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Converting Indian Slacktivists Takes (Offline) Time: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 04, 2011
No matter how much attention an online protest campaign might appear to be getting in terms of likes, fans or retweets, it’s rarely likely to be able to draw even a fraction of its Internet supporters to a street protest. That’s as true in India as anywhere else in the world, it appears.
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2(m) or not 2(m): by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 23, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:55 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
An article by Nilanjana S Roy was published in the Business Standard on February 19, 2011. In this article Nilanjana Roy explains to us how a copyright amendment might change the way we read, write and publish in India.
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Copyright bill restricts Net access: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:21 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity
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New Project to Assess Potential of Creating Open Government Data Initiatives in Chile, Ghana and Turkey: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 13, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:44 AM — filed under: Openness
Steve Bratt, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation (founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee) has made an announcement on moving forward with a project to assess the potential of creating open government data initiatives in Chile, Ghana, and Turkey - the first step of what we hope to be a global initiative focusing on low- and middle-income countries.
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India's cyber cafes going porn-free: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 28, 2011 — last modified May 06, 2011 04:53 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Pornography fans in India who like to indulge in the sexual eye candy at public cyber cafes may be in for a forced intervention as a new government ruling bans porn websites, requires cafe owners to keep a one-year log of all sites accessed by customers and forces customers to produce an ID card prior to use. This news was published on msnbc.com on April 28, 2011.
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Your cyber space is a hackers paradise: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 06, 2011 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 12:58 AM
It Looks like hackers are having a ball targeting all kinds of websites — gaming, news, government, personal email and even those run by terror networks, writes Shayan Ghosh. The article was published in Mail Today on June 6, 2011.
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Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 01, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 09:59 AM — filed under: Openness
Glover Wright of the Center for Internet and Society talks about Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School on 24 September 2010.
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De facebook: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 08, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:41 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Facebook used to be our playground but privacy concerns are now souring that fantasy. Why do we trust a clutch of new corporations with such phenomenal amounts of personal data?
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More Debate on UID Project Needed: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 11:13 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
A press conference on UID was held at the Press Club in Bangalore on 26 July, 2010. It was co-organised by Citizen's Action Forum, Alternate Law Forum and the Centre for Internet and Society. Mathew Thomas and Vinay Baindur spoke about the UID. Proceedings from the conference was covered in the Hindu on 27 July, 2010.
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Design!publiC - News from Livemint: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 19, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 02:36 PM
The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with Centre for Knowledge Societies, Venkataramanan Associates, Centre for Law and Policy Research and LiveMint organised Design!publiC in Delhi on March 18, 2011. On the same day, livemint.com published a series of articles.
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