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Pass the Packet, Please?
https://cis-india.org/events/pass-the-packet-please
<b>Talk by Ashwin Jacob Mathew</b>
<p>If we view the Internet as built environment, rather than an abstract "cloud", then it becomes critical to consider what the politics of this artifact might be, to understand the politics of the technical systems that enable these flows.</p>
<p>In my work, I investigate one particular perspective on this problem space, the social organisation of network administrators that keep the Internet afloat. I analyse their interactions with one another in relation to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used to maintain connections across the "borders" of the thousands of networks that make up the Internet. Although BGP was created to allow different network domains (typically separate commercial entities) to coexist and interconnect with one another, it paradoxically embeds a notion of trust. This makes the inter-domain routing system enabled by BGP an interesting area for investigation, since network administrators must coordinate amongst themselves to compensate for routing failures that result from the trusting nature of BGP.</p>
<p>The Internet has an additional property that makes it unique amongst many technical systems: those involved with the Internet, especially in the early days, were simultaneously users, researchers and developers. As such, the practice of inter-domain routing evolved BGP over a period of several years. At the same time, network administrators learned to work with BGP, and with one another, to coordinate the distributed management of the Internet. It is this co-evolution of social form and technical construct that I will focus on in this presentation.</p>
<h3>Speaker</h3>
<p>Ashwin Jacob Mathew is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Before returning to academia, he spent a decade in the software industry in India, working in senior technical roles in companies like Aztec Software and Adobe. At Berkeley, he blends his technical background with theory and methods drawn from the social sciences to investigate the infrastructure of the Internet.</p>
<h3>Time and Date</h3>
<p>Friday, 17 July, 2009; 5.30-7.00 pm</p>
<h3>Venue<br /></h3>
<p>Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers (Wockhardt Hospital building),
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560052</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/pass-the-packet-please'>https://cis-india.org/events/pass-the-packet-please</a>
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No publishersachiaLecture2011-09-30T08:40:35ZEventNetwork Culture: Archaeological and Artistic Interventions Public Seminar – Talk by Kristoffer Gansing and Linda Hilfing
https://cis-india.org/events/archaeological-and-artistic-interventions
<b>Kristoffer Gansing and Linda Hilfling will give a talk on Network Culture on 8 November 2010 in the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.</b>
<h2>“Transversal Media Practices”</h2>
<p> <em>by Kristoffer Gansing (SE)</em></p>
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<p>Digital network culture (and before it, multimedia) has since at least the mid-1990's often been described as a situation where, through an overarching process of integration, old and new media collide and converge in different ways (Zielinski 1999, Bolter & Grusin 1999, Manovich 2001, Jenkins 2006). This study investigates how the relation between new and old media forms and their associated practices have been critically appropriated in the field of media art, specifically dealing with alternative media and emerging media-archaeological practices. </p>
<h2> “Gate Peepin' or a few thoughts on delivering people ...”</h2>
<p><em>by Linda Hilfling (DK)</em></p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Linda.jpg/image_preview" title="linda" height="336" width="334" alt="linda" class="image-inline image-inline" /></p>
<p>The countless click-and-agree contracts populating the Web are veritable gate keepers of the communities making up today's net culture, such regulations are, although materially detached from the structures that they govern, powerful means of controlling content on the Net. Through an introduction to the critical design intervention, Gate Peepin' and related projects, this presentation opens up for a discussion on participation, means of regulation and the user's position within social media platforms. </p>
<p>Gansing and Hilfling have collaborated on projects since 1999. Their joint projects include experimental platforms for media production exploring local/global networks and the curating of festivals and exhibitions challenging linear assumption of technological development. They often collaborate with different communities: CUDI in Vollsmose 2000-2002, Oda Projesi in Istanbul 2003, Sarai/LNJP Colony in New Delhi 2004 and currently with the artist-run TV-station tv-tv in Copenhagen. In 2005 they initiated the media archaeological festival The Art of the Overhead, an ongoing project which pays tribute to the almost forgotten medium of the overhead projector.</p>
