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Designing a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN’s Policy Development Processes
- October 03, 2019
As co-chairs of Cross Community Working Party on Human Rights (CCWP-HR) at International Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN), Akriti Bopanna and Collin Kurre executed a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN's processes. It was the first time such an experiment was conducted, and unique because of being a multi-stakeholder attempt.
Read more →Comparison of the Manila Principles to Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines(Amendment) Rules], 2018
- September 30, 2019
This paper looks at the Manila Principles intermediary liability framework in comparison to the amended draft Information Technology [Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment)] Rules, 2018 introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in December, 2018.
Read more →Examining the Constitutionality of the Ban on Broadcast of News by Private FM and Community Radio Stations
- September 27, 2019
Gurshabad Grover and Torsha Sarkar along with Rajashri Seal and Neil Trivedi co-authored a paper that examined the constitutionality of the government prohibition on the broadcast of news against private and community FM channels.
Read more →Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi
- September 27, 2019
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi generated empirical evidence about the CCTV programme well underway in Delhi. The case study was published by Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute, SEED, in the Development Informatics working paper series housed at the University of Manchester.
Read more →Doing Standpoint Theory
- September 19, 2019
Feminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism.
Read more →Submission to Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace on the definition of Cyber Stability
- September 11, 2019
"The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace released a public consultation process that sought to solicit comments and obtain feedback on the definition of “Stability of Cyberspace”, as developed by the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC).
Read more →Kashmir’s information vacuum
- September 02, 2019
Legislative backing is being appropriated to normalise communication shutdowns.
Read more →Future of Work in the ASEAN
- September 02, 2019
A literature review of the future of work in automotive manufacturing and IT services in the ASEAN region, authored by Aayush Rathi, Vedika Pareek, Divij Joshi, and Pranav M B.
Read more →Linking Aadhaar with social media or ending encryption is counterproductive
- August 28, 2019
Should Aadhaar be used as KYC for social media accounts? We have recently seen a debate on this question with even the courts hearing arguments in favour and against such a move.
Read more →A judicial overreach into matters of regulation
- August 28, 2019
A PIL on Aadhaar sheds light on some problematic trends
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