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Research Initiative: Women in India's IT Industry: by Jadine Lannon — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:31 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
CIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software companies, we hope to provide insight into state of female employment in one of the most important and rapidly growing economic sectors in the country.
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Respite from Internet Censorship?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 10, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Of late, a lot of the blocked websites have started reappearing. So should we sit back and relax? We take a look at how it's not really the start of something beautiful...writes Nimish Sawant. Sunil Abraham is quoted.
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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin Maclay: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 13, 2013 — last modified Mar 15, 2013 05:07 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Colin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
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Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration: by Pranesh Prakash — published Aug 30, 2015 — last modified Nov 29, 2015 06:35 AM — filed under: IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
This proposal was made to the Global Multistakeholder Community on August 9, 2015. The proposal was drafted by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. The research assistance was provided by Padmini Baruah, Vidushi Marda, and inputs from Sunil Abraham.
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Response to GCSC on Request for Consultation: Norm Package Singapore: by Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover and Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 22, 2019 — last modified Jan 27, 2019 03:43 PM — filed under: Cyber Security, International Relations, Internet Governance
The GCSC opened a public comment procedure to solicit comments and obtain additional feedback. CIS responded to the public call-offering comments on all six norms and proposing two further norms.
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Response to RTI on Decisions of the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 09, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance
The Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology responded to a right to information (RTI) application filed by Saket Bisani on behalf of the Centre for Internet & Society on July 13, 2012 through notification No. 14(110)/2012-ESD, dated October 3, 2010.
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
Response to the Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018: by Gurshabad Grover, Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Akriti — published Feb 07, 2019 — last modified Feb 07, 2019 08:06 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability
In this response, we aim to examine whether the draft rules meet tests of constitutionality and whether they are consistent with the parent Act. We also examine potential harms that may arise from the Rules as they are currently framed and make recommendations to the draft rules that we hope will help the Government meet its objectives while remaining situated within the constitutional ambit.
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Response to the Pegasus Questionnaire issued by the SC Technical Committee: by Anamika Kundu, Digvijay, Arindrajit Basu, Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Apr 13, 2022 02:45 PM — filed under: IT Act, Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
On March 25, 2022, the Supreme Court appointed Technical Committee constituted to examine the allegations of alleged unauthorised surveillance using the Pegasus software released a questionnaire seeking responses and comments from the general public.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Responses to Trai’s consultation paper on free data contain some good suggestions: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: TRAI, Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
Trai has announced that it will come up with a final consultation paper on ‘Free Data’, and also a pre-consultation paper on Net Neutrality by the end of this month.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Responsible AI Workshop: by Admin — published Sep 20, 2019 — last modified Sep 20, 2019 02:50 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Artificial Intelligence
Sunil Abraham participated in this meeting organized by Facebook on September 17, 2019 in New Delhi.
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