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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"
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by
Natasha Vaz
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published
Jan 28, 2012
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last modified
Feb 15, 2012 04:27 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Featured
On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present conference analyzed the Draft Privacy Bill and the participants discussed the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
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Internet Governance
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How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jan 24, 2012
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last modified
Feb 21, 2012 11:50 AM
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filed under:
Obscenity,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
Without getting into questions of what should and should not be unlawful speech, Pranesh Prakash chooses to take a look at how Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services, and how it makes it much easier than getting offline printed speech removed.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices
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by
Nirmita Narasimhan
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published
Dec 27, 2011
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last modified
Oct 08, 2012 05:43 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Accessibility,
Publications
The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies and the Centre for Internet and Societies in cooperation with the Hans Foundation have published the Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices. The book consists of a Foreword by Axel Leblois, an Introduction and four chapters. Deepti Bharthur, Axel Leblois and Nirmita Narasimhan have contributed to the chapters.
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The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 23, 2011
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:36 PM
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filed under:
Higher Education,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Featured,
New Pedagogies,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Pluralism
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
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Digital Natives
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 14, 2011
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Google,
Access to Knowledge,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
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Internet Governance
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Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Obscenity,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
YouTube,
Social media,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship,
Social Networking
The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if the government's heart is in the right place. Further, he points out that now is the time to take action on the draconian IT Rules which are before the Parliament.
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Internet Governance
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Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Higher Education,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Digital Natives
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Blog
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Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Nov 23, 2011
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last modified
Feb 27, 2012 03:06 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Featured,
Open Access,
Openness,
Publications
As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Openness
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Blog
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e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities (Russian Version)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 04, 2011
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last modified
Apr 26, 2012 10:04 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Books,
Accessibility,
Publications
The e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities is based upon the online ITU-G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities (www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org) which was released in February 2010. This is the Russian translation of the same.
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Accessibility
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Analysis of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Oct 27, 2011
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last modified
Dec 02, 2011 09:26 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
In this blog post, Pranesh Prakash briefly analyses the DIT's response to an RTI request on website blocking alongside the most recent edition of Google's Transparency Report, and what it tells us about the online censorship regime in India.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
