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Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in Assam
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jan 22, 2018
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last modified
Apr 27, 2023 04:54 PM
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filed under:
Political Economy of Data,
National Population Register,
Citizenship,
NRC in Assam,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
E-Governance
We are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and the resultant reform of citizen identification infrastructure in India. The study is being led by Khetrimayum Monish and Ranjit Singh, along with Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
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Denisse Albornoz
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Dec 26, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Web Politics,
Making Change,
Digital Natives
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
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Making Change
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Digital Native
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AM
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Social media,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New Year will bring.
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Blog
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January 2013 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 31, 2013
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last modified
Jun 11, 2013 11:56 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the first issue of our newsletter for the year 2013. This issue brings you an overview of our research programs, events organised and participated, news and media coverage, and videos of recent events.
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Newsletters
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Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society
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Nishant Shah
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Feb 12, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM
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Featured,
Habits of Living,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They have become the default metaphor of our times, where everything from infrastructure assemblies to collectives of people, are all described through the lens of a network.
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D:Coding Digital Natives
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 30, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:30 PM
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filed under:
Video,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah was invited for a public talk at the University of California, Los Angeles. He presented the work done on Digital Natives and spoke about questions of participation and resistance. The talk has been featured in the YouTube channel.
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Digital Natives
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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by
kaeru
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Aug 02, 2011
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last modified
Apr 06, 2015 03:48 PM
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Cyborgs,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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Histories of the Internet
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#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jul 11, 2019
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last modified
Jul 20, 2019 11:58 AM
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filed under:
RAW Events,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Platform-Work,
Researchers at Work,
Event,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a panel discussion on Friday, July 19 in our Bangalore office, where the researchers associated with the project will present preliminary findings, and ethical and methodological challenges of studying app-based platform-work in India. Panelists Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia and Simiran Lalvani, who have conducted field studies of ride-hailing and food-delivery work in Mumbai and New Delhi, will share their preliminary field insights along with reflections on what it meant to do such studies, how they went about studying gig-work, and challenges that arose in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Noopur Raval who co-led the project. We invite scholars, journalists, and all interested members of the public to join us for the event. Tea and snacks will be served at 5 pm.
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RAW
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Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources)
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Aparna Balachandran
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Nov 10, 2008
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM
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filed under:
Workshop,
Researchers at Work,
Archives
Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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Archives and Access: Introduction
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by
Aparna Balachandran
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Dec 11, 2008
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Archives
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.
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
