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India Weighing Looser Web Rules
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Prasad Krishna
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May 30, 2011
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May 31, 2011 12:23 PM
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Internet Governance
Indian authorities are considering revisions to new Internet regulations after criticism from free-speech advocates and companies like Google Inc. that fear they could be exposed to liability under the regime. This article by Amol Sharma was published in the Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2011.
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The madness of software patents
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 07, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:17 AM
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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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Mapping the Things that Affect Us
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Prasad Krishna
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May 03, 2010
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Maps for Making Change
'Map for making change' is a project using geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India
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Mobile banking set to get a boost from IMPS
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 29, 2010
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Apr 02, 2011 07:38 AM
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Telecom
Customers will now be able to transfer money from their accounts to any other account in the country using their cellphones, through the National Payment Corporation of India's Inter-bank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS). The facility allows transactions without the need for a computer or an Internet-enabled phone.
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Mobile education comes to villages
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Prasad Krishna
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May 27, 2011
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May 30, 2011 05:49 AM
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PEOPLE living in remote villages, trekking many miles to schools and colleges before dropping out, can now look forward to a tech option — mobile education. Education over mobile phones is vital in India, where the literacy rate according to 2011 census is 74.04 per cent, observers note. This article by Shayan Ghosh was published in Mail Today on May 27, 2011.
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Can the mouse be a tool of revolution in India?
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 15, 2011
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Apr 01, 2011 04:26 PM
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Internet Governance
Do you consider yourself a ‘slacktivist’?” Vikram Sengupta considers the question for a couple of seconds, and then excuses himself. “I’ll call you back. I’m in the middle of something right now,” he says, and hangs up. Being called a ‘slacktivist’ is probably not very flattering, first thing in the morning or at any other time of the day. But this writer has been at the receiving end of endless mails from him, mails which sought to impose a burning moral imperative to sign up instantly and save the grand Canadian Musk Ox or the Mexican Dumpy Frog. The question, therefore, is not unjustified.
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Muzzling the Internet
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 18, 2011
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last modified
Apr 01, 2011 03:14 PM
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Internet Governance
It is strange suddenly to be confronted with the provisions of a law passed way back in 2008. But why should the Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008, pushed through in the weeks following the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai be making news now? This news item by Sundeep Dougal was posted in Outlook on March 17, 2011.
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Nel suk dei nativi digitali. Perché gli studenti 2.0 hanno bisogno di una bussola per orientarsi
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 03, 2011
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 01:31 AM
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Internet Governance
Addio al vecchio sapere lineare fondato sulla parola scritta e sulla trasmissione di conoscenza maestro-alunno: imparare oggi ha la forma di un suk arabo nell'ora di punta. Tra social network, video-racconti su YouTube, la musica di MySpace, il linguaggio sincopato delle chat e le bufale online, gli studenti di nuova generazione hanno bisogno di una bussola per orientarsi. Ma la scuola non c'è. O meglio, non ce la fa: a studenti 2.0 corrispondono spesso istituti scolastici da secolo scorso.
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Net cracker
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 01, 2011
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 05:11 PM
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Research
Is Facebook taking over our lives? And if it is, so what? In email interviews with new media researcher and user control advocate Marc Stumpel who is conducting a Facebook Resistance workshop this fortnight, and artist and communication designer Tobias Leingruber, the originator of the FB Resistance idea, Akhila Seetharaman attempts to answer these questions. This article was published in Time Out Bengaluru Vol. 3 Issue 19, April 1 - 14, 2011.
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A Network of Chains
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Prasad Krishna
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May 23, 2011
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Internet Governance
New infotech rules infringe on freedom of expression, make net use near-impossible, writes Arindam Mukherjee. The article was published in the latest issue (May 30, 2011) of Outlook Magazine.
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