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A note of dissent on cash transfers and UID
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 31, 2012 — last modified Dec 31, 2012 03:15 AM — filed under:
The following is the text of a note released by 208 scholars, activists and concerned citizens on the United Progressive Alliance government’s plan to introduce cash transfers linked to the Aadhaar (UID) numbers of beneficiaries:
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Blog Entry Mining the Web Collective
by Sharath Chandra Ram — published Dec 31, 2012 — last modified Jan 06, 2013 11:48 PM — filed under:
In March 2012, Dr Bruno Latour and his team from the Sciences Po Media Lab organized a workshop that assembled a selected group of researchers from India to explore methods of Controversy Mapping. It was hosted by Dr J. Srinivasan, Director of the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
The freedom of expression debate: The State must mend fences with The Web
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 18, 2012 — last modified Jan 07, 2013 10:30 AM — filed under: , ,
A fortnight after her arrest, Renu Srinivasan spends her free time singing Ashley Tisdale's number Suddenly. The lyrics - Suddenly people know my name, suddenly, everything has changed - resonate with the story of her life ever since she 'liked' and 'shared' her friend, Shaheen Dhada's, 21, controversial post regarding Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook on November 18 and got arrested for it.
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Annual Conference on Human Rights 2012
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 09, 2012 — last modified Jan 07, 2013 10:47 AM — filed under:
Malavika Jayaram participated in this conference as a panelist in this event organised by Estonia and Google.
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December 2012 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2012 — filed under: , , , ,
A recently released global report on the internet freedom rated India 39th in 2012, a slip from two places last year.
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File Transparency and Privacy
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 10, 2012 — last modified Feb 28, 2014 04:54 AM — filed under:
The two concepts, transparency and privacy, can be both opposing and inter related. On one level the protection of individual privacy is achieved through institutional and governmental transparency, as transparency of actions taken by the government or private sector, concerning the individuals works to inspire trust. On another level situations of privacy and transparency bring out the question of how the public good should be balanced against public and private interests.
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Blog Entry Draft Circular on Digital Lending – Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders
by Garima Agrawal — published Jul 03, 2024 — filed under: ,
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments on the “Draft Circular on Digital Lending: Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders” to the Reserve Bank of India. We welcome the opportunity provided to comment on the guidelines, and we hope that the final guidelines will consider the interests of all the stakeholders to ensure that it protects the privacy and digital rights of all consumers, including marginalised and vulnerable users, while encouraging innovation and improved service delivery in the fintech ecosystem. Our comments look at two concerns addressed by the draft guidelines, i.e. reducing information asymmetry and market fairness. In addition to this we share comments around a third concern that requires additional scrutiny, i.e. data privacy and security.
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India blocks more than 250 Web sites for inciting hate, panic
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2012 — filed under: , , ,
Nearly 80 people have been killed and 400,000 displaced in fighting between Muslims and India’s Hindu Bodo tribespeople in Assam, a northeastern state of India, in recent weeks. The violence has prompted many northeasterners living in major cities to flee, fearing reprisals.
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Citizen Engagement Framework for e-Governance Projects and Framework and Guidelines for Use of Social Media by Government Agencies
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2012 — last modified Sep 10, 2012 02:40 PM — filed under:
Notification dated August 17, 2012 by Department of Electronics & Information Technology.
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