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Where's My Data? Submission for Knight News Challenge 2015: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Oct 01, 2015 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:00 PM — filed under: City, Open Data, Practice, Crowdsourcing, Researchers at Work
We are very excited to be contribute to a join submission with DataMeet and Oorvani for the Knight News Challenge 2015. We are proposing "an application for users to search for locally-relevant data, discuss missing data, demand data, explore and respond to data demands by others, and start data crowd-sourcing exercises." Please go to the submission page and support our project. The text of the proposal is available below. It was prepared by Nisha Thompson of DataMeet, Meera K of Oorvani, and I. The 'Where's My Data' banner is created by Nisha using icons from the Noun Project.
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IRC16 - Studying Internet in India - Poster: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Oct 07, 2015 10:24 AM
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Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 - Studying Internet in India: Call for Sessions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Oct 07, 2015
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Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 - Studying Internet in India: Call for Sessions (Extended to Nov 22): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Oct 07, 2015 — last modified Nov 15, 2015 07:48 AM — filed under: Internet Researcher's Conference, Featured, Learning, IRC16, Researchers at Work
With great excitement, we are announcing the beginning of an annual conference series titled Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC), the first edition of which is to take place in Delhi during February 25-27, 2016 (yet to be confirmed). This first conference will focus on the theme of 'Studying Internet in India.' The word 'study' here is a shorthand for a range of tasks, from documentation and theory-building, to measurement and representation. We invite you to propose sessions for the conference by Sunday, November 22, 2015. Final sessions will be selected during December and announced by December 31, 2015. Below are the details about the conference series, as well instructions for proposing a session for the conference.
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Strategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final Report: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 11, 2015 04:39 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access Dialogues, Open Access
A series of discussions - on the Chat Literacy forum of ELDIS and on Twitter - was organised during November 2012 to March 2013 to identify the global challenges in 'Navigating the Complexities of Open Access'. The discussions were facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), through support from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. On behalf of CIS, Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-coordinated and contributed to these discussions.
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Sumandro C - Open Access Dialogues - Strategic Issues Emerging from the Comments of Indian Participants: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Oct 11, 2015 — last modified Oct 11, 2015 04:34 AM
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Catalina Alzate - Speech Bubbles: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Oct 10, 2019 07:53 AM
CIS-DWRU - APC-FIRN - Domestic Work in the Gig Economy - Concept Note: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 14, 2019
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Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Sep 17, 2016 — filed under: Practice, Researchers at Work
Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an interface design or clickable prototype or a demo video. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate as a mentor for the information visualisation track.
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Big Data: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Sep 22, 2016 — last modified Sep 22, 2016 07:20 AM

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