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    <title>Big Data for Development Network</title>
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   <dc:date>2019-05-22T11:04:26Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Data Systems</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;The systems and  economies of data has emerged as a key concern of the contemporary 'information'/'informatising' societies. In this cluster we explore the various manifestations and implications of digital data in the context of the Indian society and government – supply, demand, and usages of government data; electronic government and data-driven delivery of services; Internet of things, locative media, and smart cities; infrastructures, systems, and circuits of data collection, storage, sharing, and re-usage; and concerns of ownership and privacy around personal data.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Data Systems: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/data-systems-posts/" target="_blank"&gt;All Posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Ongoing Projects&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Urban Data Justice (2019)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in Assam (2018-2019)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a relational database, a tuple is an ordered set of data constituting a record. Imagine a relational database as a table with pre-defined columns that define the scope of information required for each row. A tuple is a row in this table. Ultimately, in any database designed to ease practices of governance, the life story of a citizen becomes a tuple after the process of data collection, verification, and curation. This tuple has its own life and this project is designed around documenting its life story, which may or may not map seamlessly onto the life of the citizen that it aims to capture, encode, represent, and ultimately, alter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our research investigates the process of updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam as a case study to focus on one of the core problems of governance: the unique identification of citizens by the state. The NRC, as a part of the National Population Register (NPR), is a list of only Indian citizens, and is presently in the process of being updated only in Assam [1]. Our effort is geared towards tracing the process of updating the NRC from its conceptualization and design to its current deployment, while also closely attending to current on-the-ground reactions to its implementation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project outputs: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/life-of-a-tuple/" target="_blank"&gt;https://cis-india.org/raw/life-of-a-tuple/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Big Data for Development Network&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Big Data for Development (BD4D) Research Network is a Southern-led partnership with the objective of developing policy relevant research on big data for development that is conceptualized and implemented by Southern organizations. The network acts to develop capacity amongst researchers from the Global South, focusing on activities linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to those that address gender related issues. The work encompasses both big data analyses as well as capacity development, while innovating on data partnerships and collaborations with private sector companies and policy makers. The network is supported by a grant from the &lt;a href="https://www.idrc.ca/" target="_blank"&gt;International Development Research Centre (IDRC)&lt;/a&gt;, Canada.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As part of the BD4D Network, we at the CIS are studying BD4D innovations, policy, practices, and discourse with a focus on the research methods involved; and offering research and pedagogic support towards other hubs of the Network.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Network website: &lt;a href="http://bd4d.net/" target="_blank"&gt;http://bd4d.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Network blog: &lt;a href="https://medium.com/bd4dnet" target="_blank"&gt;https://medium.com/bd4dnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project outputs: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/bd4d/" target="_blank"&gt;https://cis-india.org/raw/bd4d/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Previous Projects&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Big Data and Development - Field Studies&lt;/h4&gt;
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   <dc:date>2019-03-16T06:29:37Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Digital Knowledge</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;In this cluster, we study the digital conditions of production, circulation, consumption, appropriation, storage, and re-usage of various forms of knowledge in India. It brings together our interests in digital literacy, education and pedagogy; technological infrastructures and devices of digital learning; open access, open educational resources, open data, and open knowledge practices in general and their ecosystems; Internet and the emerging authorities, modes, and platforms of knowledge and education; computational methods in arts, humanities, social science, and natural science research; and software and hardware innovations towards knowledge infrastructures and practices.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Digital Knowledge: &lt;a target="_blank"&gt;All Posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Previous Projects&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition (2016)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Final report: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/indian-newspapers-digital-transition" target="_blank"&gt;Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition: Dainik Jagran, Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Mapping Digital Humanities in India (2014-2016)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paper: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/new-contexts-and-sites-of-humanities-practice-in-the-digital-paper" target="_blank"&gt;New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Final report: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/papers/mapping-digital-humanities-in-india" target="_blank"&gt;Mapping Digital Humanities in India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #1: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities-in-india" target="_blank"&gt;Digital Humanities in India?