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Blog Entry Transcripts from WCIT-12
by Snehashish Ghosh — published Dec 03, 2012 — last modified Dec 03, 2012 02:00 PM — filed under: ,
We are archiving copies of the live-transcripts from the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT-12) which is being held in Dubai from 3–14 December, 2012.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Transference: Reimagining Data Systems: Beyond the Gender Binary
by Torsha Sarkar — published Dec 15, 2021 — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to participate in a day-long convening on the rights of transgender persons, specifically right to privacy and digital rights. Through this convening, we hope to highlight the concerns of transgender persons in accessing digital data systems and the privacy challenges faced by the community. These challenges include access to their rights — their right to self-identify their gender and welfare services offered by the State and the privacy challenges faced by transgender and intersex persons in revealing their identity.
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Transnational Due Process: A Case Study in MS Cooperation
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 08, 2015 — filed under: ,
nternet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Internet & Jurisdiction Project is organizing a workshop on Transnational Due Process on November 13, 2015. Sunil Abraham is a panelist.
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Transnational Due Process: A Case Study in Multi-stakeholder Cooperation
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 13, 2015 — last modified Nov 07, 2015 03:47 PM — filed under: ,
The Internet & Jurisdiction Project is organizing the workshop “Transnational due process: A case study in multi-stakeholder cooperation” at the Internet Governance Forum convened by the United Nations on November 10-13, 2015. Sunil Abraham will be a speaker in this event.
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Transparency and MDGs: the Role of the Media and Technology
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 30, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM — filed under:
Key quotes from sixth panel
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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 Transparency in Surveillance
by Vipul Kharbanda — published Jan 23, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Transparency is an essential need for any democracy to function effectively. It may not be the only requirement for the effective functioning of a democracy, but it is one of the most important principles which need to be adhered to in a democratic state.
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Blog Entry Transparency Reports — A Glance on What Google and Facebook Tell about Government Data Requests
by Prachi Arya — published Sep 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 13, 2013 09:44 AM — filed under: ,
Transparency Reports are a step towards greater accountability but how efficacious are they really?
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Transparent Government, via Webcams in India
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 20, 2011 — last modified Jul 21, 2011 05:41 AM — filed under:
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — Little Brother is watching you. That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7.
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Trending Hate Against Muslims: Is Twitter Complicit?
by Puja Bhattacharjee — published Oct 23, 2019 — filed under: ,
Twitter claimed that it had ‘prevented’ the Hashtag while it had not.
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