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On Google Maps, JNU top result in search for 'anti-national'
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 29, 2016 — filed under:
"Anti-national" is not a location. But Google Maps seems to have an address for it - Jawaharlal Nehru University in the capital. On Friday, Google Maps pinned other such "locations" in the same place. It yielded the same result for other search terms such as "sedition," "freedom of expression," and "patriotism."
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Blog Entry 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
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File NLSIU-Program Schedule_4 & 5th March 2016 .pdf
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016
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File Nehaa Chaudhari - NLSIU - 04 March 2016.pdf
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016
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Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2016 — last modified Apr 01, 2016 03:48 PM — filed under: , ,
We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
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Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 17, 2016 — last modified Apr 02, 2016 05:31 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
This article by Pratap Vikram Singh, Governance Now, discusses the problems emerging out of the UIDAI project due to its lack of mechanisms for informed and granular consent, and for seeking recourse in the case of denial of service. The article quotes Sumandro Chattapadhyay and mentions Hans Varghese Mathew's work on the biometric basis of UIDAI. It was written before the Aadhaar bill was passed in Lok Sabha.
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by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2016 06:31 AM
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File Agenda - First Annual Round table on Innovation Intellectual Property and Competition (1).pdf
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 02, 2016
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