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International Space Apps Challenge
https://cis-india.org/openness/international-space-apps-challenge
<b>The International Space Apps Challenge is an international codeathon-style event that will take place over a 48 hour period in cities on all seven continents – and in space – on the weekend of April 21-22, 2012. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing solutions to global challenges. The Centre for Internet & Society is organising the event in Bangalore.</b>
<h3>Background</h3>
<p>On September 20, 2011, President Obama, together with other heads of state, endorsed the principles of the Open Government Partnership – a new multilateral initiative to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. Since then, 52 countries have joined the global partnership.</p>
<p>NASA is working with organizations around the world on the International Space Apps Challenge as part of the United States’ domestic commitment to the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.opengovpartnership.org">Open Government Partnership</a>. </p>
<h3>How it Works?</h3>
<p>Participants such as concerned citizens, discipline experts, engineers, scientists, and software code developers attend events hosted in cities around the world. At these events, individuals collaborate with others by forming teams focused on solving a particular challenge. The teams compete with other teams around the world to utilize publicly available data to design innovative “solutions” to a pre-determined series of global “challenges.” The challenges are collected prior to the event from supporting organizations.</p>
<h3>Challenges <br /></h3>
<p>Challenges are grouped into four broad categories:</p>
<ol><li>Software Development</li><li>Open Hardware</li><li>Citizen Science Platforms! </li><li>Data Visualization!</li></ol>
<p>It’s <em>not</em> just about smart phone applications! The International Space Apps. </p>
<p>Challenge will provide solutions that:</p>
<ol><li>Address strategic exploration needs! </li><li>Address strategic social needs (life on Earth) <br /></li></ol>
<p>To date, 50+ challenges have been submitted. These challenges are being vetted with development communities such as the Yahoo! Developer Network to refine them prior to the event.</p>
<h3>Benefits</h3>
<p>Some benefits of the International Space Apps Challenge include: </p>
<ul><li>Visible demonstration of a government’s interest in using publicly available data, in partnership with others, to address global needs.</li><li>Opportunity for citizens in countries with little or no investment in space exploration to contribute to space exploration through open source, open data, and code development.</li><li>Promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education by encouraging students from around the world to utilize publicly available data for solutions to global challenges.</li><li>Encouragement of international partnership and mutual understanding.</li><li>Demonstration of commitment to the principles of the Open Government Partnership.<br /></li></ul>
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<h3>Saturday, April 21</h3>
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Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
<ul><li> <strong>What is the International Space Apps Challenge?</strong><br />The International Space Apps Challenge is a 2 day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need.<br /></li><li><strong>When will it take place?</strong><br />The International Space Apps Challenge will take place on all seven continents – and in space - on 21-22 April 2012.<br /></li><li><strong>Who is leading the Challenge?</strong><br />On September 20, 2011, President Obama, together with other heads of state, endorsed the principles of the Open Government Partnership – a new multilateral initiative to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. Since then, 52 countries have joined the global partnership. NASA is working with other organizations around the world on the International Space Apps Challenge as part of the United States’ domestic commitments to the Open Government Partnership.<br /></li><li><strong>Who can participate in the Challenge?</strong><br />Anyone can participate in the International Space Apps Challenge. It requires individuals with a broad range of skills. We are looking for engineers, technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, students, entrepreneurs – anyone who has a passion for changing the world and is willing to contribute.<br /></li><li><strong>Why should I participate in the Challenge?</strong><br />You should participate in the Challenge because the toughest challenges of the world are not one nation’s alone, and this is a unique opportunity to develop technology to reach the human race and make the world a better place. Additionally, the Challenge is an opportunity to: <br />
<ol><li>Demonstrate a commitment to the principles of the Open Government Partnership.</li><li>Exercise a government’s interest in using open data and technology, in partnership with others, to address global needs.</li><li>Engage citizens in countries with little or no investments in space exploration to contribute to space exploration through open source, open data, and code development.</li><li>Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education by encouraging students from around the world to utilize open technology for solutions to global challenges.</li><li>Encourage international partnership and mutual understanding.<br /></li></ol>
</li><li><strong>What challenges will be addressed at the event?</strong><br />Challenges are in development from a wide variety of sources inside and outside of NASA. An initial set has been posted on the site and the community is invited to help develop them collaboratively there. New challenges will continue to be added on a weekly basis in anticipation of the event. To discuss contributing additional challenges or datasets, contact <a class="external-link" href="mailto:alicia.llewellyn-1@nasa.gov">alicia.llewellyn-1@nasa.gov</a>.<br /></li><li><strong>Where will the Challenge take place?</strong><br />Locations in which events are currently planned to be held include San Francisco, US; Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne and Canberra, Australia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Exeter and Oxford, UK; Nairobi, Kenya; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and McMurdo Station, Antarctica. There will be additional events throughout the world and participation by astronauts on the International Space Station.<br /></li><li><strong>What is a codeathon?</strong><br />A codeathon is a unique event that brings together citizens interested in collaborating on the development solutions that address critical challenges. A codeathon celebrates software development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside- the-box solutions in response to interesting problems. Codathons are technology development marathons, drawing on the talents and initiative of the best and the brightest software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world, who volunteer their time to respond to real- world problems with solutions than can have immediate impact. The International Space Apps Challenge is a “codeathon-style” event.<br /></li><li><strong>Is the event limited to just software development?</strong><br />No! Participants in the event will collaborate to build software, open hardware, data visualization, and citizen science platform solutions that contribute to space exploration and solve global challenges that focus on improving life on earth.<br /></li><li><strong>What happens at the event?</strong><br />At the events, individuals collaborate with others by forming teams focused on solving a particular challenge. The teams compete with other teams around the world to utilize publicly available space and data to design innovative “solutions” to a pre- determined series of global “challenges.”<br /></li><li><strong>What about licensing and IP rights?</strong><br />All solutions built at the event must be submitted under a license that permits the free and open dissemination of the work. NASA and the other supporting organizations do not own the rights to nor are committed to utilize any solution developed during the event.<br /></li><li><strong>Who organizes the events in each city?</strong><br />Each event is led as a collaboration between organizations who work together to host an event, mobilize the developer community and contribute to the overall success of the International Space Apps Challenge.<br /></li><li>How can organizations get involved?<br />There is still an opportunity to participate in the International Space Apps Challenge and contribute to an event in your country. We are looking for organizations who are interested in supporting events in cities around the world, as well as for subject matter experts who can share their expertise at the event, either in person or remotely. To express interest in supporting an event in your country, contact <a class="external-link" href="mailto:elizabeth.sabet@secondmuse.com">elizabeth.sabet@secondmuse.com</a> or <a class="external-link" href="mailto:kristen.m.painting@nasa.gov">kristen.m.painting@nasa.gov<br /><br /></a></li></ul>
<ol><li><a class="external-link" href="http://spaceappschallenge.org/press/">Register for the event here</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://spaceappschallenge.org/press/">Click here</a> for the press kit</li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://spaceappschallenge.org/locations/">See all the event locations here</a><br /></li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/international-space-apps-challenge'>https://cis-india.org/openness/international-space-apps-challenge</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessEvent Type2012-04-10T05:18:14ZEventGeekUp with Erica Hagen
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/geek-up-with-erica
<b>HasGeek is organizing a GeekUp with Erica Hagen of the GroundTruth Initiative on 1 March 2012 at 5 p.m. Erica will speak on the theme: "From Information to Empowerment: Unpacking the Equation".</b>
<h3>From Information to Empowerment to Unpacking the Equation</h3>
<p>In 2010, Erica Hagen and Mikel Maron started GroundTruth Initiative to work towards empowering communities through open data, open information and participatory processes. Erica's and Mikel's work at <a class="external-link" href="http://groundtruth.in/">GroundTruth</a> is informed by their earlier experience of working with the <a class="external-link" href="http://mapkibera.org/">Map Kibera</a> project where they helped the youth and the communities in Kibera to map their geographies and represent information about themselves to the world through citizen media. In the process, Erica and Mikel uncovered several complex dynamics about self-representation by communities, what open data really means to communities and how they apply it to their circumstances, the dynamics between participatory development and participatory technologies, and the process of using community media tools and online methods for talking about issues that matter to them.</p>