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #2: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/a-question-of-digital-humanities" target="_blank"&gt;A Question of Digital Humanities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #3: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/reading-from-a-distance-data-as-text" target="_blank"&gt;Reading from a Distance – Data as Text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #4: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/the-infrastructure-turn-in-the-humanities" target="_blank"&gt;The Infrastructure Turn in the Humanities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #5: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/living-in-the-archival-moment" target="_blank"&gt;Living in the Archival Moment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #6: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/new-modes-and-sites-of-humanities-practice" target="_blank"&gt;
New Modes and Sites of Humanities Practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post #7: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities-in-india-concluding-thoughts" target="_blank"&gt;Concluding Thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Pathways to Higher Education&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project page: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/pathways" target="_blank"&gt;Visit the project page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;The Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia (2012)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project page: &lt;a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/blogs/digital-classroom/digital-classroom-in-time-of-wikipedia" target="_blank"&gt;Visit the project page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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   <dc:date>2019-03-16T06:31:14Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;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, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Read&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Download the paper: &lt;a href="https://github.com/cis-india/papers/raw/master/CIS_Papers_2016.01_Sean-McDonald.pdf"&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Preface&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This study titled “Ebola: A Big Data Disaster” by Sean Martin McDonald, undertaken with support from the Open Society Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Media Democracy Fund, explores the use of Big Data in the form of Call Detail Record (CDR) data in humanitarian crisis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; It discusses the challenges of digital humanitarian coordination in health emergencies like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the marked tension in the debate around experimentation with humanitarian technologies and the impact on privacy. McDonald’s research focuses on the two primary legal and human rights frameworks, privacy and property, to question the impact of unregulated use of CDR’s on human rights. It also highlights how the diffusion of data science to the realm of international development constitutes a genuine opportunity to bring powerful new tools to fight crisis and emergencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Analysing the risks of using CDRs to perform migration analysis and contact tracing without user consent, as well as the application of big data to disease surveillance is an important entry point into the debate around use of Big Data for development and humanitarian aid. The paper also raises crucial questions of legal significance about the access to information, the limitation of data sharing, and the concept of proportionality in privacy invasion in the public good. These issues hold great relevance in today's time where big data and its emerging role for development, involving its actual and potential uses as well as harms is under consideration across the world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modelling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This study offers an important perspective for us at the Centre for Internet and Society, and our works on Privacy, Big Data, and Big Data for Development, and very productively articulates the risks of adopting solutions to issues important for development without taking into consideration legal implications and the larger impact on human rights. We look forward to continue to critically engage with issues raised by Big Data in the context of human rights and sustainable development, and bring together diverse perspectives on these issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Elonnai Hickok, Policy Director, the Centre for Internet and Society&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;CIS Papers&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The CIS Papers series publishes open access monographs and discussion pieces that critically contribute to the debates on digital technologies and society. It includes publication of new findings and observations, of work-in-progress, and of critical review of existing materials. These may be authored by researchers at or affiliated to CIS, by external researchers and practitioners, or by a group of discussants. CIS offers editorial support to the selected monographs and discussion pieces. The views expressed, however, are of the authors' alone.&lt;/p&gt;
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        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/papers/ebola-a-big-data-disaster'&gt;https://cis-india.org/papers/ebola-a-big-data-disaster&lt;/a&gt;
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        <dc:subject>Big Data</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Privacy</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Open Data</dc:subject>
    
    
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        <dc:subject>Humanitarian Response</dc:subject>
    
    
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   <dc:date>2016-04-21T09:57:26Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Aadhaar Bill 2016 &amp; NIAI Bill 2010 - Comparing the Texts</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-bill-2016-niai-bill-2010-text-comparison</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;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 are highlighed, and the deleted sections (that were part of the latter) are struck out.&lt;/b&gt;
        