<h3>About Kristoffer Gansing (SE)</h3>
<p>Kristoffer Gansing (SE) is a researcher at K3, School of Arts & Communication, Malmö Univ, with a research project on Transversal Media Practices, dealing with the articulation of old and new media forms and practices across art, activism and the everyday in the cultural production of network culture. </p>
<h3>About Linda Hifling (DK)</h3>
<p>Linda Hilfling (DK) is an artist who works with the premises of participation and public spaces within media structures, with a focus on means of control (codes, organisation and law) and their cultural impact. Her artistic practice takes the form of interventions reflecting upon or revealing hidden gaps in such structures. </p>
<p>Also see [<a class="external-link" href="http://www.overheads.org/">1</a>] and [<a class="external-link" href="http://www.tv-tv.dk/soundandtelevision/">2</a>]</p>
<p>The two talks will proceed for 30 min for each speaker followed by short Q&A’s. Finally there’ll be a joint discussion. Tea and refreshments will be served.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/archaeological-and-artistic-interventions'>https://cis-india.org/events/archaeological-and-artistic-interventions</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLecture2010-12-01T07:07:07ZEventKonkan Corridor Project — A Lecture by Vasant Gangavane
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/talk-by-vasant-gangavane
<b>Well known social worker Vasant Gangavane will be giving a public lecture on the Konkan Corridor Project at Ashoka Innovators for the Public in Bangalore on April 16, 2012. The lecture will focus on the role of Information & Communication Technology for total rural transformation by inclusive integrated development with no change of land ownerships. The event is co-organized by Ashoka Innovators for the Public and the Centre for Internet and Society.</b>
<p>Citing examples from the 117 village clusters in the regions of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurga districts of Maharashtra the lecture hopes to throw light on questions like what is a village cluster, what does it mean to urbanize one village cluster and what do we need to do to urbanize one village cluster, how will we organize and coordinate the project. This apart the vision, status and action plans of the Konkan Corridor Project, the skills development in each cluster, intensive agriculture in each cluster, farm produce processing, water conservation in the project area, rivers in the project area, energy, transportation, industry, science communication, and self administration in each clusters will also be discussed.</p>
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<h2>Vasant Gangavane</h2>
<p>In the 1970s Vasant Gangavane, a management graduate from Indian Institute of Management and Wharton, returned to his village in Konkan, Maharashtra, to give his people what he felt they needed most — the knowledge to manage their natural resources. In the process, he set up several models of rural development. Gangavane found that the rate at which people migrated out of the Konkan was very high, despite the fact that the area was rich in natural resources. He studied the area and realised that land improvement and watershed development were key issues. He conducted a series of experiments in agriculture, dairy and poultry farming before setting up the Gokul Prakalp Pratishthan (GPP) in 1978. With the Maharashtra government's comprehensive watershed management programme (COWDEP), Gangavane's <em>Pratishthan</em> afforested 400 hectares of land in Vilye village with mango and cashew trees. Gangavane then acquired 40 acres of wasteland in the village and built water conservation structures called Gokul bandharas. This resulted in the wells in the area being recharged and ensured enough drinking water for 25 families.This model was later adopted by the Indo-German Watershed Programme.</p>
<p>When Gangavane's project began, the village of Vilye was bereft of young people. Its young had migrated. Now there is reverse migration and 3,000 people have benefited from the programme. The village has been transformed — water runoff has been arrested and afforestation has changed the look of the village.</p>
<p>After the watershed programme, Gangavane formulated a theoretical plan for model villages called the Gokul project. The aim was communication and knowledgesharing. A participatory rural appraisal is also done to explore natural resource availability, potential and use. The awareness is meant to empower people and convince them that watershed programmes can address problems of poverty and inequity. Gangavane believes that with this knowledge, and with the resources available, a small family in the area can live sustainably.</p>
