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Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Market Place — A Presentation by Sunil Abraham
The 2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was organized in Rio de Janeiro from December 15 to 17, 2012. The Centre for Internet ... by Sunil Abraham last modified Feb 13, 2013 07:05 AM — Filed under: , ,
CIS's Closing Statement at Marrakesh on the Treaty for the Blind
Pranesh Prakash read out an abridged version of this statement as his closing remarks in Marrakesh, where the WIPO Treaty for the Blind (the "Marrakesh ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Jul 03, 2013 12:01 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics (September 2012 – April 2013)
The Access to Knowledge team carried out a quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from ... by T.Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi last modified Aug 23, 2013 01:48 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Are Indian Consumer Laws Ready for the Digital Age?
The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, recognizing the need for protection of the rights of consumers, drafted a set of model guidelines on ... by Vipul Kharbanda last modified Aug 08, 2013 11:52 AM — Filed under: , ,
Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 2)
In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block ... by Ananth Padmanabhan last modified Mar 06, 2014 04:48 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 3)
In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block ... by Ananth Padmanabhan last modified Feb 14, 2014 05:13 AM — Filed under: , , ,
App Developers Series: Products-Services Dichotomy & IP (Part I)
Recently, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) held a series of interviews in attempts to better understand the ecosystem in which India's mobile app ... by Samantha Cassar last modified Jul 21, 2014 01:43 AM — Filed under: ,
Mapping Institutions of Intellectual Property (Part A): India's National Programme on Intellectual Property Management
This blog post discusses India’s National Program on Intellectual Property Management, including the establishment of a National Institute of Intellectual ... by Nehaa Chaudhari last modified Jun 10, 2014 07:34 AM — Filed under: , ,
Mapping Institutions of Intellectual Property: Part B — India's National Program on Intellectual Property Management
As a second part in the series on Mapping Institutions of Intellectual Property this blog post deals with the documents introduced at the Stakeholders’ ... by Nehaa Chaudhari last modified Jun 26, 2014 03:27 PM — Filed under: ,
Atmanirbhar Bharat Meets Digital India: An Evaluation of COVID-19 Relief for Migrants
With the onset of the national lockdown on 24th March 2020 in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the fate of millions of migrant workers was left uncertain. ... by Ankan Barman last modified Jun 03, 2021 12:53 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
World Narrow Web
Censorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Mar 27, 2012 04:00 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies
Nishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled ... by Nishant Shah last modified Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
Open Data Hackathons are Great, but Address Privacy and License Concerns
This is to cross-publish a blog post from DataMeet website regarding a letter shared with the organisers of Urban Hack 2015, Bangalore, in response to a set of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:37 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Citizen Activism the Past Decade
Call for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012. by Nilofar Ansher last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:52 AM — Filed under: , ,
Intellectual Property Rights — Open Access for Researchers
In the year 2013, Nehaa Chaudhari had worked on a module on Intellectual Property Rights for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ... by Nehaa Chaudhari last modified Mar 24, 2015 01:22 AM — Filed under: , , ,
No more 66A!
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has struck down Section 66A. Today was a great day for freedom of speech on the Internet! When Section 66A was in ... by Geetha Hariharan last modified Mar 26, 2015 02:01 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India – Section Outlines
The Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:40 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
National IPR Policy Series: RTI Requests by CIS to DIPP + DIPP Responses
In earlier blog posts, we have discussed the development of India’s National IPR Policy (“the Policy”); comments by the Centre for Internet and Society (“CIS”) ... by Nehaa Chaudhari last modified Apr 26, 2015 08:47 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Open Call for Comments: The Privacy Protection Bill 2013 drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society
The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing an Open Call for Comments to the CIS Privacy Protection Bill 2013. by Bhairav Acharya last modified Feb 25, 2014 05:38 AM — Filed under: , ,
Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'
The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission ... by Anubha Sinha last modified Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Analysis of the Report of the Group of Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and Implications for India
This paper analyses the report of the Group of Experts and and India’s compliance with its recommendations based on existing laws and policies. Given the ... by Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda last modified Aug 11, 2016 09:58 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Submitted Comments on the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016
Last month, the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the Government of Telangana released the first public draft of the Telangana ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Sep 01, 2016 05:49 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was ... by Samantha Cassar last modified Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
Multimedia Storytellers: Panel Discussion
This post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it ... by Denisse Albornoz last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:26 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Apr 14, 2014 06:10 AM — Filed under: , ,
Banking Policy Guide
To gain a practical perspective on the existing banking practices and policies in India in this project, an empirical study of five separate and diverse banks ... by Kartik Chawla last modified Jan 22, 2015 02:54 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Patent Valuation and License Fee Determination in Context of Patent Pools
The focus of this research paper is on an extremely limited though important aspect of patent pools — that of patent valuation and license fee determination. ... by Vikrant Narayan Vasudeva last modified Jul 09, 2014 09:46 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Grounds for Compulsory Patent Licensing in United States, Canada, China, and India
The research paper seeks to answer questions about the grounds of compulsory licensing in international treaties with specific examples from America and Asia. ... by Maggie Huang last modified Jul 29, 2014 08:45 AM — Filed under: , ,