<p>In this lecture, Erica Hagen will talk about her work with communities in Kenya, Jerusalem, Nigeria and other parts of the world through GroundTruth Initiative. Specifically, Erica will unpack the relationship between empowerment, information, and storytelling, and what both these elements mean to communities in different parts of the world. How are communities applying the information and data that they collect about their governments and themselves? What are the challenges involved in the process of working with open data, participatory processes and technologies? How can communities apply new media and data gathering tools to achieve local goals? What does empowerment mean in the face of the delicate lines and precariousness that communities and the interveners/practitioners have to tread in the process of data gathering, representation, communication and outputs?</p>
<p>Interested persons need to confirm attendance by registering at <a class="external-link" href="http://geekup.in/2012/erica-hagen">http://geekup.in/2012/erica-hagen <br /></a></p>
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<h3>Erica Hagen</h3>
<p>Erica Hagen is a journalist and international development practitioner working for democracy of information and citizen participation in both online and traditional media. She is the co-founder of Map Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative. Erica has worked in four countries on development communication and evaluation, and in the United States on refugee and immigrant issues, for organizations such as United Nations Population Fund, Concern Worldwide, and Unicef. She holds a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/geek-up-with-erica'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/geek-up-with-erica</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureEvent TypeInternet Governance2012-02-29T03:00:14ZEventFree Arduino Workshop (For Beginners)
https://cis-india.org/openness/free-arduino-workshop
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore invites you to a hands-on-free Arduino workshop in its office on 3 March 2012. The workshop will be held from 11.00 a.m. to 3 p.m.</b>
<h2>What is Arduino?</h2>
<p>Arduino, an Italian name meaning "strong friend", is a popular "open-source electronics prototyping platform based around a microcontroller. It accepts inputs, such as signals from sensors (light, temperature, moisture, etc.) or data from the Internet or wireless devices, and sends output signals to devices, such as LEDS, motors, speakers, MIDI sequencers, computers, and so on."</p>
<p>In simpler terms: It is a ready-to-use creative platform, designed to provide interactivity between humans, smartphones, PCs, sensors and the physical world. It is especially a boon for creative people who don't have a technical background and want to translate their wildest techno-ideas to reality in a snap.</p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/YrflS">A comic by Jody Culkin, introducing Arduino</a></p>
<h2>What can Arduino Do?</h2>
<p>Applications of Arduino could include anything under the sun, from making your LED lights glow in reaction to the weather to interactive punching bags: your imagination is the limit (besides the sensors).</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/lF1s8">Check what some folk did with a bunch of cameras for an amazing music video all in one day</a></p>
<p>For other examples, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/tkvJz">check out the Boing Boing listing</a></p>
<h2>Who can Attend?</h2>
<p>The workshop is especially meant for interaction designers, artists or anyone else enthusiastic to get started with creative projects and don't have prior experience with electronics, interfacing and all that hack talk. It would help to have a general understanding of instructional programming languages, but this shouldn't be a problem for starts as you will pick it up as we go along. Besides, we are super-friendly and patient folk who will assist participants to demystify geek code.</p>
<h2>Apply Now</h2>
<p>We have only 20 seats for this free workshop. Participants will work in groups of two. The workshop will last 4 hours, over a lunch break. All materials will be provided, and it would be great if you could get your laptop. </p>
<p>To apply please send a brief intro about yourself and why you think you will benefit from this to yelena@cis-india.org. Selected participants will be notified shortly.</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/2DM2j">A map, showing the location of CIS</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/free-arduino-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/openness/free-arduino-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessEvent TypeWorkshopVideo2012-04-28T04:07:50ZEventCartonama Workshop
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama
<b>HasGeek presents an intensive, hands-on training for managing and building location based services at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Bangalore on 2nd and 3rd March, 2012. CIS is a partner for this event.</b>
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<h2>About the Workshop</h2>
<p>Around 95% smartphone users around the world - which translates to about <a class="external-link" href="http://blur-marketing.com/blog/trends-and-statistics-in-location-based-services/">468 million people - are using Location Based Services</a> to look for points of interests, ATMs, restaurants, hotels and many other services. They are checking traffic status, and sharing locations and check-ins with friends on various social networks. In the last four years, this industry has grown six times, to a whooping $6 billion.</p>
<p>Cartonama Workshop will provide developers, neo-geographers and entrepreneurs working on location based services with hands-on training on advanced tools to manage and represent their geographic data.</p>
<p>The trainers will help participants to learn use of tools such as databases, tile servers, tile studios, Geocoding APIs, search APIs and JavaScript libraries through an application building exercise. The learning process is interspersed with lectures and discussion sessions on issues such as quality of geographic data, commercialization, licensing and privacy. For more details about the workshop sessions, <a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/">visit the HasGeek funnel</a>.</p>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/schuyler_erle.jpg/image_preview" title="Schuyler" height="101" width="101" alt="Schuyler" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Schuyler Erle</strong><br />Free Software developer and evangelist for over fifteen years. He was a co-author of 'Mapping Hacks' and 'Google Maps Hacks'. He was also a co-founder of the OpenLayers and TileCache projects, and is a charter member of the OSGeo Foundation. He also works in the fields of wireless networking, intelligent search engines and the Semantic Web and was the lead developer of NoCatAuth which is an open source wireless captive portal. He built geocoder.us, which is an open source United States. address geocoder. More recently, Schuyler helped found the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and serves on its Board of Directors. He currently resides in San Francisco.</td>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/mikel_maron.jpg/image_preview" title="Mikel Maron" height="100" width="100" alt="Mikel Maron" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Mikel Maron</strong><br />Programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He is co-founder of Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s on the Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, having helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He’s travelled widely, organizing projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere. Previously, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative platforms, and geoweb standards, with a wide spectrum of organizations from UN and government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.</td>
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In 2008, Mikel Maron and Schuyler Erle conducted <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Free_Map_India_2008" class="external-link">a series of workshops in India</a>. From Delhi to Ludhiana, Pune, Mumbai, Kerala and Bangalore. The workshop series poked people like <a class="external-link" href="http://twitter.com/planemad">Arun Ganesh</a>
and inspired them to map and build applications. Arun and his friends
mapped Chennai extensively and created beautiful maps. They also put the
data together into <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/busroutes.in" class="external-link">busroutes.in</a>
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BusRoutes.in remains as one of the best examples of using crowdsourced
geographic information to create applications that are useful.</p>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/194-introduction-to-openstreetmap"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/osm.jpg/image_preview" alt="OpenStreetMap" class="image-inline image-inline" title="OpenStreetMap" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/195-gps-surveying-for-osm"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/GPS.jpg/image_preview" alt="GPS Surveying" class="image-inline image-inline" title="GPS Surveying" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/196-downloading-from-gps"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Down.jpg/image_preview" alt="Downloading from GPS" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Downloading from GPS" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/197-editing-data-in-osm"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Edit.jpg/image_preview" alt="Editing Data" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Editing Data" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Introduction to OpenStreetMap</strong><br /></td>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/198-tagging-and-map-features"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tag.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tagging" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tagging" /></a><br /></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/199-geo-file-formats"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geographic.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geographic file formats" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geographic file formats" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/200-geo-enabled-databases"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geoenabled.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geo-enabled Databases" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geo-enabled Databases" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/203-create-shapefiles-from-collected-data"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/shape.jpg/image_preview" alt="Creating Shapefiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Creating Shapefiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/204-tiles"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tiles.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/205-tilemill"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tilemill.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tilemill" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tilemill" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/206-javascript-mapping-apis"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/java.jpg/image_preview" alt="Javascript Mapping APIs" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Javascript Mapping APIs" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/207-serving-tiles"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/serve.jpg/image_preview" alt="Serving Tiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Serving Tiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/208-geocoding-and-location-queries"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geocoding.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geocoding" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geocoding" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/209-putting-it-all-together"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/putting.jpg/image_preview" alt="Putting" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Putting" /></a></td>