<p>Gangavane's Pratishthan has set up an Ashramshaala at Laanja, Ratnagiri district, which is a tribal residential school, where 300 children are provided free boarding and lodging up to the secondary level. GPP has also introduced computer education in schools. For his work Gangavane was awarded the Vanashree award, Vasantrao Naik Pratisthan award and the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award.</p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/konkan-corridor-project" class="internal-link" title="Konkan Corridor Project">Download the presentation here</a> [PDF, 228 KB]</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/talk-by-vasant-gangavane'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/talk-by-vasant-gangavane</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureEvent TypeInternet GovernanceICT2012-04-13T13:49:32ZEventInternet Surveillance Policy: “…the second time as farce?” – A Public Lecture by Caspar Bowden
https://cis-india.org/events/internet-surveillance-policy-lecture
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, invites you to a public lecture by Caspar Bowden*, the Chief Privacy Adviser of Microsoft’s Worldwide Technology Office, on Internet Surveillance Policy: “…the second time as farce?</b>
<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p>In 2000, as Director of the independent think-tank, "<a class="external-link" href="http://www.fipr.org/">Foundation for Information Policy Research</a>", Caspar led a campaign to revise several aspects of a new comprehensive UK law governing electronic surveillance ("<a class="external-link" href="http://www.fipr.org/rip/">the RIP Act</a>"). UK legislated in this area many years before most other countries, and the approach was widely criticized although some amendments were achieved. After a hiatus of a decade, many Commonwealth countries are now copying the RIP law (evidently unaware of the original controversies over its defects). Caspar will discuss the legal-technical intricacies of such legislation, the underlying policy dilemmas, the background context of the failed 1990s policy of “key escrow”, and the subsequent privacy catastrophe of blanket retention of the “traffic data” of all of the 500m citizens of the EU.</p>
<h2>Caspar Bowden</h2>
<p>Caspar Bowden is Microsoft's Worldwide Technology Officer for Privacy, providing advice on technology policy matters concerning privacy in over 40 countries, with particular focus on Europe and regions with horizontal privacy law. His goal is to ensure that users of Microsoft products and services are in control of their personal data and that fair information practices are respected. He is a specialist in data protection policy, privacy enhancing technology research, identity management and authentication.</p>
<p>Earlier he was the director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research and was also an expert adviser to the UK Parliament for the passage of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer of the influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption and surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from investment banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option arbitrage), to software engineering (graphics engines and cryptography), including work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM.</p>
<h3>Who should attend?</h3>
<p>This public talk aims to engage in a dialogue with anybody interested in questions of technology, surveillance, policy and the politics of Internet based governance. Students, research scholars, academics, practitioners, those in the business of technology development, design and study, are invited to attend the lecture that approaches the issue from different angles of technology, society and politics. </p>
<div><strong>Entry: Free; Limited Seating</strong></div>
<div><strong>Registration recommended: prasad@cis-india.org<br /><br />For additional info <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/internet-privacy-surveillance.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Internet Privacy and Surveillance">click here [PDF, 521 kb]</a><br /></strong></div>
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<div>* <em>Caspar is speaking in his private capacity and his remarks do not necessarily reflect any official Microsoft position</em></div>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/internet-surveillance-policy-lecture'>https://cis-india.org/events/internet-surveillance-policy-lecture</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureInternet Governance2011-09-08T03:19:35ZEventGeekUp 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 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>
<h2>The Moderator</h2>
<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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/free-speech-online-in-india-under-attack'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/free-speech-online-in-india-under-attack</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaFreedom of Speech and ExpressionPublic AccountabilityInternet GovernanceLectureEvent Type2012-03-02T03:03:24ZEventFraming an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal
https://cis-india.org/events/alternative-jan-lokpal
<b>The National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a public talk on "Framing an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal" on Friday, August 5, 2011 at CIS, Bangalore.
