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The UID (Unique Identity) project is one of the most ambitious projects of the UPA government. The move to set up the UID Authority of India (UIDAI), under the aegis of the Planning Commission, is aimed at providing a unique identity to the targeted population of the flagship schemes to ensure that the benefits reach them. The unique identification number would ensure that any lacuna in these schemes is removed so that the benefits do not reach those they are not meant for.
Karnataka has reportedly been chosen as the pilot state to implement the project. The National Authority for Unique Identity (NAUI), set up under the Planning Commission, has asked the state to implement the programme on a small scale to co-ordinate data on people, from different agencies.
Bangalore is set to become a hub of activities for the Unique Identification Authority of India as Karnataka has been chosen as one of the states where the project, led by Infosys co-founder Mr. Nandan Nilekani, will be implemented first.
We Invite you to a half day workshop on “Unique Identification Number Project (UID)and the Indian Citizen” on Sunday the 20th June, 2010 at Ecumenical Christian Centre, Whitefield, Bangalore, from 2:30 to 5:00pm.
Rev.Dr.M. Mani Chacko Rev.Chittranjan Polson
Director Programme Executive
31 May 2010
KINDLY CONFIRM YOUR PARTICIPATION : 080-28452270
June 3rd, 2010
March 19, 2010
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom, The Leela, Bangalore
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Abstract
A randomized experiment performed in co-operation between Yahoo! and a major nationwide retailer allows us to measure the effects of online advertising on sales. We exploit a match of over one million customers between the databases of Yahoo! and the retailer, assigning them to treatment and control groups for an online advertising campaign for this retailer and then measuring each individual’s weekly sales at this retailer, both online and in stores.
We find statistically and economically significant impacts of the advertising on sales. We estimate the total effect on revenues to be more than four times the retailer’s expenditure on advertising during the study. Additional results explore differential effects of ads on online and offline sales and on individuals who click the ads versus those who merely view them. Our results provide the best measurements to date of the effectiveness of image advertising on sales, and we shed light on important questions about online advertising in particular.
David Reiley is a Principal Research Scientist and a pioneer in the use of field experiments in economics. He has used field experiments to test theories of auction bidding and charitable fundraising, and is currently using experiments to measure the effects of display advertising on advertisers’ sales. Before joining Yahoo! Research, David worked at the Arizona Public Service Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona.
He previously taught at Vanderbilt University and has been a visiting professor at the Kiev School of Economics (Ukraine), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. David is the Co-Editor for Field Experiments at Economic Inquiry, and serves on the editorial boards of Experimental Economics and the BE Press Journals of Economic Analysis and Policy. David holds a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University, and a PhD in economics from MIT
March 10th, 2010
A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
What
* Roadshow
* Open Content
* Open Access
When Dec 17, 2009 02:30 PM onwards
Date: 17th December, 2009 from 2.30pm onwards
Venue – National Law School, Bangalore
Contact Name Radha
Contact Phone 080-40926283
CIS in association with different institutions across India invites you to join in the Free Culture Roadshow: A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
A Brief Abstract of the two discussions and the profile of the speakers are given below:
The Right to Share: What Does Copying Have to Do with Freedom?
The Internet has unleashed the potential to communicate and collaborate like never before, and the result has been an unprecedented flow of culture and information. Millions of individuals are now sharing and creating culture: copying, cutting, remixing, and participating in new and different ways.
Sometimes this activity is transformative. Sometimes it’s straight copying. In either case, there is a clear connection between this sharing of culture and personal freedom.
This talk will explore how various conceptions of “freedom” have shaped the social movements for free software, free culture, and free knowledge, and how this ideology has manifested itself in real action. It will connect theory with practice, exploring the cultural innovations and political changes that have spawned forth from these movements. Lastly, it will make the case that the broad-based availability, accessibility, and abundance of culture is a good thing for our global society.
Speaker Profile:
Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked on using new media to promote human rights with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights. Elizabeth has worked extensively with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Digital Copyright, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video Conference in NYC, garnering over 8000 viewers across the web. Elizabeth regularly gives talks around the world on free culture, and has collaborated with myriad organizations on promoting shared knowledge and the open web.
