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Department of Information Technology Meeting on a National Policy on E-Accessibility
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Nirmita Narasimhan
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Feb 24, 2009
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Sep 22, 2011 12:32 PM
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Accessibility
On 30 January 2009, the Department of Information Technology hosted a meeting in New Delhi bringing together important stakeholders to discuss the issue of electronic accessibility for the disabled and persons with special needs in India.
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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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Nishant Shah
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Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian Historian
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Aparna Balachandran
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Dec 11, 2008
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Aug 23, 2011 04:44 AM
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Archives
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.
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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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Aparna Balachandran
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Dec 11, 2008
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Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM
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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
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Report on Open Standards for GISW2008
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 08, 2008
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Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM
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Open Standards,
FLOSS
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
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Agreement on Procurement
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 08, 2008
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Dec 08, 2008 06:08 AM
On December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards".
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Report on Open Standards for GISW 2008
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 07, 2008
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Aug 23, 2011 02:57 AM
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Publications
A report on Open Standards prepared by Sunil Abraham, for the Global Information Society Watch 2008. As on their site, GISWatch focuses on monitoring progress made towards implementing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) action agenda and other international and national commitments related to information and communications. It also provides analytical overviews of institutions involved in implementation.
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Sunil Abraham
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Photos
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 01, 2008
Photographs of Open Access Day
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Open Content and Open Access
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An Open Letter on Internet Governance to the UN Internet Governance Forum
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Sanchia de Souza
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Nov 30, 2008
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Aug 02, 2011 07:40 AM
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e-governance
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.
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Berlin 6 Open Access Conference
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Sanchia de Souza
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Nov 21, 2008
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Apr 02, 2011 04:16 PM
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Openness
The Berlin 6 Open Access conference was attended by Subbiah Arunachalam, Centre for Internet and Society Distinguished Fellow.
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