Centre for Internet and Society

IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety - Press Release

sumandro — 2020-08-25T10:57:45Z

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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19 - Report

sumandro — 2020-09-17T17:38:59Z

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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19 - Press Release

sumandro — 2020-09-17T17:40:09Z

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Humanitarian OSM: Mapping Nepal

sumandro — 2015-04-27T07:46:16Z

To support the disaster relief work in progress in Nepal, the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) is busy mapping roads, settlements, and buildings in Nepal. Creating a detailed map of the area in OpenStreetMap will give the relief workers much valuable open data that can be used for planning their efforts. Contribute to the efforts of the Humanitarian OSM to map features in Nepal to support relief work.

Please join the efforts wherever you are.

The pending tasks are listed here: http://tasks.hotosm.org/.

Documentation to help you through the tasks is here: https://datameet.hackpad.com/Nepal-Earthquake-Mapping-YDjLauUK0Ek.

If you are in Bangalore, head to MapBox office: https://goo.gl/maps/bkqKF.

The DataMeet Delhi chapter will start organising mapping sessions in different offices in Delhi from today 14:00. Follow the DataMeet list for information about that: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/datameet.

Or, you can stay where you are and work on this remotely.

If you need support, please feel free to write to Sajjad [sajjadkm@gmail.com], Shashank [srinivasan.shashank@gmail.com], or Sumandro [sumandro@cis-india.org].

A big thanks to Sajjad for putting it all together and leading the efforts.

Image credit: MapBox.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/humanitarian-osm-mapping-nepal

How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?

sumandro — 2016-07-06T14:28:13Z

How are Indian newspapers adapting to the transition to digital news production, distribution, and consumption? How are they changing their journalistic work, their newsroom organisations, and their distribution strategies as digital media become more important? These are the questions we are pursuing in a joint pilot project with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.

Cross-posted from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

The Indian newspaper market is vibrant and diverse, and rising print circulation has so far shielded it from the digital disruption the industry has faced in many high income countries.

But internet access and use is rapidly growing in India, driven especially, by cheap smartphones and mobile web access. And both attention and advertising is moving to digital media.

How are Indian newspapers adapting to this change? How are they changing their journalistic work, their newsroom organisations, and their distribution strategies as digital media become more important? These are the questions we are pursuing in a joint pilot project with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.

As part of the project we are interviewing editors and journalists working with newspapers in English, Hindi and Malayalam (one newspaper for each language) to better understand how different Indian newspapers are adapting to the rise of digital media.

The study will result in a joint report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford that we hope will help Indian journalists and newspapers as they navigate their digital transition, their colleagues elsewhere in the world facing similar issues, and academics and media policy makers keen to understand how the development of digital media—and the ways in which other actors respond to these developments—are reshaping our information environment.

We expect to publish the report in December 2016. The research team includes Zeenab Aneez and Sumandro Chattapadhyay from CIS, and RISJ Director of Research Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. Vibodh Parthasarathi from CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, will contribute to the study as an advisor.

The project builds on a recently completed study of "Digital Journalism Start-Ups in India" conducted by Arijit Sen and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/raw/how-are-indian-newspapers-adapting-to-the-rise-of-digital-media

Gopala Krishna A

sumandro — 2018-08-21T07:24:27Z

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Global Governance Futures 2027 - Session 3, New Delhi

sumandro — 2017-01-15T11:46:27Z

The Global Governance Futures program (GGF) initiated by Global Public Policy Institute and supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung brings together young professionals to look ahead ten years and recommend ways to address global challenges. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will join Ankhi Das (Facebook) and Arun Mohan Sukumar (Observer Research Foundation) on Tuesday, January 17, to discuss the "data governance" scenarios developed by the GGF 2027 Fellows.