Kavita Philip

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Kavita Philip

praskrishna — 2012-10-04T15:27:33Z

Kavita Philip

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Kavita Philip

praskrishna — 2014-08-26T08:16:24Z

Kavita Philip is Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Program in Women’s Studies. Her research interests are in technology in the developing world; transnational histories of science and technology; gender, race, globalization and post-colonialism; environmental history; and new media theory.

Her essays have appeared in the journals Cultural Studies, Postmodern Culture, NMediaC, Radical History Review, and Environment and History. She is author of Civilizing Natures (2003 and 2004), and co-editor of the volumes Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (with Monshipouri, Englehart, and Nathan, 2003), Multiple Contentions (with Skotnes, 2003), Homeland Securities (with Reilly and Serlin, 2005), and Tactical Biopolitics (with da Costa, 2008). Her work in progress includes a monograph entitled Proper Knowledge,on technology and property.

Books and Edited Volumes

Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India
Rutgers University Press (U. S. edition) 2003; Orient Longman (Asia/UK edition) 2004
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. B. da Costa and K. Philip, editors, Boston: MIT Press, 2008
Homeland Securities, K. Philip, D. Serlin, E. Reilly, editors, Radical History Review, Issue 93 (Durham: Duke University Press), Fall 2005 [Awarded “Best Special Issue” prize for 2005 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals].
Multiple Contentions, K. Philip and Andor Skotnes, eds., Radical History Review (Durham: Duke University Press), Issue 88, Winter 2004.
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip, M. E. Sharpe, 2003

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Kavita Philip

praskrishna — 2012-12-14T05:36:39Z

Kavita Philip

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