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Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF
- November 30, 2018
The institution of open standards has been described as a formidable regulatory regime governing the Internet. Given the regulatory and domestic policy implications that technical standards can have, there is a need for Indian governmental agencies to focus adequate resources geared towards achieving favourable outcomes at standards development fora.
Read more →ICANN Workstream 2 Recommendations on Accountability
- November 23, 2018
One of the most significant initiatives to improve the accountability of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commenced in 2014, when the Cross Community Working Group on Accountability was created. Its role was to develop a set of proposed enhancements to ICANN’s accountability to the global Internet community. This resulted in the first Work Stream (WS1) recommendations, which were eventually approved and incorporated into the bylaws of ICANN in 2016. These included a provision expressing the need for a second WS since the first one, done on a tight deadline,did not cover all the requisite issues. Instead WS1 only focused on issues that were needed to complete the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority(IANA) transition.
Read more →Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act
- November 20, 2018
The Convention on Cybercrime adopted in Budapest (“Convention”) is the fist and one of the most important multilateral treaties addressing the issue of internet and computer crimes.
Read more →DIDP #32 On ICANN's Fellowship Program
- November 12, 2018
In furtherance of its capacity building functions, ICANN selects Fellows for every public meeting. These are individuals from underserved and underrepresented communities who are trained to become active participants in the ICANN community.
Read more →Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar Report
- November 05, 2018
We are issuing a second clarificatory statement on our report titled “Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information” published on May 1, 2017.
Read more →Lessons from US response to cyber attacks
- November 01, 2018
Publicly attributing the attacks to a state or non-state actor is vital for building a credible cyber deterrence strategy.
Read more →Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for Cyberspace
- October 26, 2018
This paper was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.
Read more →Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- October 26, 2018
The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated by both government and industry across the globe. AI offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance with principles of the rule of law and international human rights norms. Unfortunately, AI-powered solutions have often been implemented in ways that have resulted in the automation, rather than mitigation, of existing societal inequalities.
Read more →377 Bites the Dust: Unpacking the long and winding road to the judicial decriminalization of homosexuality in India
- October 18, 2018
An informal case comment tracing the journey and assessing the societal implications the recent 377 (Navtej Johar v Union of India).
Read more →Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance
- October 16, 2018
In recent times, there has been a rash of policies and regulations that propose that the data that Indian entities handle be physically stored on servers in India, in some cases exclusively. In other cases, only a copy needs to be stored.
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