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Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action

Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 03, 2012 07:15 AM

At UC Santa Cruz, on Monday, March 5, 2012, Nishant Shah gave a lecture on "Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action". The lecture focused more on the India Against Corruption case-study rather than the theoretical framework to understanding revolutions.

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Consumers International Global Meeting 2012

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 03, 2012 07:54 AM

Pranesh Prakash participated in the Consumers International Global Meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on March 8 and 9, 2012. He spoke on UN Consumer Guidelines. Robin Brown, Tobias Schönwetter and Guilherme Varella were the other speakers in the session.

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India’s Big Bet on Identity

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 07, 2012 05:44 AM

The world’s largest biometric authentication system reaches its first major milestone, but lots of challenges remain, writes Joshua J. Romero in ieeespectrum. Sunil Abraham was quoted in this story which was featured in March 2012 edition.

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An Experiment in Social Engineering: The Cultural Context of an Avatar

An Experiment in Social Engineering: The Cultural Context of an Avatar

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 06, 2012 06:03 AM

Pramod K. Nayar reviews Nilofar Shamim Ansher’s essay ‘Engineering a Cyber Twin’ (Digital Alternatives with a Cause? Book One: To Be).

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International Conference on Mobile Law

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 03, 2012 08:24 AM

Pranesh Prakash spoke in the panel on Mobiles - Privacy and Social Media on March 1, 2012.

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What is Stewardship in Cyberspace?

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 29, 2012 03:19 PM

The aim of the annual Canada Centre Cyber Dialogue is to convene an influential mix of global leaders from government, civil society, academia and private enterprise to participate in a series of facilitated public plenary conversations and working groups around cyberspace security and governance.

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Secure IT 2012 — Securing Citizens through Technology

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 28, 2012 04:06 AM

The event is co-organised by DST and NSDI, Govt. of India in partnership with Elets Technomedia Pvt. Ltd. on March 1, 2012 at Claridges in New Delhi.

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Content Developers/Trainers

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 29, 2012 01:42 PM

The Centre for Internet and Society is hiring for the full-time position of a content developer/trainer to work on an upcoming project Building Knowledge and Capacity around Telecommunication Policies in India.

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Digitisation is making e-learning simple

Digitisation is making e-learning simple

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 28, 2012 10:05 AM

Though the computer literacy in India is low, some companies are effectively spreading education using digital contents riding on the Internet.

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India debates limits to freedom of expression

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 28, 2012 09:50 AM

From Google to Facebook, from world-famous author Salman Rushdie to a little-known political cartoonist, it has become increasingly easy in recent months to offend the Indian government, and to incur the wrath of the censor or even the threat of legal action.

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Developing location-based services

Developing location-based services

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 28, 2012 09:31 AM

For mapping enthusiasts, geeks and neogeographers in Bangalore, here's something to look forward to. Cartonama, a workshop that offers intensive hands-on training on tools to build and manage location data for location-based services, will be held in the city on March 2 and 3.

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Grooming the geek

Grooming the geek

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 28, 2012 09:16 AM

Generation 2.0, the iPad child, is enriched by technology, and many parents are embracing it wholeheartedly. But can technology transform the way a child’s abilities develop?

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FUEL Kannada - Workshop on Kannada Computing Terminology

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 23, 2012 10:32 AM

A two days workshop on the standardization of Kannada computing terminologies was organized on January 28th and 29th 2012 at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore under the FUEL project. This FUEL Kannada workshop aimed at the community review and standardization of frequently encountered computing terminologies in Kannada. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet aimed at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translations in Kannada language. This workshop was hosted by CIS, sponsored by Red Hat and organized by Sanchaya (sanchaya.net).

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Will open access replace costly commercial publishing models?

Will open access replace costly commercial publishing models?

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 23, 2012 09:12 AM

Cost of research journals going up while funds available are coming down, writes Vasudha Venugopal in an article published in the Hindu on February 19, 2012.

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How to Put Up a Facebook Resistance

How to Put Up a Facebook Resistance

by Oliver Leistert last modified Feb 21, 2012 08:47 AM

Review of Marc Stumpel’s essay, "Mapping the Politics of Web 2.0: Facebook Resistance", in Digital Alternatives with a Cause Book 2: To Think, pp.24-31 by Oliver Leistert.

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Research papers will be available in public domain

Research papers will be available in public domain

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 17, 2012 05:38 AM

IIT-Madras intends to make circle of knowledge complete, writes Vasudha Venugopal in this article published in the Hindu on 15 February 2012. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam is quoted in the article.

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OurSay: how India’s technology is cutting into corruption

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 17, 2012 02:40 AM

In the world’s largest democracy, corruption has long been part of the system of governance. However, transformative new technologies are playing an exciting and powerful role in citizen engagement, good governance and in the mobilisation of the masses for social action.

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India won't censor social media: Telecom Minister

India won't censor social media: Telecom Minister

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 01, 2012 07:15 AM

India does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook, a minister said Tuesday, but he demanded that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media. The article by AFP was published in the Tribune on February 14, 2012.

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Govt set to gain ‘back-door’ access to corporate email

Govt set to gain ‘back-door’ access to corporate email

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 14, 2012 12:55 PM

The government is just a step away from gaining access to RIM’s widely used BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, writes Shauvik Ghosh in an article published in LiveMint on 14 February 2012.

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Indian law caught in web

Indian law caught in web

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 14, 2012 05:41 AM

Can Information Technology Act deal with the dynamics of the Net? Lawrence Liang, Pranesh Prakash and Nishant Shah have been quoted in this article by Moyna which was published in Down to Earth magazine Issue: February 15, 2012.

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