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- Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2] — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
- This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the technology offered by the West.
- Department of Information Technology Meeting on a National Policy on E-Accessibility — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:32 PM
- On 30 January 2009, the Department of Information Technology hosted a meeting in New Delhi bringing together important stakeholders to discuss the issue of electronic accessibility for the disabled and persons with special needs in India.
- Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1] — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
- This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of technology are separate from the tool, machine, or instrument.
- Archives and Access: Land, Museum, Legacy — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Aug 02, 2011 05:46 AM
- This blog entry is the third in a series of posts on Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya's Archives and Access project. The entry, by Rochelle Pinto, describes her visit to a museum of agricultural implements in Goa and touches upon some questions of land use and ownership in Goa and how this would be affected by public access to documents proving land rights.
- Accessible websites could become a reality — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:17 PM
- Article by L. Subramani in the Deccan Herald, 11 February 2009
- Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [I] — by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:34 AM
- This is the first in a series of blog posts documenting Zainab Bawa's CIS-RAW project on Transparency and Politics. This post briefly explains how the notion of transparency has developed over time, and the changes that it has been through.
- Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown — by Namita A. Malhotra — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
- This blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is able to cite and draw on various sources including legal studies, film studies and philosophy, academic and historical work on sexuality, art, film and pornography itself.
- Updated List of Signatories for Letter Supporting WIPO Treaty for the Reading Disabled — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:35 AM
- The list of signatories to a letter in support of the WIPO Treat for the Reading Disabled has been updated.
- Report on the 26-27 December 2008 Meeting of the Daisy Forum of India — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Feb 11, 2009 04:51 PM
- The fourth meeting of the DFI was held in Bhopal on 26 and 27 December 2008 and was attended by Nirmita Narsimhan of CIS.
- Lecture by Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM
- The Software Freedom Law Center, National Law School, and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a lecture by Mishi Choudhary and Eben Moglen for students of NLS on Saturday, December 13, 2008.
- Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian Historian — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:44 AM
- This post is the second in a series by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto. It comes to the question of how we can extend some of the questions and concerns that have arisen around contemporary archives to the documentary archive. It argues that the conventional understanding of the print archive as a fragile, irreplaceable national cultural legacy is a limited one and tries instead to rethink questions of ownership and access, issues thrown up in sharp relief by the digital archive.
- Archives and Access: Introduction — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM
- The members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This intial post tries to outline the concerns underlining this project which will attempt to critically examine archiving practices and policies in India in order to conceptualize ideas about ownership and use towards the goal of the greatest public good; reflect on issues of digitization and access; and facilitate public conversations and the articulation of a collective voice by historians and other users on possible interventions in these institutions.
- Report on the Internet Governance Forum — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM
- CIS attended the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, December 3-7, 2008.
- Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization System — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:56 AM
- On Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to Innovate South Africa, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, Ashish Gautam of IBM India, and Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Government IT Officers' Council, OSS Working Group, Republic of South Africa, who moderated the session.
- Report on Open Standards for GISW2008 — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM
- In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
- Government websites: Access denied to special users — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:17 PM
- Article by L. Subramani in the Deccan Herald, 8 December 2008
- DCOS Agreement on Procurement — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:58 AM
- On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
- Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories' — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:43 AM
- CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
- Digital Empowerment Foundation--Internet Governance Forum Workshop, 5 December 2008, Hyderabad — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:16 PM
- CIS Director (Policy) Sunil Abraham will be a panelist at a workshop on Low Cost Sustainability Access to be held at the Internet Governance Forum 2008.
- An Open Letter on Internet Governance to the UN Internet Governance Forum — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:40 AM
- This open letter brings up concerns of democratic deficit in internet governance worldwide, and is addressed to the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It is to be delivered at the IGF's 3rd Annual Meeting at Hyderabad, India, from 3rd to 6th December, 2008. The signatories are Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, Delhi Science Forum, New Delhi, Free Software Foundation - India, IT for Change, Bangalore, and Knowledge Commons, New Delhi.
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