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- CIS comments on WIPO Treaty — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Jan 28, 2013 11:16 AM
- Nirmita Narasimhan of CIS has given her reply comments to the US Copyright Office's call for comments on the proposed WIPO draft proposal to facilitate access to copyrighted works for persons who are blind or have other reading disabilities, in response to the Federal Register Notice of October 13, 2009.
- Statement of CIS on the Matter of the Treaty for the Blind — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Jan 28, 2013 11:14 AM
- Presented by Nirmita Narasimhan at the 19th WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva on 18th December 2009.
- When the virtual world gets a room — by Prasad — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:09 PM
- Wikipedians have found a permanent abode, and the comfort of increasing numbers, at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.
- Want to bring social change? This map shows the way — by Radha Rao — last modified Dec 21, 2009 07:55 AM
- By siliconindia news bureau, Tuesday,08 December 2009, 14:13 hrs
- Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective – A G3ict White Paper — by Radha Rao — last modified Oct 19, 2011 10:37 AM
- G3ict Publishes International Survey of Web Accessibility Policies White Paper by the Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, India
- Newspapers should empower citizen journalism — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 23, 2012 08:47 AM
- A single content-management system can be used to publish highly-targeted and customised content. Sunil Abraham, director, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS India), believes traditional newspapers should expose their primary research databases such as photos, video and audio recordings, and documents to the public using web technologies.
- Open Content and Access in the Knowledge Society — by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM
- Open Content and Access: Democratising and Disruptive Impacts on the Knowledge Society - by Madanmohan Rao, Editor, The KM Chronicles - Bangalore; Dec 16, 09
- Watch what you read on that website — by Prasad — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:10 PM
- Google has decided to give newspapers better control over their content appearing on the search engine but netizens don’t seem too pleased about it, says an article by NT Balanarayan of DNA on December 9, 2009
- Breaks and Ruptures: In the midst of IT — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 19, 2009 10:12 AM
- In this first story, Nishant looks at the ways in which internet technologies shape multiple imaginations. In the narration of the story, the contextualisation and the responses that the story-tellers make apparent, he located the internet in the midst of contestation, as it restructures social boundaries, traditions and communities. The story of an 'internet wedding' that stands as an iconic landmark for different generations, looking upon the Internet as a radical catalyst for change, lays out the first foundations for the framework of transformation and invisibility this project has embarked upon.
- Re:wiring Bodies: Call for Review — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:50 AM
- Dr. Asha Achuthan's research project on "Rewiring Bodies" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. From her vantage position, straddling the disciplines of medicine an Cultural Studies, through a gendered perspective. Dr. Achutan historicises the attitudes, imaginations and policies that have shaped the Science-Technology debates in India, to particularly address the ways in which emergence of Internet Technologies have shaped notions of gender and body in India.
- A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM
- In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
- Privacy, pornography, sexuality (a video) — by Namita A. Malhotra — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
- The video is an attempt to use the material collected for purposes of provoking a discussion around privacy, pornography, sexuality and technology. It focuses largely on an Indian context, which most viewers would be familiar with. The video is pegged around the ban of Savita Bhabhi – a pornographic comic toon – but uses that to open up a discussion on various incidents and concepts in relation to pornography and privacy across Asia.
- Open Video Summit — by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM
- The Open Video Summit: A one-day workshop to explore issues of intellectual property and telecom policy for video is being organized by The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), iCommons, Open Video Alliance and Magic Lantern on December 15, 2009 at TERI, Bangalore, from 9am to 6pm.
- Present, tense: Future classrooms — by Radha Rao — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:11 PM
- An article by Nishant Shah in the December issue of Teacher Plus - the magazine for the contemporary teacher.
- Techies mapping change — by Radha Rao — last modified Apr 04, 2011 06:51 AM
- A group of 40 Bangaloreans, including techies and social activists, are creating digital maps that will be used to bring social change in India - an article in the Bangalore Mirror by Renuka Phadnis - Monday, December 07, 2009.
- ICT, transaction cost and development: The flip side — by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:56 PM
- Prof. Pradoshnath from NISTADS was at CIS, Bangalore on Nov 25th, 2009 and gave a presentation on ICT, transaction cost and development: The flip side. His bio and the abstract of the talk are given in this blog.
- Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net — by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM
- The Centre For Internet and Society and JAAGA organised a CC Salon on 02nd December, 2009 at 7.30pm.
- Developments in spectrum sharing — by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 18, 2011 04:54 AM
- New ways to share spectrum can revolutionise broadband in India - An article in the Business Standard by Shyam Ponappa / New Delhi December 3, 2009, 1:35 IST
- Books shut by law blinkers — by Radha Rao — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:20 PM
- An article in The Telegraph (Kolkata) by Chandrima S Bhattacharya - 6th December, 2009
- Mumbai no longer ‘meri jaan’ — by Radha Rao — last modified Apr 04, 2011 06:52 AM
- Why online (and offline) activism after 26/11 never took off; what should have been done to mobilize people - an article in the Livemint by Seema Chowdhry and Samanth Subramanian - 20th November, 2009
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