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The policy langurs: by Shyam Ponappa — published Jan 07, 2011 — last modified May 10, 2012 10:15 AM — filed under: Telecom
The comforts of civilised living for all Indians require dedicated collective effort. The article by Shyam Ponappa was published in the Business Standard on 6 January 2011.
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THE PORN ULTIMATUM?: by Prasad Krishna — published May 21, 2013 — last modified Jun 05, 2013 09:56 AM
Ravi Sharma (name changed), a 22-year old auto driver, watches adult-rated movie clips on his smartphone whenever he is on a tea break. Like most of his friends in New Delhi, Sharma has a flash drive reserved for sleazy movies. Sharma’s access to pornography could soon become a crime, much like assault or drunken driving, if Kamlesh Vaswani has his way.
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The Present — and Future — Dangers of India's Draconian New Internet Regulations: by Anja Kovacs — published May 31, 2011 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
The uproar surrounding India's Internet Control Rules makes clear that in the Internet age, as before, the active chilling of freedom of expression by the state is unacceptable in a democracy. Yet if India's old censorship regimes are to be maintained in this new context, the state will have little choice but to do just that. Are we ready to rethink the ways in which we deal with free speech and censorship as a society? Asks Anja Kovacs in this article, published in Caravan, 1 June 2011.
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The print-impaired millions and their right to read: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 08, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:10 PM — filed under: Accessibility
Books, books everywhere, but not a word to read. This is the scenario for the approximately 70 million print-impaired in India, a sizeable population that includes the visually-impaired young people as well the elderly — whose vision depletes with advancing age.
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The Quest for Education – Persons with Disabilities, Severely Challenged: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 30, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
Education is the fundamental building block of development; it leads to an improved quality of life, employment, social acceptance and inclusion, national development and intellectual growth.
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The Relaunch of Creative Commons India: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 03, 2013 — last modified Dec 11, 2013 08:12 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
Wikimedia India, the Centre for Internet and Society, and Acharya Narendra Dev College invite you to the Relaunch of Creative Commons India in New Delhi on November 12, 2013 with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr. Shashi Tharoor as the Chief Guest.
Located in Openness / Events
The Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2013 and the Lack of Access to Accessibility Rights: by Amba Salelkar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 02:21 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2013 (The RPD Bill) went through three avatars since its commissioning in 2009 under the Sudha Kaul Committee. This blog post brings you a summary of the three stages since it was initially commissioned.
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The Right to Information, The Right to Knowledge (Talk by Sam Pitroda & Carl Malamud): by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 14, 2018
On October 15, 2017, Sam Pitroda and Carl Malamud will speak on open data and knowledge in India.
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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The Road to Financial Inclusion: by Amba Salelkar — published May 12, 2014 — last modified Jun 03, 2014 06:46 AM — filed under: Accessibility
It is increasingly frustrating to hear about wonderful steps being taken for financial inclusion within the private sector which completely ignores the question of inclusion of persons with disabilities.
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