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The joys of being a Wikipedian
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 30, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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The kids are all on Facebook
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 20, 2012
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filed under:
Internet Governance
In one photo, Prerna stands in front of the mirror, back slightly arched, a fringe covering her left eye, one hand on her hip, pursing her lips. The other hand holds the camera in a steadfast grip. Below this picture are almost a hundred likes and comments. There is nothing unusual as such about this photo on Facebook. Prerna, however, is just 11.
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The Lab
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Apr 30, 2012 11:00 AM
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Home images
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The Last Cultural Mile
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Sep 28, 2011 05:40 AM
Ashish’s research inquiry is informed by the ‘last mile’ which has emerged as a central area of discussion in the domains of technology and governance from the 1940s in India. Starting from mapping technology onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which propelled communication technologies beginning with the invention of radio in India, the monograph conceives of the ‘last mile’ as a mode of techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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The Last Word: Is there a need to review Information Technology Act?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 21, 2012
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last modified
Nov 21, 2012 12:10 PM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Video,
Censorship
Does the high-handed arrest of two young girls mean it's time to review and revise the IT Act?
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The Law and Economics of Copyright Users Rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 06, 2013
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law is organizing a conference on law and economics of copyright users at Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC, on September 26, 2013. Sunil Abraham will present an update on the Pervasive Technologies project as keynote at this meeting.
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The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 14, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
Internet Studies
Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
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Blogs
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The Last Cultural Mile
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The madness of software patents
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 07, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:17 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights
India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted, writes Lata Jishnu in an article published in Down to Earth.
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The Nehru you don’t know
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 15, 2016
Even as India's first PM is scrubbed out from textbooks, his reputation is being savaged on the internet.
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Access to Knowledge
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News & Media
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The net is taking over
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 24, 2014
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last modified
Feb 04, 2014 05:57 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
For many days to come, people will speculate what caused Sunanda Pushkar's death last week in a New Delhi hotel. Did Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife die of poisoning or a drug overdose? Wasn't she unwell? Was it suicide? Or was it murder? No less a matter of speculation has been the social media's role in the whole affair.
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