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Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain: by Pranesh Prakash — published Aug 21, 2013 — last modified Sep 06, 2013 04:56 AM — filed under: Copyright, Access to Knowledge
Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary: by Elonnai Hickok — published Dec 31, 2012 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 04:02 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS
On December 13 and 14, 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation organized the Surveillance and Human Rights Camp held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting examined trends in surveillance, reasons for state surveillance, surveillance tactics that governments are using, and safeguards that can be put in place to protect against unlawful or disproportionate surveillance.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education: by Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 18, 2013 — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AM — filed under: Video, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge, Digital Humanities
The digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on July 13, 2013.
Located in Digital Natives
CIS Para-wise Comments on Cyber Café Rules, 2011: by Prashant Iyengar — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM — filed under: IT Act, Internet Governance
On February 7th 2011, the Department of Information Technology, MCIT published draft rules on its website (The Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011) in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 87(2) (zg), read with Section 79(2) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Comments were invited from the public before February 25th 2011. Accordingly, Privacy India and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore have prepared the following para wise comments for the Ministry’s consideration.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Bombay: by Karan Tripathi — published Feb 22, 2016 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Bombay.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
'Privacy Matters' Chennai: by elonnai hickok — published Aug 02, 2011 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 10:17 AM
Privacy India invites individuals to attend “Privacy Matters”, a one day conference on August 6th 2011 at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. Privacy India, Society in Action Group, IDRC, the Centre for Internet & Society, Citizen consumer and civic Action Group, and Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai have joined hands to organize this event.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Transcript of the Opening Ceremony, WCIT-2012: by Snehashish Ghosh — published Dec 03, 2012 — last modified Dec 03, 2012 01:57 PM
Rough live-transcript of the Opening Ceremony of the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT-12) held on December 3, 2012.
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
Brainstorming Session on the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS 2017): by Japreet Grewal — published Apr 14, 2017 — filed under: Internet Governance
I attended a brainstorming session on the Global Conference on Cyber Space 2017 on April 12, 2017 at Electronics Niketan that was organised by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. The Global Conference on Cyber Space was first held in London in 2011. Thereafter, it was held in Budapest (2012), Seoul (2013) and the Hague (2015).
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Internet Freedom in India – Open to Debate: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 25, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
In the aftermath of an Index on Censorship debate in New Delhi, Kirsty Hughes says India’s web users are standing at a crossroads
Located in News & Media
Internet Governance and Human Rights: Strategies and Collaborations for Empowerment: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 19, 2010 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 03:59 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Leading up to the 2010 IGF, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Global Partners, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), IT for Change, and the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles are hosting, on 13 September 2010 in Vilnius, an event on 'Internet Governance and Human Rights: Strategies and Collaborations for Empowerment'.
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