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What's in a Name? Or Why Clicktivism May Not Be Ruining Left Activism in India, At Least For Now — by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM
In a recent piece in the Guardian titled “Clicktivism Is Ruining Leftist Activism”, Micah White expressed severe concern that, in drawing on tactics of advertising and marketing research, digital activism is undermining “the passionate, ideological and total critique of consumer society”. His concerns are certainly shared by some in India: White's piece has been circulating on activist email lists where people noted with concern that e-activism may be replacing “the real thing” even in this country. But is the situation in India really this dire?
INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID Project — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:00 AM
Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
Moldova Online: An Interview with Victor Diaconu — by Sudha Rajagopalan — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:10 AM
In this interview for Russian Cyberspace, set up with the help of Sunil Abraham (Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India), computer software professional Victor Diaconu explains the nature of Internet use, state control and the development of blogging and social media platforms in Moldova. Victor works at Computaris in Chisinau. He is Moldova educated, and has travelled to several western countries (including lengthy stays to US, UK) to learn about and understand what there is to be done in Moldova. Sudha Rajagopalan interviewed Victor Diaconu.
On Talking Back: A Report on the Taiwan Workshop — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:35 AM
What does it mean to Talk Back? Who do we Talk Back against? Are we alone in our attempts or a part of a larger community? How do we use digital technologies to find other peers and stake-holders? What is the language and vocabulary we use to successfully articulate our problems? How do we negotiate with structures of power to fight for our rights? These were the kind of questions that the Talking Back workshop held in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 16 to 18 August 2010 posed.
Innovate / Activate — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM
The event will be held on 24 and 25 September 2010 at New York Law School.
WEBINAR: Closed for Business — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM
A Global Panel Discusses International Copyright Laws and Their Impact on the Open Internet
Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A Report — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM
On Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation explained the vision of the project and focused on the challenges involved in demographic and biometric identification, the technology adopted, and the enrolment process. Elonnai Hickok gives a report of his presentation in this blog post.
The madness of software patents — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:17 AM
India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted, writes Lata Jishnu in an article published in Down to Earth.
Why piracy is tough to rein in — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM
“Video market is being treated as a poor cousin of the film industry”
Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan Report — by Rebecca Schild — last modified Mar 20, 2012 06:36 PM
The following is a preliminary project report collaboratively collated by the researchers of the "Free Access to Law" research study. This report aims to highlight the trends, as well as the risks and opportunities, for the sustainability of Free Access to Law initiatives in each of the country examined.
Enabling Access to Education through ICT - A Conference in Delhi — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 04, 2013 09:24 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment and the Deafway Foundation is organizing an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event is sponsored by Hans Foundation.
Seminar on Software Patent and the Commons — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 23, 2011 02:22 PM
A pre-grant opposition has been filed against a software patent application filed in the patent office by Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturers of Blackberry. The opposition was filed on August 31, 2010 by the Software Freedom Law Centre which has recently expanded its operations to India. This exciting development was announced by Mishi Choudhary from SFLC on the lines of the seminar on “Software Patents and the Commons” organised on 1 September 2010 in Delhi jointly by SFLC, the Centre for Internet and Society, the Society for Knowledge Commons and Red Hat. Filing more such oppositions to software patents in India was in the pipeline and this is just the beginning of a movement to take on monopolisation of knowledge and ideas through patenting software, the organisers said.
Beyond Access as Inclusion — by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM
On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
Cybercrime and Privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2010 01:21 PM
Elonnai Hickok examines privacy in the context of India’s legal provisions on cybercrime. She picks up the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act as amended in 2008 dealing with cyber crimes and provides a fair analysis of the pros and cons of the amended Act.
Transparency and MDGs: the Role of the Media and Technology — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM
Key quotes from sixth panel
Copyright bill restricts Net access — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:21 AM
Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity
Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PM
India's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:28 AM
A summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
No UID Campaign in New Delhi - A Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 20, 2012 03:51 AM
The Unique Identification (UID) Bill is not pro-citizen. The scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforseen consequences. A public meeting on UID was held at the Constitution Club, Rafi Marg in New Delhi on 25 August, 2010. The said Bill came under scrutiny at the meeting which was organised by civil society groups from Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi campaigning under the banner of "No UID". The speakers brought to light many concerns, unanswered questions and problems of the UID scheme.
Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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