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Comments by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Report of the Committee on Medium Term Path on Financial Inclusion
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by
Vipul Kharbanda
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published
Feb 27, 2016
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last modified
Mar 01, 2016 01:53 PM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Financial Inclusion,
Aadhaar,
Homepage
Apart from item-specific suggestions, CIS would like to make one broad comment with regard to the suggestions dealing with linking of Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts. Aadhaar is increasingly being used by the government in various departments as a means to prevent fraud, however there is a serious dearth of evidence to suggest that Aadhaar linkage actually prevents leakages in government schemes. The same argument would be applicable when Aadhaar numbers are sought to be utilized to prevent leakages in the banking sector.
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Blog
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Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 12, 2017
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last modified
Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Digital ID,
Big Data,
Digital Economy,
Digital Access,
Privacy,
Digital Security,
Data Revolution,
Digital Payment,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Data Protection,
Demonetisation,
Homepage,
Featured,
Aadhaar
The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on December 09, 2016. The report was made public on December 27, and comments were sought from the general public. Here are the comments submitted by the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Comments on Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and their Availability on Frand Terms
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by
Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshane
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published
May 01, 2016
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last modified
May 03, 2016 02:30 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies,
Competition,
Featured,
Patents
The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The comments were prepared by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshané.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Comments on the DoT Panel Report via MyGov
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Telecom,
Featured
On behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society, I must commend the Department of Telecom Panel on its report. Overall, it displays a far better understanding of the underlying issues than the TRAI consultation paper did, and is overall a good effort at balancing the different sides. However, some of its most important recommendations are completely off-mark and would be disastrous if accepted by the government.
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Telecom
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Blog
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Comments on the Draft ICAR Open Access Policy
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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published
May 28, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Featured
The following comments were submitted to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research on May 23, 2013.
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Openness
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Blog
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Comments on the National Geospatial Policy (Draft, V.1.0), 2016
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jun 01, 2016
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 09:40 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
National Geospatial Policy,
Openness
The Department of Science and Technology published the first public draft of the National Geospatial Policy (v.1.0) on May 05, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following comments in response. The comments were authored by Adya Garg, Anubha Sinha, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Openness
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Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Mar 29, 2016
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last modified
Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
Openness,
Digital India
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 03, 2016. Ms. Anubha Sinha represented CIS at the meeting, and shares her notes.
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Openness
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig Work
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Apr 30, 2020
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last modified
May 13, 2020 08:53 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Future of Work,
Featured,
Network Economies,
Homepage
Tandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the lockdown. Based on the discussion, the participants of the webinar have drafted a set of recommendations for government agencies and platform companies to safeguard workers’ well being. Here are excerpts from this charter of recommendation shared with multiple central and state government agencies and platforms companies.
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RAW
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CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 16, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AM
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filed under:
Conference,
Open Standards,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Access,
Public Accountability,
Research,
Featured
The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. Organised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, the event builds on the debates and discussions initiated at the WikiWars that launched off the knowledge network in Bangalore in January 2010. Follow the Live Tweets at #CPOV
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Conference Blogs
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Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 09, 2011
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last modified
May 13, 2011 07:24 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
CPOV
For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability and accuracy, to unveil the complex, messy, and controversial realities of a distributed knowledge platform.
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