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RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Summary
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Pavishka Mittal
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published
May 18, 2016
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last modified
May 18, 2016 12:12 PM
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filed under:
Sharing Economy,
Reserve Bank of India,
Research,
Network Economies,
P2P Lending,
Researchers at Work
The Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer-to-Peer Lending on April 28, 2016. The Paper proposes to bring the P2P lending platforms under the purview of RBI’s regulation by defining P2P platforms as NBFCs under section 45I(f)(iii) of the RBI Act. Once notified as NBFCs, RBI can issue regulations under sections 45JA and 45L. The last date for submission of comments to the Consultation Paper is May 31, 2016. In this post, Pavishka Mittal presents a summary of the Paper.
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February 2013 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2013
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last modified
Mar 11, 2013 05:35 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a great year ahead and welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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July 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 31, 2015
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last modified
Nov 21, 2015 04:23 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of July is below:
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What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 24, 2019
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last modified
Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM
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Researchers at Work
A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
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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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Blog
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 09, 2016
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last modified
Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM
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Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
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7 Ways to Con/fuse the Internet with Analogy (Intergalactic Mix) - Talk by Surfatial
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 16, 2016
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last modified
Jul 02, 2018 06:33 PM
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filed under:
Practice,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Surfatial, a trans-local collective that works with text and sound will talk about their essay which was recently published. The talk will also address concerns on how the internet can be used in alternate contexts including presenting work in alternative formats and using the internet for synchronous collaborative cultural production.
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IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and Society
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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last modified
Sep 17, 2016 02:40 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Learning
A workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying relationships and impact of ICTs and Internet on society and the role that society plays in shaping them, particularly in India. The center will bring together faculty in various humanities and social sciences disciplines, and would also initiate interdisciplinary taught programme in IT and Social Sciences. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate in this workshop.
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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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Digital Native: The Future is Now
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 17, 2016
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Natives
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
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