The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy
by Amber Sinha
The book looks at how networks exert unchecked power in subverting political discourse and polarizing the public in India. Towards that, it investigates the history of misinformation and the biases that make the public susceptible to it, how digital platforms and their governance impacts the public’s behaviour in them, as well as the changing face of political targeting in a data-driven ecosystem.
Accessibility
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Groundbreaking disability rights activist Javed Abidi dies at 53
March 06, 2018
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) expresses profound regret at the demise of Mr. Javed Abidi, a groundbreaking disability rights activist.
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Comments on Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
November 26, 2017
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Comments on Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
January 03, 2018
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Why GST Is A Step Backward For The Disabled
July 03, 2017
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GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
June 24, 2017
Openness
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React India 2019
October 14, 2019
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at an International conference, 'React India 2019" which was the first beach conference and which was hosted at Goa on 26-28, September 2019.
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DevFest'19
October 14, 2019
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FOSSCON India 2019
September 25, 2019
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India’s top science institution is trying hard to fix its “manel” problem
August 19, 2019
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Learning and Understanding the Frameworks of Rights at Work
July 21, 2019
Telecom
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Traffic Rules, Mindset and On-Time Payments
September 26, 2019
There's no alternative to following the rules and working together with discipline for our common interests.
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Fix Problems Before Complete Failure
July 31, 2019
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Fostering Strategic Convergence in US-India Tech Relations: 5G and Beyond
July 05, 2019
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5G Aspirations and Realities
July 02, 2019
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Democracy, Digital India and Networks
June 09, 2019
Access to Knowledge (A2K)
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Analysis on the strategies of Mozilla and Wiki communities on gender gap aspects
October 03, 2019
There is a need for research on how Open Source communities are trying to balance the gender ratio and how they provide the safe space environment to its contributors. With this in mind I have come up with this blog as I am an active contributor of Mozilla since 5 years and also got myself recently introduced to Wikimedia and its sister projects, have interacted with few Indian women contributors in both of these communities and came out with a few observations on how I see them in India and what could be improved in both communities.
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Call for joining the Free Knowledge movement #Wikipedia #Wikimedia
August 19, 2019
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The Knowledge Base is Liberated
August 05, 2019
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Re-licensing Sessions with Authors and Organisations
August 05, 2019
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Wikimedia Workshop on Rivers under Project Jalbodh
August 05, 2019
Internet Governance
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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems
October 18, 2019
On October 17th 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston, released his thematic report on digital technology, social protection and human rights. Understanding the impact of technology on the provision of social protection – and, by extent, its impact on people in vulnerable situations – has been part of the work the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Privacy International (PI) have been doing.
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Farming the Future: Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in the agricultural sector in India
October 16, 2019
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Setting International Norms of Cyber Conflict is Hard, But that Doesn't Mean that We Should Stop Trying
October 14, 2019
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We need a better AI vision
October 14, 2019
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AI for Good
October 09, 2019
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Big Data and Reproductive Health in India: A Case Study of the Mother and Child Tracking System
October 17, 2019
In this case study undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development (BD4D) network, Ambika Tandon evaluates the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) as data-driven initiative in reproductive health at the national level in India. The study also assesses the potential of MCTS to contribute towards the big data landscape on reproductive health in the country, as the Indian state’s imagination of health informatics moves towards big data.
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Doing Standpoint Theory
October 10, 2019
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Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project Announcement
October 01, 2019
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September 2019 Newsletter
October 02, 2019
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon
September 26, 2019