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&lt;iframe src="http://cis-india.github.io/aadhaar-bill-2016/" frameborder="0" height="500px" width="100%"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.github.io/aadhaar-bill-2016/"&gt;http://cis-india.github.io/aadhaar-bill-2016/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-bill-2016-niai-bill-2010-text-comparison'&gt;https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-bill-2016-niai-bill-2010-text-comparison&lt;/a&gt;
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    <dc:creator>sumandro</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>UID</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Aadhaar</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Big Data</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Privacy</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-03-09T11:25:01Z</dc:date>
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    <title>IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and Society</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;A workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying relationships and impact of ICTs and Internet on society and the role that society plays in shaping them, particularly in India. The center will bring together faculty in various humanities and social sciences disciplines, and would also initiate interdisciplinary taught programme in IT and Social Sciences. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate in this workshop.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;URL: &lt;a href="https://www.iiitd.ac.in/it-society"&gt;https://www.iiitd.ac.in/it-society&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Participants:&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dheeraj Sanghi, Dean Academics, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shreekant Gupta, Delhi University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Satish Deshpande, Delhi University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Geetha Venkataraman, Ambedkar University, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rohit Negi, Ambedkar University, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anindya Chaudhuri, Global Development Network, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vibodh Parthasarathi, Jamia Millia Islamia&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suboor Bakht, Heidelberg Centre South Asia, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dinesh Sharma, Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Odile Henry, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marine Al Dahdah, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biswajit Das, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deepak Kumar, Jawahar Lal Nehru University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the study of developing societies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rajshree Chandra, Delhi University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sumandro Chattapadhyay, The Centre for Internet and Society, Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dibyendu Maiti, DSE, Delhi University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Balaji Parthasarathy, IIIT Bangalore&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anirban Mondal, Shiv Nadar University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ashokankur Datta, Shiv Nadar University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ravi Shukla, India Development Centre, Netvision Corporation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yogendra Singh (professor emeritus), Jawahar Lal Nehru University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rajiv George Aricat, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Arani Basu, Institute fuer Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Berlin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Arunima S Mukherjee, Health Information Systems Project&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pankaj Vajpayee, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raj Ayyar, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amrit Srinivasan, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Akshay Kumar, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ganesh Bagler, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Samaresh Chatterjee, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT-Delhi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/iiit-delhi-workshop-on-center-for-it-and-society'&gt;https://cis-india.org/raw/iiit-delhi-workshop-on-center-for-it-and-society&lt;/a&gt;
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        <dc:subject>Researchers at Work</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Learning</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-09-17T14:40:26Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Big Data in India - Invitatation to Workshop </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/big-data-in-india-invitatation-to-workshop</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
        
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/big-data-in-india-invitatation-to-workshop'&gt;https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/big-data-in-india-invitatation-to-workshop&lt;/a&gt;
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   <dc:date>2016-09-20T09:44:18Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for Sessions</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;It gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). It is a free and open conference. Sessions must be proposed by teams of two or more members on or before Friday, October 28. All submitted session proposals will go though an open review process, followed by each team that has proposed a session being invited to select ten sessions of their choice to be included in the Conference agenda. Final sessions will be chosen through these votes, and be announced on January 09, 2017.&lt;/b&gt;
        
