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Prasad Krishna
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5 Apr 2010
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Expel or not? That is the questionThe decision of an international school to expel 14 students for their alleged ‘promiscuous’ behaviour has led to much debate and discussion.
1 Apr 2010
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Nokia eyes GeNext to tap mobile email mktFinnish handset giant banks on youth to be in the technology race
18 Mar 2010
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An open answer to OfficeOpenOffice with its new features is giving Microsoft Word tough competition, says Deepa Kurup in this article published by The Hindu on March 14, 2010.
26 Feb 2010
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Web Accessibility as a Government Mandate?Is Web accessibility just a Government Mandate? Should private sites be ignored? Wesolowski examines this in light of the steps taken by ictQATAR to make its website accessible to W3C standards, and hopes that Qatar and eventually all other …
25 Feb 2010
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Narrative and Gameplay in Role Playing GamesNot all games tell stories but narratives, gameplay, and their relational attributes are a relevant shift observed in the gaming scene, Arun Menon finds out.
22 Feb 2010
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Your Signature Could Help 70 Million ReadA humble signature campaign in the city intends to take on a law that prevents the print-impaired from reading. You too can join in and support the cause.
22 Feb 2010
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Indians Get Particular about Online MarriageThe article quotes Nishant Shah's views on online behaviour of people seen elsewhere in the world.
22 Feb 2010
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Free Copyright Control to Help Blind Students: Xavier's Resource CentreThis article throws light on the fact that even though technology has made it possible for visually challenged to access print material, there is little awareness among authors and publishers to make it accessible, and hence, only an …
10 Feb 2010
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Right to Read, Now in MumbaiThe third phase of the 'Right to Read' campaign in India held in Mumbai was coordinated by the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The Mumbai Phase of the Right to Read Campaign was launched on 1st January 2010 and …
8 Feb 2010
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The print-impaired millions and their right to readBooks, books everywhere, but not a word to read. This is the scenario for the approximately 70 million print-impaired in India, a sizeable population that includes the visually-impaired young people as well the elderly — whose vision …
8 Feb 2010
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De facebookFacebook used to be our playground but privacy concerns are now souring that fantasy. Why do we trust a clutch of new corporations with such phenomenal amounts of personal data?
8 Feb 2010
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Can’t read, so use new tech to let books speakAn article in the Times of India about the Right to Read campaign organised by the Centre for Internet & Society at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi as the world book fair kicked off.
4 Feb 2010
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Year Ahead Copyright 2010: Between An Enforcement “Gold Standard” And Stronger LimitationsWhereas copyright is increasingly being exchanged for contractual relationships why all the debate and new efforts in national and international copyright legislation. Monika Ernet's article in the Intellectual Property Watch examines this …
22 Jan 2010
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in DelhiThe Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a …
22 Jan 2010
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Piracy Studies in IndiaThe word ‘piracy’ assumes negative connotations. In the imagination of an ordinary middle class urban Indian it is linked directly to the informal economy, crime and even terrorism. But the ‘pirated good’, that is, the ‘optical disc’ is not …
22 Jan 2010
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Impaired Social MobilityLeading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do …
22 Jan 2010
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Enforcement of Anti-piracy Laws by the Indian Entertainment IndustryThis brief note by Siddharth Chadha seeks to map out the key actors in enforcement of copyright laws. These bodies not only investigate cases of infringement and piracy relating to the entertainment industry, but tie up with the police and …
18 Jan 2010
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IGF 2009 - Main Session: Emerging Issues: Social NetworksCurrent laws don't seem to scale well to handle Web 2.0 issues
30 Dec 2009
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Bridging the DivideVideo clipping of the National Conference on ICT's for the differently abled held in Loyola College, Chennai from 1 December to 3 December, 2009.
22 Dec 2009
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When the virtual world gets a roomWikipedians have found a permanent abode, and the comfort of increasing numbers, at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.
21 Dec 2009
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Watch what you read on that websiteGoogle has decided to give newspapers better control over their content appearing on the search engine but netizens don’t seem too pleased about it, says an article by NT Balanarayan of DNA on December 9, 2009
4 Dec 2009
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Right to Knowledge for Persons with Print Impairment: A Proposal to Amend the Indian Copyright RegimeThis research paper argues the need for amending Indian Copyright provisions for enabling the print impaired to gain access to published works. The paper was submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development in November to …
4 Dec 2009
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A Report on National Conference on ICTs for Differently Abled / Under privileged Communities in Education, Employment & Entreprenuership 2009This is a report about the National Conference on ICTs for the differently abled / under privileged communities in education, employment and entreprenuership which was held at Loyola College in Chennai from 1 to 3 December 2009.