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Blog Entry Call for Design Interns
by Amber Sinha published Jun 12, 2019 last modified Jun 12, 2019 06:16 AM
CIS is seeking graphic design interns to create communication material (information and data visualizations, publication layouts, presentations, etc.) for our projects. The intern will assist our researchers in presenting their research in accessible and easy-to-understand forms, as well as design social media collaterals. They will be working with a multi-disciplinary team across two cities, and be supervised by a designer.
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Blog Entry Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
by Amber Sinha published May 13, 2019 last modified May 13, 2019 09:06 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Omidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) , Kenya, and the CIS, India — on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity. As part of this Alliance, we at the CIS will look at the policy objectives of digital identity projects, how technological policy choices can be thought through to meet the objectives, and how legitimate uses of a digital identity framework may be evaluated.
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Blog Entry Programme Officer - Privacy
by Amber Sinha published Apr 15, 2019 last modified Apr 15, 2019 06:53 AM — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to undertake public policy research on privacy and related themes. For this position, we will hire one full time researcher, to be based in the Delhi office of CIS, for the duration of one year.
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Blog Entry CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy
by Amber Sinha published Apr 01, 2019 last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:40 AM — filed under: , , ,
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.
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Blog Entry Programme Officer - Digital Identity
by Amber Sinha published Mar 29, 2019 — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to be associated with a two year long research project on digital identity. We may hire up to three Programme Officers as part of this project. The position is full time and will be based in the Delhi office of CIS.
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File Data for the Benefit of People
by Amber Sinha published Dec 01, 2018
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Blog Entry India's Data Protection Framework Will Need to Treat Privacy as a Social and Not Just an Individual Good
by Amber Sinha published May 18, 2018 — filed under: ,
The idea that technological innovations may compete with privacy of individuals assumes that there is social and/or economic good in allowing unrestricted access to data. However, it must be remembered that data is potentially a toxic asset, if it is not collected, processed, secured and shared in the appropriate way.
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File Data Protection Submission
by Amber Sinha published Apr 18, 2018
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File CIS Submission to the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India
by Amber Sinha published Apr 06, 2018
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Blog Entry A Series of Op-eds on Data Protection
by Amber Sinha published Feb 19, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
I wrote a short series of three op-eds for Asia Times this week.
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