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DML Conference 2013
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 10, 2012
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Mar 04, 2013 03:54 AM
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Event Type,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society and Digital Media & Learning Research Hub Central are jointly organizing the DML Conference 2013 in Chicago from March 14 to 16, 2013.
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Events
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Transparency and Privacy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 10, 2012
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last modified
Feb 28, 2014 04:54 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The two concepts, transparency and privacy, can be both opposing and inter related. On one level the protection of individual privacy is achieved through institutional and governmental transparency, as transparency of actions taken by the government or private sector, concerning the individuals works to inspire trust. On another level situations of privacy and transparency bring out the question of how the public good should be balanced against public and private interests.
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Blog
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New Trends in Industry Self-Governance
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 04, 2012
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Internet Governance Forum,
Internet Governance
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Nominet, UK is organising this workshop on November 7, 2012 at the seventh annual IGF meeting to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. This workshop will be held in Conference Room 2, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Sunil Abraham is one of the panelists at this workshop.
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News & Media
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Governing Identity on the Internet
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 04, 2012
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last modified
Oct 04, 2012 09:06 AM
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Internet Governance Forum,
Internet Governance
Security, openness and privacy will be discussed at this workshop to be held at the IGF 2012 on November 8, 2012 from 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Malavika Jayaram, a fellow at CIS is one of the panelists confirmed for participation.
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News & Media
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Civil rights in the digital age, about the impact the Internet has on civil rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 04, 2012
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Internet Governance Forum,
Internet Governance
Malavika Jayaram, fellow of CIS is a panelist at this workshop to be held at the IGF 2012 in Azerbaijan.
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News & Media
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National IG Mechanisms – Looking at Some Key Design Issues
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 01, 2012
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last modified
Dec 09, 2012 12:50 AM
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Event Type,
Workshop,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society is coorganizing this workshop along with Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, et.al., at the seventh Internet Governance Forum 2012 in Azerbaijan. The workshop will be held in Conference Room 4, from 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Pranesh Prakash is a panelist for this workshop.
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Internet Governance
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September 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2012
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last modified
Oct 09, 2012 06:48 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW,
Openness
Welcome to the newsletter of September 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features a second analysis by Snehashish Ghosh on the latest list of sites blocked by the Indian government from August 18, 2012 to August 21, 2012, a research on the issues of internet governance by Smarika Kumar, publication of a report on Accessibility of Government websites in India by Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal, the Access to Knowledge programme plan and updates from the Wikipedia community in India on Indic languages, updates from the Habits of Living workshop organised in Bengaluru, the events connected to the visits of international DNA experts, Helen Wallace and Jeremy Gruber in India, and introduce you to our Access to Knowledge team members.
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Newsletters
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A Public Meeting on DNA Profiling Bill in Delhi
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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Sep 29, 2012
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last modified
Oct 10, 2012 10:58 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
On September 27, 2012, the Centre for Internet and Society hosted a public talk at the Indian International Centre focused on the draft DNA Profiling Bill. Presenting at the meeting were international experts Dr. Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK and Jeremy Gruber, president and executive director of the Council for Responsible Genetics US, and Dr. Anupuma Raina, senior scientist at AIIMs.
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Blog
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Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Sep 27, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
A recently released global report on the internet freedom rated India 39th in 2012, a slip from two places last year.
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News & Media
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Pitroda seeks to put govt information in public domain
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 27, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Social media
In the first-ever Indian government press conference on Twitter, Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovations, championed the cause of putting government information in the public domain to usher in openness and empowerment.
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