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Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business Transformation
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 03, 2013 — last modified Jan 15, 2013 08:40 AM — filed under:
Mobile India 2013 is being held at the Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore on 9 January 2013. Sunil Abraham is speaking at this event.
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7th India Digital Summit 2013
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 15, 2013 — last modified Feb 13, 2013 06:32 AM — filed under:
This summitt organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India is being held in New Delhi from January 16 to 17, 2013 at the Lalit Hotel
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Two women arrested over Facebook gripe on Mumbai shutdown
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Jan 15, 2013 09:26 AM — filed under: , ,
A woman who complained about the Indian city of Mumbai shutting down for the funeral of divisive Hindu nationalist politician Balasaheb Thackeray was arrested for "hurting religious sentiments," local police told reporters amid public anger over the case.
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Blog Entry Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights
by Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 16, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:55 PM — filed under: , ,
These principles were developed by Privacy International and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and seek to define an international standard for the surveillance of communications. The Centre for Internet and Society has been contributing feedback to the principles.
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Social media undermining journalistic credibility?
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 06, 2013 — filed under: ,
The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
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Blog Entry Women in the IT Industry: Request for Data
by Jadine Lannon — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:52 AM — filed under:
For CIS's research on indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India, we have sent formal request for participation in a short survey to the six largest IT companies based in India. A copy of the letter of request and survey as well as some details of the request for data can be found in this post.
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Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ Hangout
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 04, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 04:14 AM — filed under: ,
Indian politicians are slowly warming up to social media.
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February 2013 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 05:35 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a great year ahead and welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say experts
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 03, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 06:45 AM — filed under: ,
Internationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
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Blog Entry An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, India
by Benson Samuel — published Mar 12, 2013 — filed under: ,
An event at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) was organized on January 23, 2013. The all star team at CIS was awesome at organizing this event for Bitcoin. Live streaming, mainstream newspaper coverage and Twitter based Q&A made this the first Bitcoin event in India that leveraged these mediums of information transfer.
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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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