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7th India Digital Summit 2013

praskrishna — 2013-01-15T08:53:58Z

This summitt organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India is held in New Delhi, January 16 - 17, 2013.

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7th India Digital Summit 2013

praskrishna — 2013-02-13T06:32:31Z

This summitt organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India is being held in New Delhi from January 16 to 17, 2013 at the Lalit Hotel

Sunil Abraham is the moderator for Plenary Session 3: Discussion on Social Media – Freedom, Moderation or Regulation.

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Theme of the Summit

951 million mobile users with 448 million mobile data subscribers; 137 million Internet users and rural Internet growing 7x in the last two years make India one of the top three digital markets in the world. One of only top two at this scale with free market economy democratic polity; and the only one where there is still headroom for growth. The time to invest in Digital India is now.

By 2020 riding on a government investment of 4 billion USD [roughly 10 billion USD on PPP terms] Internet users is expected to be 600 million; and mobile would possibly penetrate 100% of rural India creating the largest free economy digital market in the world.

The Digital Opportunity now and in the next 5 years in India is explosive. And the need to create a Digital Economy on scale is a developmental necessity. The opportunity, however, lies in addressing the current challenges of the ability to provide: low cost connectivity, universal access, usable content, secure networks, affordable devices and enabling policy.

Building on the theme of “Creating the World’s Largest Free Market Digital Economy” the 7th India Digital Summit will focus on five tracks: Infrastructure, Regulatory Frameworks, Services & Content, Entrepreneurship / Innovation and Business 3.0.

Webcast of the Event

Day 1, January 16, 2013

Inaugural
Welcome Address Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, Chairman, IAMAI & Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Info Edge India Limited Address by Chief Guest Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of IndiaKeynote Address by Mr. R Chandrashekhar, Chairman (TC) & Secretary , Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and IT
Plenary Session 1: 1000 digital startups a year: How to make it happen?
Session Chair and presenter: Mr. Satyan Gajwani, CEO, Times Internet Presenter ‐ Mr. Mahesh Murthy, Founder, Pinstorm and Co-founder, Seedfund Mr. Manish Vij, Founder, VUN Network Mr. Pranay Gupta, Joint CEO, Centre for Innovation Mr. Rajesh Sawhney, Founder, GSF Accelerator & Superangels Mr. Mukund Mohan, CEO in Residence, Microsoft Startup Accelerator
Business track Topic: Importance of Creativity to Digital Advertising
Session Chair and presenter Neville Taraporewalla, Sr. Director - Emerging Markets\| India, Malaysia,Thailand & Korea, Advertising and Online, Microsoft Discussion: M Mohit Hira, Senior Vice President & Regional Business Leader-Airtel, JWT Vineet Gupta, Managing Partner, 22feet Communications Arun Sharma, VP Marketing - Head Media & Rural, Bharti Airtel Vikas Tandon, Managing Director, Indigo Consulting Aditya Save, Head-Media & Digital Marketing, Marico Audience Interaction
“Lowering the barrier for mobile web - for both operators and users”
Keynote Address by Mr. Peter Panait Løjmand, Senior Vice President, Opera Software Interaction with Mr. Sanjay Goyal, Chief Executive Officer, ACL Wireless
Plenary Session 2: Cloud – Leveraging the Cloud for Business Efficiency
Session Chair and presenter Mr. Manoj Chugh, Regional President, Global Accounts-APJ, EMC Presenters: Mr. Manav Khanna, Sr. Consultant –Enterprise Security, SafeNet Inc. Mr. Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nowfloats Mr. Ravi Shankar, Chief Executive Officer, Nevales Networks Mr. Mandar Kulkarni, Vice President, Solution Engg & Pvt. Cloud Practice, Netmagic Mr. Balaka Baruah Aggarwal, Business Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Mr. Jaydeep Nargund, Head Services-India, AKAMAI Mr. Vivek Ravindran, Director-Core & App Platform, Microsoft
Email Marketing Roundtable with juvlon
Email Marketing in the Year of the Snake - 2013 Presented by Mr. Naresh Bhagtani, CEO, Juvlon, Niche Software
“Unique Identity and Its Positive Externalities for Inclusiveness"
Keynote Address by Mr. Nandan Nilekani , Chairman, UAIDI Interaction with Mr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, IDF research
“Bharat Broadband [NOFN]: Going extra mile with public investment”
Keynote Address by Mr. Sam Pitroda Interaction with Mr. Lalitesh Katragadda, Country Head-India Products, Google
Plenary Session 3: Discussion on Social media – Freedom, moderation or regulation
Session Chair & Moderator: Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, The Centre for Internet and Society
Discussion with: Rajesh Kalra, Chief Editor, Times Internet R Sukumar, Managing Editor, Mint Shivam Vij, Kafila.org
Track 3: The last mile of customer connect: m-Engagement from OPENHOUSE
Presenter: Mr. Ankit Singh, Senior Manager, Enterprise mobility, IMI Mobile Mr. Ramesh Raman , Senior manager, Marketing, IMI Mobile

