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Blog Entry NETmundial Transcript Archive
by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 23, 2014
We are archiving the live transcript from the NETmundial meeting (April 23-24, 2014).
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry The Web of Our Strife
by Pranesh Prakash — published Jun 04, 2012 — last modified Jun 04, 2012 05:45 AM — filed under: ,
At the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, India proposed the formation of a Committee on Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) to address what it sees as a policy vacuum in internet governance.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 31, 2011 — filed under: ,
This is the statement made by India at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which its proposal for the UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy was presented.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry CIS Comments on the Draft National Policy on Electronics
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 31, 2011 — last modified Nov 01, 2011 12:05 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
These were the comments submitted by CIS to the request for comments put out by the Department of Information Technology on its draft 'National Policy on Electronics'.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Tweets from Bali IGF 2013
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 28, 2013 09:09 AM
CIS is logging all tweets with the words "igf2013", "igf13", "igf", "bestbits", and "genderit" during the Intenet Governance Forum going on in the Bali this week, and making it available in downloadable files.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
File Tweets with "IGF"
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 28, 2013 06:55 AM
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
File Tweets with "IGF13"
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 28, 2013 06:29 AM — filed under: , ,
Tweets with "IGF13".
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
File Tweets with "BestBits"
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 28, 2013 08:46 AM
Tweets with "BestBits".
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
Blog Entry Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1)
by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2013 — filed under: ,
In this series of blog posts, Pranesh Prakash looks at a brief history of misuse of surveillance powers in India. He notes that the government's surveillance powers have been freqently misused, very often without any kind of judicial or political redressal. This, he argues, should lead us as concerned citizens to demand a scaling down of the government's surveillance powers and pass laws to put it place more robust oversight mechanisms.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
World Day Against Software Patents
by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 10, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM — filed under: ,
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
Located in News & Media
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