Internet Governance Blog
Designing a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN’s Policy Development Processes
- October 03, 2019
As co-chairs of Cross Community Working Party on Human Rights (CCWP-HR) at International Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN), Akriti Bopanna and Collin Kurre executed a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN's processes. It was the first time such an experiment was conducted, and unique because of being a multi-stakeholder attempt.
Read more →AI: Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge Launch Workshop [Reference Files]
- October 01, 2019
These are the files released at the AI Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge Launch Event, organised by CIS, and CCG-NLUD on September 27 2019. At the event, Sunil Abraham discussed the draft policy brief linked below, which is an output of the Regulatory Practices Lab at CIS.
Read more →Artificial Intelligence: a Full-Spectrum Regulatory Challenge [Working Draft]
- October 01, 2019
Setting International Norms of Cyber Conflict is Hard, But that Doesn't Mean that We Should Stop Trying
- October 14, 2019
Last month, cyber-defense analyst and geostrategist Pukhraj Singh penned a stinging epitaph, published by MWI, for global norms-formulation processes that are attempting to foster cyber stability and regulate cyber conflict—specifically, the Tallinn Manual.
Read more →Comparison of the Manila Principles to Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines(Amendment) Rules], 2018
- September 30, 2019
This paper looks at the Manila Principles intermediary liability framework in comparison to the amended draft Information Technology [Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment)] Rules, 2018 introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in December, 2018.
Read more →Examining the Constitutionality of the Ban on Broadcast of News by Private FM and Community Radio Stations
- September 27, 2019
Gurshabad Grover and Torsha Sarkar along with Rajashri Seal and Neil Trivedi co-authored a paper that examined the constitutionality of the government prohibition on the broadcast of news against private and community FM channels.
Read more →Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi
- September 27, 2019
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi generated empirical evidence about the CCTV programme well underway in Delhi. The case study was published by Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute, SEED, in the Development Informatics working paper series housed at the University of Manchester.
Read more →Core Concepts and Processes
- October 17, 2019
When we embarked on this research project, we began with the primary questions of what constitutes a digital identity system. In the last few years, with the rise in national digital identity projects, there has been significant academic and media attention to the idea, benefits and risks of a digital identity system.
Read more →Submission to Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace on the definition of Cyber Stability
- September 11, 2019
"The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace released a public consultation process that sought to solicit comments and obtain feedback on the definition of “Stability of Cyberspace”, as developed by the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC).
Read more →Doing Standpoint Theory
- September 19, 2019
Feminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism.
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