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The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 14, 2010 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Histories of Internet, Internet Studies
Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Selected Sessions: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Apr 25, 2022 — last modified Apr 26, 2022 07:00 AM — filed under: IRC22, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, Researchers at Work
Here is the list of selected sessions and individual presentations for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC22) - #Home. IRC22 will be held online from May 25-27, 2022. The conference announcement, along with details on registration will be published in the first week of May.
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Institute on Internet & Society: Event Report: by Srividya Vaidyanathan — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 15, 2013 06:48 AM — filed under: Video, Internet Studies, Featured, Homepage
The Institute on Internet and Society organized by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) with grant supported by the Ford Foundation took place from June 8 to 14, 2013 at the Golden Palms Resort in Bangalore.
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Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 15, 2014 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Featured, Internet Studies, Research
As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often asked: “Are you going to start a new research centre?” And the answer, for the most part, is “No.”
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22): #Home, May 25-27: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published May 24, 2022 — last modified May 24, 2022 02:38 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Researcher's Conference, Featured, IRC22, Homepage, Internet Studies
We are excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference will be held online on May 25-27, 2022.This annual conference series was initiated by the researchers@work (r@w) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers and practitioners engaging with the internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. This year, the conference brings together a set of reflections and conversations on how we imagine and experience the home —as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour and movement-building.
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Internet Governance Forum: by Anirudh Sridhar — published Dec 03, 2013 — filed under: Internet Studies
Anirudh Sridhar provides an analysis of the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), its structure, and the importance of IGF in this unit.
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Call for Essays — #List: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Jul 12, 2019 — last modified Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, List, RAW Blog, Research, Featured, Call for Essays, Internet Studies
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa Institute: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Feb 07, 2018 — last modified Jul 02, 2018 06:30 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Studies, Event, Internet Researcher's Conference
We are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated by the Researchers@Work (RAW) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The *offline* is the theme of the 2018 edition of the conference (IRC18), and the conference agenda will be shaped by nine sessions selected by all the teams that submitted session proposals, and an independent paper track consisting of six presentations.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published May 20, 2016 — last modified Jul 04, 2016 12:48 PM — filed under: Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Featured, Notices, Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – though no longer in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore how do we study internet in India today.
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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected Abstracts: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jul 05, 2016 — last modified Jul 06, 2016 06:24 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Featured, Internet Studies, RAW Blog
We received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
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