Author
Zainab Bawa
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6 Feb 2013
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Report of Aaron Swartz Memorial HacknightOn 19th and 20th January, HasGeek organized a hacknight to commemorate the life and works of Aaron Swartz. Zainab Bawa from HasGeek shares with us the developments.
2 Aug 2011
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Internet, Politics and TransparencyOn 15th April 2009, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) hosted a talk by Barun Mitra on “Internet, Transparency and Politics”. Barun Mitra is the Chairperson of Liberty Institute, a think tank based in Delhi. Liberty Institute …
17 Sep 2010
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Of the State and the Governments - The Abstract, the Concrete and the ResponsiveThis post examines the concepts of state and government to lay the ground for understanding responsiveness enforced through transparency discourses and the deployment of ICTs, the Internet and e-governance programmes. It also lays the …
13 Sep 2010
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The Responsive State --- Introduction to the SeriesThis post is an introduction to a series of posts on the concept of the 'responsive state'. In this series, I try to explain the various meanings that the term responsiveness has come to acquire when it is used in relation with the …
5 May 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Politically Aware and Participatory CitizenryIn this, her fourth blog post on her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa looks at the notions of Stakeholder and Participation.
22 Apr 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Talk by Barun MitraA talk by Barun Mitra, Chairperson of the Liberty Institute, a Delhi-based think tank, was held at CIS recently, organised by Zainab Bawa in relation to her CIS-RAW project on 'Transparency and Politics'. In this post, the third in a series …
23 Mar 2009
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Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [II]In this post, the second in a series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa explains how transparency is embedded in particular institutional contexts. This impacts the ways in which transparency materially manifests and also has …
8 Feb 2009
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Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [I]This is the first in a series of blog posts documenting Zainab Bawa's CIS-RAW project on Transparency and Politics. This post briefly explains how the notion of transparency has developed over time, and the changes that it has been through.