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Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia
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by
T. Vishnu Vardhan
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published
Nov 22, 2014
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last modified
Dec 28, 2014 04:04 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.
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Openness
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Blog
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
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by
Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
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published
May 16, 2017
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last modified
May 16, 2017 02:51 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Ethnography,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
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RAW
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Tech for the blind: How app developers can help end the ‘disturbing touchscreen trend’
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 10, 2016
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filed under:
Accessibility
At their introduction, touchscreens was so refreshing and how we had rushed to get those touch devices. Meanwhile, there was a separate world that came crashing down with the advent of touch enabled phones. Just like me, I’m sure not many may have thought how touchscreens almost ended the messaging ability of visually impaired. Now, with services moving from phone calls to online (services and apps), it’s getting more difficult.
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Accessibility
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News & Media
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Tech transformation: how agriculture is being redefined through digital innovation and startups
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by
Admin
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published
Jun 30, 2018
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last modified
Jul 06, 2018 03:39 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
At a recent YES Bank panel and digital startup competition, it was evident that India’s digital boom was lending the Indian startup ecosystem a distinctly agri-flavour.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media Extensions
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by
Harsh Gupta
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published
Oct 20, 2016
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filed under:
Encrypted Media Extensions,
Access to Knowledge
This post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along six dimensions are examined.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Technological Protection Measures in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Apr 28, 2010
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last modified
May 17, 2012 04:51 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
FLOSS,
Technological Protection Measures,
Publications
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.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Technology and Gender Based Violence
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 24, 2014
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last modified
Dec 09, 2014 04:32 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Rohini Lakshane was a speaker at this event organized by the Bachchao Project on November 24, 2014. Rohini spoke about various strategies that women use to respond to online harassment, such as reporting the abuser, and enlisting support from online followers, or friends or family in order to deal with the abuser.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Technology for Accessibility in Higher Education
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by
Nirmita Narasimhan
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published
Jan 29, 2012
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last modified
Jan 31, 2012 06:29 AM
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filed under:
Accessibility
Education for students with disabilities has long been a serious cause of concern in India, as also in other countries around the world. A person with a disability studying in mainstream educational institutions in India experiences many difficulties in navigating through the obstacle course of the Indian educational system, writes Nirmita Narasimhan in this IIMB Journal brought out on the occasion of the conference 'never-the-less - Enabling Access for Persons with Disabilities to Higher Education and Workplace - Role of ICT and Assistive Technologies.
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Accessibility
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Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Higher Education,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Digital Natives
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Blog
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Technology, Transparency and Accountability: A Bar-Camp in Delhi
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 06, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Accountability Initiative (AI) held a bar-camp on “Technology, Transparency and Accountability” on 5th June at Google office in Gurgaon. Pranesh Prakash participated in this bar-camp.
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