Elizabeth Stark
The Revolution Will Be Recorded, Remixed, and Redistributed: The Promise of Open Video
Between news, cinema, television, and documentary film, we find ourselves swimming in a sea of moving images. This has been the story of the 20th century. Yet in this age, the tools for creating and sharing video are becoming widely distributed in the hands of millions of individuals. Desktop video editing software is pervasive; webcams and video-equipped mobile phones abound. Video now belongs to everyone. It is becoming a powerful medium for self-expression, a kind of cultural currency.
How will this phenomenon change the Internet? How will it change society? What questions persist for the architecture of the Internet, and how will public policy address this ultimately political transformation? This talk sets forth a vision of networked video as a truly participatory medium, one that will power the next 10 years of innovation on the web. Dean Jansen and Ben Moskowitz introduce some core technologies for open video, and the obstacles they face on the road to mass adoption.
Speaker Profiles:
Dean Jansen is a Free Culture activist and guerrilla artist based in New York. He attended Harvard University and was a leader in the Harvard Free Culture Group. Dean assisted in teaching media studies and law courses at MIT and Harvard, and has organized numerous academic conferences.
He currently serves as outreach director at the non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, makers of the Miro internet TV player. His art projects can be viewed at www.notthemessiah.net.
Dean
Ben Moskowitz is general coordinator at the Open Video Alliance, a coalition to democratize the moving image. Ben co-founded the UC Berkeley chapter of Students for Free Culture and taught a seminar on the politics of piracy at Berkeley’s School of Information.
He currently serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture.
December 16th, 2009
Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp, brought to you by MobileActive.org, The Centre for Internet and Society, MoMo India, and Women’s Learning Partnership.
Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Bangalore
Friday, September 04, 2009 from 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM (GMT+0530)
Bangalore, Karnataka
Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place.
We are pleases to be in Bangalore! Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camp in Bangalore includes:
* interactive discussions about mobile tech for social good,
* hands-on-demos of mobile apps and tools,
* collaborations about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote mobile technology in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, and citizen media
Participants for Mobile Tech 4 Social Change barcamps include nonprofits, mobile application developers, researchers, donors, intermediary organizations, and mobile operators.
In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Bangalore Camp is:
* A one-day event in Bangalore on September 4, 2009
* An exploration of mobile technology to advance social development and social change goals
* Participatory and interactive
* Open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic
Register Here
September 1st, 2009
TUG India Bangalore Community Kick Off Meet
Friday, September 04, 2009 from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM (GMT+0530)
Bangalore, Karnataka
About:
Appcelerator, a new platform and services company that is enabling Web developers to build intuitive, content-rich applications for Mobile and Desktop platforms.Titanium brings to you the power and efficiency of basic web technologies to mobile and desktop application development. To know more about the platform visit http://www.appcelerator.com/ .
Agenda:
1. TUG India Overview and Introduction.
2. Presentation: Developing mobile applications using Titanium Platform by Mohammed Khan
3. Application Showcase: “You Are Here” by Chinmay Garde
4. Getting to know each other.
Where:
Level 9 Raheja Towers
26-27 Mahatma Gandhi Road
Bangalore, Karnataka 560001
India
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September 1st, 2009
Sep 11, 2009 – 3:00-5:00pm
Grand Ballroom,
The Leela, Bangalore.
Sociotechnical Design and Engineering: Putting People First
Elizabeth F Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research.
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Abstract
Sociotechnical design is concerned with understanding how users and technologies shape each other. When studying how people use systems and applications, it is often possible to see inconsistencies between anticipated use and actual use in everyday life. By taking a social and human activity-centered perspective, we can tease out where expectation and practice converge and diverge – allowing us to identify opportunities for innovation, and to design more useful applications and services. In this talk Churchill explores these topics through case studies of several internet applications.
Elizabeth F Churchill is a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, where she manages the research area of Internet Experiences. A psychologist by training, for the past 15 years she has drawn on diverse areas to consider how to design effective communication situations both face to face and technologically mediated. Applications developed and/or evaluated include cell phone interfaces, textual and 3d graphical environments, interactive digital posterboards and animated interface personas.
