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The Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2013 and the Lack of Access to Accessibility Rights: by Amba Salelkar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 02:21 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2013 (The RPD Bill) went through three avatars since its commissioning in 2009 under the Sudha Kaul Committee. This blog post brings you a summary of the three stages since it was initially commissioned.
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The Right to Information, The Right to Knowledge (Talk by Sam Pitroda & Carl Malamud): by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 14, 2018
On October 15, 2017, Sam Pitroda and Carl Malamud will speak on open data and knowledge in India.
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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The Road to Financial Inclusion: by Amba Salelkar — published May 12, 2014 — last modified Jun 03, 2014 06:46 AM — filed under: Accessibility
It is increasingly frustrating to hear about wonderful steps being taken for financial inclusion within the private sector which completely ignores the question of inclusion of persons with disabilities.
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The Role of ICT in Judicial Reform- An Exploration: by Rebecca Schild — published Nov 18, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:17 AM — filed under: e-governance
A seminar held this month by the Communications and Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI) explored the role that information and communication technology can assume in the process of India's judicial reform efforts. The broad consensus among panelists was that “law is not keeping pace with technology”. However, whether technology will be harnessed to actually facilitate much needed transparency and access to the justice system, or be simply used to improve efficiency within the judicial branch still remains unclear.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
The South African Telecommunications Sector: Poised for Change: by Radha Rao — published Oct 14, 2009 — last modified Oct 21, 2011 09:59 AM — filed under: Telecom
CIS in collaboration with the LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and in association with different institutions across India is organizing a Lecture Tour by Sagie Chetty from 19th Oct to 30th Oct.
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The Spies We Trust: Third Party Service Providers and Law Enforcement Surveillance: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 25, 2012 — last modified Jul 31, 2012 04:47 AM
Christopher Soghoian's dissertation was submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree "Doctor of Philosophy" in the School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University
Located in Internet Governance
The State is Snooping: Can You Escape?: by Snehashish Ghosh — published Jun 27, 2013 — last modified Apr 29, 2019 03:09 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Blanket surveillance of the kind envisaged by India's Centralized Monitoring System achieves little, but blatantly violates the citizen's right to privacy; Snehashish Ghosh explores why it may be dangerous and looks at potential safeguards against such intrusion.
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The State of Secure Messaging: by Divyank Katira — published Jul 15, 2020 — last modified Jul 17, 2020 08:12 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Encryption, IETF
A look at the protections provided by and threats posed to secure communication online.
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The STI Policy Proposes a Transformative Open Access Approach for India: by Anubha Sinha — published Apr 28, 2021 — filed under: Open Access, Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha explains what the draft national Science, Technology and Innovation policy means for open access to scientific literature for Indians. This article was first published in The Wire Science on January 21, 2021.
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