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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
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Nishant Shah
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last modified
Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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Nishant Shah
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DNA Databases and Human Rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 17, 2012
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Using DNA to trace people who are suspected of committing a crime has been a major advance in policing.
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Internet Governance
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SCCR 26
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 01, 2014
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Blogs
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Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Dec 28, 2012
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
A symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.
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Blog
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Report: Global Intellectual Property Convention 2015
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
May 22, 2015
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last modified
Jun 21, 2015 01:36 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Global Intellectual Property Convention was held in January 2015 in Mumbai. Interns Anna Liz Thomas and Nayana Dasgupta assisted with the making of this report.
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Blogs
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Policy Paper on Surveillance in India
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by
Vipul Kharbanda
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published
Aug 03, 2015
This policy brief analyses the different laws regulating surveillance at the State and Central level in India and calls out ways in which the provisions are unharmonized. The brief then provides recommendations for the harmonization of surveillance law in India.
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Blog
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India’s Role in Global Cyber Policy Formulation
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by
Arindrajit Basu
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published
Nov 13, 2019
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filed under:
Cyber Security,
Internet Governance
The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues—including intermediary liability, data localization and e-commerce—the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulting in battle lines being drawn by governments, industry and civil society actors both in India and across the globe.
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Blog
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That’s the unkindest cut, Mr Sibal
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 12, 2011
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
There’s Kolaveri-di on the Internet over Kapil Sibal’s diktat to social media sites to prescreen users’ posts. That diktat goes far beyond the restrictions placed on our freedom of expression by the IT Act. But, says Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, India is not going to be silenced online.
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Internet Governance
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WIPO SCCR 24 Pre-lunch Text (July 19, 2012)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 24, 2012
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last modified
Jul 25, 2012 03:36 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
This is a rough transcript of the WIPO-SCCR discussions.
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Reading from a Distance — Data as Text
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Jul 23, 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 advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the debates around the notion of text as object, method and practice, to understand how it has changed in the digital context.
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Digital Humanities
