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Announcing Silicon Plateau #01
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 03:00 PM
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Silicon Plateau,
Practice,
Researchers at Work
We are very pleased to announce that the RAW programme is supporting a new collaborative publishing project led by T.A.J. Residency / SKE Projects and or-bits.com. The first volume of the series titled 'Silicon Plateau' will feature contributions by a group of artists, researchers, and writers, including IOCOSE, Tara Kelton, Anil Menon, Sunita Prasad, Achal Prabhala and Sreshta Rit Premnath, along with contextual writing and documentation material. Here is an excerpt from the editorial note written by Marialaura Ghidini, the co-editor of the volume.
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March 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
May 12, 2015 01:36 AM
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Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
Newsletter for the month of March.
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Newsletters
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Feb 27, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Research,
Blank Noise Project,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work
This post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Nov 30, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AM
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Social Media,
Web Politics,
Digital Natives,
Making Change,
Blank Noise Project,
Researchers at Work
Jasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
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Making Change
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM on Transfer Pricing, 2014-2016
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by
Pavishka Mittal
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published
Jul 29, 2016
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last modified
Jul 29, 2016 08:39 AM
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Transfer Pricing Policy,
NASSCOM,
Network Economies,
Industrial Policy,
Researchers at Work
This is the final part of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This post aims to explain the law of transfer pricing in India, and the suggestions made by NASSCOM regarding the same. Transfer pricing is regarded as one of the most controversial operations of multinationals resulting in tax avoidance and arbitrage.
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101 Ways of Starting an ISP:* No. 53 - Conversation, Content and Weird Fiction
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by
Surfatial
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published
Aug 03, 2016
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filed under:
Anonymity,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work
This essay by Surfatial is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. It argues that the internet has created a space for philosophical questioning among contemporary Indian participants which can develop further, despite common assertions that online spaces are largely uncivil and abusive. It actively explores how anonymous and pseudonymous content production may offer a method for exploring and expressing the internet in India, with a certain degree of freedom, and how spam-like methods may prove effective in puncturing filter bubbles.
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 07, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM
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Digital Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Social Media
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
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The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in India
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by
Abhimanyu Roy
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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last modified
Aug 30, 2016 10:52 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
This essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and Shaadi.com. The gravity of the impact that such web-based services have on the lives of users is substantially greater than most other everyday web-enabled transactions, such as an Uber ride or a Foodpanda order. From outright fraud to online harassment, newspaper back pages are filled with nightmare stories that begin on a matrimonial website. So much so that the Indian government has set up a panel to regulate matrimonial sites. The essay analyses the role of matrimonial websites in modern day India, and the challenges this awkward amalgamation of the internet and love gives rise to.
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Report on Understanding Aadhaar and its New Challenges
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by
Japreet Grewal, Vanya Rakesh, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Elonnai Hickock
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published
Aug 31, 2016
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last modified
Mar 16, 2019 04:42 AM
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Big Data,
Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Aadhaar,
Welfare Governance,
Biometrics,
Big Data for Development,
UID
The Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University collaborated with the Centre for Internet and Society, and other individuals and organisations to organise a two day workshop on “Understanding Aadhaar and its New Challenges” at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU on May 26 and 27, 2016. The objective of the workshop was to bring together experts from various fields, who have been rigorously following the developments in the Unique Identification (UID) Project and align their perspectives and develop a shared understanding of the status of the UID Project and its impact. Through this exercise, it was also sought to develop a plan of action to address the welfare exclusion issues that have arisen due to implementation of the UID Project.
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Blog
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IIRC: Reflections on IRC16
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 06, 2016
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last modified
Sep 06, 2016 09:28 AM
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IRC16,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Researcher's Conference
The first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series was held on February 26-28, 2016. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digitial Innovation Fund. Here we share our reflections on the Conference, albeit rather delayed, and lessons towards the next edition to be held in March 2017.
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