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CIS Response to Call for Stakeholder Comments: Draft E-Commerce Policy: by Arindrajit Basu, Vipul Kharbanda, Elonnai Hickok and Amber Sinha — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 10, 2019 12:12 PM — filed under: E-Commerce, Internet Governance
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion comments to the draft National e-commerce policy.
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CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 01, 2019 — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:40 AM — filed under: E-Commerce, Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.
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CIS Response to ICANN's proposed renewal of .org Registry: by Akriti Bopanna — published Apr 28, 2019 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance
We thank ICANN for the opportunity to comment on this issue of its proposed renewal of the .org Registry Agreement with the operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR). Supporting much of the community , we too find severe issues with the proposed agreement. These centre around the removal of price caps and imposing obligations being currently deliberated in an ongoing Policy Development Process (PDP).
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CIS Seminar Series: by Cheshta Arora — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Apr 11, 2022 03:19 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Event, Seminar
The CIS seminar series will be a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress, exchange ideas, identify avenues for collaboration, and curate research. We also seek to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on research exchange, and foster collaborations among researchers and academics from diverse geographies. Every quarter we will be hosting a remote seminar with presentations, discussions and debate on a thematic area.
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CIS Seminar Series: Information Disorder: by Aman Nair — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Aug 11, 2021 11:17 AM — filed under: Digital Economy, Digital Access, Internet Governance, Digital Disruption, Information Technology
The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South.
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CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public Forum: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 05:31 AM — filed under: IANA, IG4all, Internet Governance, Accountability, ICANN, North vs South
This was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process provides an opportunity to address this.
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CIS Statement on Right to Privacy Judgment: by Amber Sinha — published Aug 28, 2017 — last modified Aug 31, 2017 06:13 PM — filed under: Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
In an emphatic endorsement of the right to privacy, a nine judge constitutional bench unanimously upheld a fundamental right to privacy. The events leading to this bench began during the hearings in the ongoing Aadhaar case, when in August 2015, Mukul Rohatgi, the then Attorney General stated that there is no constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy.
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CIS Submission on CCWG-Accountability 2nd Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations: by Pranesh Prakash — published Sep 13, 2015 — last modified Nov 23, 2015 02:58 PM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted the below to ICANN's CCWG-Accountability.
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CIS Submission to the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 05, 2018 — last modified Apr 18, 2018 04:39 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (“CIS”) on the ‘White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India’ (“White Paper”) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The White paper was drafted by a Committee of Expert (“Committee”) constituted by the Ministry. CIS has conducted research on the issues of privacy, data protection and data security since 2010 and is thankful for the opportunity to put forth its views. The submission was made on January 31, 2018.
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CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights: by Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Akriti Bopanna, Shweta Mohandas, Martyna Kalvaityte — published Feb 20, 2019 — last modified Feb 20, 2019 10:48 AM — filed under: Human Rights, Internet Governance, Surveillance
CIS responded to the call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights.
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