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UID elicits mixed response: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 01, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:32 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Which is the root cause for pilferage of welfare funds in India: fake identity or corruption?
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Information Security Summit 2010: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The Information Security Summit 2010 will be held between 2-3 December 2010 in Chennai. The following is the agenda for the event.
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This Is All India Radia: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:28 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Our news media blanked it out, but the Internet forced the issue, says Debarshi Dasgupta in an article published in the Outlook Magazine.
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The Niira Radia Tapes: Scrutinizing the Snoopers: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:29 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
There’s been plenty of outrage in India over taped phone calls between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and local journalists, revealing what some people believe is evidence that star reporters at the country’s newspapers and TV channels are too cozy with the subjects they’re supposed to be reporting on.
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Time to bury e-mail?: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:30 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, had a simple message to the world: email is outdated since it can no longer handle the sort of digital communication that we’ve got used to. Facebook Messages, which integrates email, SMS, instant messaging and social networking, is the way forward, he claimed.
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November 2010 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 24, 2010 — last modified Aug 07, 2012 11:46 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, CISRAW
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society!
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The internet’s new billion: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 23, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:31 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
New web users — in countries like Brazil and China — are changing the culture of the internet.
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Privacy, Free/Open Source, and the Cloud: by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Internet Governance, Privacy
A look into the questions that arise in concern to privacy and cloud computing, and how open source plays into the picture.
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DOC 2.0: A Resources Sharing Mela by NGO Documentation Centres: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 15, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 08:13 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
A Resource Sharing Mela and Meet of DCM (Document Centres Meet) at the Centre for Education & Documentation in Domlur, Bangalore.
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 24, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 08:16 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
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