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CIS-India Projects: Overlaps with Digital India: by Anubha Sinha — published Oct 11, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
This post documents the overlap of CIS India's work with the nine pillars of the Digital India campaign. The list reflects work completed/underway as of September 2015.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
cis-mozilla-doh-trr: by Divyank Katira — published Jan 19, 2021
Located in Internet Governance
CIS’ Comments to the Christchurch Call: by Admin — published Nov 02, 2019
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CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANN: by Padma Venkataraman — published Oct 29, 2017 — last modified Oct 31, 2017 02:10 AM — filed under: ICANN, Transparency, Internet Governance, Accountability
CIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of transparency become a default approach within ICANN. Here, Padma Venkataraman chronologically maps CIS’ efforts at enhancing financial transparency and accountability at ICANN, while providing an outline of what remains to be done.
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CIS_BD4D_Guideline03_AS+PT_BigDataAIEthicsReview_SummaryNotes PDF: by Pranav M B — published May 19, 2020
Located in RAW / BD4D Guideline Documents
CIS_BD4D_Guideline04_PT+PB_BigDataAIEthicsReview_ExtendedNotes PDF: by Pranav M B — published May 19, 2020
Located in RAW / BD4D Guideline Documents
CIS_ODR Report_11/11/20: by Aman Nair — published Nov 11, 2020 — last modified Mar 22, 2021 05:22 AM
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Civic BRICS Forum 2015: by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 24, 2015 — last modified Aug 10, 2015 02:27 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
I attended the Civil BRICS Forum in Moscow last month. My session fell under the Economics and Trade category; and I spoke on the importance of maintaining a balanced IP regime, strengthening access to knowledge and medicines, and ensuring free speech and innovation. The event was held in Moscow from June 29 to July 1, 2015.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Civic hackers seek to find their feet in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 03, 2011 — last modified Apr 04, 2011 06:45 AM — filed under: Openness
In 2006, when Sushant Sinha,who holds a doctorate in Internet security from the University of Michigan, tried to use the Indian government’s judicial rulings website, Judis.nic.in, he found it difficult to get the data he was looking for. “Judis.nic.in didn’t have a good text search or ability to sort results by relevance,” Sinha said. The lack of these two critical functions rendered the wealth of data on the site largely unusable.
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Civil Liberties Groups Warn Proposed EU 'Terrorist Content' Rule a Threat to Democratic Values: by Admin — published Feb 19, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance
Requiring filtering tools would be "a gamble with European Internet users' rights to privacy and data protection, freedom of expression and information, and non-discrimination and equality before the law."
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