Upcoming Events
Tweet a Review of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause Books Jan 13, 2012 - Jan 31, 2012 — Blog and Twitter
Workshop on the Standardization of Kannada Computing Terminology Jan 28, 2012 - Jan 29, 2012 — Centre for Internet and Society, 194, 2nd C Cross, Domlur II Stage, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka
The High Level Privacy Conclave Feb 03, 2012 04:00 PM - 08:00 PM — Paharpur Business Centre, Nehru Place Greens New Delhi
All India Privacy Symposium Feb 04, 2012 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM — India International Centre, New Delhi
ITU Tutorial on Audiovisual Media Accessibility Mar 14, 2012 - Mar 15, 2012 — India International Centre, New Delhi
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Accessibility
Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessible

The first ever exclusive international mobile accessibility event was held in Washington DC on 5 and 6 December 2011. The event co-organized by ITU and FCC and facilitated by G3ict, featured speakers from around the world and across sectors. The Joint Administrator of the Universal Service Obligation Fund of India also shared details of how the USOF in India is promoting access to ICT for the disabled in India using USOF funds.

Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011
The Business Case for Web Accessibility
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Openness
Design!PubliC — Innovation and the Public Interest
Design!PubliC — Innovation and the Public Interest

On the 14th of October, 2011, the Center for Knowledge Societies organized the second edition of the Design Public Conclave, a conversation on how innovation can serve the Public Interest. The conclave was held at the lovely premises of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore.

Report on the 'Open Access to Academic Knowledge' workshop
Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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Internet Governance
PRIVACY Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"
PRIVACY Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"

On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present conference analyzed the Draft Privacy Bill and the participants discussed the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.

Section 79 of the Information Technology Act
How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)
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Access to Knowledge
CIS Intervention on Future Work of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement

The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash intervened during the discussion of future work of the ACE with this comment.

CIS Hosts Scanned Version of George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes
Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting
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Telecom
Reversing India's Downward Trajectory
Reversing India's Downward Trajectory

The country can regain growth momentum with rate cuts and telecom reforms, writes Shyam Ponappa in this column published in the Business Standard on 5 January 2012.

Inputs for NTP 2011
Healing self-inflicted wounds
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Digital Natives
The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy

What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.

The Digital Other
Digital AlterNatives Video Contest: The Everyday Digital Native — To Be, To Think, To Act, To Connect
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