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Workshop on Open Data for Human Development - Sessions Report
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 26, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 08:16 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy,
Openness
CIS facilitated a workshop on open data policy and tools for government officials from Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Tripura, and those from Bhutan and Maldives, in June 2015. The workshop was co-facilitated with Akvo, DataMeet, and Mapbox, and was supported by International Centre for Human Development of UNDP India. Here we share the workshop report and other related documents. The report is written by Sumandro, along with Amitangshu Acharya of Akvo.
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Openness
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Not Just Fancy Television
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 08, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:45 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Book Review,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah reviews Ben Hammersley's book "64 Things You Need to Know for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear ", published by Hodder & Stoughton
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Privacy in Healthcare: Policy Guide
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by
Tanvi Mani
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published
Aug 26, 2014
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last modified
Aug 31, 2014 03:18 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Health Policy Guide seeks to understand what are the legal regulations governing data flow in the health sector — particularly hospitals, and how are these regulations implemented. Towards this objective, the research reviews data practices in a variety of public and private hospitals and diagnostics labs. The research is based on legislation, case law, publicly available documents, and anonymous interviews.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for Sessions
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 01:40 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC17,
Homepage
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). It is a free and open conference. Sessions must be proposed by teams of two or more members on or before Friday, October 28. All submitted session proposals will go though an open review process, followed by each team that has proposed a session being invited to select ten sessions of their choice to be included in the Conference agenda. Final sessions will be chosen through these votes, and be announced on January 09, 2017.
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RAW
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RBI Directions on Account Aggregators
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by
Vipul Kharbanda and Elonnai Hickok
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published
Oct 21, 2016
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last modified
Oct 21, 2016 03:25 PM
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filed under:
Banking,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Directions for account aggregator services in India seem to lay great emphasis on data security by allowing only direct access between institutions and do away with data scraping techniques.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights - Workshop Report
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by
Vidushi Marda, Akash Deep Singh and Geethanjali Jujjavarapu
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published
Nov 14, 2016
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last modified
Nov 18, 2016 12:58 PM
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filed under:
Human Rights,
UID,
Big Data,
Privacy,
Artificial Intelligence,
Internet Governance,
Machine Learning,
Featured,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Information Technology,
E-Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society held a one-day workshop on “Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms and Human Rights” at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on the 1st of October, 2016. This report is a compilation of the the issues discussed, ideas exchanged and challenges recognized during the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to discuss aspects of big data technologies in terms of harms, opportunities and human rights. The discussion was designed around an extensive study of current and potential future uses of big data for governance in India, that CIS has undertaken over the last year with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Internet Governance
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 16, 2016
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last modified
Dec 12, 2016 01:37 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Learning,
IRC17,
Homepage
We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).
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RAW
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CIS Statement on Right to Privacy Judgment
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Aug 28, 2017
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last modified
Aug 31, 2017 06:13 PM
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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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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Digital Natives Video Contest
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:35 PM
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filed under:
Video,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The Everyday Digital Native Video Contest has its top five winners through public voting.
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Digital Natives
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Digital Humanities in India?
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 12, 2015
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 05:05 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' itself, as a 'found' name for which one needs to excavate some meaning, context, and location in India at the present moment. Instead of importing this term to describe practices taking place in this country - especially when the term itself is relatively unstable and undefined even in the Anglo-American context - what I chose to do was to take a few steps back, and outline a few questions/conflicts that the digital practitioners in arts and humanities disciplines are grappling with. The final report of this study will be published serially. This is the first among seven sections.
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