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Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Feb 26, 2019
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last modified
Mar 01, 2019 12:39 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Featured,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make Wikimedia movement inclusive and diverse in these geographical regions as well as in their social strata.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Internet Speech: Perspectives on Regulation and Policy
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by
Akriti Bopanna
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published
Feb 07, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 04:38 PM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Internet Freedom,
Event
The Centre for Internet & Society and the University of Munich (LMU), Germany are jointly organizing an international symposium at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on April 5, 2019
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Internet Governance
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Events
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Welcome to [email protected] blog!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 02, 2019
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last modified
Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM
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filed under:
Homepage,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies
We from the
[email protected] programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the
[email protected] programme.
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Silicon Plateau: Volume Two
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 01:01 AM
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Silicon Plateau,
RAW Publications,
Web Cultures,
Featured,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and interviews that observe the ways technology permeates the urban environment and the lives of its inhabitants. This project is an attempt at creating collaborative research into art and technology, beginning by inviting an interdisciplinary group of contributors (from artists, designers and writers, to researchers, anthropologists and entrepreneurs) to participate in the making of each volume.
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RAW
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Statement on Serious Allegations against CIS Members and the CIS Workplace on Social Media
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Nov 24, 2018
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last modified
Nov 24, 2018 08:55 AM
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filed under:
Public Statement,
Featured,
Homepage
In light of serious allegations raised on social media about CIS members and workplace, we wish to provide a detailed update at this stage.
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About Us
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Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar Report
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by
Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali
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published
Nov 05, 2018
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last modified
Nov 05, 2018 12:08 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Aadhaar
We are issuing a second clarificatory statement on our report titled “Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information” published on May 1, 2017.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
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by
Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V.
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published
Sep 19, 2018
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Homepage
Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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ICANN Diversity Analysis
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by
Akriti Bopanna
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published
Jul 16, 2018
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last modified
Aug 29, 2018 11:19 AM
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filed under:
ICANN,
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance
The by-laws of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) state that it is a non-profit public-benefit corporation which is responsible at the overall level, for the coordination of the “global internet's systems of unique identifiers, and in particular to ensure the stable and secure operation of the internet's unique identifier systems”. As key stakeholders of ICANN are spread across the world, much of the communication discussing the work of ICANN takes place over email. This analysis of the diversity of participation at the ICANN processes, through a study of their mailing lists, was undertaken by Paul Kurian and Akriti Bopanna.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jun 25, 2018
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Featured,
Publications,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital technologies and internet has always been a rather contentious one, with more debate spurred now due to the growth of fields like humanities computing, digital humanities (henceforth DH) and cultural analytics. Even as these fields signal several shifts in scholarship, pedagogy and practice, portending a futuristic imagination of the role of technology in academia and practice on the one hand, they also reflect continuing challenges related to the digital divide, and more specifically politics around the growth and sustenance of the humanities disciplines. A specific criticism within more recent debates around the origin story of DH in fact, has been its Anglo-American framing, drawing upon a history in humanities computing and textual studies, and located within a larger neoliberal imagination of the university and academia. While this has been met with resistance from across different spaces, thus calling for more diversity and representation in the discourse, it is also reflective of the need to trace and contextualize more local forms of practice and pedagogy in the digital as efforts to address these global concerns. This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha draws upon excerpts from a study on the field of DH and related practices in India, to outline the diverse contexts of humanities practice with the advent of the digital and explore the developing discourse around DH in the Indian context.
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RAW
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Internet Shutdown Stories
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
May 17, 2018
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last modified
Sep 03, 2019 09:57 AM
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Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) has published a collection of stories of the impact of internet shutdowns on people's lives in the country. This book seeks to give a glimpse into the lives of those directly affected by these internet shutdown experiments. When seen in a larger context, we hope that the stories in this book also demonstrate that access to the internet and freedom of speech is not just about an individual’s rights, but are also required for the collective good. This is a project funded by Facebook and MacArthur Foundation, and the stories were provided by 101 Reporters. Case studies from the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana, West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, Nagaland, and Uttar Pradesh have been highlighted in this compilation.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