Day 2, January 17, 2013

“Future of Apps and their Monetization”
Keynote Address by Mr. Ilja Laurs, Founder and Chairman, GetJar Moderated by : Mr. Kiruba Shankar
“Communications challenges in the age of Social media”
Keynote address by Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Government of India Interaction with audience Moderated by Mr. R Jagannanthan
Track 4: CXOs Closed door discussion on Local Language – The Game Changer
Session moderated by Gyan Gupta, Chief Operating Officer, Dainik Bhaskar; Address by speakers Mr. Arvind Pani, Co-founder, Reverie language Technologies Mr. Ajay Gallwale, Founder, Maayboli Mr. C Mathew, DGM (Marketing), Malayala Manorama Mr. Manoj Gupta, Head, VAS & Applications, Micromax Audience Interaction Summarising by Moderator
Start-Up Unconference
A peer to peer, informal sharing of views between new entrepreneurs and start-ups of our industry
Chaired by: Mr. Sanjiv Bikhchandani, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Infoedge Moderator by: Kiruba Shankar
Plenary Session 5: Discussion on e-Commerce 2.0– Emerging trend
Session Chair & Moderator: Mr. Avnish Bajaj, Managing Director, Matrix Partners In Discussion with: Mr. Alok Mittal, Managing Director, Canaan Patners India Mr. Sachin Bansal, Co-founder & CEO, Flipkart Mr. Sundeep Malhotra, Chief Executive Officer, HomeShop18 Mr. Muralikrishnan B, Country Manager, eBay Mr. Mukesh Bansal, Founder, Myntra.com Mr. Ankur Warikoo, Chief Executive Officer, Groupon India
Plenary Session 6: Marketers Viewpoint – Online and Mobile Marketing
Session Chair: Mr. Upen Rai, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, AntFarm Presenters: Mr. Sanjay Tripathy, EVP - Head Marketing, Products and Direct Channels - HDFC Life Mr. Manish Kalra, Chief Marketing Officer, Makemytrip Mr. Vinay Bhatia, Customer Care Associate and VP - Marketing and Loyalty, Shoppers Stop Mr. Samil Malhotra, Vice President Sales and Marketing. The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group Mr. Manu Kumar Jain, Co-founder & Managing Director, Jabong
Plenary Session 7: Interaction: Attracting and retaining talent for Digital Industry
Thought sharing by Industry Leaders Interaction between Industry leaders and Students Industry Leaders: Mr. Sanjiv Bikhchandani, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Infoedge Mr. Deep Kalra, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Makemytrip Mr. Anupam Mittal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, People Group Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, IndiaMART Mr. Neville Taraporewalla, Sr. Director , Emerging Markets-India, Malaysia, Thailand & Korea, Advertising and Online, Microsoft Student Entrepreneurs: FMS IMT Ghaziabad IITD Moderated by Kiruba Shankar
India Digital Award Ceremony

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7th Emerging Markets Finance Conference

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Anubha Sinha participated as a panelist in the "Intellectual Property, Copyright and Patent Finance" session in Mumbai on December 15, 2016. The event was organized by Finance Research Group in association with Vanderbilt Law School.

Programme Committee

N. Prabhala, Centre For Advanced Financial Research And Learning
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London
Subrata Sarkar, IGIDR
Ajay Shah, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy
Avanidhar Subramanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Ram Thirumalai, Indian School of Business
Susan Thomas, IGIDR
Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma, Business School
Yesha Yadav, Vanderbilt Law School

For more info and the agenda click here.

