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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 9) - Saikat Datta: by Purba Sarkar — published Aug 05, 2013 — filed under: Cybersecurity, Cyberspace, Cybercultures, Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Saikat Datta, Resident Editor of DNA, Delhi, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 13) - Pranesh Prakash: by Purba Sarkar — published Dec 31, 2013 — last modified Jan 20, 2014 06:20 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Cyber Security Film, Cybercultures, Cyber Security, Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Pranesh Prakash, lawyer and policy director with Centre for Internet and Society, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Located in Internet Governance
Collaborative Projects Programme: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:04 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Family, Digital Natives, Public Accountability, Obscenity, e-governance, Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Projects, New Pedagogies, Communities, Digital subjectivities, Digital Pluralism
Located in Research
Colour Me Political: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 09, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Youth, Social Networking
What are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are they using their popular social networking sites and web 2.0 applications for merely entertainment? Or are these tools actually helping them to re-articulate the realm of the political? Nishant Shah looks at the recent Facebook Colour Meme to see how new forms of political participation and engagement are being initiated by young people across the world.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Cyber Policy 2.0: by Admin — published Aug 19, 2019 — filed under: Cyber Security, Internet Governance, Cyberspace
National Law University organized an executive education program in Bangalore on August 17, 2019. Arindrajit Basu was a speaker. He spoke on Deconstructing the India regulatory approach to data governance and cyber security.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
DesiSec: Episode 1 - Film Release and Screening: by Purba Sarkar — published Nov 28, 2013 — last modified Dec 17, 2013 08:13 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Surveillance, Cyber Security Film, Cyber Security, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society is pleased to to announce the release of the first documentary film on cybersecurity in India - DesiSec. We hope you can join us for a special screening of the first episode of DesiSec, on 11th December, at CIS!
Located in Internet Governance
Emerging Bit Torrent Trends in India: by Siddharth Chadha — published Jun 15, 2009 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:44 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, internet and society, Piracy, Intellectual Property Rights, cybercultures, cyberspaces
Internet has been a revelation ever since its introduction. The writer in this blog examines how the progress made by Internet based technologies could never be reversed.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
First Thing First: by Maesy Angelina — published Oct 27, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Activism, Eve teasing, Digital Natives, Street sexual harassment, Youth, Beyond the Digital, movements
Studies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series reverses this trend and explores how the Blank Noise Project articulates the issue it addresses: street sexual harassment.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 31, 2008 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Natives, Public Accountability, Cybercultures, Communities, Digital subjectivities, Digital Pluralism
Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 13, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM — filed under: histories of internet in India, Social media, Digital Activism, Cyberspace, Access to Medicine, internet and society, Research, Cybercultures
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Revolution 2.0?

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