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                                       Open Government Data Study Open Government Data Study
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      CIS produced a report on the state of open government data in India, looking at policy, infrastructure, and particular case studies, as well as emerging concerns, future strategies and recommendations.  The report is authored by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham, and Nishant Shah. We are grateful to the Transparency and Accountability Initiative for providing generous funding for this report. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Know your Users, Match their Needs! Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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                                              Rebecca Schild
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Accessibility of Government Websites in India: A Report Accessibility of Government Websites in India: A Report
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                                              Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the publication of a report on the accessibility of government websites in India. The report is published in cooperation with the Hans Foundation. Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal are the authors.  Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Pervasive Technologies: Patent Pools Pervasive Technologies: Patent Pools
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      In this research paper, Nehaa Chaudhari gives an analysis of patent pools. She discusses the working of a patent pool, study patent pool in other areas of technology, and patenting in telecom and related technology. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Unlicensed Spectrum Policy Brief for Government of India Unlicensed Spectrum Policy Brief for Government of India
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                                              Satya N Gupta, Sunil Abraham and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      Centre for Internet & Society and the Ford Foundation are delighted to bring you the Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India. The policy brief authored by Satya N Gupta, Sunil Abraham and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan contains an Executive Summary and eight chapters. The research aims to recommend unlicensed spectrum policy to the Government of India based on recent developments in wireless technology, community needs and international best practices. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                      The Last Cultural Mile
                                    
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                                      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
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Re:Wiring Bodies Re:Wiring Bodies
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                                              Asha Achuthan
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      Asha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to the neo-liberal perspective based knowledge produced by feminists like Martha Nussbaum; Asha’s research offers a unique entry point into cyberculture studies through a feminist epistemology of science and technology. The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Intellectual Property Rights — Open Access for Researchers Intellectual Property Rights — Open Access for Researchers
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      In the year 2013, Nehaa Chaudhari had worked on a module on Intellectual Property Rights for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Open Access Curriculum (Curriculum for Researchers) as part of a project for the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia. UNESCO published the module this year. Nehaa Chaudhari and Varun Baliga were among the Module preparation team. Nehaa Chaudhari was the writer for Units 1, 2 and 3: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Alternative to a Strict Copyright Regime. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
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                                              Nishant Shah
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around developing and building an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies thought process. Hosted by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society along with the Consortium of universities and research centres that constitute it, the Summer School is committed to bringing together a wide discourse that spans geography, disciplines, political affiliations and cultural practices for and from researchers who are interested in developing Inter-Asia as a mode of developing local, contextual and relevant knowledge practices.  Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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                                       Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities
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                                              Pratyush Shankar
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      The monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of Internet technologies. Going beyond the regular debates on the modern urban, the monograph deploys a team of students from the field of architecture and urban design to investigate how city spaces – the material as well as the experiential – are changing under the rubric of digital globalisation. Placing his inquiry in the built form, Shankar manoeuvres discourse from architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to look at the notions of cyber-publics, digital spaces, and planning policy in India. The findings show that the relationship between cities and cyberspaces need to be seen as located in a dynamic set of negotiations and not as a mere infrastructure question. It dismantles the presumptions that have informed public and city planning in the country by producing alternative futures of users’ interaction and mapping of the emerging city spaces. Located in
                                          
                                          
                                              
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