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Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass Education
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 25, 2016
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filed under:
Aakash,
Research,
Education Technology,
Internet Histories,
Researchers at Work
The low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the government prioritise familiarity and literacy about personal technological devices over the promise of quality mass education generated by low-cost devices? This article by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Jahnavi Phalkey (India Institute, King's College London) was published by EPW in the Web Exclusive section. Here is the unabridged version of the article.
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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Aug 07, 2019
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last modified
Aug 07, 2019 12:29 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages,
Featured,
State of the Internet's Languages,
Digital Humanities,
Homepage
Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making the internet multilingual. We also hope to offer some possibilities for doing more to create the multilingual internet we want. This research needs the experiences and expertise of people who think about these issues of language online from different perspectives. Read the Call here and share your submission by September 2, 2019.
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Call for Essays — #List
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jul 12, 2019
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last modified
Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM
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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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Call for participation: Conference @ Bangalore - 'WikiWars'
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 10, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:43 PM
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Research
Call for Participation: Conferences and Reader on critical insights and experiences on the Wikipedia
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Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field Studies
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 28, 2016
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last modified
Apr 28, 2016 07:28 AM
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Big Data,
Data Systems,
Big Data for Development,
Research,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to undertake a brief initial study of a specific instance of use of big data for development in India. This is an exercise to build preliminary understanding of the landscape of big data for development in India, identify key research questions and priorities, and start developing connections with researchers interested in the field. The studies will be 6 weeks long - running from May to June 2016 - and the researchers are expected to produce a 3,000 words long report. We will support three field studies.
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Can data ever know who we really are?
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 22, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 05:02 AM
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filed under:
Bodies of Evidence,
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Researchers at Work,
Research,
Publications,
BD4D,
Big Data for Development
This is an excerpt from an essay by Zara Rahman, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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CEPT to Set up Centre to Research Role of Internet in Social Development
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 20, 2011
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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filed under:
Research
Nishant Shah, Director (Research) at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore who will assist the centre, said: "No one predicted the outcome of the Arab Spring, because everyone was looking at the way Internet was being used globally, not at the local level. We had the pink chaddi campaign, the anti-corruption calls of the Hazare camp, and those against sexual violence in New Delhi, but they were largely ad-hoc and temporary, and disappeared."
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Children's Forum on the Internet and New Media
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by
Radha Rao
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published
Aug 21, 2009
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last modified
Apr 05, 2011 04:34 AM
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Research
CIS, in association with Ranga Shankara and IT for Change, is conducting a workshop designed to give Voice to children's perspectives on the Internet and New Media
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CIS featured in the Report on Research and Funding Landscape within the Arts and Humanities in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 13, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 11:27 AM
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Research
Centre for Internet and Society has been listed as an area of excellence and innovative research in this report.
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CIS – Internet is neither good nor bad
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 05, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 12:09 PM
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filed under:
Research
This post is also available in: French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)
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