Centre for Internet & Society

Search results

RSS Subscribe to an always-updated RSS feed.

268 items matching your search terms.
Filter the results.
Item type



















New items since



Sort by relevance · date (newest first) · alphabetically
Blog Entry Digital Natives with a Cause? —Workshop in Santiago — an Afterthought
by Samuel Tettner — published Feb 13, 2011 — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:16 AM — filed under: , ,
The Digital Natives had their third and final workshop in Santiago, Chile from 8 to 10 February 2011. Once again CIS and Hivos joined hands to organise the event. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Coordinator from CIS narrates his experiences from the workshop in this blog post.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Blog Entry Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 03, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:34 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Blog Entry Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQs
by Samuel Tettner — published Oct 11, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Digital Natives Workshop in South Africa - Call for Participation
by Samuel Tettner — published Sep 27, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM — filed under: , ,
The African Commons Project, Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have joined hands for organising the second international workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" in Johannesburg from 07 to 09 November 2010. Send in your applications now!
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Digital Natives Workshop in Taipei: Only a Few Seats Left!!!
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 25, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:29 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the Frontier Foundation is holding a three day Digital Natives workshop in Taipei from 16 to 18 August, 2010. The three day workshop will serve as an ideal platform for the young users of technology to share their knowledge and experience of the digital and Internet world and help them learn from each other’s individual experiences.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
DIT's Response to RTI on Website Blocking
by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 07, 2011 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:13 AM — filed under: , , ,
For the first time in India, we have a list of websites that are blocked by order of the Indian government. This data was received from the Department of Information Technology in response to an RTI that CIS filed. Pranesh Prakash of CIS analyzes the implications of these blocks, as well as the shortcomings of the DIT's response.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities (Russian Version)
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2011 — last modified Apr 26, 2012 10:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
The e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities is based upon the online ITU-G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities (www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org) which was released in February 2010. This is the Russian translation of the same.
Located in Accessibility
Blog Entry Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India: Opportunities for Advocacy in Intellectual Property
by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda — published Apr 23, 2017 — filed under: , , ,
Centre for Internet & Society worked on a three part case study. The first case study on digital protection of traditional knowledge was published by GIS Watch in December 2016. The other two case studies along with the synthesis overview has also been published.
Located in Openness
Blog Entry Enabling Access to Education through ICT - A Conference in Delhi
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 03, 2010 — last modified Feb 04, 2013 09:24 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment and the Deafway Foundation is organizing an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event is sponsored by Hans Foundation.
Located in Accessibility / Blog
Blog Entry Enabling Elections
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 24, 2014 — last modified May 10, 2014 12:12 AM — filed under: , ,
For making the 2014 General Elections in India participatory and accessible for voters with disabilities the Centre for Law and Policy Research and the Centre for Internet and Society have come up with a report. The report addresses the barriers that people with disabilities face during elections and recommends solutions for the same.
Located in Accessibility / Blog
« Previous 10 items Next 10 items » 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 … 27
Blogs
Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education

Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 07, 2011 03:35 AM |
Filed under: Featured, Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning Summit

The summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Nov 28, 2011 08:50 AM |
Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
Learn it Yourself

The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.

Posted by Nishant Shah at Dec 02, 2011 01:55 AM |
Filed under: Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
 |  More…

Funded by

 

Offices

Bengaluru: #32, 1st Floor, 2nd Block, Austin Town, Viveka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560047.

 

null

 

Support Us

Please help us defend citizen and user rights on the Internet!

You may donate online via Instamojo. Or, write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at #32, 1st Floor, 2nd Block, Austin Town, Viveka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560047. These charitable contributions will be towards the Institutional Corpus Fund of the Centre for Internet and Society.

Follow our Works

Newsletter: Subscribe

researchers@work blog: medium.com/rawblog

Twitter (CIS): @cis_india

Twitter (CIS-A2K): @cisa2k

Instagram: @cis.india

Youtube: Centre for Internet and Society

Request for Collaboration

We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to us at communications[at]cis-india[dot]org with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in.

In general, we offer financial support for collaborative/invited works only through public calls.

About Us

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and regulatory practices around internet, technology, and society in India, and elsewhere.

© Centre for Internet & Society

Unless otherwise specified, content licensed under Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported.