Re: Inviting for "Will the real internet please stand up: on internet.org and Digital India" Discussion

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On 9 October 2015 at 11:06, Mugunthan Latchoumanane <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu and Catalyst Study circle are happy to
> welcome you to a discussion titled:
>
>
> *Will the real internet please stand up: on internet.org
> <http://internet.org> and Digital India*
>
> A few weeks ago, we saw thousands of people on Facebook change their
> profile pictures to resemble the Indian flag as part of the social media
> giant's initiative to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India
> project.
>
> This phase also saw a lot of criticism of Facebook, especially with
> reference to its internet.org (now renamed as Free Basics), on the issue
> of net neutrality and issues such as privacy and data storage. Only a few
> months ago, internet.org had again been the subject of a controversy
> during the debate on net neutrality in India.
> In this discussion, we not only look at net neutrality and Facebook's
> initiative but also, the larger context of the Digital India project and
> the role companies such as Facebook have to play in the project
>
>
> Speaker: Mr.Srinivasan Ramani,
>               Deputy Editor,
>               The Hindu,
>               (he visited Facebook recently and interviewed Mark
> Zuckerberg)
>
> Date:       October 11th 2015
>
> Time:      2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
>
> Venue:     Asian College of Journalism,
>                2nd Main Road, Behind M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation,
>                Tharamani,
>                CIT Campus, Taramani,
>                Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600113.
> Contact:   044-43504670, 9962943247
>
> Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3615415200#map=16/12.9958/80.2474
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