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September 2010 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 23, 2010 — last modified Aug 10, 2012 07:22 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, CISRAW, Openness
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this bulletin we bring you updates of our research, news and media coverage and announcement of events organised in the month of September 2010.
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May 2010 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published May 23, 2010 — last modified Aug 10, 2012 10:00 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, CISRAW, Openness
Greetings from the Centre for Internet & Society. We bring you updates of our research, news and media coverage and information on our events in this bulletin of May 2010
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Hackers Take Protest to Indian Streets and Cyberspace: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
First there was self-styled Gandhian activist Anna Hazare who took to the streets to protest corruption. Now a group agitating against censorship on the Internet has arrived in India.
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PPOs save placement-record as Christ Law’s 2nd graduating batch hosts fewer law firms: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2012 — last modified Jun 18, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The number of recruiting law firms visiting Christ College of Law Bangalore slumped to two this year, but the second batch graduating from the college made it up in terms of pre placement offers (PPOs) to secure 21 total jobs, one short of the college’s debut recruitment record.
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Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in Kashmir: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 13, 2013 — last modified Mar 01, 2013 04:46 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Hacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
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Research Initiative: Women in India's IT Industry: by Jadine Lannon — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:31 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
CIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software companies, we hope to provide insight into state of female employment in one of the most important and rapidly growing economic sectors in the country.
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Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to Arrests: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 08, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 03:51 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Online abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
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Censorship and sensibility in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 06, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 04:09 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
The past few weeks in India have seen films, an all-girl rock band, a fashion show, a Booker prize-winning novelist and a reputed academic become targets of harassment, legal action or threats of violence.
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Stop Press Carousel: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 22, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 04:27 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
The silent blocking of URLs by the DoT assaults freedom of expression.
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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 03, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 06:08 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
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