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- The Future of Journalism: EJC @ Picnic 2010 — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 13, 2010 07:13 AM
- Nishant Shah was a speaker at the PICNIC 2010, in Amsterdam, where he made a presentation titled "Citizens in the time of Database Democracies : Information ecology and role of participatory technologies in India"
- Broad-basing Broadband — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 10:25 AM
- Education and training through the Internet need Commonwealth Games-like crisis management, says Shyam Ponappa in an article on broadband for education and training published in the Business Standard on 7 October 2010.
- In new Facebook features, a comeback for community — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 09:58 AM
- Nearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? Until now, big business was in complete control and used the data to monetise operations. But all that is set to change. With Facebook launching two new features, ‘Groups' and a ‘Download your information,' the community is making a comeback.
- Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQs — by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM
- The second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
- University Students create New Wiki Entries and Blog about It — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 07, 2010 07:34 AM
- Nearly 60 students doing the New Media Practices course of the New Media Masters at Media Studies in the University of Amsterdam had an assignment to write a new Wikipedia entry and write a blog post about their experience on a collaborative blog called Masters of Media. This blog which was founded in September 2006 is now in use by the fifth generation of students.
- The silent rise of the Digital Native — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM
- In late August, this year, the world shook for many when they went online (on their computers, PDAs, iPads, laptops) and realised that the comfortable zone of talking, chatting, sharing and doing just about everything else, had suddenly, without a warning, changed overnight (or afternoon, or morning, depending upon the time-zone they lived in). With a single change in its privacy and location settings, Facebook, home to billions of internet hours consisting of relationships, friendships, professional networks, social gaming, entertainment trivia, memories and exchanges, allowed its users to geo-tag themselves when on-the-move.
- The geek shall inherit the earth — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:34 AM
- Demystifying the mysterious -agents changing the world around you.
- Stiff Resistance Dogs India's ID Plan — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 09:59 AM
- An article about the UID project by Indrajit Basu in Asia Times Online.
- Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 09:59 AM
- Glover Wright of the Center for Internet and Society talks about Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School on 24 September 2010.
- Digital Natives Workshop in South Africa - Call for Participation — by Samuel Tettner — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM
- The African Commons Project, Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have joined hands for organising the second international workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" in Johannesburg from 07 to 09 November 2010. Send in your applications now!
- What a highway can do — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 10:26 AM
- Despite signs of transformational change, we need more - SOPs and quality
- Conference: Internet at Liberty 2010 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:00 AM
- This conference is being held in Budapest from 20 to 22 September 2010. It is co-sponsored by Google and Central European University. Sunil Abraham and Anja Kovacs are attending the conference.
- The Binary: City and Nature — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:05 AM
- A continuation of the last post wherein I am looking at various other representation of the city in both classical and popular medium, today I am writing my views on the analysis of certain Miniature paintings.
- Of the State and the Governments - The Abstract, the Concrete and the Responsive — by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:56 AM
- This post examines the concepts of state and government to lay the ground for understanding responsiveness enforced through transparency discourses and the deployment of ICTs, the Internet and e-governance programmes. It also lays the context for understanding why and how ICTs. Internet and e-governance have been deployed in India for improving government-citizen interfaces, eliminating middlemen, delivering services electronically and for introducing a range of similar reforms to institute transparency and a responsive state.
- Sexuality, Queerness and Internet technologies in Indian context — by Nithin Manayath — last modified Sep 18, 2019 02:08 PM
- This blog post lays out the discursive construction of sexuality and queerness as intelligible domains in the Indian context while engaging with ideas of visibility, representation, exclusion, publicness, criminality, difference, tradition, experience, and community that have come into use with the critical responses to queer identities and practices in India.
- The Responsive State --- Introduction to the Series — by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:58 AM
- This post is an introduction to a series of posts on the concept of the 'responsive state'. In this series, I try to explain the various meanings that the term responsiveness has come to acquire when it is used in relation with the discourses surrounding transparency and the deployment of ICTs and the Internet to enforce transparency and thereby create a responsive state. Understanding the notion of responsiveness requires us to revisit and analyze certain concepts and the relations that have been drawn between concepts such as state, government, politics, administration, transparency, effectiveness, government-citizen interface, ICTs and effectiveness, among others. Read on to find more...
- What's in a Name? Or Why Clicktivism May Not Be Ruining Left Activism in India, At Least For Now — by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM
- In a recent piece in the Guardian titled “Clicktivism Is Ruining Leftist Activism”, Micah White expressed severe concern that, in drawing on tactics of advertising and marketing research, digital activism is undermining “the passionate, ideological and total critique of consumer society”. His concerns are certainly shared by some in India: White's piece has been circulating on activist email lists where people noted with concern that e-activism may be replacing “the real thing” even in this country. But is the situation in India really this dire?
- INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID Project — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:00 AM
- Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
- Moldova Online: An Interview with Victor Diaconu — by Sudha Rajagopalan — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:10 AM
- In this interview for Russian Cyberspace, set up with the help of Sunil Abraham (Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India), computer software professional Victor Diaconu explains the nature of Internet use, state control and the development of blogging and social media platforms in Moldova. Victor works at Computaris in Chisinau. He is Moldova educated, and has travelled to several western countries (including lengthy stays to US, UK) to learn about and understand what there is to be done in Moldova. Sudha Rajagopalan interviewed Victor Diaconu.
- On Talking Back: A Report on the Taiwan Workshop — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:35 AM
- What does it mean to Talk Back? Who do we Talk Back against? Are we alone in our attempts or a part of a larger community? How do we use digital technologies to find other peers and stake-holders? What is the language and vocabulary we use to successfully articulate our problems? How do we negotiate with structures of power to fight for our rights? These were the kind of questions that the Talking Back workshop held in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 16 to 18 August 2010 posed.
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