Search results — 249 items matching your search terms.
Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms
- Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
- This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and ... by Zeenab Aneez — last modified Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM — Filed under: Digital News, RAW Publications, Researchers at Work, Research, Digital Media, Featured, Publications, Homepage
- FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security Commitments
- The unprecedented growth of the fintech space in India has concomitantly come with regulatory challenges around inter alia privacy and security concerns. This ... by Aayush Rathi and Shweta Mohandas — last modified May 02, 2019 11:20 AM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance, Privacy
- Open Data and Land Ownership
- In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified May 22, 2019 11:32 AM — Filed under: Open Data, Featured, Openness
- Vote for the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest!
- The Centre for Internet & Society and Hivos are super excited to present the final videos in the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest. We invite readers to ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:32 PM — Filed under: Video, Featured, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Habeas Data in India
- Habeas Data is a latin word which can be loosely translated to mean “have the data”. The right has been primarily conceptualized, designed, ratified, and ... by Vipul Kharbanda and edited by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 10, 2016 04:01 AM — Filed under: Featured, Habeas Data, Internet Governance, Privacy
- CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks
- This submission presents responses by the CIS on the Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks published by ... by Japreet Grewal, Pranesh Prakash, Sharath Chandra, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Sunil Abraham, and Udbhav Tiwari, with expert comments from Amelia Andersdotter — last modified Dec 12, 2016 01:59 PM — Filed under: Digital Payment, Public Wireless Network, TRAI, Internet Governance, Telecom, Featured, Aadhaar, Homepage, UID
- Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
- The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha — last modified Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM — Filed under: UID, Digital ID, Big Data, Digital Economy, Digital Access, Privacy, Digital Security, Data Revolution, Digital Payment, Internet Governance, Digital India, Data Protection, Demonetisation, Homepage, Featured, Aadhaar
- Flaws in the UIDAI Process
- The accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals ... by Hans Varghese Mathews — last modified Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM — Filed under: UID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Aadhaar, Homepage
- Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India
- This working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:33 AM — Filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Research, Featured, Publications, Big Data for Development
- The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
- What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — Filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Featured, New Pedagogies, Researchers at Work, Digital Pluralism
- Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective
- G3ict and CIS are pleased to announce the publication of a new, improved edition of the Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective. The ... by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 25, 2012 05:33 AM — Filed under: Featured, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
- Delhi High Court Orders Blocking of Websites after Sony Complains Infringement of 2014 FIFA World Cup Telecast Rights
- Of late the Indian judiciary has been issuing John Doe orders to block websites, most recently in Multi Screen Media v. Sunit Singh and Others. The order ... by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jul 08, 2014 07:02 AM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance, Censorship
- FinFisher in India and the Myth of Harmless Metadata
- In this article, Maria Xynou argues that metadata is anything but harmless, especially since FinFisher — one of the world's most controversial types of spyware ... by Maria Xynou — last modified Aug 13, 2013 11:30 AM — Filed under: Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
- High Level Comparison and Analysis of the Use and Regulation of DNA Based Technology Bill 2017
- This blog post seeks to provide a high level comparison of the 2017 and 2015 DNA Profiling Bill - calling out positive changes, remaining issues, and missing ... by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Aug 11, 2017 02:16 AM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance, Privacy
- Enabling Elections
- For making the 2014 General Elections in India participatory and accessible for voters with disabilities the Centre for Law and Policy Research and the Centre ... by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified May 10, 2014 12:12 AM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Accessibility
- Comments on the DoT Panel Report via MyGov
- On behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society, I must commend the Department of Telecom Panel on its report. Overall, it displays a far better ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 26, 2015 10:16 AM — Filed under: Telecom, Featured
- Crowdsourcing Incidents of Communication Privacy Violation in India
- In the context of several ongoing threads of debates and policy discussions, we are initiating this effort to crowdsource incidents of violation of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Oct 16, 2015 10:49 AM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Privacy
- An Introduction to Spectrum Sharing
- We will look at how current technology – mainly GSM, but also CDMA and touching upon LTE - shares spectrum, how they might share spectrum, the trade-off ... by Beli — last modified Mar 20, 2014 09:34 AM — Filed under: Telecom, Featured, Shared Spectrum
- Digital Futures: Internet Freedom and Millennials
- Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 15, 2012 04:25 AM — Filed under: Featured
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India: Opportunities for Advocacy in Intellectual Property
- Centre for Internet & Society worked on a three part case study. The first case study on digital protection of traditional knowledge was published by GIS Watch ... by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda — last modified Apr 23, 2017 05:22 AM — Filed under: Openness, Featured, FOSS, Homepage
- Alt needs to Shift
- People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing. by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM — Filed under: Featured, Researchers at Work, Digital Humanities
- A Question of Digital Humanities
- An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jun 30, 2016 05:06 AM — Filed under: Digital Knowledge, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Research, Featured, Digital Humanities, Researchers at Work
- CIS's Position on Net Neutrality
- As researchers committed to the principle of pluralism we rarely produce institutional positions. This is also because we tend to update our positions based on ... by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 09, 2015 01:06 PM — Filed under: Featured, Homepage, Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
- Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical
- The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM — Filed under: IT Act, Obscenity, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, YouTube, Social media, Internet Governance, Featured, Intermediary Liability, Censorship, Social Networking
- Hyper-connected, Hyper-lonely?
- The Digital Natives newsletter, part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project, invites contributions to its April-May 2012 double issue. by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:57 AM — Filed under: Featured, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Responses to the DIPP's Discussion Paper on SEPs and their Availability on FRAND Terms
- The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India, requested comments through its "Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents ... by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari, and Rohini Lakshané — last modified Jul 07, 2016 04:24 PM — Filed under: DIPP, Featured, Access to Knowledge
- Comments on Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and their Availability on Frand Terms
- The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The comments were prepared by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa ... by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshane — last modified May 03, 2016 02:30 AM — Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Pervasive Technologies, Competition, Featured, Patents
- National Resource Kit : The West Bengal Chapter (Call for Comments)
- The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of ... by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:19 AM — Filed under: Featured, Accessibility
- Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"
- On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in ... by Natasha Vaz — last modified Feb 15, 2012 04:27 AM — Filed under: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Featured
- Workshop on Open Data for Human Development - Sessions Report
- CIS facilitated a workshop on open data policy and tools for government officials from Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Tripura, and those from Bhutan and Maldives, in ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Aug 28, 2015 08:16 AM — Filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy, Openness
