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India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Oct 31, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance Forum,
Internet Governance
This is the statement made by India at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which its proposal for the UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy was presented.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Security: Privacy, Transparency and Technology
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Aug 19, 2015
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last modified
Sep 15, 2015 10:53 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Homepage
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been involved in privacy and data protection research for the last five years. It has participated as a member of the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, which has influenced the draft Privacy Bill being authored by the Department of Personnel and Training. It has organised 11 multistakeholder roundtables across India over the last two years to discuss a shadow Privacy Bill drafted by CIS with the participation of privacy commissioners and data protection authorities from Europe and Canada.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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CIS submission to the UNGA WSIS+10 Review
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Aug 09, 2015
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filed under:
WSIS+10,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments to the non-paper on the UNGA Overall Review of
the Implementation of the WSIS outcomes, evaluating the progress made and challenges ahead.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Developing Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
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by
Sohnee Harshey*
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published
Jun 02, 2016
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last modified
Jun 10, 2016 01:50 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Malayalam Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Hindi Wikipedia
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.
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Openness
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Consumers International IP Watchlist 2012 — India Report
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 16, 2012
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Pranesh Prakash prepared the India Report for Consumers International IP Watchlist 2012. The report was published on the A2K Network website.
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Access to Knowledge
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An all-nighter for hackers
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 11, 2012
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last modified
Aug 06, 2012 10:59 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Tech event management firm HasGeek is back with its Hacknight for hackers and developers willing to burn the proverbial midnight oil writing some competitive code.
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News & Media
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Seminar on Rethinking Copyright and Licensing for Digital Publishing Today (Delhi, January 23)
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jan 20, 2017
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last modified
Jan 21, 2017 02:51 PM
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filed under:
Copyright,
License,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Publishing,
Digital Scholarship
Against the backdrop of a growing global and domestic digital publishing industry on one hand and the recent judgment by the Delhi High Court that upheld the education exception to reproduction of academic and literary works, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organising a seminar to discuss and reflect on the relevance and functions of copyright and licensing within the transforming market practices and legal structures of the publishing industry today.
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Access to Knowledge
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Events
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Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 26, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Internet Governance
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
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News & Media
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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RAW
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Wiki's worth, on a different turf
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jan 15, 2010
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last modified
Oct 23, 2012 08:33 AM
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filed under:
Openness
An Indian duo–a programmer and a mathematician–have developed a tool to expose anonymous writers and cleanse Wikipedia of rogue editors
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News & Media
