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The Role of ICT in Judicial Reform- An Exploration
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by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Nov 18, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:17 AM
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e-governance
A seminar held this month by the Communications and Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI) explored the role that information and communication technology can assume in the process of India's judicial reform efforts. The broad consensus among panelists was that “law is not keeping pace with technology”. However, whether technology will be harnessed to actually facilitate much needed transparency and access to the justice system, or be simply used to improve efficiency within the judicial branch still remains unclear.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2016 (IRC16) - Selected Sessions
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jan 14, 2016
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last modified
Jan 18, 2016 09:23 AM
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filed under:
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC16,
Researchers at Work
We are proud to announce that the first Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC16), organised around the theme of 'studying internet in India,' will be held on February 26-28, 2016, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. We are deeply grateful to the Centre for Political Studies (CPS) at JNU for hosting the Conference, and to the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) for generously supporting it. Here are the details about the session selection process, the selected sessions, the Conference programme (draft), the pre-Conference discussions, accommodation, and travel grants. The Conference will include a book sprint to produce an open handbook on 'methods and tools for internet research.'
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RAW
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Mozilla Brings Indian Communities Together
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 23, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
I took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events.
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Openness
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Blog
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Civil Society’s second opinion on a UHI prescription
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by
Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas
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published
Feb 15, 2023
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filed under:
Health Tech,
Health Management,
Internet Governance,
Healthcare
On January 13, Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas from CIS participated in an online collaboration organised by Internet Freedom Foundation for a joint submission to the Consultation Paper on Operationalising Unified Health Interface (UHI) in India released by the National Health Authority.
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Internet Governance
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Parties give short shrift to privacy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 12, 2014
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last modified
May 05, 2014 05:54 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Both the Congress and BJP vision documents disappoint, but the real surprise is the CPI-M document that deals with cyber issues in a substantial manner.
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News & Media
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Fab to Fabless: Understanding the Process of Chip Manufacturing (Interviews with Semiconductor Industry - Part 2)
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by
Maggie Huang
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published
Sep 30, 2014
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last modified
Dec 26, 2014 12:06 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
This is the second of a four-part blog series highlighting findings from a small sample of interviews with fabless semiconductor industry professionals in Taiwan. These industry insiders was approached for the intent of understanding expert knowledge on the process of integrated circuit design. This post explores the process of chip manufacturing and the foundry business model.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Aug 19, 2014
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research and pedagogy. This blog post examines the emergence of the phenomenon of the alt-academy in the West, and examines the nuances and possibilities of such a space in the Indian context.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Government to hold talks with stakeholders on Internet censorship
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 04, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
In an unprecedented move, the government, through the Department of Telecommunications and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, has agreed to initiate dialogue on Internet censorship with mega Internet companies, social media giants such as Google and Facebook, members of civil society, technical community, media, ISPs and legal experts.
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News & Media
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Privacy Newsletter February 2017
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 20, 2017
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Internet Governance
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Files
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i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 31, 2008
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Natives,
Public Accountability,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
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