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India's untapped potential: Are a billion people losing out because of spectrum?
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Mar 29, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:31 AM
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filed under:
Telecom,
Featured
As one of the world’s fastest growing economies and with over 65% of its billion-plus population under 35, India has huge potential. But according to Shyam Ponappa of the Centre for Internet & Society, its spectrum management – the electromagnetic waves that are used from home appliances like microwaves and remote controls, to radios, cell phones, and of course, the internet – could be a huge barrier to the country’s economic and social development.
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Blog
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Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics (September 2012 – April 2013)
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by
T.Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 30, 2013
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last modified
Aug 23, 2013 01:48 AM
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filed under:
Statistics,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
The Access to Knowledge team carried out a quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from September 2012 to April 2013.
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Blogs
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Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
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by
Zeenab Aneez
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published
Dec 09, 2016
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last modified
Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM
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filed under:
Digital News,
RAW Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Research,
Digital Media,
Featured,
Publications,
Homepage
This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The report comes out of a collaboration between the CIS and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and was supported by the latter. The research was undertaken by Zeenab Aneez, with contributions from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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RAW
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Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012
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by
Shiju Alex
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Feb 03, 2013 02:40 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Featured,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.
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Blog
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 26, 2013
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last modified
Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
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Openness
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Blog
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 22, 2013 01:37 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen
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by
Jayanta Nath
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published
Apr 10, 2019
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last modified
Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Featured,
Wiki-librarian speak,
Wikisource
There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.
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Infrastructure as Digital Politics: Media Practices and the Assam NRC Citizen Identification Project (Draft Paper)
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by
Khetrimayum Monish Singh
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published
May 15, 2018
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last modified
May 15, 2018 03:35 PM
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filed under:
National Population Register,
Infrastructure Studies,
Citizenship,
NRC in Assam,
Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
E-Governance
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam focuses on updating the list of Indian citizens in the state. A highly sensitive, controversial and massive exercise, the government has had several strategies to manage this project. One of the ways has been in which the government has engaged with and positioned itself, vis-a-vis the media, specifically through Facebook and Twitter, and on its own official website. This paper by Khetrimayum Monish Singh and Nazifa Ahmed is a discourse analysis of media content and user opinions on Facebook, and media responses on the NRC official website. These reflect bureaucratic practices of efficiency, transparency, trust and anxiety management; user feedback, confusion, political concerns and opinions help in accounting for and navigating through the system, and contribute to building up the NRC as an information infrastructure. We focus on how these two processes through media practices co-produce 'the sociotechnical building and maintenance' (Star and Bowker, 1999; Star and Ruhleder, 1996) of the NRC as an information infrastructure.
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Mar 07, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Wikimedia,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
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Institute on Internet & Society: Event Report
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by
Srividya Vaidyanathan
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published
Jul 30, 2013
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last modified
Oct 15, 2013 06:48 AM
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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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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