Shankar Singh, Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy of MKSS and NCPRI will be speaking.</b>
<p>The drafts of both the Lokpal as well as the Jan Lokpal bill have been
criticised extensively on multiple grounds, including that of lack of
accountability and concentration of power in a singular body. This
public talk seeks to provide a framework for an alternative conception
of the Jan Lokpal that takes a multi-pronged approach to tackling
corruption by moving towards concurrent anti-corruption and grievance
redress measures.</p>
<h2>Speakers</h2>
<p>Shankar Singh, Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti
Sangathan (MKSS) and the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to
Information (NCPRI)</p>
<h2>Date and Time</h2>
<p>Friday, August 5, 2011
<br />18:00-19:30</p>
<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>Centre for Internet and Society
<br />(next to Domlur Club and close to TERI)
<br />194, 2-C Cross,
<br />Domlur Stage II,
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<br />Map: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/2UV5J">http://goo.gl/2UV5J</a></p>
<h2>Background Reading</h2>
<ul><li>Nikhil Dey & Ruchi Gupta, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/T5rxk">Putting the "Jan" in Lokpal Bill</a> </li><li>Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/IrR41">Make Sure the Cure Isn't Worse than the
Disease</a></li><li>Aruna Roy & Rakshita Swamy, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/UJiKY">Lokpal Must Lead by
Example</a></li><li>NCPRI, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/HIlGZ">Draft Concept Notes from Public Consultations on Collective
and Concurrent Lokpal Anti-Corruption and Grievance Redress Measures</a></li><li>NCPRI, <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/im8rA">Background Documents on Jan Lok Pal Bill</a></li></ul>
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<br />== Contact ==
<br />For more information, please contact:
<br />Rakshita Swamy <rakshitaswamy at gmail dot com>, or
<br />Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india dot org></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/alternative-jan-lokpal'>https://cis-india.org/events/alternative-jan-lokpal</a>
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No publisherpraneshLecture2011-10-11T11:42:00ZEventDialogue 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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/dialogue-cafe'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/dialogue-cafe</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureEvent TypeInternet Governance2011-12-07T11:10:08ZEventArt in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a talk by Gene Kogan, a programmer and digital artist, at its office in Bangalore on November 30th, 2012, from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. </b>
<h2>Talk Summary</h2>
<p class="p1">The open source movement has challenged longstanding assumptions about art practice. Communities of programmers and makers have collaborated online to create mature software development kits such as Processing and OpenFrameworks, as well as websites like <a href="http://instructables.com/"><span class="s1">Instructables.com</span></a> where users can document and share their process. The rapid digitization of the blueprints for creative projects have greatly lowered the barrier to getting started.</p>
<p class="p1">These new tools and practices have greatly influenced the workflows that artists, designers, and technologists operate with, and have upended traditional notions of authorship and copyright. Techniques manipulating existing digital content have inspired much debate over legitimacy and authenticity. This talk will critically examine this new outlook and attempt to resolve some practical issues.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Gene Kogan</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Gene Kogan is an American artist and programmer currently based out of Bangalore. He is interested in performance art, generative systems, and machine learning. He writes free software for negotiating high dimensional spaces to discover the unexpected and serendipitous. He is currently based out of Bangalore.</p>
<p>His work can be seen on his website at <a href="http://www.genekogan.com/">www.genekogan.com</a>. You can also follow him on twitter at @genekogan.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/art-in-the-open-source-age</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaLectureEventOpenness2012-12-13T06:06:34ZEvent3rd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series at NLSIU, Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/telecom/ijlt-cis-lecture-series-nlsiu
<b>The Indian Journal of Law and Technology in association with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is organising the 3rd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The lecture series will be spread out over the course of the year and will include eminent speakers who will talk with the students and other interested persons on their topics of expertise.</b>
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<p>To kick off the lecture series, Professor Rohan Samarajiva will deliver the inaugural lecture on <em>Tariff Regulation in South Asia</em>.</p>
<p>Tariff regulation has in the recent past attracted the attention of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal, as well as the Department of Telecom at the Union Ministry of Communications. India has a burgeoning and competitive cellular services provider market, and tariff regulation has far-reaching impact on the industry. Moreover, as aware consumers of mobile telephony and data services, this is an issue that is relevant for all of us. </p>
