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Global Partners Meeting @ London: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 20, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Privacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating in this event.
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Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 01, 2013 — last modified Mar 21, 2013 03:56 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
A group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
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Namaste, Mr. Eric Schmidt: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
An article by R. Jai Krishna published in the Wall Street Journal on March 20, 2013 quotes Sunil Abraham.
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DML 2013 – Fourth Annual Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance
The fourth annual conference – DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the sponsors for this event.
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Internet Governance Blog: by kaeru — published Aug 01, 2011 — last modified Oct 18, 2011 06:40 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
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Press controls ‘send wrong message to rest of world’: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 26, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Britain could trigger an international media crackdown if the Government goes ahead with plans for a Royal Charter to introduce a new Press regulator, free speech campaigners warned yesterday.
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CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT Rules: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 27, 2013 — last modified Apr 03, 2013 10:54 AM — filed under: IT Act, Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Featured, Censorship, Homepage
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 10, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM — filed under: ICT4D, Digital Governance, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities
In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
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Braitenberg Cybernetic Vehicles: Workshop, Film Screening & Discussion: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 11, 2012 — last modified Jul 30, 2012 01:13 PM — filed under: Event Type, Internet Governance
The Metaculture Media Lab at the Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is organizing a fun event, next Saturday, April 14, 2012. The event will begin at 2.30 p.m. and will end at 6.00 p.m.
Located in Internet Governance
Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 1: Foundations: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 13, 2014 — last modified Jan 23, 2014 03:12 PM — filed under: Surveillance, Constitutional Law, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this insightful seven-part series, Gautam Bhatia looks at surveillance and the right to privacy in India from a constitutional perspective, tracing its genealogy through Supreme Court case law and compares it with the law in the USA.
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