Centre for Internet and Society

World Book Day

praskrishna — 2014-05-05T09:33:11Z

Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was one of the speakers on the program arranged on account of World Book Day by Karnataka Publishers’ Association at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi.

He spoke about the importance of giving info about Kannada books in Kannada Wikipedia, about digitization of books, ebooks and audio books.

Click to read the media coverage in the Hindu.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/world-book-day

Workshop: Social Justice in an Internet-mediated World

praskrishna — 2014-02-02T16:24:29Z

IT for Change and the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities invite you to a workshop on social justice in an internet-mediated world at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities on January 31, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Program Director, Access to Knowledge from the Centre for Internet and Society will deliver a lecture on Where are the Alternatives ? Is distributed power possible?

IT for Change and Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, University of Manipal are pleased to announce a workshop on Social Justice in an Internet-mediated World that will examine themes such as: Role of Technology in Oppression and Emancipation through History, Digital Technologies and the Discourse of Social Justice in India, Globalisation and Democracy in an Internet-mediated world, and the Place of Media, Culture and Community in Network Society. The workshop will be conducted by subject-experts from the two organising institutions and other scholar-activists, researchers and practitioners.

The fundamental objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, students, NGO representatives to explore conceptual frameworks in an emerging field through dialogue and deliberation.

The workshop fee is Rs. 3000 and participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements. Scholarships to cover travel and course fee are applicable to India based applicants only. However, accommodation would be provided free of cost to all participants, at the University campus during the period of the workshop.

To apply, please send your CV with contacts and a 500-word statement that elaborates the reasons you want to attend this workshop, to itfc-mcph@itforchange.net. Selected candidates will be intimated by email.

More info at IT for Change website

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/social-justice-in-an-internet-mediated-world

Workshop on Water Activities

praskrishna — 2019-03-07T14:14:35Z

Workshop on Water Rejuvenation

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Workshop on the Standardization of Kannada Computing Terminology

praskrishna — 2012-01-27T04:55:14Z

A two day workshop on the standardization of Kannada computing terminologies will be organized on January 28-29, 2012 at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Bangalore. CIS is co-organizing this event along with Sanchaya under the Frequently Used Entries for Localization (FUEL) project.

The workshop aims at the community review and standardization of frequently encountered computing terminologies in Kannada. Also, this workshop is a first of its kind wherein discussion amongst Kannada linguists, translators, journalists, writers and users would take place and a consensus would reach upon the final translation of computing terminologies in Kannada. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet mainly aims at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in software translations.

FUEL tries to provide a standardized and consistent computer interface for users. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet will be a concrete move towards the aforementioned problem and after the meet, FUEL will come with the standard translation of entries in Kannada language for the first time that are frequently being used by a normal user. This is a community project initiated by Red Hat. We invite linguists, translators, and users to participate who are serious to the cause of localization of computer in Kannada language.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/standardization-of-kannada-computing-terminology

Workshop on River Activities

praskrishna — 2019-03-07T14:13:13Z

Workshop on River Rejuvenation

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Workshop on Net Neutrality

praskrishna — 2017-03-15T00:49:40Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/workshop-on-net-neutrality

Workshop on Media Law & Policy Curriculum Development

praskrishna — 2014-02-17T10:25:54Z

Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi and University of Oxford in support with the International Higher Education-Knowledge Economy Partnerships Programme of the British Council is organizing this workshop on February 16 at National Law University in Delhi.

Chinmayi Arun is a speaker and Bhairav Acharya will be speaking at this event.

Timing	Programme
10.00 10.10	Welcome Address Prof. (Dr.) Srikrishna Deva Rao, Registrar & Professor of Law, National Law University, Delhi
10.10 10.15	Introduction to the Project Chinmayi Arun, Research Director, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi
10.15 10.45	Session 1: Introductory Material The Media Landscape, Media & Democracy Lead discussants: Aloke Thakore, Kanamma Raman, Sukumar Muralidharan and Vibodh Parthasarathi Freedom of Expression & Freedom of Press Lead discussants: Arudra Burra, Bhairav Acharya, Manav Kapur and Sukumar Muralidharan
10.45 11.30	Session 2: Media Law The State and the Media (Sedition, Contempt of Court, Parliamentary Privilege and Reporting Court Proceedings) Geeta Seshu, Jawahar Raja, Manav Kapur, Praveen and Sukumar Muralidharan Citizen, Society and the Media (Defamation, Obscenity, Public Order & Communal Harmony and Privacy) Arudra Burra, Bhairav Acharya, Jawahar Raja, Praveen and Saurav Datta
11.30 11.45	Tea
11.45 12.15	Session 3: Media Content & Regulatory Mechanism and Public Service Broadcasting Media Carriage, Pluralism, Ownership & Cross Ownership Lead discussants: Aloke Thakore, Geeta Seshu, Saurav Datta and Vibodh Parthasarathi
12.15 12.45	Session 4: Converged Media, Globalised Media and the Internet Lead discussants: Aloke Thakore, Abhinav Srivastava, Geeta Seshu Kanamma Raman and Sukumar Muralidharan
12.45 13.30	General Feedback about accessibility, structure and other miscellaneous factors

