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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Feb 14, 2019
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last modified
Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Research,
BD4D,
Healthcare,
Surveillance,
Big Data for Development
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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RAW
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Datafication of the Public Distribution System in India
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by
Sameet Panda
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Aug 09, 2022 08:07 AM
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
In this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of datafication claim that the benefits will reach the right person and curb leakages through the automation and digitisation of all PDS processes. Aadhaar is the most important link in the datafication; supporters claim that it makes technology people-centric. This study looks at the status of PDS datafication and its impact on the delivery of the scheme in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. We also try to understand to what extent the stated objective of portability has been met and how far the challenges faced by the rights holders of the PDS have been resolved.
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RAW
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December 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2014
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last modified
Jan 12, 2015 04:56 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a very happy new year and welcomes you to the twelfth issue of the newsletter (December 2014).
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About Us
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Newsletters
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December 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2015
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last modified
Jan 13, 2016 02:07 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of December 2015 is below.
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Newsletters
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December 2016 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2016
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last modified
Jan 28, 2017 12:02 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the December 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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About Us
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Newsletters
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December 2017 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2017
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last modified
Mar 17, 2018 11:12 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
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Newsletters
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December 2018 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2018
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last modified
Jan 08, 2019 04:15 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the twelfth issue of its newsletter (December) for the year 2018:
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Newsletters
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages 2019 - From Conversations to Actions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 21, 2019
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last modified
Nov 01, 2019 05:53 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages,
Research,
Digital Knowledge,
Researchers at Work
Whose Knowledge? is organising the Decolonizing the Internet's Languages 2019 gathering in London on October 23-24 — with a specific focus on building an agenda for action to decolonize the internet’s languages. Puthiya Purayil Sneha is participating in this meeting with scholars, linguists, archivists, technologists and community activists, to share the initial findings towards the State of the Internet’s Language Report (to be published in 2020) being developed by Whose Knowledge?, Oxford Internet Institute, and the CIS.
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RAW
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Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 24, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Book Review,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
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Digital Natives
