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- The Truman Show, in Kerala — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 23, 2011 01:42 PM
- A webcast now allows you to see the goings-on in the CMs office 24x7.The idea is to promote openness,but theres still some way to go for it to make a difference, writes Sankar Radhakrishnan in this article published in the Times of India on
- The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2011 10:53 AM
- Putting Users First: How Can Privacy be Protected in Today’s Complex Mobile Ecosystem? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2011 10:03 AM
- Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 22, 2011 09:28 AM
- Privacy and security are often presented as zero-sum outcomes with respect to issues affecting Internet governance. This dichotomous treatment often results in policy outcomes that directly limit access and rights. The meanings of privacy and security, however, are not used uniformly and often vary with the regards to the issue at hand (i.e. financial crimes, copyright enforcement) as well as cultural and political context.
- Archives and Access — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 17, 2015 11:06 AM
- The monograph by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto, is a material history of the Internet archives. It examines the role of the archivist and the changing relationship between the state and private archives for looking at the politics of subversion, preservation and value of archiving. By examining the Tamil Nadu and Goa state archives, along with the larger public and state archives in the country, the monograph looks at the materiality of archiving, the ambitions and aspirations of an archive, and why it is necessary to preserve archives, not as historical artefacts but as living interactive spaces of memory and remembrance. The findings have direct implications on various government and market impulses to digitise archives and show a clear link between opening up archives and other knowledge sources for breathing life into local and alternative histories.
- Reviving Growth — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Oct 20, 2011 01:36 PM
- The government needs to reduce interest rates and undertake specific reforms to revive growth. The focus needs to be on communications, specifically broadband, it would yield results. Mobile communications have grown phenomenally but the meteoric rise got stalled. However, if the government initiates reforms in spectrum policies with incentives for broadband delivery, prospects could revive and communications could go through another meteoric rise, becoming the growth engine for the economy.
- Digital (Alter)Natives with a Cause? — Book Review by Maarten van den Berg — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 15, 2015 11:30 AM
- ‘Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?’ is a collection of four books with essays published by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and the Dutch NGO Hivos. The books come in a beautifully designed cassette and are accompanied by a funky yellow package in the shape of a floppy disk containing the booklet ‘D:coding Digital Natives’, a corresponding DVD, and a pack of postcards portraying the evolution of writing - in the sentence ‘I love you’, written with a goose feather in 1734, to the character set ‘i<3u’ entered on a mobile device in 2011.
- Planning Commission, Census 2011 and India Post using social media to understand people's pulse better — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 21, 2011 08:07 AM
- Even as the Centre is drawing up guidelines to encourage government bodies to use social media, a handful of entities are showing how they can use Facebook, Twitter and more to connect with citizens better.
- The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 23, 2011 11:16 AM
- Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
- Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
- Copyrights Amendment Bill to Be Tabled in Indian Parliament – Parallel Import provisions have Been Removed — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2011 11:47 AM
- This week, the Indian government’s Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) will debate the Copyright Amendments Act.
- Stakeholders Meeting of the USOF on Facilitating ICT Access to Persons with Disabilities in Rural Areas — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 08, 2011 05:55 AM
- The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a fund set up to provide universal access to telegraph services to rural and remote areas in India organized a stakeholders meeting on 7th September in New Delhi to launch a new scheme for supporting pilot projects for facilitating access to persons with disabilities in rural areas. Nirmita Narasimhan participated in this meeting and made a presentation.
- IBSA Seminar on Global Internet Governance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 13, 2011 09:53 AM
- The seminar will take place at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 1-2, 2011.
- Calling Out the BSA on Its BS — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 14, 2011 06:16 PM
- The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is trying to pull wool over government officials' eyes by equating software piracy with tax losses. Pranesh Prakash points out how that argument lacks cogency, and that tax losses would be better averted if BSA's constituent companies just decided to pay full taxes in India.
- Photocopying the past — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 25, 2011 08:06 PM
- There is no single correct position when it comes to intellectual property or IP. In fact, there are at least five correct positions that you could possibly adopt based on who you are — a pro-creator position, a pro-entrepreneur position, a pro-government position, a pro-consumer position and a public interest position.
- India's social media "spring" masks forgotten protests — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 01, 2011 06:24 AM
- Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike for 10 years to protest against military abuses, force-fed by tubes through her nose. But the tragedy for the world's longest hunger strike is that she is on the wrong side of India's digital divide.
- Alistair Scrutton: Social media holds the key to Hazare's campaign success — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 01, 2011 06:09 AM
- IROM Sharmila has been on hunger strike for ten years to protest against military abuses, force-fed by tubes through her nose. But the tragedy for the world's most resolute hunger striker is that she is on the wrong side of India's digital divide.
- Digital divide: Why Irom Sharmila can’t do an Anna — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 01, 2011 05:55 AM
- Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike for 10 years to protest against military abuses, force-fed by tubes through her nose. But the tragedy for the world’s longest hunger strike is that she is on the wrong side of India’s digital divide.
- When revolutions go viral — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 01, 2011 04:46 AM
- Thanks to Facebook and Twitter, the urban Indian youth, famously detached from the goings-on in the country, came out on the streets to support the anti-corruption movement - not only here but abroad as well. TOI-Crest looks at the anatomy of a modern protest movement.
- Copyright Amendment Bill in Parliament — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 30, 2011 09:26 AM
- The Copyright Amendment Bill is expected to be presented in the Rajya Sabha by the Minister for Human Resource and Development, Kapil Sibal today afternoon. The much awaited Bill (since it has been in the offing since 2006) has undergone significant changes since its initial appearance.
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