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Kiran A B, Elonnai Hickok, and Vanya Rakesh - Policies and Standards across Five International Smart Cities
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jun 10, 2016 04:36 PM
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by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jun 10, 2016 04:34 PM
Comments on the RBI's Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer Lending
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 ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jun 01, 2016 08:21 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Comments on the National Geospatial Policy (Draft, V.1.0), 2016
The Department of Science and Technology published the first public draft of the National Geospatial Policy (v.1.0) on May 05, 2016, and invited comments from ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jun 30, 2016 09:40 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Understanding Aadhaar and its New Challenges, May 26-27, 2016
A workshop on “Understanding Aadhaar and its New Challenges” is being organised by the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified May 26, 2016 10:29 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jul 04, 2016 12:48 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Protecting the Territory, Killing the Map
The politics of making and using maps in India has taken a sudden and complex turn with the publication of the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified May 17, 2016 10:37 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Network Economies
This cluster responds to the range of transformation and restructuring of the economy emerging with, and emergent with, the proliferation of internet and ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jul 08, 2016 01:46 PM
Web Cultures
This cluster focuses on questions arising from the social, political, and material dimensions of the web-based interactions, communities, and cultures. Our ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified May 05, 2016 09:56 AM
Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field Studies
The Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 28, 2016 07:28 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass Education
The low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 25, 2016 08:04 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
"Will the Magic Number Deliver?" - Roundtable on Aadhaar at CSLG, JNU, April 26
The Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), will organise a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, April 26, to ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 20, 2016 10:49 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
The Last Chance for a Welfare State Doesn’t Rest in the Aadhaar System
Boosting welfare is the message, which is how Aadhaar is being presented in India. The Aadhaar system as a medium, however, is one that enables tracking, ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 19, 2016 01:18 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part II)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 12, 2016 04:14 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
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by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Mar 30, 2016 11:09 AM
TRAI Consultation on Differential Pricing for Data Services - Post-Open House Discussion Submission
The Centre for Internet and Society sent this submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) following the Open House Discussion on ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Mar 30, 2016 01:13 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
An Urgent Need for the Right to Privacy
Along with a group of individuals and organisations from academia and civil society, we have drafted and are signatories to an open letter addressed to the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Mar 17, 2016 07:40 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Aadhaar Bill 2016 & NIAI Bill 2010 - Comparing the Texts
This is a quick comparison of the texts of the Aadhaar Bill 2016 and the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010. The new sections in the former ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Mar 09, 2016 11:25 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 21, 2016 09:57 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
The Aakash Tablet and Technological Imaginaries of Mass Education in Contemporary India (Excerpt)
In a recently published paper, Jahnavi Phalkey and Sumandro Chattapadhyay explore public initiatives in technological solutions for educating the poor and the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 14, 2016 10:11 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Internet Researchers' Conference 2016 (IRC16)
The first Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC16) will be organised at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, on February 26-28, 2016. The focus of the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 27, 2016 06:19 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Open Data Hackathons are Great, but Address Privacy and License Concerns
This is to cross-publish a blog post from DataMeet website regarding a letter shared with the organisers of Urban Hack 2015, Bangalore, in response to a set of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:37 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit 2015 - Notes
NASSCOM-DSCI organised the 10th Annual Information Security Summit (AISS) 2015 in Delhi during December 16-17. Sumandro Chattapadhyay participated in this ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 19, 2016 07:58 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Consultation on 'Digital Futures of Indian Languages'
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 ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 15, 2016 06:10 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Internet Researchers' Conference 2016 (IRC16) - Selected Sessions
We are proud to announce that the first Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC16), organised around the theme of 'studying internet in India,' will be held on ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 18, 2016 09:23 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Approaching Open Research via Open Data - Presentation at TERI, December 22, 2015
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi, organised a seminar on 'Open Access in Research Area: A Strategic Approach' on December 22, 2015. We ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 12, 2016 02:37 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Pre-Budget Consultation 2016 - Submission to the IT Group of the Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Finance has recently held pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder groups in connection with the Union Budget 2016-17. We were ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 12, 2016 01:34 PM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
RAW Lectures #02: Anil Menon on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom'
Anil Menon will give a talk on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom' at the Centre for Internet and Society's office in ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 09, 2016 08:43 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Gene Kogan - A.I. Hype Cycles and Artistic Subversions
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jan 01, 2016 07:51 AM
Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations
The Open Access Dialogues were a series of global electronic debates facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Dec 22, 2015 06:52 AM — Filed under: , ,