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National workshop on Web Accessibility - Thiruvananthapuram (Report)
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Radha Rao
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Nov 13, 2009
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last modified
Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM
The third National Workshop on Web Accessibility for Web developers was organised by CIS at Thiruvananthapuram in collaboration with SPACE.
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Blog
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Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report
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by
Radha Rao
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Nov 11, 2009
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Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Natives
Youth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. By 2010, the global youth population is expected reach almost 1.2 billion of which 85% reside in developing countries. Unleashing the potential of even a part of this group in developing countries promises a substantially impact on societies. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and governments and could facilitate radical restructuring of the world we live in. So, it’s time we start listening to them.
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Nishant Shah
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National Conference on ICTs for the differently- abled/under privileged communities in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship 2009 - (NCIDEEE 2009)
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by
Radha Rao
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published
Oct 13, 2009
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last modified
Aug 31, 2011 10:48 AM
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Event Type,
Accessibility
A national level conference on the use of Information and Communication Technology for the differently abled / under privileged community in education, employment and entrepreneurship.
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Subject To Technology
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Nishant Shah
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last modified
Jul 06, 2009 12:06 PM
This paper is an attempt to examine the production of illegalities with reference to cyberspace, to make a symptomatic reading of new conditions within which citizenships are enacted, in the specific context of contemporary India. Looking at one incident each, of cyber-pornography and cyber-terrorism, the paper sets out to look at the State’s imagination of the digital domain, the positing of the ‘good’ cyber citizen, and the production of new relationships between the state and the subject. This essay explores the ambiguities, the dilemmas and the questions that arise when Citizens become Subjects, not only to the State but also to the technologies of the State. The paper first appeared in the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal.
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Nishant Shah
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Short note on IT Amendment Act, 2008
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jun 15, 2009
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last modified
Jun 01, 2011 02:45 PM
Pranesh Prakash of the Centre for Internet and Society wrote a short note in February 2009 on the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. This is being posted as a precursor to a more exhaustive analysis of the Act and the rules sought to be promulgated under the Act. Thus, this does not cover the regulations that have been drafted under the Act.
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Publications
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Information Technology Act
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Information Technology Act
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 15, 2009
The Information Technology Act, 2000 (amended in 2008) is the main statute that governs online behaviour in India, from e-commerce to cybercrimes, Internet surveillance, and intermediary liability. Thus, understanding that statute is of paramount interest to all Indian 'netizens'.
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Publications
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WIPO Broadcast Treaty and Webcasting
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Pranesh Prakash
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May 25, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:42 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Broadcasting,
WIPO
On Friday, 8 May 2009, at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting held a stakeholders' briefing meeting on the Broadcast Treaty that has been on the table at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The purpose of that meeting was to inform the relevant stakeholders of the developments in Geneva, as well as to garner input from them regarding the stance to be adopted by India at the WIPO. Pranesh Prakash from the Centre for Internet and Society participated and made a presentation on webcasting, highlighting the differences between webcasting and broadcasting, and arguing that webcasting should not be part of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty.
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Blogs
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Metaphors and Narratives
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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May 11, 2009
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Aug 20, 2011 10:47 PM
A course designed for Christ College, Bangalore
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Curricula & Teaching
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Courses Taught and Designed by CIS
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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Namita A. Malhotra
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May 11, 2009
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Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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histories of internet in India,
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Obscenity,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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