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Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the School of Cultural Texts and Records, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is organizing a two-day workshop for students at Jadavpur University on August 25 and 26, 2014.
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Surveillance and Privacy Law Roundtable: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2014 — filed under: Event, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society, COAI and Vahura invite you to a privacy roundtable at the India International Centre in New Delhi on September 1, 2014.
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ITU Tutorial on Audiovisual Media Accessibility: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 19, 2011 — last modified Jun 18, 2012 10:58 AM — filed under: Accessibility
At the invitation of CIS, in cooperation with the ITU-APT Foundation of India, ITU is organising a two-day Tutorial on Audio Visual Media Accessibility from March 14 to 15, 2012 at the India International Centre, New Delhi, India. The Tutorial will be preceded by the fourth meeting of the Focus Group on Audio Visual Media Accessibility (FG AVA) on March 13, 2012. This meeting will take place at the same venue and will also be hosted by CIS, in cooperation with the ITU-APT Foundation of India.
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Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 05:42 AM
Youth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. By 2010, the global youth population is expected reach almost 1.2 billion of which 85% reside in developing countries. Unleashing the potential of even a part of this group in developing countries promises a substantially impact on societies. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and governments and could facilitate radical restructuring of the world we live in. So, it’s time we start listening to them.
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Digital Art: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 08:50 AM
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2011: The year India began to harness social media: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 04, 2012 — last modified Jan 04, 2012 07:19 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
About half a decade ago, netizens began to expand their online presence by forging new relationships, rediscovering old ones and sharing information and content on what came to be collectively termed as social media. The year gone by marked a new milestone for this social media phenomenon, which saw a paradigm shift from merely being a networking platform to becoming a political tool, writes Satarupa Paul in the Sunday Guardian on 1 January 2012.
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Constitution of Group of Experts to Deliberate on Privacy Issues: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2012 07:41 AM
It has been decided to constitute a Small Group of Experts under the Chairmanship of Justice A.P. Shah, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, to identify the privacy issues and prepare a paper to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill.
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Invisible Censorship (Marathi version): by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:57 AM
Pranesh Prakash's article was translated into Marathi and featured in Lokmat.
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Activists cry foul against Aadhaar: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 16, 2012 — last modified Jan 31, 2012 04:24 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Biometric experts, jurists and social activists today urged the state government to immediately snap ties with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and stop offering Aadhaar numbers to residents.
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Aditya Mishra: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2012 04:54 AM
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