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- ‘Housing the Democratic City’: Panel Discussion Featuring Bill Dunster, Cino Zucchi and Sunil Abraham — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:42 AM
- Sunil Abraham, Director (Policy), Centre for Internet and Society, attended the first edition of the Biennale Democrazia in Turin, 22-26 April 2009. He participated in a panel discussion on the topic 'Housing the Democratic City'. This blog entry links to videos of his contribution to the discussion and reproduces the promotional material on the event as a whole.
- Letter to Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Advocating Adoption of FOSS in State IT Academies — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society is a signatory to a letter being sent to the Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, advocating the adoption of FOSS at state IT academies.
- Access India Meet-Up, 16 May 2009 — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
- We reproduce a brief report on the meeting of the Access India mailing list hosted at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society on 16 May 2009, between 2.00 pm and 5.00 pm.
- Online Interest in Advani Rises — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:58 PM
- Article by Sruthi Krishnan in the Hindu, 15 May 2009, quoting CIS Research Director Nishant Shah
- Metaphors and Narratives — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:47 PM
- A course designed for Christ College, Bangalore
- Gender and Technology — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:47 PM
- A course module designed by CIS for the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
- The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Cable TV Technology for Dummies — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
- In the fourth entry documenting the making of 'Dark Fibre', a film by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha simplifies cable TV technology for the uninitiated.
- Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects — by Namita A. Malhotra — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
- In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
- Transparency and Politics: Politically Aware and Participatory Citizenry — by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:34 AM
- In this, her fourth blog post on her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa looks at the notions of Stakeholder and Participation.
- Archive and Access: Documents in the Time of Democracy — by Rochelle Pinto — last modified Aug 02, 2011 05:45 AM
- This is the seventh in a series of blog posts documenting Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya's CIS-RAW project, Archive and Access. In this entry, Rochelle Pinto introduces a sub-set of posts that will look at the political significance of public access to official documents on the internet.
- The 'Dark Fibre' Files: The Grey Market Deficit — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
- In this, the third entry in his series discussing the making of 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha gives an overview of piracy in the pay TV industry.
- Does India need its own Bayh-Dole? — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:58 PM
- Article by Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at Centre for Internet and Society in the Indian Express, 24 April 2009
- An Interview With Arjen Kamphuis — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:01 AM
- In an email interview with the Centre for Internet and Society, Dutch open source activist Arjen Kamphuis discussed his experience of successfully working with the government for a policy mandating open standards for all government IT in the Netherlands.
- The Project Vidya Story: 'Study Locally, Learn Globally' — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
- This is first of a series of blog entries by Ajay Narendran, the architect of Vidya and former Content Manager and Webmaster, Amrita University, guest blogging on the CIS website. His blog series will attempt to capture the experience of building an intranet archive at Amrita University, Coimbatore.
- Analysing Wikipedia: A First Attempt at Clustering — by Kiran Jonnalagadda — last modified Aug 04, 2011 06:11 AM
- In this, their second update on their Analysing Wikipedia project, Kiran Jonnalagadda and Hans Varghese Mathews discuss their first attempt at grouping the various editors of a frequently edited Wikipedia document, each distinguished from the others by some particular interest, through a quick machine process requiring minimal human intervention.
- The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with a Cable Operator — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
- This is the second in a series of posts documenting the making of the film 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, in Bangalore. In this post, Siddharth Chadha shares an interview he had with Thyagraj, a cable operator in Austin Town, to throw some light on the world of the cable operator, the subject of the film.
- International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009: A Report — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:01 AM
- Open Access activist Madhan Muthu recently attended the International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, held in Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009, in company with CIS Distinguished Fellow Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam. In this entry, as a guest blogger for CIS, he files a report on the proceedings at the workshop.
- Transparency and Politics: Talk by Barun Mitra — by Zainab Bawa — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:53 AM
- A talk by Barun Mitra, Chairperson of the Liberty Institute, a Delhi-based think tank, was held at CIS recently, organised by Zainab Bawa in relation to her CIS-RAW project on 'Transparency and Politics'. In this post, the third in a series exploring questions of transparency and politics, Zainab reports on the lecture and discussion.
- Archive and Access: The Inalienable Right to the Archives - Entering the Capital — by Rochelle Pinto — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:42 AM
- This entry complements the prior discussion by Aparna Balachandran of the Delhi State Archives and its status as a repository of records. Her discussion compares the place of the user and that of the document in the Delhi State Archives as opposed to in the National Archives. This post by Rochelle Pinto discusses questions relating to the National Archives of India and other archival entities.
- Archive and Access: The Delhi State Archives — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:43 AM
- In this, the fifth entry in a series on the CIS-RAW Archive and Access project, Aparna Balachandran reports on two state archives located in Delhi, the National Archives of India, and the Delhi Archives.
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