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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
IRC16 - Proposed Session - #MinimalComputing
This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Padmini Ray Murray and Sebastian Lütgert.
IRC16 - Proposed Session - #SmartThings (Conceptualizing Internet/Digital Technologies in the Age of "Smartness")
This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Ravi Shukla and Bharath Palavalli.
Security Research
The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
Sectoral Privacy Research
The Centre for Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy in India since the year 2010, with special focus on the following issues.
Privacy Policy Research
The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
DNA Research
In 2006, the Department of Biotechnology drafted the Human DNA Profiling Bill. In 2012 a revised Bill was released and a group of Experts was constituted to finalize the Bill. In 2014, another version was released, the approval of which is pending before the Parliament. This legislation will allow the government of India to Create a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board for the purposes of forensic research and analysis. Here is a collection of our research on privacy and security concerns related to the Bill.
UID Research
The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
FOV Podcast - Data, People, and Smart Cities
For the second part of the Smart City podcast series, Sruthi Krishnan and Harsha K from Fields of View spoke with Sumandro Chattapadhyay on data, people, and smart cities. Here is the podcast. We are grateful to Fields of View for producing and sharing this recording.
IRC16 - Proposed Session - #LiterarySpaces (Online Literary Spaces in India)
This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by P.P. Sneha and Arup Chatterjee.
RAW Lectures #01: Nishant Shah on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' - Video
Dr. Nishant Shah spoke on the 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' at the first event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on March 6, 2015. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that followed.
IRC16 - Proposed Session - #DisruptiveTransport (Aggregators, Ownership, Tracking, Space, Internet Models)
This is a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 by Srinivas Kodali and William F. Stafford Jr.
ORF India-UK Technology Partnership Conference
As the consequence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much anticipated visit to the United Kingdom, representatives from stakeholder groups such as government and industry came together at Observers Research Foundation, Delhi, to deliberate upon various facets of India-UK Technology Partnership.
The Humpty-Dumpty Censorship of Television in India
The Modi government’s attack on Sathiyam TV is another manifestation of the Indian state’s paranoia of the medium of film and television, and consequently, the irrational controlling impulse of the law.
Silicon Plateau Vol-1
This book marks the beginning of an interdisciplinary artistic project, Silicon Plateau, the scope of which is to observe how the arts, technology and society intersect in the city of Bangalore. Silicon Plateau is a collaboration between T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects and the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Volume 1 has been developed in collaboration with or-bits.com.
The Short-lived Adventure of India’s Encryption Policy
Written for the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA).
Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way
I have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
Gauging Users' Reactions Towards Zero Rating
In the ongoing debate about zero-rated plans and net neutrality, this blog post aims to study the possible effects of a survey conducted in Bangalore to gauge users' reactions towards such plans, and specifically "limited packs" offered by major telecom companies.
Predictive Policing: What is it, How it works, and its Legal Implications
This article reviews literature surrounding big data and predictive policing and provides an analysis of the legal implications of using predictive policing techniques in the Indian context.
