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CIS Para-wise Comments on Draft Reasonable Security Practices Rules, 2011: by Prashant Iyengar — published Feb 24, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM — filed under: IT Act, Internet Governance
On February 7th 2011, the Department of Information Technology, MCIT published draft rules on its website (The Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal information) Rules, 2011) in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 87(2)(ob), read with Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Comments were invited from the public before February 25th 2011. Accordingly, Privacy India and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore have prepared the following para-wise comments for the Ministry’s consideration.
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CIS Participation at ICANN 54: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 22, 2015 — last modified Jan 18, 2016 12:47 PM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India participated in the 54th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held at the Convention Center in Dublin from 17 October 2015 to 22 October 2015. Pranesh Prakash, Jyoti Panday and Padmini Baruah attended the meeting.
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CIS Policy Brief: IANA Transition Fundamentals & Suggestions for Process Design: by Geetha Hariharan — published Jun 22, 2014 — last modified Jul 08, 2014 08:39 AM — filed under: ICANN, IANA Transition, Internet Governance
In March 2014, the US government announced that it would transfer oversight of IANA functions to an as-yet-indeterminate global multi-stakeholder body. This policy brief, written by Smarika Kumar and Geetha Hariharan, explains the process concisely.
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CIS ranks amongst top think tanks for public policy in the region: by Admin — published Mar 02, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance
Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program features Centre for Internet & Society in its annual report.
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CIS representation at ICANN 58: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 28, 2017 — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) organized ICANN 58 at Copenhagen from March 9 to March 16, 2017. On behalf of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Vidushi Marda participated in the event and made a presentation.
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CIS Response to Call for Stakeholder Comments: Draft E-Commerce Policy: by Arindrajit Basu, Vipul Kharbanda, Elonnai Hickok and Amber Sinha — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 10, 2019 12:12 PM — filed under: E-Commerce, Internet Governance
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion comments to the draft National e-commerce policy.
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CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 01, 2019 — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:40 AM — filed under: E-Commerce, Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.
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CIS Response to ICANN's proposed renewal of .org Registry: by Akriti Bopanna — published Apr 28, 2019 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance
We thank ICANN for the opportunity to comment on this issue of its proposed renewal of the .org Registry Agreement with the operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR). Supporting much of the community , we too find severe issues with the proposed agreement. These centre around the removal of price caps and imposing obligations being currently deliberated in an ongoing Policy Development Process (PDP).
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CIS Seminar Series: by Cheshta Arora — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Apr 11, 2022 03:19 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Event, Seminar
The CIS seminar series will be a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress, exchange ideas, identify avenues for collaboration, and curate research. We also seek to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on research exchange, and foster collaborations among researchers and academics from diverse geographies. Every quarter we will be hosting a remote seminar with presentations, discussions and debate on a thematic area.
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CIS Seminar Series: Information Disorder: by Aman Nair — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Aug 11, 2021 11:17 AM — filed under: Digital Economy, Digital Access, Internet Governance, Digital Disruption, Information Technology
The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South.
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