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<h2>Why You Should Attend the Workshop?</h2>
<p>The workshop is only open to 30 participants. This is to ensure that the trainers can pay individual attention to each participant.</p>
<p>The workshop will train you with both back-end as well as front-end tools necessary for developing functional location based services and will enable you to build maps which can be used on devices ranging from phones to tablets to computers. It is aimed at teaching you the entire technology stack, right from managing the data to deploying the data on the server, and finally presenting it to your end user. During the hands-on sessions, you will develop web-based location services and learn how to manage your geographic data by creating interactive maps.</p>
<p>Mikel and Schuyler have extensive experience working with interactive maps, open data, Open Street Maps (OSM) and diverse communities on the ground. Participants will benefit immensely from the knowledge, experience and expertise of the trainers.</p>
<h2><a class="external-link" href="http://cartonama.doattend.com/">Registration</a></h2>
<p>Tickets are priced at Rs. 10,000. Participants can register through the DoAttend portal. Or, you can pay offline through cheques and DD. Your ticket price covers workshop facilities and the facilitators' travel to India. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has sponsored part of the workshop expenses.</p>
<p>Participants are expected to bring their own GPS devices / mobile phones and computers for the application building exercises.</p>
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If you have any queries, write to <a class="external-link" href="mailto:sajjad@hasgeek.in">Sajjad Anwar</a>.</p>
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<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>The workshop will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society
(CIS), Bangalore. The congenial atmosphere at CIS facilitates both
formal and informal interactions, and peer-to-peer learning.<br />
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<p>No. 194, 2nd C Cross, 4th Main<br />
Opposite Domlur Club<br />
Domlur 2nd Stage, Bangalore - 560 071</p>
<h2>The Centre for Internet & Society</h2>
<p>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a Bangalore-based independent, non-profit research organisation. CIS is primarily involved in research on the Internet and its relationship to society. Through its academic and research programmes, campaigns, and advocacy, CIS brings together scholars, academics, students, programmers and scientists to engage in a large variety of issues concerning the Internet: from histories of the Internet to enhancing accessibility for persons with disabilities, openness, telecom and Internet governance, among others.</p>
<p>CIS is supporting the Cartonama Workshop by providing the venue and hosting the workshop facilitators in Bangalore.</p>
<h2>HasGeek</h2>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/www.hasgeek.com" class="external-link">HasGeek </a>was initiated in September 2010 to create discussion spaces for developers around emerging technologies. Our events are developer-focused. We began by organizing five editions of the DocType HTML5 conference in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.</p>
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In 2011, we organized a series of events in Bangalore starting with the Android Camp in April, PHP and Cloud Computing in June, JSFoo in October, and Droidcon India in November. Each of these events had an open talks submission and voting system, which made every event more participant-focused. <br />
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In 2012, we are attempting to reach out to a wider audience of developers, entrepreneurs and students, across large and small Indian cities, by addressing interesting technology problems such as UI Engineering, Data Science, SMS and email notifications, among others.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeWorkshopInternet Governance2012-02-14T10:21:16ZEventEssay Review: Digital AlterNatives with a Cause
https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review
<b>Hivos and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) are pleased to announce the monthly essay review event. It starts from the midnight of February 17 and ends on the midnight of February 26. Hurry! Pick any essay from the four book collective of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? and send us your reviews.</b>
<p>Hivos and CIS have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”.</p>
<p>This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.</p>
<p>The event invites readers from around the world to pick any one essay from the books and review it in the week of 17-26 February 2012.</p>
<p>Previously found reviews can be found <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/media-coverage" class="external-link">here</a>.</p>
<p>For submission guidelines, please get in touch with: Nilofar Ansher (<a class="external-link" href="mailto:nilofar.ansh@gmail.com">nilofar.ansh@gmail.com</a>)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeDigital Natives2012-02-10T05:53:30ZEventGandhi, Freedom, and the Dilemmas of Copyright
https://cis-india.org/a2k/gandhi-freedom-and-copyright
<b>To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary, the Centre for Internet and Society cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh of the University of Pennsylvania on Gandhi, Freedom, and the Dilemmas of Copyright on 30 January 2012 at 6.00 p.m.
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<p>When the copyright on Rabindranath Tagore's writings were to expire, his estate sought (and got) an extension in copyright term. But when the copyright on Mahatma Gandhi's writings were to expire, the trustees did not seek such an extension, in deference to Gandhi's views on copyright. On the cover of the first English edition of the Hind Swaraj, it states: "No Rights Reserved". Was Gandhi a Wikipedian at heart, and a prophet who foresaw the 'copyright wars' and had his own visions of how far free culture and free knowledge activism could and could not go?</p>
<h3>Description<br /></h3>
<p>Central to modern discussions of copyright law is the conflict between copyright’s role as a market-based mechanism of cultural production and its detrimental effects on access to knowledge, free speech, and cultural creativity. So divisive is this debate in the world of copyright law today that some have characterized it as the ongoing “copyright wars”. In January 2009, when copyright in all of Gandhi’s works expired, to the absolute surprise of many, the Navjivan Trust,to whom Gandhi had transferred the copyright in his works, chose not to seek a statutory extension of copyright.</p>
<p>The Trust’s firm decision rested in large part on Gandhi’s unease with copyright law, and his reluctant acceptance of its benefits. Gandhi’s opinions on copyright law reveal a rather concerted attempt to grapple with the innumerable public and private trade-offs that are central to the institution, which are today seen as the very basis of the copyright wars. Much like Gandhi’s views on other issues, they reveal a pragmatism, nuance, and creative engagement, which likely emanate from Gandhi’s training as a lawyer. Instead of simplistically rejecting the institution in its entirety, Gandhi saw copyright law for what it is—an important social compromise—and sought to engage with it in a way that tracked his beliefs on other issues.<br /><br />This talk will argue that the nuances of Gandhi’s engagement with copyright law hold important lessons for thinking about copyright law in society, and for managing its complex trade-offs. Gandhi’s thinking on the topic anticipated many of the modern dilemmas about the structure and function of copyright law--such as the role of exclusivity, the importance of control and integrity, and the costs and benefits of licensing revenues. And while Gandhi may not have had a clear (or unambiguously correct) solution to any of them, he almost certainly asked the right questions.</p>
<h3>About the Speaker</h3>
<p>Shyam Balganesh’s scholarship focuses on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts and structures from different areas of the common law. His most recent work tries to understand copyright law’s pre-requisite of “copying” for liability, as a mechanism of pluralistic decision-making that allows it to incorporate both utilitarian and rightsbased considerations into its functioning.</p>
<p>Balganesh received his J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was an Articles and Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Student Fellow at the Information Society Project (ISP). Prior to that he spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, and received a B.C.L. and an M.Phil in Law from Oxford University.</p>
<p>His recent publications include: ‘“Hot News’: The Enduring Myth of Property in News,” 111 Columbia Law Review 419 (2011); “The Pragmatic Incrementalism of Common Law Intellectual Property,” 63 Vanderbilt Law Review 1543 (2010); and “Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives,” 122 Harvard Law Review 1569 (2009), among others. He is also currently editing a collection of scholarly essays on the topic of intellectual property and the common law, scheduled to be published by the Cambridge University Press in 2012.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/gandhi-freedom-and-copyright'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/gandhi-freedom-and-copyright</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeVideoCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2012-04-28T04:11:01ZEvent Whose Data is it Anyway?
