Imagination for People | Repérer et soutenir les projets sociaux créatifs. Internet Society (ISOC) Institute for Statistics: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Digital Natives. Digital Natives with a Cause? Is a knowledge programme initiated by CIS, India and Hivos, Netherlands. It is a research inquiry that seeks to look at the changing landscapes of social change and political participation and the role that young people play through digital and internet technologies, in emerging information societies.
The collaboration has produced a four book collective around 'digital revolutions' in a post Arab spring world, a position paper, a scouting report and three international workshops in Taipei, Johannesburg and Santiago. Books Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? , edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, 15 September 2011.Digital Natives with a Cause? Peer Review Essay Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, Democracy & Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, 23 August 2011.
Accessibility. India has an estimated 70 million disabled persons who are unable to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. The disabled need accessible content, devices and interfaces facilitated via copyright law and accessibility policies. We have organised Right to Read campaigns in the four metro cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai, made a submission to amend the Indian Copyright to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, researched on accessible mobile handsets in India, analysed the Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and published a policy handbook on e-accessibility and a book on universal service for persons with disabilities. Publications Submissions Inclusive Disaster and Emergency Management for Persons with Disabilities (Deepti Samant Raja and Nirmita Narasimhan, submitted to the the National Disaster Management Authority of India, September 17, 2013).
Other Research.