Internet Researchers' Conference
Conference
8.0 hrs
January 31, 2019 10:30 am Thursday
The Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) is an annual conference initiated by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward.The theme for the fourth edition of the conference, to be held in February 2019, is the 'list'. For more on the previous IRCs, see: https://cis-india.github.io/irc/index.html
Organizer
Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.
Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and practices around internet, technology and society in India, and elsewhere.