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Bowing to public pressure, govt withdraws draft encryption policy
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 22, 2015 — last modified Oct 01, 2015 02:15 AM — filed under: , ,
Bowing to pressure from the public, the government on Tuesday withdrew a draft policy that sought to control secured online communication, including through mass-use social media and web applications such as WhatsApp and Twitter.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Do you agree with our fee hike? Press 1 to answer Yes; or 2 for Yes
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 01, 2015 — filed under: ,
It has long been a concern that domain-name overseer ICANN is largely funded by companies reliant on the organization to make money.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
ভারতে পাঁচশোরও বেশি স্টেশনে ফ্রি ওয়াই-ফাই চালু হবে
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 28, 2015 — last modified Oct 02, 2015 02:19 PM — filed under:
"তবে ভারতে সেন্টার ফর ইন্টারনেট অ্যান্ড সোসাইটির গবেষণা-প্রধান সুমন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় মনে করেন এই পদক্ষেপগুলো মসৃণভাবে রূপায়ণ করাটাই হবে প্রধান চ্যালেঞ্জ।
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Cyber 360
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:22 AM — filed under: ,
Synergy Foundation organized the Cyber 360 conference in Bangalore on September 29 and 30, 2015. Sunil Abraham participated in the event.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World : Webinar
by Vanya Rakesh — published Sep 26, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 11:09 AM — filed under: ,
On 10th September 2015, the OGP Support Unit, the Open Government Guide, and the World Bank held a webinar on “Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World” presented by Carly Nyst, Independent consultant and former Legal Director of Privacy International and Javier Ruiz, Policy Director of Open Rights Group. This is a summary of the key issues that were discussed by the speakers and the participants.
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Access at the cost of Net neutrality?
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 09, 2015 — filed under: ,
In the Net neutrality debate, there is a conflict between two core values: ease of access and neutrality. The ease of access promised by applications like Free Basics compromises neutrality and may later morph into a method of predatory pricingIf programs that bring access to a part of the Internet in the immediate future were to entrench themselves, it could eventually lead to telecom companies abusing their dominant positionsIn the absence of a specific law mandating a neutral Internet, telecom companies enjoy a virtual carte blanche to discriminate between different applications. Though they have not yet exploited this autonomy fully, they are certainly moving towards that.
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Modi's Valley hug sparks swadeshi talk
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 11, 2015 — filed under: ,
His warm hug of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will perhaps be the most abiding image of Narendra Modi's visit to the Silicon Valley.
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Dadri reopens debate on online hate speech
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 11, 2015 — filed under: , ,
The friction between free speech and hate speech has become newly intense because of social media. Twitter reflected the turmoil after the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, when some tweets justified the murder as a legitimate reaction against cow-slaughter, trending the hashtag #cowmurderers.
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CIS in Top 50 Tech Blogs of India
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 13, 2015 — last modified Oct 14, 2015 06:24 AM — filed under:
The Centre for Internet and Society is on the 30th position among the top technology blogs in India.
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Blog Entry Peering behind the veil of ICANN's DIDP (II)
by Padmini Baruah — published Oct 15, 2015 — filed under: ,
In a previous blog post, I had introduced the concept of ICANN’s Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (“DIDP”) and their extremely vast grounds for non-disclosure. In this short post, I have made an analysis of every DIDP request that ICANN has ever responded to, to point out the flaws in their policy that need to be urgently remedied.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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