<p>Prof Samarajiva is a pre-eminent figure in policy-making and academia on the subject of information and communications technology, and this is an excellent opportunity to get his insights on the crucial topic, not just from an Indian perspective but from a pan-Asian viewpoint. He has taught at universities in USA, Netherlands and Sri Lanka and is currently Chairman & CEO, LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across 12 emerging Asian economies. He is also a Board member at Communication for Policy Research - South, which is a capacity building initiative to develop Asia-Pacific based policy initiatives on ICT policy regulation among junior to mid level scholars. His full profile can be accessed <a class="external-link" href="http://lirneasia.net/about/profiles/rohan-samarajiva/">here</a>.</p>
<p>The lecture will be organised at NLSIU, Bangalore on <em>Sunday, the 27th of May, 2012 from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm</em>. You are requested to take your seats by 5.20 pm. The hour-long session will include both a lecture and an interactive session with the speaker. Interested persons are requested to register for the lecture series by sending in an email to <a class="external-link" href="mailto:editorialboard@ijlt.in">editorialboard@ijlt.in</a></p>
<p>The address of the venue is</p>
<p>National Law School of India University<br />Jnanabharati Road, Nagarbhavi<br />Bangalore - 560072 <br />Google maps location: <a class="external-link" href="http://g.co/maps/ppwcr">http://g.co/maps/ppwcr</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/ijlt-cis-lecture-series.pdf" class="internal-link" title="3rd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series in Bangalore">Download the event poster</a> [PDF, 57 kb]</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/telecom/ijlt-cis-lecture-series-nlsiu'>https://cis-india.org/telecom/ijlt-cis-lecture-series-nlsiu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelecomLectureEvent Type2012-05-25T15:33:16ZEvent'The Dark Face of Google'
https://cis-india.org/events/the-dark-face-of-google
<b>Talk by Patrice Riemens</b>
<p>The extraordinary rise of Google Inc. from a 'confidential' search site in the late nineties, the heydays of Altavista, to its present preminent status on the internet, has attracted a lot of attention. The admirers see Google as the incarnation of things to come, not only in information retrieval & management, and not even on the Internet only, but in the economy and society as a whole. The nay-sayers variously view Google as a flattening behemoth of digital information, or as a cultural war machine, bent on the Americanisation of the planet, and generally as a mendacious commercial monopoly pretending to 'do no evil' while hypocritically promoting open source, access, and life in general.</p>
<p>Outside this discussion stand an ever growing mass of millions of users who ask no questions, profess neither admiration or hatred (and if so, rather the former), but are happy to use the search engine and the many other services provided by Google. That they hereby gladly if unwittingly contribute to reinforcing the assets of Google, in the words of Yann Moulier Boutang, "the only company in the world that is able to make 14 million people work for it at any given moment, for free", is one of the many starkly under-lighted aspects of this Internet giant's operative mode.</p>
<p>'The Dark Face of Google' is the title of the book written two years ago by the Italian Ippolita Collective, which Patrice Riemens is currently translating. Ippolita's brief is neither eulogizing nor demonising Google, but to understand it, especially in its less advertised aspects. Their aim is to educate Google's users, not to wean them away from it, and to politicise the discussion about search, digital services, and the management of information and knowledge in general. Patrice Riemens will discuss a few points in this context.</p>
<p>* The ways in which Google determines, undermines, or enforces existing power and knowledge structures</p>
<p>* The Google Books Project and how it reinforces IPR tyranny</p>
<p>* Google's local policies and how they affect fundamental civil liberties</p>
<p>This talk, like Ippolita's book, is intended as a general, informed introduction to an issue that has been insufficiently discussed, due to media hype, and the apparent innocuousness of a readily available, extremely fast and effective, free, Internet service.</p>
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<p>Patrice Riemens is a social geographer by education and a private intellectual and internet activist by choice. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software, and has been
involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open
Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps,
held to promote FLOSS among non-governmental
organisations. He is a member of the Dutch hackers' group Hippies from hell.</p>
<p>He has formerly worked with De Waag Center for Old and New Media, an institute housed
in an old castle in Amsterdam, on the cutting edge of technology,
culture, education and industry. Patrice has also been on the staff of Multitudes, a French philosophical, political and artistic monthly journal founded in 2000 by Yann Moulier-Boutang. <br /><a title="Yann Moulier-Boutang (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yann_Moulier-Boutang&action=edit&redlink=1"></a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/the-dark-face-of-google'>https://cis-india.org/events/the-dark-face-of-google</a>
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