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7th Best Practices Meet 2015

praskrishna — 2015-07-17T13:11:20Z

Data Security Council of India (DSCI) organized the 7th edition of its Best Practices Meet (BPM) from July 9 - 10, 2015 at Hotel ITC Gardenia in Bengaluru. BPM2015 had “Architecting Security for Digital Transformation” as its theme. Sunil Abraham and Elonnai Hickok were speakers at this event.

The two-day deliberations, reflected on policy, endeavours at national and industry levels, proposed industry steps, market response, best practices, industry standards and technology designs and see how they play their roles in architecting of information systems and enterprise security within organizations. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Architecting Security for transformation to Digital India". Elonnai Hickok was a panelist in the session "Steering privacy in the age of extreme innovation technology & business models."

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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/best-practices-meet-2015

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6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

praskrishna — 2014-05-05T04:57:59Z

Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at the conference organized by Eticas Research and Consulting at the University of Barcelona and CCCB from April 24 to 26, 2014.

Malavika will present on the UID and biometrics at the session on “Surveillance: Ambiguities and Uncertainties". Malavika's talk title is "Biometrics in beta: experimenting on a nation (while normalising surveillance for 1.2 billion people)" and is being held on April 26. See the full event details on this page.

In the developing world, privacy is often portrayed as a luxury, as something alien to local culture and of interest only to the elite. This ignores the probability of the most marginalized sections of a society being disproportionately impacted by privacy intrusive technologies. The hype about ‘big data’, ‘open data’, ‘data for development’, ‘ICT4D’ and other buzzwords often ignores the fact that the global south is particularly vulnerable to data collection and processing. Literacy issues (lingual and technical), a massive digital divide, desperate socioeconomic conditions and the lack of a robust data protection law render ideas of consent or tradeoffs all but meaningless.

Techno-utopian welfare schemes present technology as progressive, neutral and frictionless – a seductive and compelling narrative in a region wracked by inequalities, corruption, lack of transparency and structural violence. This vision underpins the world’s largest biometric ID project, which has already registered the irises and fingerprints of 540 million people without even being completed. Yet the assumption that bodies can be rendered into infallible verifiers, as repositories of unchanging truth, ignores embedded biases and normative baselines within such technologies. Welfare projects are further complicated when they are architected as public-private partnerships: the collusion of governmental and corporate agendas in creating massive databases and profiles, in a manner that transforms the citizen-state relationship in profound ways, has sweeping implications for choice, autonomy, anonymity and ultimately, democracy. This is true even when the systems function as intended, without mechanical failure, data breaches, or other consequences of trading privacy for convenience, welfare and security.

I would like to discuss the risks of using technologies such as biometrics to solve socioeconomic problems, and their potential for excluding the very demographics that they seek to include. I intend to locate my presentation in the context of India’s growing surveillance state, which deliberately intends to use the unique identification number to link disparate databases. I propose to describe the new Centralised Monitoring System, the relative legal vacuum in which data is mined and harvested, and the shaky constitutional foundations on which many of these new regimes stand. In so doing, I will effectively have provided a tour of India’s Rogue’s Gallery of recent incursions into the zone of privacy, free speech, informational self-determination and dignity. I hope also to redress in some small measure the largely western focus of academic and policy debates in this field, despite the risks of developing countries seeking to commoditize and export identity schemes, normalize censorship or opportunistically benefit from the west no longer having the moral ground to resist third country surveillance practices.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/ssn-2014-sixth-biannual-surveillance-and-society-conference

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5G Workshop Schedule

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5 things you need to know about online privacy policies

praskrishna — 2012-04-30T12:02:40Z

Ever since Google tweaked it's privacy policy on January 24, online confidentiality and its future has been the topic of a raging public debate, making it hard for an average Internet user to decide what he should and should not share on an online platform. Experts say that the key here is to understand each of the terms and policies before you sign in. Indu Nandakumar writes in the Economic Times on 2 February 2012.

How is Data Retained?

The data retention policy allows the online provider to hold personal information about you. But the question is, for how long will they hold your data?