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&lt;h4&gt;IRC17 Call for Sessions: &lt;a href="https://github.com/cis-india/irc/raw/master/IRC17_Call-for-Sessions.pdf"&gt;Download&lt;/a&gt; (PDF)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;IRC17 Selection of Sessions: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deadline for submission was Friday, October 28.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IRC17: Key Provocations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two critical questions that emerged from the conversations at the previous edition of the Conference (IRC16) were about the &lt;strong&gt;digital objects of research&lt;/strong&gt;, and the &lt;strong&gt;digital/internet experiences in Indic languages&lt;/strong&gt;. As we discussed various aspects and challenges of 'studying internet in India', it was noted that we have not sufficiently explored how ongoing research methods, assumptions, and analytical frames are being challenged (if at all) by the &lt;strong&gt;becoming-digital&lt;/strong&gt; of the objects of research across disciplines: from various artifacts and traces of human and machinic interactions, to archival entries and sites of ethnography, to practices and necessities of collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We found that the analyses of such &lt;strong&gt;digital objects of research&lt;/strong&gt; often tend to assume either an aesthetic and functional &lt;strong&gt;uniqueness&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;sameness&lt;/strong&gt; vis-à-vis the pre-/proto-digital objects of research, while neither of these positions are discussed in detail. Further, we tend to universalise the English-speaking user's/researcher's experience of working with such digital objects, without sufficiently considering their lives and functions in other (especially, Indic) languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These we take as the key provocations of the 2017 edition of IRC:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How does the &lt;strong&gt;becoming-digital&lt;/strong&gt; of the research objects challenge our current research practices, concerns, and assumptions?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How do we appreciate, study, and theorise the functioning of and meaning-making by digital objects in &lt;strong&gt;Indic languages&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;research tools and infrastructures&lt;/strong&gt; are needed to study, document, annotate, analyse, archive, cite, and work with (in general) digital objects, especially those in Indic languages?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call for Sessions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We invite teams of two or more researchers and practitioners to propose sessions for IRC17.  We do understand that finding team members for a session you have in mind might be difficult in certain cases. Please feel free to share initial sessions ideas on the &lt;strong&gt;researchers@cis-india&lt;/strong&gt; mailing list &lt;strong&gt;[1]&lt;/strong&gt;. Also, please keep an eye on the list to see what potential topics are being discussed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All sessions will be one and half hours long, and will be fully designed and facilitated by the team concerned, including moderation (if any). The sessions are expected to drive conversations on the topic concerned. They may include presentation of research papers  but this is &lt;strong&gt;not at all&lt;/strong&gt; mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you plan to organise a session structured around presentation of research papers, please note that we are exploring potential publication outlets for a collection of full-length research papers. If your session is selected for IRC17, we will notify you of guidelines to be followed for the submission and review of full-length papers prior to the conference. If you are interested in this publication possibility, &lt;strong&gt;please indicate&lt;/strong&gt; that in your session proposal submission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sessions that involve collaborative work (either in group or otherwise), including discussions, interactions, documentation, learning, and making, are &lt;strong&gt;most welcome&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Further, we look forward to sessions conducted in &lt;strong&gt;Indic languages&lt;/strong&gt;. The proposing team, in such a case, should consider how participants who do not understand the language can participate in it. IRC organisers and other participants will play an active role in making such engagements possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;strong&gt;eligibility criteria&lt;/strong&gt; for proposing sessions are that they must be proposed by a &lt;strong&gt;team of at least two members&lt;/strong&gt;, and that they must engage with &lt;strong&gt;one (or more) of the three key provocations&lt;/strong&gt; mentioned above. Further, the teams whose sessions are selected for IRC17 must commit to producing at least &lt;strong&gt;one post-conference essay/documentation&lt;/strong&gt; on the topic of their session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;deadline&lt;/strong&gt; for submission of sessions proposals for IRC17 is &lt;strong&gt;Friday, October 28&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To propose a session, please send the following documents (as attached text files) to &lt;strong&gt;raw[at]cis-india[dot]org&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title and Description of the Session:&lt;/strong&gt; The session should be named in the form of a hashtag (check the IRC16 sessions for reference &lt;strong&gt;[2]&lt;/strong&gt;). The description of the session should clearly state what the key focus of the session is, and which of the three central concerns it will address. The description should be approximately &lt;strong&gt;300 words&lt;/strong&gt; long.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Session plan:&lt;/strong&gt; This should describe how the session will be conducted and moderated. Any specific requirements (technical, language support, etc.) of the session should also be noted here. This should not be more than &lt;strong&gt;200 words&lt;/strong&gt; long. If your session plan involves presentation of research papers, please indicate whether you would be interested in having these papers considered for academic publication.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Documentation plan:&lt;/strong&gt; This should indicate how documentation will be done during the session, and more importantly what form the post-conference essay/documentation will take and what issue(s) it will address. This should not be more than &lt;strong&gt;100 words&lt;/strong&gt; long.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Abstracts (Only for Sessions with Paper Presentations):&lt;/strong&gt; If your session involves presentation of research papers, please share a &lt;strong&gt;250 words&lt;/strong&gt; abstract for each paper.