Are you an activist in Bangalore working on issues related to media/telecommunications access and control, free and open source software, online censorship and surveillance, copyright and other intellectual property, or the UID scheme? If you have time before April 27th, I'd like to ask you more about your work. There's a considerable body of research … Continue reading Bangalore activists: I want to speak to you!
Month: April 2011
Vijayanagara
At the moment I'm finding it difficult to avoid the feeling that I should be using every waking moment to work. Between staying on top of my teaching commitments (including familiarising myself with two new units), working to map out Bangalore's digital liberties activism, and trying to find useful ways to contribute to the Alipi … Continue reading Vijayanagara
National Identity Schemes
Governments around the world have been becoming interested in the possibilities that RFID chips and digital information systems open up for creating nationwide databases that gather information on citizens (or residents) across a variety of fields: health, citizenship status, access to services, and so on. Australia's version of this was the Access Card, which seems … Continue reading National Identity Schemes
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