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Report of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jun 17, 2017 — last modified Jun 19, 2017 03:07 PM — filed under: Accountability
Aditya Tejas attended the Global Accessibility Awareness Day event organized at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. The event had multiple panels and presentations, including a talk on coding for accessibility, a panel on why accessibility is necessary and how India is lagging behind in implementing it, and a presentation on how accessibility principles are integrated into the product life cycle at Cisco.
Located in Accessibility / Blog
Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2012
The report covers international privacy principles, national privacy principles, rationale and emerging issues along with an analysis of relevant legislations/bills from a privacy perspective.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill: by Elonnai Hickok — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Report on CDIP-12: by Puneeth Nagaraj — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 22, 2014 09:53 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
The 12th meeting of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) was held from November 18-21, 2013 at WIPO. This report discusses the proceedings of the meeting and issues that CIS could get involved at future CDIP meetings.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Report on CIS' Workshop at the IGF:'An Evidence Based Framework for Intermediary Liability': by Jyoti Panday — published Sep 22, 2014 — last modified Sep 24, 2014 10:47 AM — filed under: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability
An evidence based framework for intermediary liability' was organised to present evidence and discuss ongoing research on the changing definition, function and responsibilities of intermediaries across jurisdictions.
Located in Internet Governance
Report on Open Standards for GISW 2008: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 07, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:57 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Publications
A report on Open Standards prepared by Sunil Abraham, for the Global Information Society Watch 2008. As on their site, GISWatch focuses on monitoring progress made towards implementing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) action agenda and other international and national commitments related to information and communications. It also provides analytical overviews of institutions involved in implementation.
Located in Publications (Automated) / CIS Publications / Sunil Abraham
Report on Open Standards for GISW2008: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM — filed under: Open Standards, FLOSS
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Standards
Report on the 'Open Access to Academic Knowledge' workshop: by Tom Dane — published Jan 08, 2012 — last modified Jan 08, 2012 10:57 AM
On Wednesday the 2nd of November, during Open Access Week, the Indian Institute of Science in conjunction with the Centre for Internet and Society held a workshop on Open Access at the National Centre for Science Information, in Bangalore.
Located in Openness
Report on the 5th Privacy Round Table meeting: by Maria Xynou — published Jul 24, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 08:24 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
This report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the fifth Privacy Round Table in Calcutta, on 13th July 2013.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Report on the Fourth Internet Governance Forum for Commonwealth IGF: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 05, 2010 — last modified Feb 29, 2012 05:42 AM — filed under: Internet Governance Forum, Internet Governance
This report by Pranesh Prakash reflects on the question of how useful the IGF is in the light of meetings on the themes of intellectual property, freedom of speech and privacy.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog

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