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EC guidelines on social media: Welcome move, but not enough
With election season close by and the growing ubiquity of social media, the Election Commission of India’s recent guidelines for how candidates and political parties must conduct themselves on social media are a well-intentioned step. But are these guidelines enough to regulate how online media is used by parties and candidates, given the kind of proxy wars that are played online? For now, not really.
NSA leaks helping India become 'Big Brother' state?
While the US and Britain fend off accusations of Big Brother-style spying, other countries are learning lessons from fugitive ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's leaks and, critics say, developing the same kind of mass-surveillance.
Civil society and Internet Governance: practices from Southeast Asia and beyond
On 21 October, the day before the opening of the 2013 Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia, Hivos’ Southeast Asia Regional Office co-organised a pre-event workshop with ID-CONFIG, “Civil Society and Internet Governance: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Practices from Southeast Asia and Beyond,” at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre.
Nowhere to hide: Govt making your personal details public
The worst fears are coming true. Your sensitive private data may be up online turning you into a potential target of frauds. What is all the more dangerous is that you may be not even aware of this.
Your private data may be online, courtesy govt
Some depts have posted bank account & income details on net for transparency; experts cry privacy breach.
Saving privacy as we knew it
Long overdue protection law still on the back-burner; meanwhile, depts put more of one's personal details online.
E-governance hopes rise as India crosses 1 billion transactions
Government agencies and departments, regarded as bywords for inefficiency and red tape, have recorded over a billion e-governance transactions so far this year, watershed for the world's largest democracy that is betting on technology to cure its ills.
Asian Forum on Global Governance
The Asian Forum on Global Governance is an annual workshop jointly organized by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and the Observer Research Foundation.
Taking Stock: Emerging Issues - Internet Surveillance
This session was held at the IGF in Bali on October 25. Pranesh Prakash made intervention in this session.
India believes in Complete Freedom of Cyber Space: Kapil Sibal
The site of the impact of a cyber crime should determine jurisdiction, says information technology minister Kapil Sibal.
Location Tracking: Why the Govt-Mobile Manufacturer War Won’t End Soon
The Union government and mobile operators are at loggerheads on location based services (LBS) – the service through which mobile companies can provide real time location of mobile users to the government.
Wikipedia in Indian Languages on Mobile Phones
Wikipedia in India's regional languages and accessible over mobile phones is revolutionising the way Internet content is used in this multi-lingual country, say information technology (IT) experts.
Bouquets & brickbats for Google's new privacy policy
Google's recent privacy policy change that allows the internet search company to use names, photographs and endorsements by its users in online advertisements is getting mixed reviews in India - advertisers love it, and activists love to hate it.
'Free Speech and Media in South Asia: Human Rights Concerns in a Globalizing World'
A seminar organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Centre for Media and Governance, National Law University, Delhi. Chinmayi Arun is one of the speakers.
Re-sourcing Indian Cinema: Humanities Research, New Archives and Collaborative Knowledge Production
The Centre for Contemporary Studies and the Centre for Study of Culture and Society invites you to a symposium on "Re-sourcing Indian Cinema" and a launch of a book titled "Politics as Performance: A Social History of the Telugu Cinema" by S.V. Srinivas on October 29, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the CCS Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science. T. Vishnu Vardhan will speak on “Let Cinephiles Collaborate: Pleasures and Perils of Indian Film History on Wikipedia”.
Beyond the Searchlight
Should we be wary of Google’s all-pervasiveness?
Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Brown University organised the Asian Video Cultures event at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts between October 24 and 26, 2013. Nishant Shah presented a paper titled “In Access: Approaches to Understand Digital and Online Video in Contemporary Asia”.
Bali meet to discuss Internet governance issues
Four-day event hosted by Internet Governance Forum to also discuss Internet access and diversity, privacy, security.
Indian politicians yet to tap voters online: CIS’s Abraham
Sunil Abraham talks about the role online media will play in forthcoming elections and the behaviour of online readers of news.
कोंकणी विश्वकोश ‘विकिपीडिया’वर
News about digitalization of Konkani Vishwakosh, appeared in Navprabha daily on October 22, 2013 on front page.
