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Interns: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 22, 2008 — last modified Oct 07, 2012 04:00 AM
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IPv6: The First Steps: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 05, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society has entered into a small collaboration with Tata Telecommunications in India to celebrate the IPv6 day on June 6th. We will write 5500 word vignettes, which will be sent to their global database consisting of more than 900,000 users in the Asia-Pacific.
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IPv6: Embrace The Change: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 11, 2012 — last modified Jun 13, 2012 06:09 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
A moment of transition is always filled with anxiety. There is concern over the unknown and there is a reluctance to move out of the familiar. However, a transition does not necessarily mean migration; or in other words, as we transition to IPv6 as the new protocol for digital and electronic communication, it does not mean that we are going to abandon the internet as we know it.
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IPv6: The Transition Challenge: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 05, 2012 — last modified Jun 13, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The future of our connected networks is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Not only is it more efficient and faster than IPv4 which we are currently working with, it is also more reliable and secure.
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IT and the cITy: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 17, 2009 — last modified Sep 18, 2009 10:45 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, internet and society, Shanghai, ICT4D, Digital Natives, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities, IT Cities
Nishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of Shanghai and how they reflect the IT ambitions and imaginations of the city. He takes us through the dizzying spaces of Shanghai to see how the architecture and the buildings of the city do not only house the ICT infrastructure but also embody it in their unfolding. In drawing the seductive nature of embodied technology in the physical experience of Shanghai, he also points out why certain questions about the rise of internet technologies and the reconfiguration of the Shanghai-Pudong area have never been asked. In this first post, he explains his methdologies that inform the framework which will produce the ten stories of technology and Shanghai, and how this new IT City, delivers its promise of invisibility.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
IT, The City and Public Space: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, City, Cybercultures, Architecture, Communities
In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The proposal articulates the concerns, the anxieties and the lack of space-technology debates in the country despite the overwhelming ways in which emergence of internet technologies has resulted in material and imagined practices of people in urbanised India. The project draws variously from disciplines of architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to start a dialogue about the new kinds of public spaces that inform the making of the IT City in India. You can also access his comic strip visual introduction to the project at http://www.isvsjournal.org/pratyush/internet/Dashboard.html
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
It’s Common Practice: by Nishant Shah — published May 22, 2013 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:41 AM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Cybercultures, Researchers at Work
Technologies are no longer abstract. They're habits. What constitutes a habit? The gestures that you make as you read this, the way your eyes flick when you encounter somebody you like, the way you stroke your chin in a moment of reflection, or the split second decisions that you make in times of crises — these are all habits. They are pre-thought, visceral, depending upon biological, social and collective memories that do not need rational thinking. Habits are the customised programming of human life.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Jamillah Knowles: by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 15, 2009 10:27 AM
Jamillah Knowles from BBC is to make a public presentation on User Generated Content at the Centre for Internet and Society on the 26th of September 2009, at 16:00 hours.
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 26, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.
Located in RAW
Keeping it Private: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 16, 2012 — last modified Jan 27, 2012 03:50 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
As we disclose more information online, we must ask who might access it and why. This article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express on Sunday, 15 January 2012.
Located in Internet Governance

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