The Centre for Internet and Society - Bulletin - September '11

Featured

kaeru — 2011-08-01T05:38:35Z

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Accessibility Blog

kaeru — 2011-08-02T01:22:40Z

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Access to Knowledge Blogs

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Openness Blog

kaeru — 2011-08-01T08:03:47Z

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Internet Governance Blog

kaeru — 2011-10-18T06:40:43Z

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Telecom Blog

kaeru — 2011-08-01T07:31:07Z

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Framing an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal

pranesh — 2011-10-11T11:42:00Z

The National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a public talk on "Framing an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal" on Friday, August 5, 2011 at CIS, Bangalore. Shankar Singh, Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy of MKSS and NCPRI will be speaking.

The drafts of both the Lokpal as well as the Jan Lokpal bill have been criticised extensively on multiple grounds, including that of lack of accountability and concentration of power in a singular body. This public talk seeks to provide a framework for an alternative conception of the Jan Lokpal that takes a multi-pronged approach to tackling corruption by moving towards concurrent anti-corruption and grievance redress measures.

Speakers

Shankar Singh, Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI)

Date and Time

Friday, August 5, 2011
18:00-19:30

Venue

Centre for Internet and Society
(next to Domlur Club and close to TERI)
194, 2-C Cross,
Domlur Stage II,
Bangalore

Map: http://goo.gl/2UV5J

Background Reading

Nikhil Dey & Ruchi Gupta, Putting the "Jan" in Lokpal Bill
Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Make Sure the Cure Isn't Worse than the Disease
Aruna Roy & Rakshita Swamy, Lokpal Must Lead by Example
NCPRI, Draft Concept Notes from Public Consultations on Collective and Concurrent Lokpal Anti-Corruption and Grievance Redress Measures
NCPRI, Background Documents on Jan Lok Pal Bill

== Contact ==
For more information, please contact:
Rakshita Swamy <rakshitaswamy at gmail dot com>, or
Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india dot org>

VIDEO

For more details visit /events/alternative-jan-lokpal

Blogs

kaeru — 2011-08-02T01:13:10Z

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Habits of Living

kaeru — 2012-03-23T05:01:03Z

The project concentrates on changing habits of living. Habits are crucial to understanding networks not simply as broad organizational structures, but also as structures created through constant actions that are both voluntary and involuntary.

For more details visit /raw/digital-humanities/blogs/habits-of-living/habits-of-living-blog

Digital Classroom

kaeru — 2012-03-23T04:20:15Z

Taking the classroom as the unit where different processes and flows of the education system meet, we invite researchers, academic practitioners, students, artists, new media theorists, education policy actors and historians of knowledge to look at The Digital Classroom in the time of Wikipedia as an opportunity to question global trends in education and ways by which Wikipedia (and other such structures) can be fruitfully integrated in formal education towards better learning.

For more details visit /raw/digital-humanities/blogs/digital-classroom/digital-classroom-blog

Re:Wiring Bodies

kaeru — 2012-01-04T07:04:09Z

The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country.

Click here to download the Monograph [PDF, 2647 KB]

For more details visit /raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/rewiring-bodies/rewiring-bodies-blog

Locating the Mobile

kaeru — 2012-03-23T05:24:19Z

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Interface Intimacies

kaeru — 2012-03-23T04:45:16Z

Interface Intimacies is a research cluster that is interested in digging deep into interfaces, to examine peoples’ relationships with the digital interfaces around them with a special focus on Asia.

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We, the Cyborgs

kaeru — 2012-03-23T03:59:49Z

The project seeks to locate the cyborg in India on three interdisciplinary but connected sites to examine how bodies, in their interaction with the design and practice of different processes of regulation and control, are in the process of becoming cyborgs.

For more details visit /raw/digital-humanities/blogs/we-cyborgs/we-cyborgs-blog

Re:Wiring Bodies

kaeru — 2015-04-03T10:50:15Z

Asha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to the neo-liberal perspective based knowledge produced by feminists like Martha Nussbaum; Asha’s research offers a unique entry point into cyberculture studies through a feminist epistemology of science and technology. The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country.

For more details visit /raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/rewiring-bodies