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15 Apr 2009
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ ArgumentIn the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her …
7 Apr 2009
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Journals, Open Access, Copyright, RepositoriesProf N. Mukunda, Editor of Publications, The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, discusses open access in his keynote address at the 26 March 2009 one-day conference on 'Scholarly Communications in the Age of the Commons'.
6 Apr 2009
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ಚರ್ಚೆ: ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಹಾಗು ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಕುರಿತ ಬರವಣಿಗೆ (Discussion: Writing Science and Technology in Kannada)ಭಾನುವಾರ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೯ ರಂದು ಸಂಪದ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞರ ತಂಡ ಹಾಗು ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಟ್ ಎಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ "ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಹಾಗು ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಬರಹ" ಕುರಿತ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಈ ಬರಹ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ವರದಿ. ಕನ್ನಡ, ಭಾರತದ ಹಲವು ಭಾಷೆಗಳಂತೆ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ, …
2 Apr 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the LawIn the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that …
30 Mar 2009
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RTI Application to Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityThe Centre for Internet and Society filed an RTI application to Visvesvaraya Technological University asking it to provide details about its curriculum design, and its tie-ups with various software vendors.
27 Mar 2009
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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to TechnologyIn her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and …
27 Mar 2009
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter MannFilm-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
26 Mar 2009
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Analysing Wikipedia: An IntroductionKiran Jonnalagadda and Hans Varghese Matthews introduce their project, aimed at producing tools that will allow anyone to analyse editing behaviour on Wikipedia. This is the first in a series of posts documenting their work.
25 Mar 2009
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Hindi Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0A Hindi translation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was commissioned by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and is now available for download.
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 …
16 Mar 2009
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Report on National Workshop on Web AccessibilityThis entry contains links to download a report on a workshop on web accessibility organised by CIS for web developers (16-18 February 2009).
6 Mar 2009
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First Meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information TechnologyThis is a report on the first meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information Technology, which was held in New Delhi on 5 March 2009.
6 Mar 2009
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Applications to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under the Right to Information ActThe Centre for Internet and Society filed two applications to the MSJE under the Right to Information Act seeking certain information relating to the implementation of the National Policy for Electronic Accessibility and the United Nations …
28 Feb 2009
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Report from DigiActive’s Bangalore Meet-upA blog entry by Mary Joyce on the meet-up hosted at CIS, Bangalore
25 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the …
24 Feb 2009
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Department of Information Technology Meeting on a National Policy on E-AccessibilityOn 30 January 2009, the Department of Information Technology hosted a meeting in New Delhi bringing together important stakeholders to discuss the issue of electronic accessibility for the disabled and persons with special needs in India.
17 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of …
16 Feb 2009
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Archives and Access: Land, Museum, LegacyThis blog entry is the third in a series of posts on Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya's Archives and Access project. The entry, by Rochelle Pinto, describes her visit to a museum of agricultural implements in …
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.
3 Feb 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the UnknownThis blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is …
23 Jan 2009
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Updated List of Signatories for Letter Supporting WIPO Treaty for the Reading DisabledThe list of signatories to a letter in support of the WIPO Treat for the Reading Disabled has been updated.
13 Dec 2008
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Lecture by Eben Moglen and Mishi ChoudharyThe Software Freedom Law Center, National Law School, and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a lecture by Mishi Choudhary and Eben Moglen for students of NLS on Saturday, December 13, 2008.
11 Dec 2008
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Report on the Internet Governance ForumCIS attended the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, December 3-7, 2008.
11 Dec 2008
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Archives and Access: IntroductionThe members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This …
11 Dec 2008
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Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian HistorianThis post is the second in a series by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto. It comes to the question of how we can extend some of the questions and concerns that have arisen around contemporary archives to the documentary archive. It …
8 Dec 2008
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Workshop on Reforming the International ICT Standardization SystemOn Day 4, the last day, of the Internet Governance Forum, a workshop was conducted by the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards on the reforming the international ICT standardisation system. The panellists were Bob Jolliffe of Freedom to …
8 Dec 2008
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Report on Open Standards for GISW2008In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
6 Dec 2008
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DCOS Agreement on ProcurementOn December 6, 2008, at the closing of the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS), of which the Centre for Internet and Society is a member, released an agreement entitled the …
4 Dec 2008
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Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
30 Nov 2008
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An Open Letter on Internet Governance to the UN Internet Governance ForumThis open letter brings up concerns of democratic deficit in internet governance worldwide, and is addressed to the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It is to be delivered at the IGF's 3rd Annual Meeting at Hyderabad, India, from 3rd to …