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- Inaugural EPT Award for Open Access — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 31, 2011 10:46 AM
- The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access (OA) and the free exchange of research findings.
- Of Surrogate Futures and Scattered Temporalities — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 30, 2011 10:15 AM
- There can be no refuting Michael Edwards’ claim that the world we live in is not only thick with problems, but that the problems that we are collectively trying to address are ‘thick...complex, politicized and unpredictable...complicated and contested’.
- Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Oct 08, 2012 05:43 AM
- The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies and the Centre for Internet and Societies in cooperation with the Hans Foundation have published the Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices. The book consists of a Foreword by Axel Leblois, an Introduction and four chapters. Deepti Bharthur, Axel Leblois and Nirmita Narasimhan have contributed to the chapters.
- Exposing Data: Art Slash Activism — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 29, 2011 01:31 PM
- Tactical Tech and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) organised a public discussion on the intersection of Art and Activism at the CIS office in Bangalore on 28 November 2011. Videos of the event are now online. Ward Smith (Lecturer, University of California, LA), Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszinsky (Co-founders, Tactical Technology Collective), Ayisha Abraham (Film maker, Srishti School of Art Design) and Zainab Bawa (Research Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society) spoke in this event.
- US Clampdown Worse than the Great Firewall — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Jan 26, 2012 08:42 PM
- If you thought China’s Internet censorship was evil, think again. American moves to clean up the Web could hurt global surfers, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Tehelka, Volume 8, Issue 50, 17 December 2011.
- Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 02, 2012 05:12 AM
- Responding to the call for comments on NTP 2011, 27 organisations sent a joint letter requesting that accessibility for persons with disabilities be included specifically within the goals and objectives of the policy. The submission is available here. It deals exclusively with the issue of accessibility in telecommunications for persons with disabilities, which has been left out of NTP 2011. We outline below in some detail the rationale for including accessibility in the NTP.
- Now Streaming on Your Nearest Screen — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 24, 2011 08:58 AM
- Digital cinema, especially the kinds produced using mobile devices and travelling on Internet social networking systems like YouTube and MySpace, are often dismissed as apolitical and ‘merely’ a fad. Moreover, content in the non-English language, due to incomprehensibility or lack of understanding of the cultural context of the production, is labeled as frivolous, or inconsequential, writes Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2009.
- Internet and Society in Asia: Challenges and Next Steps — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 23, 2011 05:56 AM
- The ubiquitous presence of internet technologies, in our age of digital revolution, has demanded the attention of various disciplines of study and movements for change around the globe. As more of our environment gets connected to the circuits of the World Wide Web, we witness a significant transformation in the way we understand the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of the world we live in, says Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2010.
- The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM
- What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
- Spy in the Web — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 26, 2012 06:38 AM
- The government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy.
- When the digital spills into the physical — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 22, 2011 05:42 AM
- Nishant Shah, Director-Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, tells us why flash mobs are an interesting sign of our times, and not just a passing fad.
- India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship Plan — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 22, 2011 05:30 AM
- India has the world's largest democracy, and one of the most rambunctious. Millions of its young people are cutting edge when it comes to high-tech. Yet the country is still very conservative by Western standards, and a government minister recently said that offensive material on the web should be removed.
- Unpacking Digital Natives from their Shiny Packaging — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 25, 2011 05:04 AM
- The ‘Digital natives’ concept is neither necessarily nor inherently positive, as YiPing Tsou highlights in her article Digital Natives in the Name of a Cause: From "Flash Mob" to "Human Flesh Search". The essay was published in the Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? Book 2, To Think. Argyri Panezi reviews the essay.
- Indecent Proposals — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2012 06:13 AM
- If Kapil Sibal’s attempts to police net content fructify, it may even lead to a reversal of some of the forward-looking provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. The new proposal, for instance, will reverse Section 79 which protects intermediaries (websites and carriers) from being prosecuted or made liable for any objectionable content published. Says Pranesh Prakash, programme manager, Centre for Internet and Society: “Unfortunately, what Sibal says turns this upside down as they would now be held responsible for e-content.” Sibal wants to monitor content prior to publication.
- Censorship — A Death Knell for Freedom of Expression Online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 19, 2011 10:12 AM
- On December 8, 2011, NDTV aired an interesting discussion on internet censorship. Shashi Tharoor, Soli Sorabjee, Shekhar Kapoor, Ken Ghosh and Sunil Abraham participated in this discussion with NDTV's Sonia Singh.
- How ‘private-censorship’ is making online content disappear, quietly — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 19, 2011 05:31 AM
- If only Kapil Sibal knew how successful his ministry has already been in making online content quietly disappear and how pliant Internet companies can be in India when it comes to requests to remove content, thanks in some part to the rules notified by IT ministry in April 2011.
- On Natives, Norms and Knowledge — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 23, 2011 04:40 AM
- Philip Ketzel reviews Ben Wagner's essay "Natives, Norms and Knowledge: How Information Technologies Recalibrate Social & Political Power Relations Communications" published in Book 4: To Connect.
- Digital Native: Twin Manifestations or Co-Located Hybrids — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 23, 2011 04:36 AM
- Samuel Tettner reviews ‘Digital Natives and the Return of the Local Cause’ from Book 1: To Be. The essay is authored by Anat Ben-David.
- The Digital Other — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:07 PM
- Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or Settler.
- Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
- The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
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