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India takes its first serious step toward privacy regulation – but it may be misguided: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The world’s second-most populous nation may be on the cusp of embracing privacy legislation. After several false starts the Indian government appears ready to accept the need for some form of regulation.
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Social media may influence 160 LS seats in 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
Social media is likely to influence politics and elections in 160 of India’s 543 Parliament constituencies, making Facebook and Twitter users the nation’s newest voting bloc, a new study suggests.
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Vote: Will Social Media Impact the Election?: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — last modified Apr 15, 2013 08:30 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
As India enters election mode, social media has become one of many platforms where possible prime ministerial candidates are being scrutinized.
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Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary?: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2013 04:50 PM — filed under: Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Video, Censorship, Social Networking
The Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju calls for regulating social media, saying it will prevent offensive material coming into the public domain. But is it really necessary to regulate the social media? If yes, is it possible to do it?
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Or-bits.com — A Talk by Marialaura Ghidini: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — last modified Apr 16, 2013 02:34 PM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance
On Friday, April 19, 2013, at the Centre for Internet and Society, Marialaura Ghidini will give a talk about the creation and activities of or-bits.com, a web-based curatorial platform that she founded in 2009.
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Our Internet and the Law: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 28, 2012 — last modified Mar 26, 2012 09:28 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Nishant Shah was interviewed by the BBC Channel 5 (Radio) for its Outriders section. Jamillah Knowles reports this through this blog post published by BBC Radio on 24 January 2012.
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Policy Officer - Internet Governance: by Admin — published Oct 16, 2017 — last modified Sep 03, 2018 07:12 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society is seeking an individual with a background and interest in issues pertaining to internet governance including privacy, big data, freedom of expression, artificial intelligence etc. under its Internet Governance programme.
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Roundtable on Enhancing Indian Cyber Security through Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation: by Admin — published Oct 28, 2017 — last modified Feb 01, 2018 02:04 PM — filed under: Cyber Security, Event, Internet Governance
A closed door round-table on enhancing Indian cyber security is being organized on 4 November 2017 at Indian Islamic Centre, Lodhi Road in New Delhi.
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CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANN: by Padma Venkataraman — published Oct 29, 2017 — last modified Oct 31, 2017 02:10 AM — filed under: ICANN, Transparency, Internet Governance, Accountability
CIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of transparency become a default approach within ICANN. Here, Padma Venkataraman chronologically maps CIS’ efforts at enhancing financial transparency and accountability at ICANN, while providing an outline of what remains to be done.
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Why Presumption of Renewal is Unsuitable for the Current Registry Market Structure: by Padma Venkataraman — published Oct 29, 2017 — last modified Oct 31, 2017 02:53 AM — filed under: ICANN, Transparency, Internet Governance, Accountability
With the recent and much protested renewal of the .net legacy Top-Level-Domain (TLD), the question of the appropriate method of renewal has again come to the forefront. While this seems relatively uncontroversial to most, Padma Venkataraman, a law student and intern at CIS looks at presumptive renewal through a critical lens.
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