Centre for Internet and Society

IT/IT-es Sector and the Future of Work in India

pranav — 2018-06-22T07:13:42Z

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pranav — 2021-10-12T10:56:57Z

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pranav — 2022-02-11T12:31:35Z

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IRC22 Call for Sessions pdf

pranav — 2022-02-11T12:10:27Z

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022

pranav — 2022-02-11T09:54:09Z

Due to internal delays related to the pandemic, the Internet Researchers' Conference will now take place online in May 2022. Please see below for a link to the updated call for sessions.

IRC22

#Home

The ‘home’ has been a key line of defence in efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health recommendations and governmental measures have enforced numerous restrictions on daily living, including physical distancing and isolation, home confinement, and quarantining. These mandates to be at home have relied on the construction, and assumption, of home as a familiar, stable and safe space.

However, home has always been a site of intense political contestation—be it through the temporal frames of belonging, ideas of citizenship and regionalism, role in the reproduction of capital accumulation, or as material signifiers of social status. Over the past 2 years, digital infrastructures have played an intensified role in the meaning making of the home. Coming to terms with the pandemic entailed an accelerated embedding of digital systems in many of our relationships. Be it with the state, educational institutions, workplaces, or each other. Solutions to the many challenges of infrastructure and mobility emerging over the last year have been sought in digital technologies. The digital mediation of the pandemic has ushered in visions of the ‘new normal’ as situated wholly in the digital.

While the initial anxieties of living through the pandemic may have now eased, and we make forays into a changed world, the spectre of the ‘next normal’ awaits. As we continue to come to terms with, and find ways to reorient the disruption of life, being at home has acquired many new meanings. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home?

For IRC22, we invite you to pause and reflect on the relational and material linkages between being at home and being connected. We invite sessions across a range of formats and themes to explore and challenge conceptions of the home. Different people imagine and experience the home in various ways—as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour or movement-building. We invite contributions that speak to these provocations through one or more of the above thematic areas.

Read the complete call for sessions, including sub-themes, session formats and timeline here.

To propose a session, please send the following documents (as attached text files; the file name should include the session title and your name) to workshops@cis-india.org:

Session Title: The session should be named in the form of a hashtag (check the sessions proposed for IRC19 for example).
Session Type: Please select the session type among the four types mentioned in the call for sessions.
Session Plan: This should describe the objectives of the session (the motivations and expectations driving it), what will be done and discussed during the session, and who among the people organising the session will be responsible for what. This note need not be more than 500 words long. If your session involves inviting others to present their work (say papers), then please provide a description and timeline of the process through which these people will be identified.
Session Team Details: Please share brief biographical notes of each lead of the session team, and their email addresses.

The deadline for submission of session proposals is 9 March, 2022.

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pranav — 2022-05-05T13:05:48Z

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Image podcast announcement

pranav — 2020-03-06T07:27:02Z

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Image - Governing ID: Principles for Evalution

pranav — 2020-03-02T08:29:16Z

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Image - Governing ID Use of Digital ID for Verification

pranav — 2020-03-02T10:51:21Z

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Image - Digital ID Healthcare Case Study

pranav — 2020-03-02T11:44:40Z

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icnl introduction revised

pranav — 2021-01-11T10:07:02Z

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How to Shut Down Internet Shutdowns Descriptive Image

pranav — 2020-02-03T08:14:18Z

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How to Shut Down Internet Shutdowns

pranav — 2020-02-03T11:13:12Z

This talk will focus on the challenges and opportunities for research on internet shutdowns after the judgement of the Supreme Court in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India. Stepping beyond the judgement, there will be a wider discussion on the practice of whitelists, blocking powers of the central government.

About the Speaker

Apar Gupta is the Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation.

Apar has been fighting the good fight for digital rights. While in law school almost 20 years ago, he wrote a legal commentary on the IT Act that is now in its third edition. As a lawyer in the Supreme Court, he worked on landmark cases such as on Section 66A, Intermediary Liability, Internet Shutdowns, the Right to Privacy and Privacy.

He also helped create public campaigns to advance net neutrality, reform defamation laws, fight Internet shutdowns and create a privacy statute. Apar previously ran his own successful law firm, was profiled in Outlook Magazine and listed in Forbes India's list of 30 under 30. He has also worked as a commercial litigator and partner in top law firms, written papers cited widely in local and international publications and taught courses at NLS and NLU.

RSVP here, or by sending an email Torsha (torsha@cis-india.org).

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/how-to-shutdown-internet-shutdowns

Governing ID: Principles for Evalution

pranav — 2020-03-02T08:20:55Z

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GDI Launch Event Concept Note pdf

pranav — 2021-07-06T09:10:15Z

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