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.

 Raqs Media Collective

The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.

• art,
• public space,
• public domain,
• digital commons

Meg McLagan

Meg McLagan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University where she teaches in the Program in Culture and Media.

World-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.

• infopolitics,
• public domain,
• world-information

Michael Richmond

Author and co-editor of the Occupied Times of London.

• activism,
• theory,
• occupy

 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.

The Accenture Files  

Investigation by the Expose Accenture, the Movement Research Unit, and the Progressive International

Today, the Progressive International, Expose Accenture and the Movement Research Unit release the Accenture Files, revealing the central role of the world’s largest consultancy in the global right-ward turn towards surveillance, exclusion, and strong-men: The Reactionary International.

Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and a comprehensive review of internal documents, our investigation demonstrates how Accenture has quietly embedded itself deep into the apparatus of security states worldwide, deploying its vast network of resources, wealth and technology to surveil entire populations, fuel the military-industrial complex and channel immense public wealth to private hands.

• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• economics,
• finance,
• tactical research

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

• The Yesmen,
• identity correction,
• Dow Bhopal Legacy

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.

• activism,
• globalisation,
• labour,
• garment industry

#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

• tactical education,
• occupy

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.

• activism,
• culture jamming,
• yeslab,
• women's rights

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?

N5M3 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.