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International Conference on Cyberlaw & Cybercrime
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 12, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 08:56 AM — filed under:
The International Conference on Cyberlaw and Cybercrime will take place on March 13, 2014. The event is organized by Cyberlaws.net and Pawan Duggal Associates. Sunil Abraham is participating in the event as a panelist.
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The Internet Will Be Everywhere In 2025, For Better Or Worse
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 12, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:08 AM — filed under:
In 2025, the Internet will enhance our awareness of the world and ourselves while diminishing privacy and allowing abusers to "make life miserable for others," according to a new report by the Pew Research Center and Elon University.
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Blog Entry European Union Draft Report Admonishes Mass Surveillance, Calls for Stricter Data Protection and Privacy Laws
by Divij Joshi — published Mar 20, 2014 — last modified Sep 30, 2014 08:52 AM — filed under: ,
Ever since the release of the “Snowden files”, the secret documents evidencing the massive scale of surveillance undertaken by America’s National Security Agency and publically released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, surveillance in the digital age has come to the fore of the global debate on internet governance and privacy.
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The Take Down of Free Speech Online
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 06, 2014 — filed under: ,
As part of a study to access rate of compliance, in 2011, the Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore sent frivolous “take down” requests to seven prominent intermediaries. The study showed exactly how easy it is to take down online content.
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Cyber Dialogue Conference 2014
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 27, 2014 — last modified Apr 08, 2014 05:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Cyber Dialogue conference, presented by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, will convene an influential mix of global leaders from government, civil society, academia and private enterprise to participate in a series of facilitated public plenary conversations and working groups around cyberspace security and governance.
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Should Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar project, for identity proof and welfare delivery, exist at all?
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 04, 2014 — last modified Apr 14, 2014 10:27 AM — filed under: ,
The foundation of Aadhaar—a Congress flagship project to give every Indian a unique identity number and then use it to deliver services—has been under assault in the past three months.
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Blog Entry NETmundial - Comparing Appearance of Fifty Most Frequent Words
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: ,
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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Blog Entry NETmundial - Contributions by Types of Organisation
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:57 AM — filed under: ,
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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Blog Entry NETmundial Roadmap: Defining the Roles of Stakeholders in Multistakeholderism
by Jyoti Panday — published Apr 23, 2014 — last modified Apr 28, 2014 12:51 PM — filed under: , , ,
NETmundial, one of the most anticipated events in the Internet governance calendar, will see the global community convening at Sao Paolo, with an aim to establish 'strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in the world.' This post analyses the submissions at NETmundial that focused on Roadmap, towards an understanding of stakeholder roles in relation to specific governance functions and highlighting the political, technical and architectural possibilities that lie ahead.
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Blog Entry NETmundial Day 2
by Achal Prabhala — published Apr 25, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.
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