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/workshop-media-law-and-policy-curriculum-development

Workshop on Enabling Information Systems for Local Governance

praskrishna — 2014-09-30T08:18:42Z

This event was organized by Jamia Milla Islamia at Tagore Hall in New Delhi on September 18, 2014. Sunil Abraham was a participant.

The One day workshop brings together practitioners, researchers and thinkers from the overlapping fields of IT, sociology and governance to seek mechanisms for involvement of local communities as active participants in information systems for governance. Conventional technological models are based on certain apriori assumptions on how engineers and designers expect people to use technologies as well as the social universe in which the information systems function. Social scientists and ethnographers on the other hand, concern themselves with how people use and interpret technologies and tend to have a better understanding of the role of technologies in the everyday life of users.

The first panel concerns itself with how these two diverse and possibly complementary ways of approaching technologies may synergise as a combined sociotechnical process rather than a purely technological one. Another useful way to understand the information systems as inherently socio-technical amalgamations is to examine the “informational model” – or the concepts, categories, and relationships – underlying the systems.Describing the systems in terms of their informational models enables people who understand issues of governance to speak to technologists on a common platform. Thus, the idea in the second panel is to discuss whether there is a need to rethink the mechanisms for building information models for local governance.

Some of the questions relevant to the workshop are:

What is the role of local communities in information systems for governance? How can local participation in governance be enabled/enhanced?
What are some of the existing applications and mechanisms for creating the concepts, categories, relationships, rules and constraints (the information model) used in building information systems for governance and is there a need to rethink them?

Workshop Program - 18 Sep 2014

9:30-10:00 - Registration

10:00-10:15 - Introduction to the Symposium

10:15-11:45 - Panel 1: Community Participation in IT Processes.

Information systems for governance generally involve many different kinds of users and stakeholders. The presentations in this panel are reflect how the role that these communities play at different stages of the technical process shape the conceptualization and outcomes of these diverse systems.

Atanu Garai (Fellow, Society for New Communications Research, Bubhaneshwar): Mechanisms of Community Enrollment in mHealth

Jagdish Mitra (CEO, CanvasM,A Tech Mahindra Company) – Arriving at Saral Zindagi: A suite of mobile applications to ease consumer life styles.

Chair: Dr Biswajit Das, Director, Centre for Culture Media and Governance (CCMG), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Discussant: Dr. Richa Kumar (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi)

11:45-12:00 – Tea/Coffee break

12:00-13:30 - Panel 2: Community Representation in Information Modelling.

This panel describes the (often) implicit "Information Model" underlying IT enabled systems of governance. Making these models explicit also opens up the discussion of how social concepts and categories may be included as part of the model.

Dr Vignesh Ilavarasan P (Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi) – Information Models for Service Delivery in the Telecom Sector
Ravi Shukla (CCMG, JMI)–Prototyping Community Participation in Informational Models.
Chair: Dr. Arul Chib (NTU, Singapore)
Discussant: Sunil Abraham (CIS, Bangalore)

1 3:30-14:30 – Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 – Focus Group Workshop - Mechanisms for Community Participation in Information Systems.

The current research with communities around the Jamia Nagar area is taken as a case study. Participants are divided into two groups, the "process" group which is to suggest ways for community involvement in the process, and the "informational model" structure group. Each group is to suggest 5 ways in which communities can participate in IT systems.

List of People in the Second Half (there maybe more/different people):

Atanu Garai, P Vignesh, Ravi Shukla, Arul Chib, Sunil Abraham, Amit Prakash, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Pankaj Aggarwal, Biswajit Das.
Chair: Amit Prakash - I will speak to him beforehand about this.
Introducer: Ravi Shukla (5 Mins) - Q & A (10 mins)
Group Sessions (these can be in different parts of the same room) - it will require writing pads, pens , two white boards and markers/busters. Time is 20 mins.
Group 1 (Processes and Procedures to Involve Communities in Information Systems):

Facilitator: Arul Chib

Participants: Atanu Garai, Pankaj Aggarwal, Vibodh Parthasarthi

This group builds on their own experiences and comes up with 5 suggestions on how the IT process can be made more inclusive. This could mean - what are the different stages at which communities may get involved and how - as well as new ways of involvement.

