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16 Nov 2010
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Ideology and ICT PoliciesFor better policies, decision-makers need to know their own and others’ biases, and consider what others are doing, writes Shyam Ponappa in an article published in the Business Standard on 4 November 2010.
13 Nov 2010
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We’ve All Got Some BaggageAmerica’s newest trade agreement is not going to kill only iPods. The article appeared in the Tehelka Magazine Vol 7, Issue 45, Dated November 13, 2010
7 Nov 2010
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The 'Beyond the Digital' DirectoryFor the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the …
7 Nov 2010
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Talking Back without "Talking Back"The activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital …
28 Oct 2010
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First Thing FirstStudies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series …
24 Oct 2010
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Change has come to all of usThe general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is a growing anxiety voiced by an older generation that the digital natives they …
23 Oct 2010
20 Oct 2010
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A digital native coordinating digital nativesIt’s been about a month since I got to Bangalore, “The Garden City”, and I joined the Center for Internet and Society, with whom I had been talking since late April. At CIS, I’ve been coordinating a project called “Digital Natives with a …
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
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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The Future of Journalism: EJC @ Picnic 2010Nishant Shah was a speaker at the PICNIC 2010, in Amsterdam, where he made a presentation titled "Citizens in the time of Database Democracies : Information ecology and role of participatory technologies in India"
11 Oct 2010
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Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQsThe second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
11 Oct 2010
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Broad-basing BroadbandEducation and training through the Internet need Commonwealth Games-like crisis management, says Shyam Ponappa in an article on broadband for education and training published in the Business Standard on 7 October 2010.
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.
27 Sep 2010
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Digital Natives Workshop in South Africa - Call for ParticipationThe African Commons Project, Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have joined hands for organising the second international workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" in Johannesburg from 07 to 09 November 2010. Send in your …
22 Sep 2010
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What a highway can doDespite signs of transformational change, we need more - SOPs and quality
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.
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 …
13 Sep 2010
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Sexuality, Queerness and Internet technologies in Indian contextThis blog post lays out the discursive construction of sexuality and queerness as intelligible domains in the Indian context while engaging with ideas of visibility, representation, exclusion, publicness, criminality, difference, tradition, …
10 Sep 2010
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What's in a Name? Or Why Clicktivism May Not Be Ruining Left Activism in India, At Least For NowIn 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, …
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
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Moldova Online: An Interview with Victor DiaconuIn 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 …
8 Sep 2010
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Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A ReportOn 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 …
5 Sep 2010
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Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan ReportThe 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 …
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, …