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Call drops: Dealing with the menace or just shifting goal posts?: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 01, 2016 — filed under: Telecom, TRAI
It is nothing short of an irony that the world’s second largest mobile user market that boasts of being the world’s fastest growing economy is plagued by poor infrastructure and overloaded networks to an extent that many callers are cut off even before they can finish a sentence. The fault in India’s much-acclaimed telecom revolution is a questioning, frequent phenomenon called “call drops”. There have been several signature campaigns and media pressure demanding that the government and telecom companies get their heads together to fix this raging demon of a problem. However, all they have been treated with is lip service and nothing more.
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Call for Case Studies on ICT: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 16, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 11:12 AM — filed under: Accessibility
CIS invites organisations to participate in a study focusing on best practices in the use of ICTs in education for persons with disabilities.
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Call for Comments for Report on Open Government Data in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 24, 2010 — last modified Mar 01, 2013 05:50 AM — filed under: Open Data, Featured, Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce a public call for comments on the Report on Open Government Data in India prepared by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah.
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Call to increase awareness of intellectual property rights: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:47 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
We need more knowledge on IPR itself, says IT Secretary
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Call, text, email complaint against rogue auto driver: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 08, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:45 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Harassed by an auto driver? Helplines give you no relief? Here's the people's way to help you out. Just report your issue online, call or even SMS sitting in a noisy restaurant, and be heard.
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Campaign against curbs on websites gathers steam: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
For political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and his blogger-cum-journalist friend Alok Dixit, who both ran a website against corruption, a tryst with the blind side of law triggered their mission against “gagging” of the new-age Indian Internet user.
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