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Comments on the RBI's Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer Lending: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jun 01, 2016 — last modified Jun 01, 2016 08:21 PM — filed under: Privacy, Reserve Bank of India, Data Protection, Research, Network Economies, P2P Lending, Researchers at Work
The Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer Lending on April 28, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following response, authored by Elonnai Hickok, Pavishka Mittal, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Vidushi Marda, and Vipul Kharbanda.
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Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and Privacy: by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon and Pallavi Bedi — published Oct 24, 2019 — last modified Dec 30, 2019 05:40 PM — filed under: Privacy, Gender, Internet Governance, Research, Gender, Welfare, and Privacy, Researchers at Work
This submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics’. It was prepared by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, and Pallavi Bedi in response to a report of consultation by a thematic taskforce established by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy on ‘Privacy and Personality’ (hereafter, HRC Gender Report).
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Consultation on 'Digital Futures of Indian Languages': by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Dec 02, 2015 — last modified Jan 15, 2016 06:10 AM — filed under: Language, CDIF, Learning, Indic Computing, Researchers at Work, Event
A consultation on 'digital futures of Indian languages' will be held at the CIS office in Bangalore on December 12, 2015, to generate ideas and structure the Indian languages focus area of the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF). It is being led by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), and Tanveer Hasan, A2K programme at CIS; and is supported by CDIF.
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Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 01, 2014 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:39 AM — filed under: RAW Events, Digital Knowledge, Research, Figures of Learning, Researchers at Work, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes you to a consultation on new figures of learning in the digital context at its office in Bangalore on September 22, 2014 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - Report: by Sneha PP — published Sep 30, 2014 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:37 AM — filed under: Research, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge, Figures of Learning
The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on September 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
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Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive Lab: by Prasad Krishna — published May 20, 2017 — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:07 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work
A meeting for a digital archive lab was held at the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University in New Delhi on May 20, 2017. P.P. Sneha participated in the meeting.
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig Work: by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — published Apr 30, 2020 — last modified May 13, 2020 08:53 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Gig Work, Digital Labour, Covid19, Research, Platform-Work, Future of Work, Featured, Network Economies, Homepage
Tandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the lockdown. Based on the discussion, the participants of the webinar have drafted a set of recommendations for government agencies and platform companies to safeguard workers’ well being. Here are excerpts from this charter of recommendation shared with multiple central and state government agencies and platforms companies.
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Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN): by Denisse Albornoz — published Jan 20, 2014 — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Making Change, Web Politics
This post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
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Creativity, Politics, and Internet Censorship: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Jun 16, 2016 — last modified Jun 17, 2016 07:07 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Practice, Art, Censorship
In collaboration with Karnataka for Kashmir, we organised a discussion on 'Creativity, Politics and Internet Censorship' on May 25, 2016. Mahum Shabir, a legal activist and artist, Mir Suhail, political cartoonist with Kashmir Reader and Rising Kashmir, and Habeel Iqbal, a lawyer who has worked with several justice groups in Kashmir, shared some of their work and experiences. This discussion was organised as part of Port of Kashmir 2016, a series of events bringing together a small collective of people using different modes of art and activism to address crucial challenges to free speech and democracy in the state.
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CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 16, 2015 — last modified May 14, 2018 07:25 AM — filed under: CDIF, Researchers at Work, Learning
The CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) has been set up by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The Fund’s priorities have been shaped by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Sitharamam Kakarala, S.V. Srinivas, and Tejaswini Niranjana; and it is administered by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS.
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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 | Permalink

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 | Permalink

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 | Permalink

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