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Wikimedia Education SAARC conference: by Admin — published Apr 25, 2019 — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:30 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Event, Access to Knowledge
Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open from today, 25 April 2019. Deadline for applying for scholarship is 20 May 2019. The conference organized by Christ University in association with CIS-A2K will be held from 20 - 22 June 2019 at Christ University in Bengaluru. The event is being co-organized by Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia & Education User Group.
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Reconceptualizing Privacy on Social Network(s) Sites: by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Cybercultures
While “privacy” on social network sites remains a highly ambiguous notion, much debate surrounding the issue to date has focused on privacy as the nonpublic-ness of personal information. However, as these social platforms become sites for diverse forms of “networking”, privacy must also be popularly conceptualized as control over personal data flows.
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Privacy and Surveillance in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 13, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham, Executive Director from the Centre for Internet and Society will give a talk on privacy and surveillance in India at this event organised by the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia on September 18, 2013. The talk will be held at Network Governance Lab, CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi at 11.30 a.m.
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Bengali eSpeak Aids in Disaster Management: by Anirudh Sridhar — published Oct 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 07, 2013 09:21 AM — filed under: Accessibility
Software developed on the eSpeak was deployed in Bangladesh and helped its citizens for disaster management.
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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Aug 03, 2016 02:00 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Open Source, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
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Programme Officer - Digital Identity: by Amber Sinha — published Mar 29, 2019 — filed under: Jobs, Digital ID
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to be associated with a two year long research project on digital identity. We may hire up to three Programme Officers as part of this project. The position is full time and will be based in the Delhi office of CIS.
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"Privacy matters": by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 27, 2011 — last modified Apr 04, 2011 07:20 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Privacy India invites individuals to attend the second "Privacy matters" conference, a one-day event on the 5th February 2011 at the TERI Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore. Privacy India, Society in Action Group, and the Centre for Internet & Society have joined hands to organize the event.
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January 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter (January) for the year 2014:
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August 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 04, 2014 06:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, CISRAW
Eighth issue of the newsletter (August 2014) below:
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Digital Knowledge: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 16, 2019 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 06:31 AM
In this cluster, we study the digital conditions of production, circulation, consumption, appropriation, storage, and re-usage of various forms of knowledge in India. It brings together our interests in digital literacy, education and pedagogy; technological infrastructures and devices of digital learning; open access, open educational resources, open data, and open knowledge practices in general and their ecosystems; Internet and the emerging authorities, modes, and platforms of knowledge and education; computational methods in arts, humanities, social science, and natural science research; and software and hardware innovations towards knowledge infrastructures and practices.
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