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A trust deficit between advertisers and publishers is leading to fake news: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 24, 2018 — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:44 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
Transparency regulations is need of the hour. And urgently for election and political advertising. What do the ads look like? Who paid for them? Who was the target? How many people saw these advertisements? How many times? Transparency around viral content is also required.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
A2K3 Panel XI - Ogg Vorbis: by admin — last modified Sep 21, 2008 02:43 PM
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 23, 2008 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Open Access
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.
Located in Openness / Blog
About Open Access Day: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Sep 21, 2008 02:43 PM
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Agenda: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Oct 13, 2008 12:25 PM
The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, jointly organise the first Open Access Day on the 14th of October 2008 at Tagore Hall, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Anonymity and Privacy: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Jan 26, 2009 09:42 AM
Located in About Us / Substantive Areas / New Pedagogies
Anonymity in Cyberspace: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 09, 2015 — last modified Sep 09, 2015 01:31 AM
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
April 2016 Newsletter: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 30, 2016 — last modified May 10, 2016 06:26 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
Welcome to the CIS newsletter for April 2016. The key issues we worked on this month included the Aadhaar Act 2016, Standard Essential Patents, cyber security of smart grids, and involvement of international agencies in the smart cities project in India.
Located in About Us / Newsletters
Artificial Intelligence: a Full-Spectrum Regulatory Challenge [Working Draft]: by Sunil Abraham — published Oct 01, 2019 — last modified Aug 04, 2020 06:10 AM — filed under: Regulatory Practices Lab, Internet Governance, Artificial Intelligence
Located in Internet Governance
Availability and Accessibility of Government Information in Public Domain: by Sunil Abraham — published Dec 09, 2014 — last modified Dec 30, 2014 01:25 AM — filed under: Government Information, Accessibility, Featured, Digitisation, Homepage
The information provided on most Government websites such as Acts, notifications, rules, orders, minutes of meetings and consultations, etc. is usually in the form of electronic documents. However, these lack authenticity and accessibility and cannot be (text) searched., This policy brief identifies the problem areas with the current work flow being used to publish documents and proposes suitable modifications to make them easy to locate, authentic and accessible.
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