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Comments on the National Policy of Information Technology: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 09, 2011 — filed under: Internet Governance
The NPIT 2011 has the laudable goal of making India a ‘knowledge economy with a global role’ by developing and deploying ICT solutions in all sectors to foster development within India and at a global level. The policy identifies several praiseworthy goals such as the promotion of open standards and open technologies, accessibility for persons with disabilities, affordable ICT services, transparency, accountability, technology development for Indian languages, placing data in public domain for use and value addition, using social media to engage with citizens and investing in indigenous R&D and capacity building. We deeply appreciate this initiative of the Department of Information Technology and offer below brief comments to strengthen the draft.
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TRAI urged to take action against P2P throttling and DNS hijacking: by Anand Priya Singh — published Nov 09, 2011 — last modified Mar 27, 2012 06:07 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
On 4 November 2010, Anand had sent a complaint letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) regarding unethical practices adopted by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), particularly Airtel. The letter was sent by post and through an e-mail. It was addressed to the Advisor, CN & IT, TRAI. Anand got no help from the ISP and the reply from TRAI (No. 340-1\2010-CA/VOLv) stated that he contact the nodal officer. We have reproduced below the complaint letter that Anand sent to TRAI.
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Droidcon India, first Android Conference in Bangalore: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 09, 2011 — last modified Nov 24, 2011 04:17 AM — filed under: Event Type, Internet Governance
HasGeek is happy to announce the forthcoming Droidcon India on the 18th and 19th of November 2011 at the MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore. Droidcon.com, Bangalore Android User Group, MobileMonday Bangalore, Medianama, Android Advices and the Centre for Internet and Society are the event partners.
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Netizen Report: Transparency Edition: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 08, 2011 — last modified Nov 09, 2011 04:31 AM — filed under: RTI, Internet Governance
Global Voices Online has carried a feature story, "Netizen Report: Transparency Edition". We at CIS had filed an RTI application about website blocking. This is reflected in this article by Rebecca MacKinnon which was posted online on 7 November 2011.
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Once Upon A Flash: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 04, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:23 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
It was a dark and stormy evening. A young man in a dark blue Adidas jacket, collar turned up, eyes under green-black shades, hopped off a motorbike, tucked his thumbs into the front pockets of his low-slung retro jeans and surreptitiously made his way through a road thronging with rush-hour traffic and irate pedestrians yelping on their cellphones. He skipped across death traps with skilled ease: leaping over potholes, jumping over halfdug trenches, avoiding the occasional pair of doggy jaws that longed to mate with his ankles, ignoring the bikers who were using the pavements as new lanes for driving towards a honking traffic jam bathed in an orange and red neon that made the road look like a piece of burnt toast with dollops of vicious jam on it.
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Learn It Yourself: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 03, 2011 — last modified Dec 23, 2011 05:01 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.
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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: Government Feedback, Intellectual Property Rights, Internet Governance, e-Governance, Submissions, Patents
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'.
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India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 31, 2011 — filed under: Internet Governance Forum, Internet Governance
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.
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Analysis of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Dec 02, 2011 09:26 AM — 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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Text of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Oct 28, 2011 02:37 PM — filed under: RTI, Internet Governance, Censorship
CIS had filed a request under the Right to Information Act with the government, asking a number of questions relating to blocking of content under the IT Act. We have reproduced below the response we got from the government.
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