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/whose-data-is-it
<b>Tactical Technology Collective and the Centre for Internet & Society invite you to the second round of discussions of the Exposing Data Series at the CIS office in Bangalore on 24 January 2012. Siddharth Hande and Hapee de Groot will be speaking on this occasion.</b>
<p>Like countless others, this title is a convenient adaptation of a 1972 play by Brian Clark, Whose Life is it Anyway?, a meditation on 'euthanasia' and the extent to which governments or the law can determine the private life of an individual. In a similar sense we use the title to help frame the second set of conversations in the Exposing Data Series, to zero in on the idea of data and who has the right to decide what happens with it. Philosophically, and also at the level of code, computing and the law, the ownership of data can be a somewhat odd and a contentious thing to grapple with. The only other understandings of 'ownership' we really have are those of property and identity and these get imputed onto the intangibility of data. And, in some senses now, many aspects of one's identity exist as data.</p>
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<p>There are a range of experiences of data ownership that we talk about and experience daily. On the one hand you can hoard hard disks with favourite content to retrieve memories and experiences. On the other end of things, you can aggregate your experiences and memories with that of thousands of others, that then gets treated almost like a private hard disk belonging to some mysterious X. Who is this Mysterious X? Is there a Y? Or an XY? What is the trajectory of data in its movement from the individual to a larger, shadowy infrastructure that harvests it? What happens to our idea of data in its reconfiguration from intangible code to an idea of politics and rights? To introduce another provocation, do our existing ideas of data ownership objectify individuals? What does this objectification imply for the notion of personal privacy? For example, does the fetishization of 'things' called data obfuscate the idea of personal privacy?</p>
<p>One of the ways in which we may consider looking at open data initiatives for transparency and accountability is to assess it as discourse, and in relation to what happens when communities aggregate data. Open Government Data usually involves a top-down approach in terms of how it is aggregated, collated, shared, whilst community based approaches are more particular, contextual and local. What do these different approaches give us when we bring them to the same table?</p>
<p>The second event in the Exposing Data Series will focus on data ownership, looking into open government data and community-based data aggregation, to explore the various levels of data collection, the movement of data and its exchange, its representation, and dissemination in different contexts.</p>
<h2>Speakers<br /></h2>
<ol><li>Siddharth Hande, Transparent Chennai</li><li>Hapee de Groot, Hivos, Netherlands</li></ol>
<p>This event is free and open to everyone. However, we would appreciate a confirmation of attendance ahead of time so as to ensure that your space is reserved. To confirm your attendance please write to: <a class="external-link" href="mailto:yelena.gyulkhandanyan@gmail.com">yelena.gyulkhandanyan@gmail.com <br /></a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/whose-data-is-it'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/whose-data-is-it</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeVideoInternet GovernancePrivacy2012-04-28T04:12:15ZEventTweet a Review of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause Books
https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/tweet-a-review
<b>Essays from 'Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?' books are getting reviewed. We invite everyone to participate in this book review event! Deadline: January 31</b>
<p>Read one essay from the 'Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?' books published by the Centre for Internet & Society and HIVOS. <br />Download PDFs <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook" class="external-link">here.</a></p>
<ul><li>Post a review on your blog</li></ul>
<ul><li>Tweet the review's link on Twitter using #TweetReview and copy @cis_india</li></ul>
<ul><li>For e.g. "Unpacking the shiny packaging of Digital Natives" Book 2 To Think #TweetReview <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/unpacking-from-shiny-packaging" class="external-link">http://cis-india.org/digital-natives/unpacking-from-shiny-packaging</a> @cis_india</li><li>Send us a link to your view<br /></li></ul>
<p><br />For more details about the event and the essays you want to review, email: <a class="external-link" href="mailto:nilofar.ansh@gmail.com">nilofar.ansh@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Tweet-a-Review is a monthly event organized as part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project.</p>
<p>Read previous reviews <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/media-coverage" class="external-link">here </a></p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://www.facebook.com/events/186700531427527/"><br /></a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/tweet-a-review'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/tweet-a-review</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeDigital Natives2012-01-07T14:42:32ZEventGeekup @ CIS
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/mozilla-it
<b>CIS is hosting a Geekup tomorrow, December 27, 2011 in its office in Bangalore. Shyam Mani will be giving a talk.</b>
<h2>Shyam Mani<br /></h2>
<p>Based out of Singapore, Shyam (aka fox2mike on IRC and most of the intertubes) is one of the folks on the Mozilla IT team outside the USA. A geek at heart, he’s a part-time Gentoo developer, loves photography and volunteers as a race official for Formula 1 races in Singapore and Australia.</p>
<h2>A peek into Mozilla IT</h2>
<p>Mozilla IT manages over 7 datacenters in San Jose, Santa Clara, Phoenix in the US and Amsterdam as well as Beijing and 7 offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, Paris, Auckland and Beijing with over 4000 servers and virtual machines. They support Mozilla's mission on a 24/7 basis by making sure critical infrastructure functions as expected and is always available (when they're not being BOFHs). The 45 member strong team is primarily based out of the US and has a person each in India and Singapore.</p>
<p>This talk will provide an insight into Mozilla's Infrastructure in terms of scale and the methods/tools used to manage the same.</p>
<p>We will open with lightning talks from Bangalore's geeks. That means you. Give us a 5-10 minute intro to the tools you use or how your organization's IT is structured. Help get the mood going before Shyam's talk.</p>
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<p>The venue has limited capacity</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://geekup.in/2011/fox2mike">Fill out the form</a> to confirm your participation. We have limited space at the venue and may not be able to accommodate everyone. <a class="external-link" href="http://geekup.in/2011/fox2mike">Registration</a> will allow us to keep you updated about the talk. Do tell us something about yourself so we know whom we are expecting. </p>
<p><strong>Our privacy policy:</strong> We do not share your info. </p>
<div id="register-now"> Also see the <a class="external-link" href="http://hasgeek.com/">HasGeek website</a></div>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/mozilla-it'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/mozilla-it</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeInternet Governance2011-12-26T07:39:53ZEventFree Speech Online in India under Attack?
