Centre for Internet & Society

Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRs

by Pranesh Prakash

Given below are the responses from the representatives of civil society in India (The Society for Knowledge Commons, Centre for Internet & Society, The Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and Media for Change) to the Government of India's proposals for the upcoming WCIT meeting, in December 2012, in Dubai.

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Statement of Civil Society Members and Groups Participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012

by Pranesh Prakash

The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories for this submission made to the ITU on November 16, 2012.

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Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Proposals for the Future ITRs and Related Processes

by Pranesh Prakash

The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories of this submission which was sent in November 2012, in response to the International Telecommunication Union's call for public comments in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai from December 3 to 14, 2012.

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Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech

by Sunil Abraham

Why is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this?

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Comments on the Proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 Concerning Radio Frequency Identification Tags

by Bhairav Acharya

The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. The comments were made in response to Notification GSR 738(E) published in the Gazette of India on October 3, 2012.

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Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: Cases

by Snehashish Ghosh

In this blog post Snehashish Ghosh summarizes the facts of a few cases where Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000, has been mentioned or discussed.

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Transcripts from WCIT-12

by Snehashish Ghosh

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.

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Draft nonsense

by Pranesh Prakash

Seriously flawed and dodgily drafted provisions in the IT Act provide the state a stick to beat its citizens with.

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Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act

by Pranesh Prakash

Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act criminalizes “causing annoyance or inconvenience” online, among other things. A conviction for such an offence can attract a prison sentence of as many as three years.

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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnHWnVLGu9WGeVjTK43G6bbwCjvcOKTnoo on Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act

by Bhangu

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