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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India: Opportunities for Advocacy in Intellectual Property
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by
Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
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published
Apr 23, 2017
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filed under:
Openness,
Featured,
FOSS,
Homepage
Centre for Internet & Society worked on a three part case study. The first case study on digital protection of traditional knowledge was published by GIS Watch in December 2016. The other two case studies along with the synthesis overview has also been published.
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Openness
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CIS's Position on Net Neutrality
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 04, 2015
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last modified
Dec 09, 2015 01:06 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
As researchers committed to the principle of pluralism we rarely produce institutional positions. This is also because we tend to update our positions based on research outputs. But the lack of clarity around our position on network neutrality has led some stakeholders to believe that we are advocating for forbearance. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Please see below for the current articulation of our common institutional position.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Privacy in Healthcare: Policy Guide
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by
Tanvi Mani
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published
Aug 26, 2014
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last modified
Aug 31, 2014 03:18 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Health Policy Guide seeks to understand what are the legal regulations governing data flow in the health sector — particularly hospitals, and how are these regulations implemented. Towards this objective, the research reviews data practices in a variety of public and private hospitals and diagnostics labs. The research is based on legislation, case law, publicly available documents, and anonymous interviews.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for Sessions
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 01:40 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC17,
Homepage
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). It is a free and open conference. Sessions must be proposed by teams of two or more members on or before Friday, October 28. All submitted session proposals will go though an open review process, followed by each team that has proposed a session being invited to select ten sessions of their choice to be included in the Conference agenda. Final sessions will be chosen through these votes, and be announced on January 09, 2017.
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CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 01, 2016
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 12:30 AM
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filed under:
CISxScholars,
Data Systems,
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Network Economies,
Homepage,
Event
We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: <
[email protected]>.
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Internet's Core Resources are a Global Public Good - They Cannot Remain Subject to One Country's Jurisdiction
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by
Vidushi Marda
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published
Nov 09, 2016
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last modified
Nov 14, 2016 06:39 AM
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filed under:
ICANN,
Homepage,
Internet Governance
This statement was issued by 8 India civil society organizations, supported by 2 key global networks, involved with internet governance issues, to the meeting of ICANN in Hyderabad, India from 3 to 9 November 2016. The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 8 organizations that drafted this statement.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 16, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 01:37 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC17,
Homepage
We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).
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Train the Trainer Program
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 18, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
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Openness
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Blog
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CIS-A2K Narrative Report (September 2012 – June 2013)
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by
Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 29, 2013
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last modified
Nov 30, 2013 11:18 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
This narrative report captures the work done by the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in the first ten months of the grant. The report also throws some light on the CIS-A2K program strategy in the next one year.
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CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
Dec 31, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness,
Homepage
The Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K team) is pleased to share with you the key accomplishments about the work it accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. In accordance with the Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge Program’s (CIS-A2K) Konkani Work Plan 2013-14 the program has invested time and effort to build Konkani Wikimedia community and projects.
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