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/free-speech-online-in-india-under-attack
<b>When the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal suggested pre-censorship for a range of popular online platforms and social networking sites, the suggestion was met by a barrage of criticism, which soon forced him to back down. Yet Sibal’s suggestion is not the only threat to free speech on the Internet in India today. Legislation such as the Intermediary Due Diligence Rules and Cyber Café Rules (also jointly known as the IT Rules) issued in April 2011 is equally dangerous for free speech online.</b>
<p>Achal Prabhala, Anja Kovacs and Lawrence Liang will join Sunil Abraham to discuss in more detail some of the direct threats to freedom of expression online in India today including the larger legal and social context of freedom of expression and censorship, control and resistance in which they have to be understood and the steps that can be taken to ensure that substantive protections for freedom of expression online will be put into place.</p>
<h2>The Speakers</h2>
<h3>Achal Prabhala</h3>
<p>Achal is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is a researcher, activist and writer in the areas of access to knowledge and access to medicine besides being a member of the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.</p>
<h3>Anja Kovacs<br /></h3>
<p>Anja works with the Internet Democracy Project, which engages in research and advocacy on the promises and challenges that the Internet poses for democracy and social justice in the developing world.</p>
<h3>Lawrence Liang</h3>
<p>Lawrence is a researcher and lawyer based in Bangalore, who is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a co-founder of the Alternative Law Forum and works on the intersection of law, technology and culture. He has worked closely with filmmakers and artists in a number of anti-censorship campaigns.</p>
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<h3>Sunil Abraham</h3>
<p>Sunil is the Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society, a Bangalore-based non-profit organization. He is also a social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. He founded Mahiti in 1998 which aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Information and Communication Technology for the Voluntary Sector by using Free Software. <br /><br /><em>This event is jointly organised by the Internet Democracy Project and the Centre for Internet and Society. Join us at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, on Wednesday 21 December, at 5.30 pm.</em></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaFreedom of Speech and ExpressionPublic AccountabilityInternet GovernanceLectureEvent Type2012-03-02T03:03:24ZEventPrivacy Matters — Analyzing the "Right to Privacy Bill"
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/right-to-privacy-bill-conference
<b>Privacy India in partnership with International Development Research Centre, Canada, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the Godrej Culture Lab, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is organising "Privacy Matters", a public conference at IIT, Bombay on 21 January 2012. </b>
<p>The conference will focus on the questions and dilemmas posed by privacy in India today, with a concentration on the "Right to Privacy Bill". The right to privacy in India has been a neglected area of study and engagement. Although sectoral legislation deals with privacy issues, India does not as yet have a horizontal legislation that deals comprehensively with privacy across all contexts. The absence of a minimum guarantee of privacy is felt most heavily by marginalized communities, including HIV patients, children, women, sexuality minorities, prisoners, etc. — people who most need to know that sensitive information is protected.</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://www.privacyindia.org">Privacy India</a> was established in 2010 with the objective of raising awareness, sparking civil action and promoting democratic dialogue around privacy challenges and violations in India. One of our goals is to build consensus towards the promulgation of comprehensive privacy legislation in India through consultations with the public, legislators and the legal and academic community.</p>
<p>The event will focus on discussing the challenges and concerns to privacy in India. We invite you to attend the meeting and contribute your views. Please confirm your participation by getting in touch with Natasha (<a class="external-link" href="mailto:natasha@cis-india.org">natasha@cis-india.org</a>). We sincerely hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to your participation.</p>
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<td><strong>Welcome- Privacy in India</strong><br />Prashant Iyengar is a practicing lawyer and lead researcher for Privacy India. He will present who Privacy India is, and the objectives of Privacy India's research. His presentation will focus on<br />discussing privacy in India.<br /></td>
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<td><strong>Key Note Address- Draft Privacy Bill Critique</strong><br />Na. Vijayashankar is an e-business consultant. He established the premier Cyber Law information portal in India. He is the founder secretary of Cyber Society of India, Founder Trustee of International Institue of Information Technology Law, and Founder Chairman of Digital Society Foundation. He will present a critique of the Draft Privacy Bill.<br /></td>
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<strong>Privacy and the Legal System</strong><br />Sudhir Krishnaswamy is an Assistant Professor at the National law School of India University and is currently writing a Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Law, Oxford University on ‘The Basic Structure Doctrine in Indian Constitutional Adjudication’. His presentation will look at the trajectory of privacy through the years from a legal perspective.<br /></td>
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<td><strong>Privacy and Constitutional Law</strong><br />N. Nappinai is an advocate who specializes in IP and technology laws. She is a founder member of Technology Law Forum (TLF). She has spearheaded and driven several initiatives of TLF with various organization including NASSCOM, FICCI, IMC etc., and has also conducted several workshops and training sessions for the Mumbai Police, Public Prosecutors & Industry verticals in Cyber Laws. Her presentation will define the scope of Article 21 under the Indian Constitution, which protects the right to privacy.<br /></td>
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<strong>Privacy and Freedom of Expression</strong><br />Apar Gupta is an advocate who specializes in intellectual property, electronic commerce law and technology media and telecoms. He holds a master from Columbia Law School and has authored a Commentary on the Information Technology Act, 2000. His presentation will focus on the limits of a privacy right when it competes and conflicts with the freedom of speech and expression. He will examine certain provisions of the Draft Privacy Bill questioning how privacy arguments may be used to stifle debate or disclosure made in the public interest.<br /></td>
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<td><strong>Sexuality Minorities and Privacy</strong><br />Danish Sheikh graduated from Nalsar University of Law with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.). Currently, he is a researcher at the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore. He will examine the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Allahabad, he<br />will bring to light the privacy violations being committed by both individuals as we all state authorities.<br /></td>
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<td>15:45-<br />16:30</td>
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<h3>Session III</h3>
<strong>Privacy and National Security</strong><br />Menaka Guruswamy practices law at the Supreme Court of India. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, a Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a gold medalist from the National Law School of India and has law degrees from all three schools. Menaka has advised the United National Development Program and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She will discuss the relationship between national security and privacy, from the perspective of surveillance by the state etc.<br /></td>
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<td>16:30-<br />17:15</td>
<td><strong>Privacy and UID</strong><br />R. Ramkumar is a Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He is advocate as well as a patent and trademark attorney. His presentation will focus on what standards of privacy are afforded within the UID system.<br /></td>
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<td>17:15- 17:30</td>
<td><strong>Tea Break</strong></td>
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<td>17:30-<br />18:00</td>
<td><strong>Discussion and Questions</strong></td>
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<h2 align="center">Organizers</h2>
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<td align="center"> <img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrivacyIndia.jpg/image_preview" title="Privacy India" height="51" width="124" alt="Privacy India" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td> <strong>Privacy India</strong><br />Privacy India was established in 2010 with the
objective of raising awareness, sparking civil action and promoting
democratic dialogue around privacy challenges and violations in India.
One of our goals is to build consensus towards the promulgation of
comprehensive privacy legislation in India through consultations with
the public, legislators and the legal and academic community.</td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrivacyInternational.jpg/image_preview" title="Privacy International" height="97" width="113" alt="Privacy International" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Privacy International</strong> (<a class="external-link" href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/">https://www.privacyinternational.org/</a>)<br />Privacy International’s mission is to defend the right to privacy across the world, and to fight surveillance and other intrusions into private life by governments and corporations. PI has been providing citizens and policy-makers with the tools and perspectives to enable them to hold to account those who threaten privacy since 1990. PI has active associates and networks in 46 countries.<br /></td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/IDRC.jpg/image_preview" title="IDRC" height="47" width="145" alt="IDRC" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>The International Development Research Centre</strong> (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Pages/default.aspx">www.idrc.ca/</a>)<br />Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is one of the world’s leading institutions in the generation and application of new knowledge to meet the challenges of international development. They help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. <br /></td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/CISlogo1.jpg/image_preview" title="CIS_Logo" height="70" width="184" alt="CIS_Logo" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>The Centre for Internet & Society</strong> (<a href="https://cis-india.org/" class="external-link">http://cis-india.org/</a>)<br />The Centre for Interenet & Society brings together a team of practitioners, theoreticians, researchers and artists to work on the emerging field of Internet and Society to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange.<br /></td>
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<td align="center">
<h2><br /></h2>
</td>
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<h2 align="center"> Partners</h2>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Godrej.jpg/image_preview" alt="Godrej India Cultural Lab" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Godrej India Cultural Lab" /></td>
<td><strong>The Godrej India Culture Lab</strong> (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.godrej.com">www.godrej.com</a>)<br />The Godrej India Culture Lab is an interdisciplinary space which aims to build knowledge networks and interpret the changes rapidly taking place in contemporary India by bringing together the best minds from global academia, business and the creative worlds working on different aspects of Indian society.<br /></td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/IITBombay.jpg/image_preview" title="IIT Bombay" height="142" width="145" alt="IIT Bombay" class="image-inline image-inline" /><br /></td>
<td><strong>IIT, Bombay</strong> (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.iitb.ac.in/">www.iitb.ac.in/</a>)<br />Established in 1958, IIT is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field of engineering education and research. It is reputed for the quality of its faculty and the outstanding calibre of students graduating from its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Over the years, there has been dynamic progress at IIT Bombay in all academic and research activities, and a parallel improvement in facilities and infrastructure, to keep it on par with the best institutions in the world.<br /><br /></td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Tiss.jpg/image_preview" title="Tata Institute of Social Sciences" height="145" width="105" alt="Tata Institute of Social Sciences" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Tata Institute of Social Sciences</strong> (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.tiss.edu/">http://www.tiss.edu/</a>)<br />Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) offers higher professional education in the field of human service and applied social science research. The institute has gone beyond the initial concern of social work education, since its inception in 1936, to consistently contribute to the promotion of sustainable, participatory development and social justice. Through its work, the Institute facilitates strong linkages between education, research, field action and policy advocacy.<br /></td>
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<h3>Speakers</h3>
<p>1. <strong> </strong><strong>Apar Gupta</strong></p>
<p>2.
