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Engaging on the Digital Commons: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 12:56 PM — filed under: Digital Access, Openness, Commons, Digital Governance
We at the Centre for Internet and Society are very glad to be able to participate in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Our interest in the conference arises mainly from our work in the areas of intellectual property rights reform and promotion of different forms of ‘opennesses’ that have cropped up as a response to perceived problems with our present-day regime of intellectual property rights, including open content, open standards, free and open source software, open government data, open access to scholarly research and data, open access to law, etc., our emerging work on telecom policy with respect to open/shared spectrum, and the very important questions around Internet governance. The article by Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash was published in the journal Common Voices, Issue 4.
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Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 21, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: Digital Governance, Open Data, Public Accountability, Openness, e-governance
The Transparency & Accountability Initiative has published a book called “Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector”. We at the Centre for Internet & Society contributed the section on Open Government Data.
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Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 30, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:33 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Digital Governance, Digital Access, Open Data, Open Content, Open Access, Openness, Open Innovation
On May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.
Located in Openness / Blog
The Last Cultural Mile: by kaeru — published Dec 09, 2011 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:59 AM — filed under: Digital Governance, Internet Histories, Histories of Internet, Researchers at Work, Publications
Ashish’s monograph follows the career of a priori contradiction, one that only mandates a state mechanism to perform an act of delivery, and then disqualifies the state from performing that very act effectively. This contradiction which he names as the Last Mile problem is a conceptual hurdle, not a physical one and when put one way, the Last Mile is unbridgeable, when put another, it is being bridged all the time.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / The Last Cultural Mile
Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 15, 2010 — last modified Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM — filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, Digital Governance, Digital Natives, Agency, Youth, Featured, Cybercultures, New Pedagogies, Digital subjectivities, ICT
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / Digital Natives With a Cause?
UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures (Bangalore, August 27): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Aug 22, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 01:25 PM — filed under: Exclusion, Digital Governance, Privacy, Internet Governance, Digital India, Aadhaar, Welfare Governance, UID
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a one day workshop, on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services. We look forward to making this a forum for knowledge exchange and a learning opportunity for our friends and colleagues.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Beyond Scale: How to make your digital development program sustainable: by Admin — published Feb 26, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance, Digital Governance
A dissemination workshop was organized by BBC Media Action, with support from the Digital Impact Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on February 21, 2018 in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham participated in the workshop.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 02, 2009 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:54 AM — filed under: Histories of Internet, Researchers at Work, Internet Histories, Digital Governance
This research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. The term itself comes from communication theory, with in turn an ancestry in social anthropology, and concerns itself with (1) identifying the eventual recipient/beneficiary of any communication message, (2) discovering new ways by which messages can be delivered intact, i.e. without either distortion of decay. Exploring the intersection of government policy, technology intervention and the users' expectations, with a specific focus on Internet Technologies and their space in the good governance protocols in India, the project aims at revisiting the last mile problem as one of cultural practices and political contexts in India.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / The Last Cultural Mile
A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 10, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM — filed under: ICT4D, Digital Governance, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities
In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / The Last Cultural Mile
Letter to ICANN on NCSG: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 28, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM — filed under: Public Accountability, Digital Pluralism, Digital Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society sent the following mail to ICANN regarding their attempt to impose their own charter for a Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), instead of accepting the one drafted by the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC).
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