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- OA Week Day 2 - An Interview with Professor Arunachalam — by Tom Dane — last modified Nov 15, 2011 06:04 AM
- Barriers to Access in a Connected World — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Nov 08, 2011 05:30 AM
- Accessibility is an imperative to achieve a truly inclusive and participatory society writes and every individual, corporation, organization and government has a crucial role to play in nurturing it, writes Nirmita Narasimhan in this article which was published by Hans Foundation in their Annual Review 2011.
- Privacy & Sexual Minorities — by Danish Sheikh — last modified Sep 20, 2013 09:22 AM
- Danish Sheikh examines the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Allahabad, the research brings to light the privacy violations being committed by both individuals as well as state authorities. The research concludes by saying that privacy doesn’t necessarily encompass a one-size-fits-all approach, and can raise as many questions as it answers.
- Sixth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi: A Summary — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 24, 2011 09:09 AM
- The sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was held from 27 to 30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Sunil Abraham participated in six workshops: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses, Use of Digital Technologies for Civic Engagement and Political Change: Lessons Learned and Way Forward, The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise, Proprietary Influences in Free and Open Source Software: Lessons to Open and Universal Internet Standards, Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access and Putting Users First: How Can Privacy be Protected in Today’s Complex Mobile Ecosystem?
- Design!Public II in Bangalore ― Event Report — by Yelena Gyulkhandanyan — last modified Oct 20, 2011 08:48 AM
- Design Public, a high-level conclave on innovation, took place in Bangalore at the National Gallery for Modern Art on October 14, 2011. The event was organized by the Centre for Knowledge Societies in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, the Centre for Law and Policy Research, Mint, and others. The conclave brought together industry experts, scholars, and activists to create a dialogue about design and innovation in the public interest. This blog post captures the developments as it happened on this day.
- Indian Government Websites Not Accessible Enough for the Disabled — by Srinivasu Chakravarthula — last modified Nov 08, 2011 05:50 AM
- Innumerable websites! All are citizen centric. But are they accessible to you? Srinivasu Chakravarthula examines this and stresses that website owners need to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to enable persons with disabilities and the elderly to surf portals more effectively.
- Ninth Workshop on Media Economics — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 28, 2011 09:12 AM
- The Higher School of Economics and the New Economic School have joined hands to organize the ninth workshop on media economics in Moscow on October 28 and 29, 2011. All events are scheduled to take place in Marriott Courtyard, a hotel in the centre of Moscow within 10-minute walking distance from the Kremlin, the Red Square, and the Bolshoi Theatre.
- Growing Wikipedia: The India Chronicles — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 14, 2011 09:17 AM
- SCOSTA and UID Comparison not Valid, says Finance Committee — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Nov 22, 2011 04:37 PM
- The Standing Committee on Finance Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat has responded to the suggestions offered by CIS on the National Identification Authority of India, Bill 2010 and has requested it to mail its views by 14 October 2011.
- Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique Identifiers — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 22, 2011 07:28 AM
- Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh open letter, Hans attempts to characterize in an abstract way the replies that CIS managed to elicit and makes some elementary observations.
- Hack Night in CIS ― A Meeting of Java Script Hackers — by Tom Dane — last modified Oct 27, 2011 11:36 AM
- CIS hosted a hack night in conjunction with the tech-event organizers HasGeek at its office on 24 September 2011. The event brought together local java script hackers on a common platform. Tom Dane and Kiran Jonnalagadda participated in the event.
- Can Innovation Solve the Grand Challenges of Indian Society? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 07, 2011 12:45 PM
- It’s nearly time again for Design Public the event, a high-level conclave on design, innovation, and the public interest. Our up-coming event will be in Bangalore on the 14th of October, and will be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, which is housed in a century-old Manikyavelu mansion, which was once the property of the Mysore royal family.
- CIS-TWN Analysis of WIPO Treaty for the Print Disabled (SCCR/22/15) — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Oct 12, 2011 08:29 AM
- CIS and the Third World Network (TWN) conducted a quick analysis of the "Consensus document on an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities presented by Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and the United States of America" presented as WIPO document numbered SCCR/22/15.
- UID: Questions without Answers – A Talk by Usha Ramanathan — by Natasha Vaz — last modified Nov 24, 2011 04:41 AM
- UID enrolment is in full swing, providing an official identification to millions of Indians, yet there are numerous unanswered questions. A public talk on UID was held at the Institute of Science, Bangalore on September 6, 2011. Usha Ramanathan, an independent law researcher on jurisprudence, poverty and rights, discussed the questions that plague the UID project and the veil of silence enveloping the answers.
- Porn: Law, Video, Technology — by Namita A Malhotra — last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:43 PM
- Namita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from looking at it – and fingers its constituent threads and textures.
- Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities — by Pratyush Shankar — last modified Jun 29, 2016 09:41 AM
- The monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of Internet technologies. Going beyond the regular debates on the modern urban, the monograph deploys a team of students from the field of architecture and urban design to investigate how city spaces – the material as well as the experiential – are changing under the rubric of digital globalisation. Placing his inquiry in the built form, Shankar manoeuvres discourse from architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to look at the notions of cyber-publics, digital spaces, and planning policy in India. The findings show that the relationship between cities and cyberspaces need to be seen as located in a dynamic set of negotiations and not as a mere infrastructure question. It dismantles the presumptions that have informed public and city planning in the country by producing alternative futures of users’ interaction and mapping of the emerging city spaces.
- Re:Wiring Bodies — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:49 PM
- Asha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to the neo-liberal perspective based knowledge produced by feminists like Martha Nussbaum; Asha’s research offers a unique entry point into cyberculture studies through a feminist epistemology of science and technology. The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country.
- Understanding the Right to Information — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Jun 12, 2013 11:39 AM
- Elonnai Hickok summarises the Right to Information Act, 2005, how it works, how to file an RTI request, the information that an individual can request under the Act, the possible responses and the challenges to the citizen and the government. She concludes by saying that there are many structural changes that both citizens and governmental officers can make to improve the system.
- Making a difference, online and offline — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 28, 2011 07:09 AM
- A new collection examines how technology and issues of connectivity are shaping the lives of ‘digital natives’—and how the Net can influence social change, writes Gopal Sathe in an article published in LiveMint on September 27, 2011.
- Netizen's Guide to the Internet Governance Forum — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 26, 2011 08:59 AM
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