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Details of the Team:&lt;/strong&gt; Please share brief biographic notes of each member of the session team, and contact details.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Session Selection Process&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 28:&lt;/strong&gt; Deadline of submission of session proposals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 31:&lt;/strong&gt; All submitted sessions will be posted on the CIS website, along with the names, biographic brief, and contact details of the members of the session teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November 01 - December 24:&lt;/strong&gt; Open review period. All session teams, as well as other interested contributors, may review the submitted proposals and share comments directly with the session teams, or discuss the session on the researchers@cis-india list. The session teams may fully and continuously edit the proposal during this period, including adding/changing session teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 25:&lt;/strong&gt; Open review ends and voting begins. All session teams will select 10 sessions to be included in the IRC17 programme. The votes will be anonymous, that is which session team has voted for which set of sessions will not be made public.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January 05:&lt;/strong&gt; Voting ends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January 09:&lt;/strong&gt; Announcement of selected sessions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February 12:&lt;/strong&gt; Deadline for selected session teams to submit a detailed session plan, information about which will be shared later. If a selected session involves presentation of papers, then the draft papers are to be submitted by this date (no need to submit a detailed session plan in that case).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Venue, Accommodation, and Travel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference will take place at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) during March 03-05, 2017 &lt;strong&gt;[3]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have any participation fees. The organisers will cover &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; costs related to accommodation and hospitality during the conference. We look forward to offer a limited number of (domestic) travel fellowships for students and other deserving applicants. We will also confirm this on &lt;strong&gt;January 02, 2017&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the IRC Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme &lt;strong&gt;[4]&lt;/strong&gt; at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiated the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series to address these concerns, and to create an annual temporary space in India, for internet researchers to gather and share experiences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The IRC series is driven by the following interests:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;creating discussion spaces for researchers and practitioners studying internet in India and in other comparable regions,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;foregrounding the multiplicity, hierarchies, tensions, and urgencies of the digital sites and users in India,
accounting for the various layers, conceptual and material, of experiences and usages of internet and networked digital media in India, and&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;exploring and practicing new modes of research and documentation necessitated by new (digital) objects of power/knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series was held in February 2016 &lt;strong&gt;[5]&lt;/strong&gt;. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University &lt;strong&gt;[6]&lt;/strong&gt;, and was supported by the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund &lt;strong&gt;[7]&lt;/strong&gt;. The Conference was constituted by eleven discussion sessions (majority of which were organised around presentation of several papers), four workshop sessions (which involved group discussions, activities, and learnings), a book sprint over three sessions to develop an outline of a (re)sourcebook for internet researchers in India, and a concluding round table. The audio recordings and notes from IRC16 are now being compiled into an online Reader. A detailed reflection note on the IRC16 has already been published &lt;strong&gt;[8]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Endnotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[1]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers"&gt;https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[2]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc16"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/irc16&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[3]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://iiitb.ac.in/"&gt;http://iiitb.ac.in/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[4]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[5]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/irc16"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/irc16&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[6]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CPS/"&gt;http://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CPS/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[7]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/cscs-digital-innovation-fund"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/cscs-digital-innovation-fund&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[8]&lt;/strong&gt; See: &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/iirc-reflections-on-irc16"&gt;http://cis-india.org/raw/iirc-reflections-on-irc16&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <link>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/report-on-understanding-aadhaar-and-its-new-challenges</link>