<strong>Danish
Sheikh,</strong> Alternative Law Forum</p>
<p>3.
<strong>NA
Vijayashankar,</strong> E-Business Consultant, Founder Secretary of
Cyber Society of India, Founder Trustee of International Institute of
Information Technology Law, and Founder Chairman of Digital Society Foundation</p>
<p>4.
<strong>N
S Nappinai,</strong> Advocate and Founder Member of Technology Law
Forum</p>
<p>5.
<strong>Prashanth
Iyengar,</strong> Assistant Professor & Assistant Director,
Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies, Lead Researcher with Privacy
India, Bangalore; Legal Aid Manager with Rural Development Institute,
Hyderabad; Researcher & Lawyer with Alternative Law Forum</p>
<p>6.
<strong>R.
Ramkumar,</strong> Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences</p>
<p>7.
<strong>Shishir
Jha, </strong>Project Lead at Creative Commons India and
Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay</p>
<p>8. <strong>Menaka Guruswamy,</strong>
practices
law at the Supreme Court of India.</p>
<p>9. <strong>Sudhir Krishnaswamy, </strong>is
an Assistant Professor at the National law School of India University.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/analyzing-right-2-privacy-bill.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Analyzing the Right to Privacy Bill">Download the invitation</a> [PDF, 988 kb]</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-matters-mumbai.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Privacy Matters — Analyzing the "Right to Privacy Bill" Poster">Download the event poster</a> [PDF, 2155 kb]</li><li>IIT Bombay Map<a class="external-link" href="http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/howto/howtoget.html"> http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/howto/howtoget.html</a></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/right-to-privacy-bill-conference'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/right-to-privacy-bill-conference</a>
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No publisherNatasha VazEvent TypeVideoInternet GovernancePrivacy2012-04-28T04:10:12ZEventAll India Privacy Symposium
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-symposium
<b>Privacy India in partnership with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Society in Action Group, Gurgaon, Privacy International, UK and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative is organizing the All India Privacy Symposium at the India International Centre, New Delhi on Saturday, February 4, 2012.</b>
<p>Since June 2010, Privacy India has been engaging in discussions with policy makers, the public and sectoral experts about privacy in India. The discussions have ranged from topics of identity and privacy, to minority rights and privacy, and consumer privacy. The findings of our research show that privacy was a neglected area of study for India in the past, however, this is changing. Advancements in technology, the introduction of e-governance initiatives like the National Fibre Optic Network, the introduction of new legislations, and debates surrounding national security, have brought privacy debates to the forefront in India. Although currently sectoral legislation deals with privacy issues, e.g., the Telegraph Act or RBI guidelines for banking, India has just begun to consider a horizontal legislation that deals comprehensively with privacy across all contexts. This conference is an opportunity to look forward to what could be the future scope of privacy in India.</p>
<p>Privacy India was set up in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and Society in Action Group, Gurgaon, under the auspices of an international organization ‘Privacy International’. Privacy International is a non-profit group that provides assistance to civil society groups, governments, international and regional bodies, the media and the public in a number of countries. For more info, visit its <a class="external-link" href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/">website. <br /></a></p>
<p>This is a public meeting. For participation in the event, get in touch with Elonnai (<a class="external-link" href="mailto:elonnai@cis-india.org">elonnai@cis-india.org</a>)</p>
<h2>Symposium Advisors</h2>
<p>Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet &Society (<a href="https://cis-india.org/" class="external-link">www.cis-india.org</a>)<br />Rajan Gandhi, Society in Action Group<br />Phet Sayo, IDRC (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.idrc.org/">www.idrc.org</a>)<br />Gus Hosein, Privacy International (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/">www.privacyinternational.org</a>)<br />
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.clpr.org.in/">www.clpr.org.in</a>)<br />
Vickram Crishna, Privacy International (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/">www.privacyinternational.org</a>)</p>
<h2>Agenda <strong><br /></strong></h2>
<table class="plain">
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<tr>
<td>09:30- <br />10:00</td>
<td><strong>Registration</strong><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:00- <br />10:15</td>
<td><strong>Welcome & Introduction to Privacy India</strong><br />Elonnai Hickok (Policy Advocate, Privacy India)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:15- <br />10:30</td>
<td><strong>Tea Break</strong><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30-<br />11:30 <br /></td>
<td><strong>Panel I: Privacy and Transparency</strong><br />Moderator: Sunil Abraham (Executive Director, Centre for Internet & Society)<br />Panelists: Prashant Bhushan (Senior Advocate, New Delhi), Simon Davies (Director General, Privacy International, UK), Ponnurangam K (Assistant Prof, IIIT New Delhi), Chitra Ahanthem (Journalist, Imphal), Aruna Roy (Social & Political Activist), Deepak Maheshwari (Director Corporate Affairs, Microsoft)<br />Poster:Srishti Goyal (Law Student)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:30- <br />12:30</td>
<td><strong>Panel II: Privacy and E-Governance Initiatives</strong><br />Moderator: Sudhir Krishnaswamy (Professor, Azim Premji University)<br />Panelists: Anant Maringanti (Independent Social Researcher), Usha Ramanathan (Advocate&Social Activist), Ram Sewak Sharma (Director General, UIDAI)*, Gus Hosein (Executive Director, Privacy International, UK), R K Singh (Union Home Secretary, New Delhi)*, Apar Gupta (Advocate, Supreme Court of India)<br />Poster: Adrija Das (Law Student)<br /></td>
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<tr>
<td>12:30- <br />13:30</td>
<td><strong>Lunch</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13:30- <br />14:30</td>
<td><strong>Panel III: Privacy and National Security</strong><br />Moderator: Justice A P Shah (Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court)*<br />Panelists: Menaka Guruswamy (Advocate, Supreme Court, New Delhi), Amol Sharma (Journalist, Wall Street Journal)*, Saikat Datta (Journalist, DNA), Eric King (Human Rights and Technology Advisor, Privacy International, UK), Prasanth Sugathan (Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center) and Oxblood Ruffin (Cult of the Dead Cow Security and Publishing Collective)<br />Poster: Suchithra Menon (Law Student)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:30- <br />15:30</td>
<td><strong>Panel IV: Privacy and Banking</strong><br />Moderator: Prashant Iyengar (Associate Professor, Jindal Law University)<br />Panelists: M R Umarji (Chief Legal Advisor, IBA), N A Vijayashankar (Cyber Law Expert), Sucheta Dalal (Managing Editor, MoneyLife Magazine)*, Malavika Jayaram (Advocate, Bangalore)<br />Poster: Malavika Chandu (Law Student)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:30- <br />15:45</td>
<td><strong>Tea Break</strong><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:45- <br />16:45</td>
<td><strong>Panel V: Privacy and Health</strong><br />Moderator: Ashok Row Kavi (Journalist & LGBT Activist)<br />Panelists: K K Abraham (President, Indian Network for People with HIV), Shri Sayan Chatterjee (Secretary, National Aids Control Organization)*, Dr V M Katoch (Secretary, Department of Health Research)*, Dr B S Bedi (Advisor, CDAC & Media Lab Asia)<br />Poster: Danish Sheikh (Alternative Law Forum)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:45- <br />17:00</td>
<td><strong>The Way Forward</strong><br />Elonnai Hickok (Policy Advocate, Privacy India)<br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2><strong>Bios of Speakers</strong></h2>
<h3>Usha Ramanathan<br /></h3>
<p>Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She writes and speaks on leading issues like the Bhopal gas leak tragedy, mass displacement, civil liberties, criminal law, environment and the judicial process. She is involved in the UID project and has written and debated extensively on it. She is a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as a expert on mental health on various occasions. Her writings can be found at <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ielrc.org/">http://www.ielrc.org/</a>.</p>
<h3>NA.Vijayashankar</h3>
