Interns
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Sunil Abraham
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last modified
Dec 21, 2011 06:12 PM
CIS has hired various interns from time to time to assist its team of researchers, practitioners and campaigners for its Bangalore office. These internships usually last for 6-12 weeks or sometimes longer depending upon the requirements of the project.
Rebecca SchildRebecca is a student of the University of Toronto. In CIS she worked as a Research Assistant. She produced the following blog posts:
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Elonnai HickokElonnai is specialising in international development studies from the University of Toronto. She is a Policy Advocate in the Privacy in Asia project and has been associated with CIS from 2010 onwards. She participated in many events during her stint in India and has produced some key research outputs and blog posts:
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Glover WrightGlover worked in the Open Data project at CIS. He was a co-author of the Open Government Data Study andgave a lecture on Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School. |
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Maesy AngelinaMaesy, a Chinese Indonesian, has shared stories, questions, and reflections that emerged along her journey of exploring the questions on youth digital activism with Blank Noise on the CIS website. The blog series is a part of her MA research with the International Institute of Social Studies – Erasmus University of Rotterdam called ‘Beyond the Digital: Understanding Contemporary Forms of Youth Activism’, which is a part of the Hivos-CIS larger ‘Digital Native with a Cause?’ knowledge program. She produced ten blog posts: Maesy's Chapters(162KB) |
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Tom DaneTom is working on e-Governance and Open Access. He studied philosophy at the University of Sydney, IT at the Sydney Institute of TAFE and wrote a thesis on internet governance for the Australian National University. Tom is producing a series of blog posts, podcasts and reports: |
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Noopur RavalNoopur worked with the Research Policy Praxis – Information Ecosystems (IDS project) in CIS. She conducted surveys of policy actors in Bangalore. Noopur is a student of Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University besides being a Digital Native. Noopur wrote two blog posts: |
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Yelena GyulkhandanyanYelena is researching de-licensed spectrum policies on a national and international level. She is coordinating in organizing seminars, the first of which Exposing Data: Art Slash Activism will be held on November 28, 2011. Yelena is studying in the International Development Specialist program at the University of Toronto. |
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Natasha VazNatasha is a Research and Policy Associate in the Privacy in Asia Project. She is in the process of completing her BA in International Development Studies and a minor in Health Sciences, at the University of Toronto. Natasha has written two blog posts: |
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Merlin OommenMerlin worked with the Privaccy project in CIS. She did BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from Delhi and is pursuing MA in Media Governance from Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. Before joining CIS, she worked as an intern in UNI and Prabhatam Advertising Pvt. Ltd. Merlin has produced two blog posts: |
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Shilpa NaraniShilpa worked with the Privacy project in CIS. She is a graduate in journalism and had worked with a newspaper and news channel in Delhi before joining CIS. She is pursuing her masters in media governance from Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. Shilpa wrote two blog posts: |
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Sahana SarkarSahana worked with the Privacy project in CIS. She had filed an RTI application to the UIDAI and had investigated into a spam mail that she received from Shell BP Manchester England. Sahana produced one blog post on her experiments with scam baiting: |
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Sanjana GovilSanjana is a fifth year student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her areas of interests are intellectual property rights, jurisprudence and the law and literature movement. She wrote one blog post: |
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Deepti BharthurDeepti is a research intern at CIS. She has a Bachelors in Journalism from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and completed her Masters in Communication from Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. She worked on accessibility in telecom policy. She produced the following blog posts: |