Digital Natives Video Contest

The Centre for Internet & Society and Hivos are pleased to announce the top 21 shortlisted contestants for the Digital Natives Video Contest. Videos will be online soon! Voting begins from 10 March 2012.

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THE CENTRE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY was registered as a society in August 2008, and brings together a team of practitioners, theoreticians, researchers and artists to work on the emerging field of Internet and Society to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange.

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