Group 2 (Inclusion of Communities in Information Models)

Facilitator: Ravi Shukla
Participants: P Vignesh, Sunil Abraham

This group builds on their experiences to come up 5 suggestions on how community voices and concerns may be included in the Information Model. This could mean for instance - how to include minority voices in the model, or other factors of geography, culture, scale and temporality.

After this there are 10 minutes of presentation each by one representative from each group (this gives other people the space to wind-up/present).

This is followed by a summary by the discussant (Arul Chib) followed by discussion and winding up/ thanks giving by VP. (30 + 5 mins)

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/workshop-on-enabling-information-systems-for-local-governance

Workshop on e-Content Development

praskrishna — 2013-09-04T05:56:16Z

T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.

Vishnu Vardhan will give guest lecture for the following:

Open Source to Open Knowledge
Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet
e-Content in Indian languages – History, Challenges and Opportunities
Wikipedia Users to Wikipedia Authors – Exploring Wikipedia as an OER Tool
e-Content, e-Student, e-Faculty – Reimagining classroom in the digital Age

Click to download the programme brochure

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development

Workshop on e-Content Development

praskrishna — 2013-09-04T05:49:28Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/e-content-development

Workshop on Digital Security for Journalists

praskrishna — 2015-01-15T14:07:16Z

The Foundation for Media Professionals and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are jointly hosting a workshop on 'Digital Security for Journalists' in New Delhi on January 16, 2015.

This workshop will be a hands-on training — so all journalists are strongly encouraged to bring their laptops and smartphones — on how to assess security threats, how to protect your sources, how to prevent your ISP from snooping on your communications, and how to harden your computer's security.

This workshop furthers CIS's work as part of the Cyber Stewards Network with aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, and the space for this workshop has been provided by the Times of India.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-digital-security-for-journalists

Workshop on Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS

praskrishna — 2016-08-03T15:14:12Z

To discuss the focus areas of the Patent Declaration with key stakeholders in India, the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development organized a workshop at Conference Hall of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi on July 12 and 13, 2016. Sunil Abraham was a speaker.

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, with the active participation of 40 international patent scholars from 25 countries, has drafted the “Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS” to clarify the regulatory options available for WTO members while they implement their obligations under TRIPS Agreement. The Declaration is an attempt to conceptualize the relationship between innovation,patent and competition and to explore the possibilities under the TRIPS agreement for WTO members to develop patent laws that suit their domestic imperatives of socio-economic development. By analyzing the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, the Declaration attempts to identify flexibilities member states have when interpreting these provisions in their national legislation.

The text contains 12 sections that take a detailed look at the options relating to subject matter, scope of protection, exhaustion, exceptions to the scope of protection, government use, undisclosed information, enforcement, transit and criminal measures. This document assumes much importance in the content where countries are more and more bound by regional and bilateral free trade agreements, which include TRIPS-plus provisions.

The Declaration was published to mark the 20th anniversary of the enforcement of the TRIPS Agreement. A large number of scholars have already signed on to this Declaration. After the publication of the Declaration, the Max Planck Institute has been taking steps to launch this in different parts of the world by engaging different stakeholders such us academics, executives, judges, lawyers, industry representatives and civil society members.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-declaration-on-patents-protection-regulatory-sovereignty-under-trips

Workshop on Competition Law and Policy

praskrishna — 2016-10-23T01:51:25Z

National School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and made presentations.

The workshop was organized under the broader EU-India project titled "Capacity Building Initiative in Competition Area under Trade Development Programme" sponsored jointly by European Union Delegation and National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

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Workshop brochure
Anubha Sinha's presentation on "Investigation into the sub $100 Mobile Device Industry from IPR + Competition law lens"
Rohini Lakshané's presentation on CCI Workshop on Competition Law and Policy Competition Policy and Internet

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-competition-law-and-policy

Workshop on Center for IT and Society

praskrishna — 2016-12-23T14:05:00Z

This workshop was held at IIT, Delhi on December 20, 2016. Amber Sinha attended the workshop. The meeting focused on the curriculum and the way forward, especially with respect to the industry requirements.

Session 1 (11:00 - 13:00*): Quick recap of the earlier workshop. Description and focus area of the center. Feedback about the interdisciplinary program in IT and Social Sciences.
Session 2 (14:00 - 16:00)*: Discussion on industry requirement and absorption criterion.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/workshop-on-center-for-it-and-society

Workshop of Competition Law and Policy Brochure

praskrishna — 2016-10-21T14:58:21Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-brochure-cci.pdf