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    <title>CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: &lt;raw@cis-india.org&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CISxScholars are informal events organised by CIS for presentation, discussion, and exchange of academic research and policy analysis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Public Measurements, Private Measurements and the Convergence of Units&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this discussion I will focus on a comparison between the standard government prescribed meters for autorickshaws and taxis and the role of ridesharing apps as instruments which take measurements, as the basis for the calculation of fares, and the more general questions which arise for commerce, technology and their regulation. I will organise the paper around the observations of a paratransit operations engineer on the distinction between public and private instruments, and explore the possible implications of new forms of commercialisation of location and proximity and reactions to such developments for understanding questions of fairness and corruption.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;William F. Stafford&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;William F. Stafford, Jr., is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. William's research focuses on the auto-rickshaw meter in New Delhi, as a way to engage with classical questions concerning the relationship between measurement, quantification and delimitations of domains of labour. William's general interests concern the analytics of labour and the reconfiguration of what are often taken as its axiomatic aspects. Before joining Berkeley, he studied Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Delhi School of Economics.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title> Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the &lt;a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/"&gt;Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy&lt;/a&gt; at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposed Sessions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;01. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/notfewnotweird.html" target="_blank"&gt;#NotFewNotWeird&lt;/a&gt; (Surfatial: Malavika Rajnarayan, Prayas Abhinav, and Satya Gummuluri)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;02. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/virtualfringe.html" target="_blank"&gt;#VirtualFringe&lt;/a&gt; (Ritika Pant, Sagorika Singha, and Vibhushan Subba)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;03. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/studentindicusageonline.html" target="_blank"&gt;#StudentIndicUsageOnline&lt;/a&gt; (Shruti Nagpal and Sneha Verghese)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;04. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/speakmylanguageinternet.html" target="_blank"&gt;#SpeakMyLanguageInternet&lt;/a&gt; (Anubhuti Yadav, Sunetra Sen Narayan, Shalini Narayanan, Anand Pradhan, and Shashwati Goswami)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;05. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/archivesforstorytelling.html" target="_blank"&gt;#ArchivesForStorytelling&lt;/a&gt; (V Jayant, Venkat Srinivasan, Chaluvaraju, Bhanu Prakash, and Dinesh)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;06. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/selfiesfromthefield.html" target="_blank"&gt;#SelfiesFromTheField&lt;/a&gt; (Kavitha Narayanan, Oindrila Matilal and Onkar Hoysala)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;07. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/openaccessscholarlypublishing.html" target="_blank"&gt;#OpenAccessScholarlyPublishing&lt;/a&gt; (Nirmala Menon, Abhishek Shrivastava and Dibyaduti Roy)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;08. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalpedagogies.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalPedagogies&lt;/a&gt; (Nidhi Kalra, Ashutosh Potdar, and Ravikant Kisana)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;09. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalmusicanddigitalreactions.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalMusicAndDigitalReactions&lt;/a&gt; (Shivangi Narayan and Sarvpriya Raj)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;10. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/renarrationweb.html" target="_blank"&gt;#RenarrationWeb&lt;/a&gt; (Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella, Srinath Srinivasa, and Deepak Prince)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;11. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/indiclanguagesandinternetcohabitation.html" target="_blank"&gt;IndicLanguagesAndInternetCoHabitation&lt;/a&gt; (Sreedhar Kallahalla, Ranjeet Kumar, Mohan Rao, and Anjali K. Mohan)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;12. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalpedagogy.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalPedagogy&lt;/a&gt; (Padmini Ray Murray and Dibyaduti Roy)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;13. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/copyleftrightleft.html" target="_blank"&gt;#CopyLeftRightLeft&lt;/a&gt; (Ravishankar Ayyakkannu and Srikanth Lakshmanan)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;14. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/objectsofdigitalgovernance.html" target="_blank"&gt;#ObjectsofDigitalGovernance&lt;/a&gt; (Marine Al Dahdah, Rajiv K. Mishra, Khetrimayum Monish Singh, and Sohan Prasad Sha)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;15. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/materializingwriting.html" target="_blank"&gt;#MaterializingWriting&lt;/a&gt; (Sneha Puthiya Purayil, Padmini Ray Murray, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Indrani Roy)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;16. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/dotbharatadoption.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DotBharatAdoption&lt;/a&gt; (V. Sridhar and Amit Prakash)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;17. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitaldesires.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalDesires&lt;/a&gt; (Dhiren Borisa, Akhil Kang, and Dhrubo Jyoti)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;18. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/thedigitalcommonplace.html" target="_blank"&gt;#TheDigitalCommonplace&lt;/a&gt; (Ammel Sharon and Sujeet George)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;19. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalidentities.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalIdentities&lt;/a&gt; (Janaki Srinivasan, Savita Bailur, Emrys Schoemaker, Jonathan Donner, and Sarita Seshagiri)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;20. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/toolstoamultitextuniverse.html" target="_blank"&gt;#ToolsToAMultitextUniverse&lt;/a&gt; (Spandana Bhowmik and Sunanda Bose)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;21. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalisingknowledge.html" target="_blank"&gt;#DigitalisingKnowledge&lt;/a&gt; (Sneha Ragavan)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;22. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/ICTDethics.html" target="_blank"&gt;#ICTDEthics&lt;/a&gt; (Bidisha Chaudhuri, Andy Dearden, Linus Kendall, Dorothea Kleine, and Janaki Srinivasan)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;23. &lt;a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/representationandpower.html" target="_blank"&gt;#RepresentationAndPower&lt;/a&gt; (Bidisha Chaudhuri, Andy Dearden, Linus Kendall, Dorothea Kleine, and Janaki Srinivasan)&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection'&gt;https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selection&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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        <dc:subject>Internet Studies</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Internet Researcher's Conference</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Researchers at Work</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Featured</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Learning</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>IRC17</dc:subject>
    
    
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   <dc:date>2016-12-12T13:37:23Z</dc:date>
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    <title>CIS-A2K</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The key mandate of the Access to Knowledge project at CIS (CIS-A2K) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in south Asia and in Indic languages. From September 2012, CIS has been actively involved in growing the open knowledge movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). The current focus of the CIS-A2K team spans over 5 language areas (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu), 2 community strengthening initiatives, and 6 stand-alone Wikimedia projects.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/cisa2k_logo.png/image_preview" alt="CIS-A2K Logo" title="CIS-A2K Logo" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Mission&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The mission of CIS-A2K is to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages. Within the Wikimedia universe CIS-A2K specifically strives to further grow the Indic and English Wikimedia projects and communities by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;supporting and serving the Indian Wikimedia communities in all possible ways;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;building institutional partnerships;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;bringing more content under free license;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;designing and executing projects with community participation;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;strengthening the Wikimedia volunteers; and&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;fostering and enabling an appropriate legal and technological ecosystem.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Work Plans&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Work plans and other programme documents can be accessed here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015" target="_blank"&gt;Work Plan July 2014 - June 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014" target="_blank"&gt;Work Plan April 2013 - June 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan" target="_blank"&gt;Work Plan 2012 - 2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/old" target="_blank"&gt;Work Plan 2011 - 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/old1" target="_blank"&gt;Details of Programs run on English and Indian language Wikipedias since 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/India_Program_Announcement_and_FAQ_-_30_July_2012" target="_blank"&gt;Access To Knowledge Announcement and FAQ - 30 July 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Activities and Feedback&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have a general proposal/suggestion for Access to Knowledge team you can write on the &lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests" target="_blank"&gt;requests&lt;/a&gt; page. If you have appreciations or feedback on our work, please share it on &lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Appreciations_and_Feedback" target="_blank"&gt;feedback&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Activities" target="_blank"&gt;Workshops, Meetups, Edit-a-thons and other Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events" target="_blank"&gt;Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/search?Subject=Wikipedia" target="_blank"&gt;Blog Entries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports" target="_blank"&gt;Newsletters, Reports, and Bulletins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC" target="_blank"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Recent Posts&lt;/h2&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k&lt;/a&gt;
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   <dc:date>2015-12-15T07:42:37Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/odia-wikipedia">
    <title>Odia Wikipedia Projects</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/odia-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
        
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/odia-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/odia-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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   <dc:date>2015-12-15T08:48:19Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/kannada-wikipedia">
    <title>Kannada Wikipedia Projects</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/kannada-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
        
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/kannada-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/kannada-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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   <dc:date>2015-12-15T08:52:30Z</dc:date>
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