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Crowdsourcing Incidents of Communication Privacy Violation in India: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Oct 16, 2015 — last modified Oct 16, 2015 10:49 AM — filed under: Featured, Homepage, Privacy
In the context of several ongoing threads of debates and policy discussions, we are initiating this effort to crowdsource incidents of violation of digital/online/telephonic privacy of persons and organisations in India. The full list of submitted incidents is publicly shared, under Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Please contribute and share with your friends and colleagues.
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CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 16, 2015 — last modified May 14, 2018 07:25 AM — filed under: CDIF, Researchers at Work, Learning
The CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) has been set up by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The Fund’s priorities have been shaped by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Sitharamam Kakarala, S.V. Srinivas, and Tejaswini Niranjana; and it is administered by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS.
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Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackers: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jun 11, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM — filed under: Bodies of Evidence, Researchers at Work, Research, Featured, Publications, BD4D, Big Data for Development
This is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data Anxieties: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jul 03, 2016 — last modified Jul 03, 2016 05:59 AM — filed under: Digital News, Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, UID, Data Systems, Digital Knowledge, Research, Aadhaar, Researchers at Work
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in Bonn, Germany during June 13-15, 2016. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited as one of the panelists.
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Data Systems: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 16, 2019 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 06:29 AM
The systems and economies of data has emerged as a key concern of the contemporary 'information'/'informatising' societies. In this cluster we explore the various manifestations and implications of digital data in the context of the Indian society and government – supply, demand, and usages of government data; electronic government and data-driven delivery of services; Internet of things, locative media, and smart cities; infrastructures, systems, and circuits of data collection, storage, sharing, and re-usage; and concerns of ownership and privacy around personal data.
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Data Systems - Posts: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 16, 2019
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Details for Contributing Posts to RAW Blog: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jun 30, 2015 — last modified Jul 29, 2016 09:19 AM
The RAW Blog hosts writings contributed by researchers, professionals, artists, workers, and others.
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DHAIConf2018 - About: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Jun 26, 2018 11:35 AM
DHAIConf2018 - Day 1: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Jun 26, 2018 11:36 AM
DHAIConf2018 - Day 1+2: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Jun 26, 2018 11:37 AM

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