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Bangalore CryptoParty!: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 28, 2012 — last modified Jan 06, 2013 01:47 PM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance
Care about your privacy and online security? Want to fight against pervasive governmental surveillance and corporate invasions of privacy? The Centre for Internet & Society invites you to the CryptoParty tonight (Friday) at 6.00 p.m. Make sure to bring friends (and your laptop and smart phones)!
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Bangalore: Learn to secure your online communication!: by Bernadette Langle — published Jun 21, 2013 — last modified Jun 27, 2013 11:11 AM
Having a Cryptoparty in Bangalore
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Battle for the Internet: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 15, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:28 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
In this article written by Latha Jishnu and published by Down to Earth, Issue: March 15 2011, the author reports about the events in the United States in the post WikiLeaks scenario.
Located in News & Media
Benefits and Harms of "Big Data": by Scott Mason — published Dec 30, 2015 — filed under: Internet Governance, Big Data
Today the quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Benefits, Harms, Rights and Regulation: A Survey of Literature on Big Data: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2017
Located in Internet Governance / Files
Better Understanding of the Idea of Privacy Sought: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2011 — last modified Aug 08, 2011 07:40 AM — filed under: Privacy
Understanding the ways in which an individual's privacy is violated will help provide a better definition of privacy in India. At a public conference called ‘Privacy Matters' held at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) here on Saturday, speakers underscored the need for discussions surrounding the privacy bill.
Located in News & Media
Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 04, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance
This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Beyond Access as Inclusion: by Anja Kovacs — published Aug 31, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM — filed under: Development, Digital Access, Internet Governance, human rights
On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions of Openness: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
It is hard for Westerners to realize just how much we take for granted about intellectual property, and in particular, how much the property owner’s perspective--be it a corporation, government or creative artist--is embedded in our view of the world as the natural order of things.
Located in News & Media
Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Internet Governance
Located in Internet Governance / Files

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