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Arun Mehta
Dr. Mehta has been very active in the areas of telecommunications, computing and human rights since his graduation from IIT Delhi in 1975.
ReadRaqs Media Collective
The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.
ReadMeg McLagan
Meg McLagan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University where she teaches in the Program in Culture and Media.
ReadWorld-Information Bangalore
World-Information City is a one-week programme of events addressing global issues of intellectual property and technology in conjunction with changing urban landscapes.
ReadRaqs Media Collective
Michael Richmond
Author and co-editor of the Occupied Times of London.
Sarai - The new media initiative, Delhi
Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, (CSDS) one of India?s leading research institutes with a
commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically
expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly
with reference to South Asia.
Dow 'Run for Water' - 'Run for your Life!' protest
April 19, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dow Throws a Dismal Party, Few Attend
Underattended "Run for Water" plagued by death, zombies, and dozens of "Dow spokesmen"; truth seems to run free
Clean Clothes Campaign
The CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working
conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower
the workers in it. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 12 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
#S17NYC - Occupy Wall Street Year One
Occupy Wall Street invites you, the 99%, down to the Financial District for three days of education, celebration and resistance.
September 15, 16 & 17, 2012
On #s17 Follow the Money, All Roads Lead to Wall Street
About Diesel's New Campaign Called Misopolis
Clean Clothes Campaign release
Diesel says to take female workers' rights serious, with their release
of the campaign Misopolis (see www.dieselforwomen.com). With this
campaign Diesel wants to improve the living conditions of female garment
workers by distributing free abortion pills.
Information Devolution
As new technologies make it possible to move more information faster than ever before, we are dazzled by the millions of gigabytes that move across the world in nanoseconds. We are infatuated by bandwidth, digital television by gadgets and gizmos. Yet we hardly ask questions about the quality of the information: what is it that we are communicating? Is it relevant? Will it make the world a better place? And does all this information add up to knowledge?
ReadN5M3 South Asia Forum Presentation
Working with new media in the part of South Asia that I come from is something like crossing a tightrope on a bicycle. The bicycle which could have helped me along were I on my way on flat ground makes the crossing that much more precarious. Consider the bicycle to be the single computer and the internet connection which I use along with at least seventeen other people, friends, colleagues, neighbours and complete strangers.
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