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Meeting on National Policy for e-Access for All
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Oct 31, 2008 — last modified Aug 26, 2011 05:13 AM — filed under: , ,
The world over, there is a move towards making the internet more accessible for persons with visual and print disabilities and for elderly persons. Many countries like the USA and UK have adopted legislation to make adherence to web accessibility standards mandatory. In India we are still relatively unaware of the importance of web accessibility. On Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 am, the Centre for Internet and Society will host a meeting at the CIS office to discuss strategies and a plan of action to launch a campaign for making web content accessibility standards mandatory in India.
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First Meeting on a National Policy for Web Accessibility
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 07, 2008 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:38 AM — filed under: , ,
The first meeting to discuss having a national policy for web accessibility to ensure universal and inclusive participation was held at the Centre for Internet and Society's office on 7 November 2008. It was aimed at formulating an action plan to work with the government and other private and public bodies to ensure conformity to accessibility standards for web sites.
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Report on the Internet Governance Forum
by Sanchia de Souza — published Dec 11, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM — filed under: ,
CIS attended the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, December 3-7, 2008.
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Blog Entry Science, Technology and Society International Conference – Some Afterthoughts
by Samuel Tettner — published Mar 14, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:22 PM — filed under: , , ,
An international conference on Science, Technology and Society was held at the Indore Christian College on March 12 and 13. It was sponsored by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal and organized by the Indore Christian College. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Coordinator from the Centre for Internet and Society attended this conference and is sharing his experience about the workshop.
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Blog Entry Digital Natives at Republica 2010
by Nishant Shah — published Apr 26, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along with an extensive abstract is now available here.
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India Game Developer Summit Bangalore 2010
by Arun Menon — published Mar 01, 2010 — last modified Mar 09, 2010 04:55 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
The India Game Developer Conference held at Nimhans Convention Centre on the 27th of February, 2010 was attended by Arun Menon who is working on The Gaming and Gold Project at The Centre for Internet and Society. The Developer forum brought together game developers from different sectors of the Game Production Cycle, with hardware manufacturers like Nvidia demonstrating their latest 3d technology and Software developers like Crytek and Adobe demonstrating the latest in developer tools for creating and editing games on multiple platforms.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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