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Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
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Prasad Krishna
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Jun 11, 2011
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Jul 21, 2011 06:00 AM
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Development,
Gaming,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Research,
CISRAW,
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Cybercultures,
archives,
New Pedagogies,
Workshop,
IT Cities
Deadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08;
When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011;
Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad;
Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.
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Locating the Mobile: An Ethnographic Investigation into Locative Media in Melbourne, Bangalore and Shanghai
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Larissa Hjorth and Genevieve Bell
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Mar 23, 2012
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Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM
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Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
From Google maps, geoweb, GPS (Global Positioning System), geotagging, Foursquare and Jie Pang, locative media is becoming an integral part of the smartphone (and shanzhai or copy) phenomenon. For a growing generation of users, locative media is already an everyday practice.
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Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 29, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Vasanth S.N. has edited the Kannada-langauge Wikipedia since 2006. As part of the WikipediansSpeak series, I caught up with Vasanth to learn about his contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. In the discussion Vasanth shares his long time involvement in the Wikimedia movement, and what drives him every day to edit Wikipedia and helping other fellow Wikimedians.
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Lost your phone? Here's how you can make your mobile theft-proof
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 18, 2017
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Jan 19, 2017 02:40 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Losing a phone has become even more costly after the government's push for a cashless society.
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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
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Prasad Krishna
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Jun 25, 2014
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Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
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Nirmita Narasimhan
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Sep 02, 2012
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Apr 26, 2013 05:00 AM
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Accessibility
This report is published by the International Telecommunication Union in cooperation with G3ict – The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies. Nirmita Narasimhan and Axel Leblois are the lead authors. The contributors include Deepti Bharthur, Lakshmi Haridas, Pranav Lal, Peter Looms, Roopakshi Pathania, Deva Prasad, Susan Schorr, and Mukesh Sharma.
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Making Public Libraries Accessible to People with Disabilities
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Rahul Cherian
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Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013 11:10 AM
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The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 20 disability rights groups that wrote to the Ministry of Culture on January 23, 2013 seeking remedial action on the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in accessing public libraries in India.
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Making TV Accessible in India
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Srividya Vaidyanathan
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Oct 08, 2012
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Accessibility
A report on ITU's "Making Television Accessible Report" prepared by the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Making Wikipedia Better
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Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan
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Oct 14, 2013
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Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian Languages
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Yashashwini Srinivas
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Oct 21, 2022
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Oct 21, 2022 01:03 PM
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CIS-A2K,
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content
This research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by Yashashwini Srinivas, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Torsha Sarkar. This research was part of short-term studies undertaken at the CIS-A2K programme 2021-22.
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