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Best Practices Meet: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 08, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 06:25 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Best Practices Meet 2014 is being organized by DSCI at Hotel Leela Palace on July 9, 2014. Sunil Abraham will participate as a panelist at the event.
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Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 04, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance
This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
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Beyond Access as Inclusion: by Anja Kovacs — published Aug 31, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM — filed under: Development, Digital Access, Internet Governance, human rights
On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
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Beyond Anonymous: Shit people say on Internet piracy: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 13, 2012 — filed under: Video, Internet Governance
This post is a series of provocations around piracy, censorship and the state of Internet in India. Like all good tasting things, these observations need to be taken with a pinch of salt. But it is the hope of the author that this serves as a response to otherwise very persistent voices that have been demonizing file-sharing online.
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Beyond Clicktivism: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 18, 2011 — last modified Apr 20, 2011 04:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Moral support Hazare has in plenty. Count the missed calls, writes Debarshi Dasgupta in this article published in the Outlook on April 18, 2011.
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Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
In the past few years, social networking sites have come to play a central role in intermediating the public’s access to and deliberation of information critical to a thriving democracy. In stark contrast to early utopian visions which imagined that the internet would create a more informed public, facilitate citizen-led engagement, and democratize media, what we see now is the growing association of social media platforms with political polarization and the entrenchment of racism, homophobia, and xenophobia.
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Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Internet Governance
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Beyond Scale: How to make your digital development program sustainable: by Admin — published Feb 26, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance, Digital Governance
A dissemination workshop was organized by BBC Media Action, with support from the Digital Impact Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on February 21, 2018 in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham participated in the workshop.
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Beyond Sharing: Towards our Digital Futures: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 01, 2012 — last modified Jun 01, 2012 04:39 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The battle is not about file sharing and a petty film producer wanting to rake in the box office earnings. It is about the law’s incapacity to deal with post-analogue practices and processes.
Located in Internet Governance
Beyond the PDP Bill: Governance Choices for the DPA: by Trishi Jindal and S.Vivek — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Nov 10, 2021 07:32 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
This article examines the specific governance choices the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in India must deliberate on vis-à-vis its standard-setting function, which are distinct from those it will encounter as part of its enforcement and supervision functions.
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