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Online privacy should not come at the cost of security: Sunil Abraham: by Prasad Krishna — published May 31, 2013 — last modified Nov 02, 2014 02:27 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society’s executive director, on privacy laws and Internet penetration.
Located in News & Media
Mozilla is funding a way to support Julia in Firefox: by Catalin Cimpanu — published Jul 10, 2019 — filed under: Openness
Mozilla is funding a project for bringing the Julia programming language to Firefox and the general browser environment.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Legal Issues pertaining to Cloud Computing: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 11, 2013 — last modified Feb 07, 2022 03:29 PM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance
The Law and Technology Society of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is organizing the 6th edition of its flagship conference ‘Consilience’ on December 14 and 15, 2013 at NLSIU Campus, Bangalore. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
Located in Events
Summary of CIS Comments to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms: by Anubha Sinha — published Apr 26, 2016 — last modified Apr 26, 2016 12:07 PM — filed under: DIPP, Intellectual Property Rights, FRAND, Access to Knowledge
This blog post summarises CIS’ responses to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms. The response made specific recommendations regarding adequacy of Indian law to determine SEP litigation, remedies for FRAND assured SEPs, FRAND royalty rates, SSO’s policies, parties’ non-disclosure agreements and transparency, and essentiality of SEPs and their declassification.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
IRC19: #List - Conference Programme: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 21, 2019 — last modified Jan 31, 2019 06:33 AM
Located in RAW
Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita Beans: by Denisse Albornoz — published Mar 04, 2014 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:29 PM — filed under: Making Change, Net Cultures, Research, Featured, Researchers at Work
What comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at accessibility challenges for digital immigrants and the importance of behavioral science for the design of digital technologies. We interview Amruth Bagali Ravindranath from Vita Beans.
Located in Digital Natives / Making Change
Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Information Technology
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
Located in Openness / Blog
Mobile App Developer Series: Terms of Agreement – Part IV: by Samantha Cassar — published Mar 23, 2015 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 08:26 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
The following is Part Four in a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Through this research, CIS attempts to understand how the developers interviewed engage with the law within their practice, particularly with respect to IP. Here we examine different attitudes and work practices related to contracts agreements and developer culture in the legal realm.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
UK’s Interception of Communications Commissioner — A Model of Accountability: by Joe Sheehan — published Jul 24, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The United Kingdom maintains sophisticated electronic surveillance operations through a number of government agencies, ranging from military intelligence organizations to police departments to tax collection agencies. However, all of this surveillance is governed by one set of national laws outlining specifically what surveillance agencies can and cannot do.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation on Free Data: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jun 30, 2016 — last modified Jul 01, 2016 04:04 PM — filed under: Telecom, Homepage, TRAI, Net Neutrality, Featured, Internet Governance, Submissions
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) held a consultation on Free Data, for which CIS sent in the following comments.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog

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