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Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive Lab
- June 08, 2017
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.
Read more →Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
- May 16, 2017
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
Read more →Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!
- June 08, 2017
India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
Read more →Digital native: Snap out of outrage mode
- May 05, 2017
Rage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
Read more →Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?
- May 05, 2017
Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
Read more →Digital native: You can check out, you can never leave
- May 05, 2017
Aadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
Read more →March 2017 Newsletter
- April 04, 2017
Welcome to March 2017 newsletter of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS).
Read more →Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India
- March 28, 2017
This working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam Sengupta, and is published by the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. The field study was commissioned by the CIS, with support from the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield.
Read more →Evaluating Safety Buttons on Mobile Devices: Preview
- March 27, 2017
Much technological innovation for women is aimed at addressing violence against women. One such ubiquitous intervention is mobile device-based safety applications, also known as emergency applications. Several police departments in India, public transport services, and commercial services such as taxi-hailing apps deploy a mobile device-based “panic button” for the safety of citizens or customers, especially women. However, the proliferation of safety apps through both public and private players raises several concerns, which will be studied through this study by Rohini Lakshané of the CIS and Chinmayi S.K. of The Bachchao Project. Research assistance for this report was provided by CIS intern Harish R.S.K. Visualisations by Saumyaa Naidu.
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