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Blog Entry NVDA e-Speak Text-to-Speech Project Update (March 2014)
by Suman Dogra published Mar 18, 2014 last modified Apr 09, 2014 06:27 AM — filed under: , , ,
CIS in partnership with the Daisy Forum of India is engaged in a project supported by The Hans Foundation to develop enhancements to the open source screen reader for Windows NVDA (Non Visual desktop Access) and e-Speak text-to-speech synthesiser in 15 Indian languages.
Located in Accessibility / Blog
CPOV: Critical Point of View
by Nishant Shah published Jul 10, 2009 last modified Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
Located in Research / Conferences & Workshops / Conference Blogs
File E-Governance, Identity & Privacy
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 26, 2012 — filed under: ,
This chapter will look at different legislations, projects, and policies pertaining to e-governance and identity that India has put in place, and examine both the strengths and the weaknesses of these, through the lense of privacy.
Located in Internet Governance
File Book 4: To Connect : Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 15, 2011 02:47 PM
In Book 4, To Connect of the Digital (Alter)Natives with a Cause? series, we try to understand digital natives through their environment. Digital natives do not operate in a vacuum, their actions are shaped by the fast changing geo-political landscape, interaction with other actors and the global architecture of technology. In our Digital Natives with a Cause? research, it has become clear that at the heart of all digital natives discourse lies the question of power. Along with power, questions of race, class, gender and socio-economic situation cannot be ignored when talking about digital natives. We found that on one hand digital natives are destabilising existing power structures and challenging the status quo. On the other, the geo-political context in which digital natives live, affect their activities, beliefs and opinions. Then there are actors that can destroy, influence or support digital native activity which give rise to questions of control that resonate within this new generation
Located in Digital Natives
Blog Entry Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Mar 26, 2013 last modified Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
Located in Openness / Blog
File Benefits, Harms, Rights and Regulation: A Survey of Literature on Big Data
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 23, 2017
Located in Internet Governance / Files
Biometry Is Watching
by Prasad Krishna published May 12, 2010 last modified Apr 02, 2011 12:08 PM — filed under:
In its first steps, the UID drive encounters practical problems, raises ethical questions, reports Sugata Srinivasaraju in Outlook.
Located in News & Media
File Internet Monitor
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 09, 2014
Malavika's piece on India's Identity Crisis is published in this report.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Technological Protection Measures in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
by Pranesh Prakash published Apr 28, 2010 last modified May 17, 2012 04:51 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
In this post Pranesh Prakash conducts a legal exegesis of section 65A of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which deals with the stuff that enables 'Digital Rights/Restrictions Management', i.e., Technological Protection Measures. He notes that while the provision avoids some mistakes of the American law, it still poses grave problems to consumers, and that there are many uncertainties in it still.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Deep Packet Inspection: How it Works and its Impact on Privacy
by Amber Sinha published Dec 16, 2016 — filed under: ,
In the last few years, there has been extensive debate and discussion around network neutrality in India. The online campaign in favor of Network Neutrality was led by Savetheinternet.in in India. The campaign was a spectacular success and facilitated sending over a million emails supporting the cause of network neutrality, eventually leading to ban on differential pricing. Following in the footsteps of the Shreya Singhal judgement, the fact that the issue of net neutrality has managed to attract wide public attention is an encouraging sign for a free and open Internet in India. Since the debate has been focused largely on zero rating, other kinds of network practices impacting network neutrality have yet to be comprehensively explored in the Indian context, nor their impact on other values. In this article, the author focuses on network management, in general, and deep packet inspection, in particular and how it impacts the privacy of users.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog