Internet Governance Blog
CIS Response to Call for Stakeholder Comments: Draft E-Commerce Policy
- April 10, 2019
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion comments to the draft National e-commerce policy.
Read more →DIDP #33 On ICANN's 2012 gTLD round auction fund
- April 04, 2019
This DIDP was filed to inquire about the state of the funds ICANN received from the last gTLD auctions.
Read more →CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy
- April 01, 2019
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.
Read more →Comments on the Draft Second Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention)
- February 25, 2019
Following consultations with data protection, civil society, industry and others, during the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) meeting from 29 November 2018 onwards, the Cybercrime Convention Committee has sought additional contributions regarding the provisional draft text for a Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (“Budapest Convention”).
Read more →Resurrecting the marketplace of ideas
- February 22, 2019
There is no ‘silver bullet’ for regulating content on the web. It requires a mix of legal and empirical analysis.
Read more →CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights
- February 20, 2019
CIS responded to the call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights.
Read more →Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops
- February 26, 2019
Centre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
Read more →Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
- February 14, 2019
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
Read more →Intermediary liability law needs updating
- February 13, 2019
The time has come for India to exert its foreign policy muscle. There is a less charitable name for intermediary liability regimes like Sec 79 of the IT Act — private censorship regimes.
Read more →CIS Comment on ICANN's Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget
- February 12, 2019
At the Centre for Internet and Society, we are grateful for the opportunity to provide our comments on the proposed draft of ICANN’s FY20 Operating Plan and Budget along with their Five-Year Operating Plan Update. As part of the public comment process, ICANN provided a list of documents which can be found here that included their highlights of the budget, the total draft budget for FY20, an operating plan segregated by portfolios, amongst others.
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