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Network Disruptions Report by Global Network Initiative: by Akriti Bopanna — published Jun 12, 2018 — filed under: Network Disruptions, Internet Governance
Around 70% of all known shutdowns in the world took place in India in 2017. The same year Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) released the “Temporary Suspension of Internet Services” giving State and Central Government officials the power to terminate Internet services as per the guidelines.
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Network Neutrality Regulation across South Asia: A Roundtable on Aspects of Differential Pricing: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 13, 2016 — last modified Jan 17, 2016 02:41 AM — filed under: Privacy, Free Basics, Internet Governance, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Event
The Centre of Internet and Society (CIS) in association with Observer Research Foundation, and IT For Change in collaboration with the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a roundtable on ‘Network Neutrality Regulation Across South Asia: Aspects of Differential Pricing” that will take place on January 22, 2016 from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. at TERI in Bangalore.
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Networked Economies and Gender Action Learning: by Admin — published Oct 02, 2018 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance, Privacy
Elonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Ambika Tandon participated in a meeting organized by IDRC for grantees under their networked economies programme to discuss gender-based outputs and development outcomes in their work. The event was held in Ottawa on September 20 - 21, 2018, facilitated by Gender at Work.
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Networking its way to better governance: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 28, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:13 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
New policy to regulate Government presence on social media. This article by Deepa Kurup was published in the Hindu on March 28, 2011.
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Networking? Not working: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 11:12 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Concerns about privacy, wastage of time and trivialized communication are some reasons ‘refuseniks’ are going off sites such as Facebook and MySpace, writes Shreya Ray in Livemint.
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Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get: by Nishant Shah — published May 06, 2014 — last modified May 28, 2014 09:30 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
When I start thinking about DML (digital media and learning) and other such “networks” that I am plugged into, I often get a little confused about what to call them.
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New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on Aadhaar: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 16, 2013 — last modified Apr 04, 2013 08:28 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Indian Government is going ahead with a new project dubbed RIC that will effectively undermine the existing UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority of India project and will cost a whopping $1 billion.
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New Approaches to Information Privacy – Revisiting the Purpose Limitation Principle: by Amber Sinha — published Jul 13, 2016 — last modified Nov 09, 2016 01:54 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Article on Aadhaar throwing light on privacy and data protection.
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New Bill to decide on individual’s right to privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 07, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
A group of experts would identify issues relating to privacy and prepare a report to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. Vishwajoy Mukherjee's article was published in Tehelka on 6 February 2012.
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New Delhi Expands Curbs on Web Content: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
India on Thursday broadened recent efforts to regulate the Internet with moves to block Twitter accounts of some prominent journalists and content from mainstream news organizations, sparking a backlash across social media in the country.
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