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Crowdsourced innovation for government projects and services is easier said than done
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 07, 2017
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Feb 07, 2017 03:36 PM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Late January. The buzz was palpable at the MLR Convention Centre in South Bengaluru. Developers were streaming into 50p, a conference organised by HasGeek, which has curated technology forums since 2011. But this wasn't just one of the six HasGeek communions that the programmers attend annually. 50p put the spotlight on digital payments, which meant the gathering would be more diverse than anything before.
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Giving out your fingerprint for Aadhar payments is as bad as telling the seller your banking password
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 07, 2017
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
PRS India recently released a report card enlisting the status of all the major policy announcements made by the President on India in his address to the Parliament on 23 February 2016. The policies cover all the major sectors including economy and finance, industry and manufacturing, governance and legal reform, skill development, science and innovation among others.
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Digital Security for Journalists
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 09, 2017
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Digital Security,
Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash conducted two workshops on consecutive days, February 2 and 3, 2017 in Mumbai. The first one organized by IndiaSpend was held in their office. The second one organized by a fellow with the International Center Journalists was held in the Hindustan Times office.
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Vidhi Doshi - Fingerprint Payments Prompt Privacy Fears in India (The Guardian)
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Vidhi Doshi
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Feb 10, 2017
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Feb 13, 2017 09:21 AM
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Demonetisation,
Digital Payment,
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics
This article by Vidhi Doshi on the use of Aadhaar-based payments by private companies in India was published by The Guardian on February 09, 2017. Sumandro Chattapadhyay is quoted in the article.
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Surveillance in India: Policy and Practice
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 13, 2017
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Mar 15, 2017 01:05 AM
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Video,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy organized a brainstorming session on net neutrality on February 8, 2017 and a public seminar on surveillance in India the following day on February 9, 2017 in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash gave a talk.
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Digital illusions
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 16, 2017
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Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana.
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No Genie At Your Fingertips
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 16, 2017
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Feb 16, 2017 04:02 PM
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Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Aadhaar biometrics will now enable cashless shopping sans card and smartphone. A look at the hopes and fears.
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Future of Integrated Science Education in Higher Education in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 15, 2012
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Internet Governance
The Higher Education Innovation and Research Application (HEIRA) at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Contemporary Studies (CCS) at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) hosted a two day workshop on 2 and 3 January 2012 on the Future of Integrated Science Education in Higher Education in India at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, where they invited a core group of academics and researchers from the leading technology and science studies institutes in the country, to look at the possibility of designing innovative and new curricula for undergraduate students in India.
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"ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಜೊತೆ ಜೊತೆಗೆ..."
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 16, 2012
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Internet Governance
ನಾನು ಏನಾದರು ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂದುಕೊಂಡರೆ ಸಾಲದು, ಬನ್ನಿ, ಕಾರ್ಯೋನ್ಮುಖರಾಗಿ...
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India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 17, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
It's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't comply]," Justice Suresh Cait told Facebook and Google lawyers in India yesterday. "But let us not go to that situation."
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