<p>NA.Vijayashankar, more popularly known as Naavi, is a Techno Legal Information Security Consultant based in Bangalore, India. Naavi is a pioneer in the field of Cyber Law in India. He is the author of the first book (1999) and first E-Book (2003) on Cyber Laws in India. He has also authored a book titled “Cyber Laws, Corporate Mantra for the Digital Era”, “Cyber Laws Demystified” and “Cyber Laws for Engineers” as well as a book on Cyber Crimes in Kannada.<br /><br />Naavi is the founder of <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/www.cyberlawcollege.com" class="external-link">www.cyberlawcollege.com</a> which is the pioneering virtual educational institution in India dedicated to Cyber Law Education. Cyber Law College presently conducts offline and virtual courses on Cyber Laws. It has conducted several courses in association with law colleges in Karnataka such as KLE Law College, Bangalore, JSS Law College, Mysore, SDM law college Mangalore and KLE Law College Hubli.<br /><br />Naavi is also the founder of <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/www.cyberlawcollege.com" class="external-link">www.naavi.org</a> the premier Cyber Law Portal in India. Naavi has been engaged in the training of Police in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and conducts several courses in Cyber Laws for different audiences. He has been a guest faculty in a number of institutions including NPA, IDRBT, DTRI, ISACA, NADT, LBS National Academy, Judicial Academies, NALSAR, etc., as well as several law, engineering and management institutions.<br /><br />Naavi has over three decades of senior Corporate executive experience behind him. He has been an ex-Banker and Consultant to several Companies in IT Services. He has conducted hundreds of training sessions to professionals of various disciplines such as bankers, lawyers, chartered accountants, engineers, software professionals, police and judicial officers through workshops and in-house training programmes in cyber laws, cyber crimes, information security and related areas.</p>
<h3>Chitra Ahanthem</h3>
<p>Chitra Ahanthem is a features writer with Imphal Free Press, published in Imphal, Manipur. She is also a freelance writer and researcher on issues around HIV/AIDS, child rights, conflict and gender.</p>
<h3>Baljit Singh Bedi <br /></h3>
<p>Baljit Singh Bedi did his B.Tech and M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. After serving for five years in the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) IIT, Delhi he joined the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT), Government of India. The major responsibilities and contributions over the years cover conceptualizing, evolving and implementation of a number of major schemes/programmes and projects in the field of electronics and IT applications with primary role in healthcare. He was instrumental in starting an integrated programme in promoting the area of Electronics, IT and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Standards in Healthcare in India. As the head of Medical Electronics & Telemedicine division, he was looking after the activity of promotion of e-health & tele–health technology and R&D in medical electronics and launched a number of schemes in India. He was part of the National Task Force Telemedicine in India set up by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW), Government of India and headed the Group on Standards. He was a Member of National Knowledge Commission’s Working Group on India-Health Information Network Development (I-HIND) and is part of the Advisory Group for follow-up implementation program under the consideration of MoH&FW. He is actively involved in policy, development and deployment programmes of IT in Health initiatives of DIT, MoH&FW, and Media Lab Asia. He is a member of the National Committee set up by MoH&FW for EMR Standardization and Heading its Task Group on Interoperability. He is also International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Expert for e-Health Standardization. He is Executive Member of Indian Association of Medical Informatics (IAMI) and President, Telemedicine Society of India (TSI). At present, he is an Adviser to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Scientific Society of MCIT, Government of India. </p>
<h3>Deepak Maheshwari <br /></h3>
<p>Deepak Maheshwari is Director – Corporate Affairs with Microsoft in India and responsible for interactions with the policymakers & regulators as well as with industry associations & the civil society organizations. An active participant and a keen observer of the interplay between technological innovation and socio-economic development, he has been closely associated with <strong>development & evolution of Information & Communication Technology policy</strong>, <strong>law & regulation</strong> for more than a decade and is often invited as a speaker and a contributor of articles & opinions in the media.<br /> <br />He has been active in several trade associations and served as committee chair & co-chair. He served for two consecutive terms as the elected secretary in the <strong>ISP Association of India</strong> and co-founded <strong>National Internet eXchange of India (NIXI)</strong> as well as the <strong>ITU-APT Foundation of India</strong>. He is also a member on the academic board of the <strong>IIM Ahmedabad- IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence</strong>. <br /> <br />At times mistaken as a lawyer, he was actually awarded degree in engineering by one of India’s leading technical institute<strong> IT-BHU</strong>. His professional experience of more than 2 decades spans functional responsibilities across sales, marketing, operations and last but not the least, corporate affairs.</p>
<p><strong>*Participants to be confirmed</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-symposium.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Symposium"></a><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/all-india-privacy-symposium.pdf" class="internal-link" title="All India Privacy Symposium">Download the poster here</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-symposium.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Symposium">Download the agenda here</a><strong> </strong>(PDF, 755 KB)</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-symposium'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy-symposium</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaConferenceEvent TypeInternet GovernancePrivacy2012-02-27T11:08:32ZEventDialogue Cafe @ Centre for Internet and Society
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/dialogue-cafe
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society announces the launch of its dialogue cafe, where every month, we approach seminal thinkers, scholars and practitioners to help explore knowledge paradigms that help us understand and research techno-social realities through innovative thought, concepts and frameworks.</b>
<p>The dialogue cafe draws upon different disciplines, histories, perspectives and intellectual legacies in order to respond to a seminal piece of writing that has changed, challenged and shaped the contours of interdisciplinary science and technology studies.</p>
<p>The dialogue cafe initiates several strands of dialogues — between critical thinkers and canonical texts, between different paradigm of knowledges that interact with digital and internet technologies, and between interlocutors located in different disciplines, to initiate critical thought/work for new and innovative research in the field of Internet and Society.</p>
<p>For its first brew of conversations, the Dialogue Cafe serves you...</p>
<h3>Computation and the Humanities: Revisiting a Silent Revolution</h3>
<p>Steve Jobs’ comments on how “technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities” made Apple hearts sing is today widely re-circulated, but not fully comprehended. We often take this to be the mark of one man’s genius, rather than the symptom of a broader interdisciplinary history. Noted Artificial Intelligence scholar Philip Agre recalls, “When I was a graduate student in artificial intelligence, the humanities were not held in high regard. They were vague and woolly, they employed impenetrable jargons, and they engaged in "meta-level bickering that never decides anything".</p>
<p>What happened, in the formative decades of Jobs and Agre’s generation, to bring technology and the humanities into conversation? What have the results been, other than well-designed personal computational devices, and what is the significance for us? On December 2, 2011, the Centre for Internet and Society invites you to a Dialogue Cafe, where we engage in exploring what this all means and what kinds of labour it might take to ‘marry’ these disparate ways of knowing.</p>
<p>As a response to Philip Agre’s seminal essay on “Critical Technology Practice”, the cafe will begin with an exposition by Kavita Philip (University of California, Irvine), opening up into a critical response spearheaded by Cherry Matthew, and leading to a larger dialogue with the audience, exploring fault lines of interdisciplinary research and challenges of integrated technology studies.</p>
<p>For more background on these questions, audience is encouraged (but not required) to explore the materials at Agre’s home page <a class="external-link" href="http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/">http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/</a>, and STSrelated links from Wikipedia’s page <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_society">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_society</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureEvent TypeInternet Governance2011-12-07T11:10:08ZEventExposing Data: Art Slash Activism
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/art-activism
<b>Tactical Tech and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invite you to the first round of discussions on the intersection of Art and Activism at CIS office in Bangalore on 28 November 2011. Ward Smith (Lecturer, University of California, LA), Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski (Co-founders, Tactical Technology Collective), Ayisha Abraham (Film maker, Srishti School of Art Design) and Zainab Bawa (Research Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society) are leading the conversations.</b>
<h3>The Exposing Data Project</h3>
