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Prasad Krishna
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12 Nov 2010
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Social Mashup!Save the Date Join us to meet India’s most passionate, innovative, and curious start-up social entrepreneurs for two groundbreaking days of conversations, connections and inspiration. This event will be held on 2-3 December 2010 at the …
24 Oct 2010
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
23 Oct 2010
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19 Oct 2010
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 1)“The estuaries that flirt with the land mass before they finally perish in the vast deep blue ocean beyond were perfect in their shape and grace. And you know what; from top it appears like a surreal landscape that is so restive and …
15 Oct 2010
14 Oct 2010
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Internet, szabadonA polgárjogi aktivisták konfrontálódtak és panaszkodtak, a Google és a Facebook hárított és panaszkodott az Internet at Liberty konferencián, amelyet kedden és szerdán rendezett a Google és a CEU Budapesten.
13 Oct 2010
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નિશાંત શાહ: ડિજિટલ પેઢીનો ઉદય‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિક’ તેમને કહેવામાં આવે છે જેણે સામાન્ય જનજીવનમાં ડિજિટલ ટેક્નોલોજીના પ્રવેશ થઈ ગયા બાદ જન્મ લીધો છે. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો દરેક જગ્યાએ છે. હવે સમય આવી ગયો છે કે આપણે એ જાણવાનો પ્રયાસ કરીએ કે આ લોકો કોણ છે, તેઓ શું કરી રહ્યા છે, તેઓ …
13 Oct 2010
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Konferencia az internetes szólásszabadságról BudapestenAz internet és szólásszabadság viszonyát vitatják meg Budapesten, a Közép-Európai Egyetem és a Google szervezte, háromnapos konferencián
13 Oct 2010
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How the UID project can be a cause for concernThe Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), headed by Nandan Nilekani, is the UPA government's most ambitious project, where one billion Indians are branded with a unique identity number.
13 Oct 2010
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Hogyan szűrik a kormányok az internetes tartalmakat?Az internet szabadságáról tartanak háromnapos konferenciát Budapesten a Google és a Közép-Európai Egyetem (CEU) szervezésében. Kedden az internetes tartalmak szűrése volt a legfontosabb téma a rendezvényen.
11 Oct 2010
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In new Facebook features, a comeback for communityNearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? …
7 Oct 2010
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University Students create New Wiki Entries and Blog about ItNearly 60 students doing the New Media Practices course of the New Media Masters at Media Studies in the University of Amsterdam had an assignment to write a new Wikipedia entry and write a blog post about their experience on a …
6 Oct 2010
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The silent rise of the Digital NativeIn late August, this year, the world shook for many when they went online (on their computers, PDAs, iPads, laptops) and realised that the comfortable zone of talking, chatting, sharing and doing just about everything else, had suddenly, …
6 Oct 2010
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The geek shall inherit the earthDemystifying the mysterious -agents changing the world around you.
1 Oct 2010
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Stiff Resistance Dogs India's ID PlanAn article about the UID project by Indrajit Basu in Asia Times Online.
1 Oct 2010
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Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in IndiaGlover Wright of the Center for Internet and Society talks about Data Activism and Grassroots Empowerment in India at the Innovate/Activate Unconference in New York Law School on 24 September 2010.
21 Sep 2010
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Conference: Internet at Liberty 2010This conference is being held in Budapest from 20 to 22 September 2010. It is co-sponsored by Google and Central European University. Sunil Abraham and Anja Kovacs are attending the conference.
20 Sep 2010
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The Binary: City and NatureA continuation of the last post wherein I am looking at various other representation of the city in both classical and popular medium, today I am writing my views on the analysis of certain Miniature paintings.
9 Sep 2010
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WEBINAR: Closed for BusinessA Global Panel Discusses International Copyright Laws and Their Impact on the Open Internet
9 Sep 2010
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On Talking Back: A Report on the Taiwan WorkshopWhat 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 …
9 Sep 2010
9 Sep 2010
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INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID ProjectFears 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.
7 Sep 2010
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The madness of software patentsIndia’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.
6 Sep 2010
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Why piracy is tough to rein in“Video market is being treated as a poor cousin of the film industry”
3 Sep 2010
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Enabling Access to Education through ICT - A Conference in DelhiThe 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 …
2 Sep 2010
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Seminar on Software Patent and the CommonsA 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, …
31 Aug 2010
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Cybercrime and PrivacyElonnai 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 …
30 Aug 2010
30 Aug 2010