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- 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.
- Accessibility Test Results: Government and Other Popular Websites — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
- The CIS conducted some automated accessibility tests on a few Government web sites, including that of the National Informatics Centre, and on the web sites of some banks, medical and educational institutions. This is a report of the results.
- The Accessibility Campaign--Intervention Where and How? — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
- As a follow up to our first meeting on a national policy for accessibility, this blog entry looks at some of the important international and national provisions that deal specifically with accessibility over the internet.
- Berlin 6 Open Access Conference — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:16 PM
- The Berlin 6 Open Access conference was attended by Subbiah Arunachalam, Centre for Internet and Society Distinguished Fellow.
- The Future of the Moving Image — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
- All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
- Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources) — by Aparna Balachandran — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM
- Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
- First Meeting on a National Policy for Web Accessibility — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:38 AM
- The first meeting to discuss having a national policy for web accessibility to ensure universal and inclusive participation was held at the Centre for Internet and Society's office on 7 November 2008. It was aimed at formulating an action plan to work with the government and other private and public bodies to ensure conformity to accessibility standards for web sites.
- of doctors and maps - Snippet two — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:45 AM
- This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
- of doctors and maps - Snippet one — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM
- The clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?
- Visually impaired seek access to print materials — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 16, 2013 06:20 AM
- An article in the Deccan Herald (November 3, 2008, page 4) by L. Subramani on the CIS signature campaign.
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