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FrndiNeed; an app for passengers' safety: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 10, 2014 — last modified Dec 27, 2014 05:05 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
From Archive to Application (and Back): A Workshop with Pad.ma: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 13, 2010 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:08 AM — filed under: Research
The first workshop Open House and Participation will be held on Friday, 16th July at 6.30 p.m at 1, Shanti Road, Bangalore. This will be followed by weekend workshops at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore on 17 and 18 July, 2010.
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From Cyber India to Censor India: Groups challenge didactic govt: by Prasad Krishna — published May 01, 2012
Aseem Trivedi is a political cartoonist who was closely associated with Anna Hazare's movement against corruption in India. Having published his cartoons in several newspapers, the 25-year-old, who hails from Kanpur, launched a website called www.cartoonsagainstcorruption.com last year with the intention of reaching his cartoons to a wider audience. But barely two months later, the website was taken down and access to it barred — without any notification to Trivedi.
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From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 20, 2013 09:41 AM — filed under: Digital Humanities
Nishant Shah is teaching a course on "From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque" and presenting on a panel on 'Secrets of Digital Culture' at the St. Gallen Business school in Switzerland in November 2013.
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From the Stock Market to Neighbourhood Mohalla: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 17, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:05 AM — filed under: internet and society, IT Cities
The stock markets have been the symbol of trade and commerce of the city and the region. In this post I will analyze the stock market; an important commercial institution and try and articulate its changing architectural configuration and its impact on neighborhoods and other public domain of the city. The change in information technology has had a profound effect on the business methodologies of the stock brokers and traders in the last few years with possibilities for buying and selling during the market hours from any internet enabled device. The pundits have announced that the “market is in your pocket or at the comfort of your home”. Is it really so or is the change more subtle? Moreover how will our cities and their public place transform from such shift?
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
From Virtual to Reliable: Exploring Freedom and Facts in the World of WWW (World Wide Web): by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 29, 2017 — last modified Mar 29, 2017 04:01 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Freedom, Internet Governance
An interactive seminar on internet freedom was organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and Adaan Foundation on March 21, 2017 at the India International Centre in New Delhi. Saikat Dutta and Amber Sinha were panelists.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
FTN: Is it time to regulate social media?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 23, 2012
An SMS and social media rumour mongering campaign led to the exodus of almost 50,000 residents of Northeast India from their work places to their home towns. Sunil Abraham, Pavan Duggal, A Mukherji and Nikhil Pahwa spoke to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose in Face the Nation episode that was telecasted in IBNLive on August 21, 2012.
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FTN: Should social networking sites be censored?: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 07, 2011 — last modified Dec 08, 2011 05:32 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Facebook, Google and others seeking to device a screening mechanism. Sunil Abraham was on CNN-IBN from 10.00 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. speaking about freedom of expression in India.
FUEL GILT Conference 2015: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:03 AM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Subhashish Panigrahi will be speaking at the FUEL GILT Conference 2015 to be held at Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur in Chennai from November 20 to 22, 2015. Subhashish will also be participating in the Mozilla L10N hackathon.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Fuel Gilt Conference 2016: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2016 — filed under: Video, Openness, Open Source
Fuel Gilt Conference 2016 was organized by the Fuel Project is being held in New Delhi on September 24 and 25, 2016. This is the fourth conference in series. Subhashish Panigrahi made a presentation at this event.
Located in Openness / News & Media

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