August 24th, 2009
CIS Director (Policy) Sunil Abraham will speak at ‘Tactical Media 3.0–Foss: The Dynamics of Freedom’, a workshop on techniques and philosophy of Free and Open Source Software, 27 July to 1 August, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
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The Media Lab, Jadavpur University presents Tactical Media 3.0–FOSS: The Dynamics of Freedom, a workshop on techniques and philosophy of Free and Open Source Software
July 27 – Aug 1, 2009, 3-30 to 7-30 pm, Vivekananda Hall
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Free and Open Source software is one of the greatest tools in the hands of those who wish to challenge the notions of intellectual property (IP) and market-driven logics of human exchange. The Internet has opened up the space for a world-wide collective that believes in enriching each other’s lives through art and knowledge free from narrow conceptions of ownership and privilege. It has given rise to a new creativity on a global scale, from globally shared alternatives to profit-driven initiatives, towards a hope of re-inventing the commons in the 21st century.
July 16th, 2009
Speaker
Ashwin Jacob Mathew is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Before returning to academia, he spent a decade in the software industry in India, working in senior technical roles in companies like Aztec Software and Adobe. At Berkeley, he blends his technical background with theory and methods drawn from the social sciences to investigate the infrastructure of the Internet.
Time and Date
Friday, 17 July, 2009; 5.30-7.00 pm
Venue
Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers (Wockhardt Hospital building), 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052
If we view the Internet as built environment, rather than an abstract “cloud”, then it becomes critical to consider what the politics of this artifact might be, to understand the politics of the technical systems that enable these flows. More
July 16th, 2009
Organized by:
ACM Bangalore, IEEE-CS Bangalore,
IEEE GOLD Affinity Group of Bangalore,
In-formation Bangalore ACM SIGGRAPH Date, Venue:
Sat, July 18, 4:00 PM,
CSA Seminar Hall,
Department of Computer Science & Automation,
IISc, Bangalore, INDIA, IN
Abstract:
This talk presents a technique for creating abstract representations of modern urban areas. We identify and apply cartographic and cognitive principles to develop a solution that is implemented in the context of a state of art Geographic Information Systems. At the core of our solution is a building facade modeling approach that supports varying degrees of abstraction. This is achieved by introducing a concept of “facade waveforms” and representing building facades as combinations of these waveforms. A Fourier series approximation of the waveforms is used during the rendering processes resulting in an elegant solution to anti-aliasing. The formulation retains the semantic information in the representation that enables meaningful extensions like night time façade generation. The solution is implemented as a pixel shader and therefore leads to a large reduction in texture memory requirement compared to existing building rendering techniques. Additionally, in the case of web based systems there is significant reduction in bandwidth requirement. We highlight the features of the proposed solution with demonstrative images.
Speaker Profile:
Neeharika Adabala is a researcher in the Vision, Graphics and Visualization Group of Microsoft Research India. Her current research focuses on effective visualization of and interaction with information, and use of semantics to improve user-computer interaction. She has worked in Philips Research India, MIRALab – University of Geneva, and University of Central Florida. She has a Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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July 15th, 2009
ACM Tech Talk Abstract
PmcTools in FreeBSD is an innovative measurement platform that uses in-CPU hardware event counters for characterizing system behaviour. PmcTools’ low-overheads, useful features and its ability to collect data under production loads have helped it become an integral part of the performance analyst’s toolkit in FreeBSD. This talk introduces PmcTools. We start with a high-level overview of the goals of the project, and go on to cover the architecture of the PmcTools platform, its programming API and a few interesting aspects of its implementation. The changes to the base FreeBSD kernel needed for PmcTools are touched upon. The talk concludes with a discussion on the possible future directions of the project.
About the Speaker
Joseph Koshy has been a user of FreeBSD since 1994 and a volunteer developer of this operating system since 1998.
He is the author of FreeBSD’s “PmcTools” performance analysis toolset.
Joseph is mentor to two FreeBSD committers and lives in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Date & Time: Saturday, 18 April 2009, 11:00 — 13:00
Registrations Available: 85 out of 100
Registration Deadline: Saturday, 18 April 2009
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April 8th, 2009
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