<p>An NGO sets up a database to track elected representatives’ participation in the Parliament, the spending for their constituency, and keeping a track of their political mandates and promises. <br /><br />A geographer tracks the movements of US Government satellites and visualises their paths to form curious visuals of ‘State secrets’. <br /><br />A photographer travels to an island in the Pacific Ocean to take pictures of the plastic debris found in the stomach of a Laysan albatross carcass.<br /> <br /> Each of these examples is about how data that serves as evidence can be collected and visualised in different formats. The NGO can output its data as infographics, the geographer creates non-cartographic maps and the photographer’s images serve as testimony to increased pollution levels. We live in database times. Never before in human history have we consumed, produced and shared as much data as we do now in bits and bytes through our digital devices, coded as images and graphs and spreadsheets. The power to do so has allowed individuals and communities around the world to expose and reveal things that have been invisibilised and obscured, robbed of language and articulation. <br /> <br /> At the same time, the visual immediacy of such data sets and the ability to manipulate it to construct new ways of looking at our reality, often hides the fact that the production and use of data as evidence is not benign or neutral. While data itself claims a certain objective fact value, the politics involved in identifying something as data are subject to strong power confluences.<br /> <br /> The Centre for Internet and Society and Tactical Technology Collective, Bangalore, propose the <b>Exposing Data Project</b> as a series of conversations between people working across art, activism, politics, information science, cartography, geography, social sciences, humanities and technology science to share, learn, discuss, debate and explore processes, methods, challenges and implications of what it means to live in a data-rich world.</p>
<h3>Art Slash Activism</h3>
<p>The first round of discussions will be looking at the intersections of Art and Activism, but without falling into the usual traps of looking at art as the vehicle of activism or activism as a form of art. Hence, instead of Art and Activism, we are looking at <b>Art Slash Activism</b> exploring how data visualisation, data representation, and new forms of data mapping re-articulate what it means to be political.<br /> <br /> The event will bring together professionals such as Ward Smith (Lecturer, University of California, LA), Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.tacticaltech.org/team">Co-founders</a>, Tactical Technology Collective), Ayisha Abraham (Filmmaker, Srishti School of Art Design) and Zainab Bawa (Research Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society). Rather than being a seminar to instil practical knowledge, the aim of <b>Art Slash Activism</b> is to engage participants in a curated conversation on the use of data as evidence and its dissemination through visual depiction as a catalyst for change. We are seeking a variety of perspectives when answering questions such as whether data can have a universal reach through visual presentation; how we can utilize various forms of representation to spread awareness; and what happens when information cannot be represented as data. <br /> <br /> <b>Art Slash Activism</b> is a multidisciplinary learning experience that will involve members of the art community, open data activists, designers, and others active in the processes of social change in a creative, playful and innovative manner that will result in textual and visual documentation which will serve as a knowledge corpus for researchers and practitioners interested in these questions.</p>
<h3><b>Bio of the Speakers</b></h3>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/zainab.jpg/image_mini" title="Zainab" height="157" width="105" alt="Zainab" class="image-inline image-inline" /></p>
<p><b>Zainab Bawa</b><br />Zainab is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. Zainab primarily works as an independent researcher on issues of governance, politics, property and how technology is embedded in state-citizen interactions and society. In the course of her work, she is associated with the Centre for Internet and Society and the Centre de Sciences Humaines - New Delhi. Zainab is also a designated partner at HasGeek Media LLP, Bangalore.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Ayesha.jpg/image_mini" title="Ayesha" height="118" width="127" alt="Ayesha" class="image-inline image-inline" /></p>
<p><b>Ayisha Abraham</b><br />Ayisha Abraham lives and works in Bangalore as an installation artist and short filmmaker. She works at the Srishti School of Art, Design, Technology, as a visual arts consultant and is a member of the BAR1 (Bengaluru Artists Residency).</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/stephanie.jpg/image_preview" alt="Stephanie Hankey" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Stephanie Hankey" /></p>
<p><b>Stephanie Hankey</b><br />CO-founder & executive director, Stephanie has been working to strengthen the use of technology by civil society in the global South since 1998, initially working with the Open Society Institute establishing their Technology Support for Civil Society Program, before co-founding Tactical Tech in 2003. Stephanie has a background in information design, was editor-in-chief of Pulp and worked as a creative director and producer for a number of London-based multimedia companies. She has a Masters in Information and Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art London, and a certificate in Campaigning and Lobbying from NCVO.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Marek.jpg/image_preview" alt="Marek" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Marek" /></p>
<p><b>Marek Tuszynski</b><br />Co-founder & director of programmes & technology, Marek has been working to help advocates use technology since 1995. In the mid-nineties he co-founded the International Network of Contemporary Art Centres and worked with others to create a television programme about independent culture in Poland. He was director of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s Internet programme (Warsaw), sat on the board of Klon/Jawor (a research and infrastructure NGO) and The Second Hand Bank. Marek worked as a consultant to many funding agencies focusing on information and communication strategies for civil society in Central Asia.</p>
<p><b>Ward Smith</b><br />Ward Smith is a librarian who works with academics, activists and artists to design and implement information systems that aid in the development and documentation of their work. He has recently worked with the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, the Arts, Computation, Engineering program at UC Irvine, the Southern California Library, the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture Conference, and rhizome.org.</p>
<p>This event is free and open to everyone. However, we would appreciate a confirmation of attendance ahead of time so as to ensure that your space is reserved. To confirm your attendance please write to: <a class="external-link" href="mailto:yelena.gyulkhandanyan@gmail.com">yelena.gyulkhandanyan@gmail.com <br /></a></p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="mailto:yelena.gyulkhandanyan@gmail.com"><b>VIDEOS</b><br /></a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/art-activism'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/art-activism</a>
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No publisheryelenaEvent TypeInternet Governance2013-03-01T05:44:23ZEventDroidcon India, first Android Conference in Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/droidcon-india
<b>HasGeek is happy to announce the forthcoming Droidcon India on the 18th and 19th of November 2011 at the MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore. Droidcon.com, Bangalore Android User Group, MobileMonday Bangalore, Medianama, Android Advices and the Centre for Internet and Society are the event partners.</b>
<p>Droidcon is India’s first international Android conference and is part of the world’s largest series of Android conferences, with other editions in London, Bucharest (Romania), Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin. Droidcon India is a response to the booming market for Android, which has seen sales increase by 888.88 per cent in 2010, and reach nearly 50 per cent market share worldwide. </p>
<p>Organized <em>by</em> developers <em>for</em> developers, the multi-track two day event will provide a rich variety of content for delegates by attracting the best speakers in the Android community. HasGeek expects the participation of over 400 delegates, including students, developers, UX and UI designers, and people with strong interests in the Android ecosystem, both from India and beyond. </p>
<p>The sessions will be presented in an informal environment that gives everyone a chance to be heard. The theme for the conference covers a range of topics that include building well designed apps, dealing with device diversity, performance optimization, NFC, Arduino, and usage in the Enterprise. For more details about session topics visit <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/F9bEB">http://goo.gl/F9bEB</a></p>
<p>For registrations and tickets, visit <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/pmXpJ">http://goo.gl/pmXpJ</a></p>
<p>Following the first day conference on November 18, there will be an after party for this event which will be held at the CounterCulture restaurant.</p>
<p>For more information on tickets and registrations, contact Zainab Bawa @ <a class="external-link" href="mailto:zainab@hasgeek.in">zainab@hasgeek.in</a> or call @ +91 99454 73641.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/droidcon-india'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/droidcon-india</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeInternet Governance2011-11-24T04:17:12ZEvent