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Blog Entry Privacy in India — An Early Draft
by Natasha Vaz — published Feb 29, 2012 — last modified Feb 28, 2014 05:05 AM — filed under: ,
Privacy India in partnership with Privacy International, UK, Society in Action Group, Gurgaon, and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is pleased to bring you the draft chapters of its book on privacy in India. These include the Country Report, Telecommunication and Internet Privacy, E-Governance Identity and Privacy, Finance and Privacy, Health and Privacy, Transparency and Privacy.
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Blog Entry Unique ID System: Pros and Cons
by Natasha Vaz — published Feb 29, 2012 — filed under: ,
On September 16, 2011, the Citizen’s Voluntary Initiative for the City and Centre for Advocacy and Research organized a public consultation titled “Unique ID System: Pros and Cons” in Bangalore. The consultation was on the utility and impact of the UID system in India and featured a panel discussion with T. Prabhakar, public relations officer, e-governance, Ashok Dalwai, UIDAI regional deputy director, Somashekar V.K., managing trustee of Grahak Shakti and Col. Mathew Thomas, civic activist and retired army officer.
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Digitisation is making e-learning simple
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2012 — filed under:
Though the computer literacy in India is low, some companies are effectively spreading education using digital contents riding on the Internet.
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India debates limits to freedom of expression
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2012 — filed under: ,
From Google to Facebook, from world-famous author Salman Rushdie to a little-known political cartoonist, it has become increasingly easy in recent months to offend the Indian government, and to incur the wrath of the censor or even the threat of legal action.
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Developing location-based services
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2012 — filed under:
For mapping enthusiasts, geeks and neogeographers in Bangalore, here's something to look forward to. Cartonama, a workshop that offers intensive hands-on training on tools to build and manage location data for location-based services, will be held in the city on March 2 and 3.
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Grooming the geek
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2012 — filed under:
Generation 2.0, the iPad child, is enriched by technology, and many parents are embracing it wholeheartedly. But can technology transform the way a child’s abilities develop?
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GeekUp with Erica Hagen
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2012 — last modified Feb 29, 2012 03:00 AM — filed under: , ,
HasGeek is organizing a GeekUp with Erica Hagen of the GroundTruth Initiative on 1 March 2012 at 5 p.m. Erica will speak on the theme: "From Information to Empowerment: Unpacking the Equation".
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Climate Change and Controversy Mapping
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2012 — last modified Feb 27, 2012 04:10 AM — filed under:
A three-day workshop with Professor Bruno Latour, Dean for Research at Sciences Po, Paris. The workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Devechia Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from March 19 to March 21, 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
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FUEL Kannada - Workshop on Kannada Computing Terminology
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 23, 2012 — filed under:
A two days workshop on the standardization of Kannada computing terminologies was organized on January 28th and 29th 2012 at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore under the FUEL project. This FUEL Kannada workshop aimed at the community review and standardization of frequently encountered computing terminologies in Kannada. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet aimed at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translations in Kannada language. This workshop was hosted by CIS, sponsored by Red Hat and organized by Sanchaya (sanchaya.net).
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Blog Entry All India Privacy Symposium
by Natasha Vaz — published Feb 22, 2012 — last modified Mar 01, 2012 06:16 AM — filed under: ,
Are we citizens or subjects? Experts gather in Delhi for public symposium on privacy, transparency, e-governance and national security in India.
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