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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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Institute on Internet and Society: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 19, 2013 — last modified Feb 16, 2014 03:00 AM — filed under: Internet Studies, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore is pleased to announce the second "Institute on Internet and Society" to be held in Yashada, Pune from February 11 to 17, 2014.
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Institute on Internet and Society: by Prasad Krishna — published May 29, 2013 — last modified Nov 20, 2013 05:52 AM — filed under: Internet Studies, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is pleased to announce the Institute for Internet and Society to be held in Bangalore from June 8 to June 14, 2013 at the Golden Palms Resort, Bangalore.
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International Telecommunication Union: by Snehashish Ghosha and Anirudh Sridhar — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 06, 2013 03:58 AM — filed under: Internet Studies
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is an intergovernmental organization which coordinates between governments and private sector bodies with respect to global telecommunication and information communication technology (ICT) services.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): by Snehashish Ghosh and Anirudh Sridhar — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Dec 03, 2013 05:44 AM — filed under: Internet Studies
Snehashish Ghosh and Anirudh Sridhar introduces you to ICANN, its history, structure, and advisory mechanisms.
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Internet Engineering Task Force: by Anirudh Sridhar — published Nov 30, 2013 — last modified Dec 01, 2013 02:34 AM — filed under: Internet Studies
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards body with no requirements for membership and does not have a formal membership process either.
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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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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected Sessions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 20, 2017 — last modified Jan 20, 2017 01:28 PM — filed under: IRC17, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, Researchers at Work
With great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 16, 2016 — last modified Dec 12, 2016 01:37 PM — filed under: Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, Researchers at Work, Featured, Learning, IRC17, Homepage
We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).
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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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