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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist
‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say experts
Internationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
Foreign Funding of NGOs
Should FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists
A group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
Open DataCamp - 2013
A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University Campus), Dairy Circle in Bangalore.
"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and Society
The DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
Video Vortex # 9 Re:assemblies of Video
Nishant Shah is a speaker at this event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Post Media Lab, Moving Image Lab, Leuphana, et.al. The event is being held at Luneberg from February 28, 2013 to March 2, 2013.
D:coding Digital Natives - Seminar with Nishant Shah
Nishant Shah gave a talk on D:coding Digital Natives at Samhällsvetarhuset on February 26, 2013, from 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. The event was organized by HUMlab.
International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, Methodology
The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford Foundation and ICSSR.
Stop Press Carousel
The silent blocking of URLs by the DoT assaults freedom of expression.
Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?
Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
Indian Users’ Perspective On WIPO Negotiations On Treaty For Visually Impaired
South-East Asia is host to one-third of the world’s 39 million blind people. Over 20 million live in India alone. This week’s special session of the World Intellectual Property Organization aims to clean up the text of an international treaty to facilitate access to books for the blind and visually impaired community. It is thus of prime importance for India, and some there worry that issues such as commercial availability could undermine the treaty’s effectiveness.
Hate speech: ban or ignore?
The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the social media.
Freedom of expression online: identifying and addressing challenges and developing a shared vision and a working partnership (WP1216)
Wilton Park organized this event at Wiston House, Sussex, UK from February 13 to 15, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in it.
Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in Kashmir
Hacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
Indian net service providers too play censorship tricks
The study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu Vardhan
Vishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in Bangalore.
Rahul Cherian passes away
Rahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!
The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to Arrests
Online abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
