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National Resource Kit: The Chhattisgarh Chapter (Revised)
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Anandhi Viswanathan
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Feb 12, 2014 06:48 AM
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The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Chhattisgarh.
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When the virtual world wakes up the real one
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 30, 2013 09:35 AM
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The unprecedented wave of voices speaking up against sexual harassment in recent times has as much to do with technology as the determination to seek justice. From Twitter to Tumblr, and blogs to pastebin, the internet's anonymity, reach and speed allow small, personal stories of abuse to swell into big stories.
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 30, 2013 08:45 AM
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I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
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I Just Pinged to Say Hello
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 30, 2013 08:36 AM
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A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
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CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.
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Elonnai Hickok
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Nov 30, 2013 07:25 AM
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The United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
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Methods for Social Change
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Denisse Albornoz
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Apr 17, 2015 10:42 AM
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On this brief introduction, I outline the main targets of my research project for CIS and the HIVOS Knowledge Program. As a response to the thought piece ‘Whose Change is it Anyway’ I will explore civic engagement among middle class youth over the course of the next 9 months by interviewing change makers and collectives that are part of multi-stakeholder projects in Bangalore.
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Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
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Denisse Albornoz
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Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AM
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Jasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
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CIS-A2K Narrative Report (September 2012 – June 2013)
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Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 30, 2013 11:18 AM
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This narrative report captures the work done by the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in the first ten months of the grant. The report also throws some light on the CIS-A2K program strategy in the next one year.
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Election Commission to monitor conduct of political parties on Facebook, Twitter and Google
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 30, 2013 07:02 AM
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With Congress and BJP hammering away at each other in the ongoing assembly contests that will set the stage for national polls next year, the Election Commission wants to make sure social media and online platforms run by Google, Facebook and Twitter are not used to breach the code of conduct that governs candidates and parties. The commission's key concerns relate to malicious content and exceeding the campaign expense limit.
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Chances and Risks of Social Participation
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 30, 2013 09:19 AM
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Participation is a key issue within Internet research and hence also for the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. For this reason the institute is going to host a thematically focused meeting on Chances and Risks of Social Participation in Berlin on 22 November 2013 in co-operation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
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Digitally Enhanced Civil Resistance
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Denisse Albornoz
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Apr 17, 2015 10:46 AM
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This reflection looks at how civil disobedience unfolds in network societies. It explores the origins of nonviolence, describes digital and non-digital tactics of non-violent protest and participation and finally comments on the possibilities of this form of civil resistance to foster individual and collective civic engagement.
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Seventh Privacy Round-table
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Elonnai Hickok
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Nov 20, 2013 09:58 AM
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On October 19, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Data Security Council of India, and Privacy International held a “Privacy Round-table” in New Delhi at the FICCI Federation House.
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ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Nov 20, 2013 09:55 AM
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote an article highlighting 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia. Kannada Wikipedia started in the year 2003 and now it has completed 10 years. The article highlights the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
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ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು : ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 20, 2013 08:54 AM
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A post-event report of the program published in OneindiaKannada on November 17, 2013.
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10 years of Kannada Wikipedia: Many more miles to go!
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 20, 2013 07:40 AM
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Kannada Wikipedia community had a celebration that was introspective as well. Plans were chalked out on adding more content.
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ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 20, 2013 07:34 AM
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A report of the Kannada Wikipedia tenth anniversary celebrations in Prajavani on November 18.
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ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 20, 2013 07:30 AM
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An article about the tenth Kannada Wikipedia published in Vijaya Karnataka on November 19.
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YouTube is the answer to what has changed in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 20, 2013 07:00 AM
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Alternative Law Forum’s Lawrence Liang on relaunching Creative Commons, and how it changes the legal landscape of copyright issues.
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CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore
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T. Vishnu Vardhan
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Nov 20, 2013 06:46 AM
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The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Christ University in Bangalore. As part of this MoU Christ University and CIS-A2K will work together to introduce "Wikipedia in the Indian Undergraduate Language Classroom" at Christ University.
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Why 'Facebook' is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You
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Maria Xynou
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Nov 23, 2013 08:38 AM
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In this article, Maria Xynou looks at state and corporate surveillance in India and analyzes why our "choice" to hand over our personal data can potentially be more harmful than traditional, top-down, state surveillance. Read this article and perhaps reconsider your "choice" to use social networking sites, such as Facebook.