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Digital Native: How free is the internet?: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 18, 2019 — last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 26, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.
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Big Data and Reproductive Health in India: A Case Study of the Mother and Child Tracking System: by Ambika Tandon — published Oct 17, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:57 AM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Reproductive and Child Health, Research, Featured, Publications, BD4D, Healthcare, Big Data for Development
In this case study undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development (BD4D) network, Ambika Tandon evaluates the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) as data-driven initiative in reproductive health at the national level in India. The study also assesses the potential of MCTS to contribute towards the big data landscape on reproductive health in the country, as the Indian state’s imagination of health informatics moves towards big data.
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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems: by Ambika Tandon — published Oct 18, 2019 — last modified Dec 30, 2019 05:18 PM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Privacy, Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Research, BD4D, Healthcare, Big Data for Development
Reproductive health programmes in India have been digitising extensive data about pregnant women for over a decade, as part of multiple health information systems. These can be seen as precursors to current conceptions of big data systems within health informatics. In this article, published by Privacy International, Ambika Tandon presents some findings from a recently concluded case study of the MCTS as an example of public data-driven initiatives in reproductive health in India.
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages 2019 - From Conversations to Actions: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Oct 21, 2019 — last modified Nov 01, 2019 05:53 PM — 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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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Aug 07, 2019 — last modified Aug 07, 2019 12:29 PM — 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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State of the Internet's Languages 2020: Announcing selected contributions!: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Nov 01, 2019 — last modified Nov 01, 2019 06:12 PM — filed under: Language, Digital Knowledge, Research, Featured, State of the Internet's Languages, Digital Humanities, Researchers at Work, Decolonizing the Internet's Languages
In response to our call for contributions and reflections on ‘Decolonising the Internet’s Languages’ in August, we are delighted to announce that we received 50 submissions, in over 38 languages! We are so overwhelmed and grateful for the interest and support of our many communities around the world; it demonstrates how critical this effort is for all of us. From all these extraordinary offerings, we have selected nine that we will invite and support the contributors to expand further.
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 04, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
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January 2019 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2019 — last modified Mar 03, 2019 04:34 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
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Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 01, 2019 — last modified Apr 01, 2019 08:00 AM — filed under: Practice, Art, RAW Events, Digital Labour, Researchers at Work, Event
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
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