Data, here includes personal information such as your name, address, date of birth, photographs and transaction information such as when did you last log into your account, from which device, from which IP address, whose profiles did you visit etc.

It's ridiculous to ask "what bits of the privacy policy" should you read, says Graham Cluely, a senior consultant with security software developer Sophos.

"Because the only sensible answer is 'all of it.' Only you can decide if you're comfortable with it, so read it and you decide."

What are the Legal Implications?

It is important to understand under what circumstances will the website share your personal information with the Central and State government agencies. For instance, Facebook would have to share your information with the Ministry of Home Affairs since Facebook has an office in Hyderabad and comes under the purview of the Indian IT Act.

"But Twitter could deny user information to the Egyptian government during the 2011 Arab protests as it did not fall under the Egyptian jurisdiction," says Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.

What Happens after Your Account is Deleted?

Experts say that deleting your account is not the end of it all as social networks usually store your personal information even after you delete the account. For instance, Google stores your data for nearly nine months even after you delete your GMail account.

Similarly, Twitter stores your IP address and personal information for a certain period after you delete your account.

What Personal Data is Shared with Private Organisations?

Apart from the information you share while creating the account, social networks also process and share personal data such as photographs, likes and events with their business partners and social-media analytics and monitoring agencies.

"So the basic rule is don't upload anything to the Internet which you don't want your mother-in-law or your boss to see, as you can't necessarily trust the various sites to keep them securely," says Graham Cluely.

"Further, think carefully about what other information you may be sharing online - such as your location".

What Can an Individual Do?

The easiest thing is to customise every aspect of your privacy policy, according computer security firm Kaspersky Labs. For instance, on social networks such Google Plus, Facebook and Twitter, you may limit the information you display to certain groups of people.

"India needs to have a broad and horizontal law that establishes online privacy as a right. Unlike in European countries, India doesn't have a privacy commissioner who can state the principles, interpret the data and question the online providers," says Sunil Abraham.

The original article was published in the Economic Times. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in this.

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5 Challenges for the Future of Learning: Digital Natives and How We Shall Teach Them

praskrishna — 2012-04-30T13:04:26Z

At the Digital Media and Learning Conference on beyond education technologies, Nishant Shah gave a ignite talk on 5 Challenges for the Future of Learning: Digital Natives and How We Shall Teach Them on March 1, 2012. There was an author's table where he presented and shared the Digital AlterNatives books and info-kits.

Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 4:30-5:45 (Cyril Magnin Ballroom)

Kea Anderson from SRI International
How do you know it's working?: The U.S. Dept. of Education's new Evidence Framework

Doug Belshaw, Purpos/ed
Why we need a debate about the purpose(s) of education

Tessa Joseph-Nicholas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Zombies and the Revolution: Making Science Fiction Matter in the Digital Culture Classroom

Peter Kittle, Cal State Univ., Chico
Good Memes, Bad Teaching

Crystle Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interest-Based Crap Detecting

David Cooper Moore, Temple University
What Did Rebecca Black's "Friday" Teach Us About Media Literacy?

Chad Sansing, Central Virginia Writing Project
I used to be a middle school teacher like you until I took an arrow in the knee

Rafi Santo, Indiana University
Why Kids Need to Know How to Hack: Technological Citizenship and the New Civic Education

Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society
5 Challenges for the future of learning: Digital Natives and how we shall teach them

Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 3:30-4:30 (Cyril Magnin Ballroom)

Heather Braum, Northeast Kansas Library System
Learning from Birth to the Grave @ Your Library

Mel Chua, Purdue University, and Sebastian Dziallas, Olin College
Teaching Open Source: Productively Lost For Great Justice

Ben Chun, Galileo Academy of Science & Technology
Programming for Every Subject

Jane Crayton, UNM, CU Boulder, STEM-A
iSTEMart

Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine
Occupy Learning

Henry Jenkins, USC
The Samba School Revisited: Play, Performance, and Participation in Education

Chris Lawrence, Hive Learning Network, NYC
Throw a learning party!

Heather Mallak, Girls, Math & Science Partnership, Click! Spy School
Opening things with your teeth

Jesse Pickard, MindSnacks
How to Make Your Educational Game Not Suck

Philipp Schmidt, Peer 2 Peer University
How to make an online course in 5 minutes

Jeff Sturges, Mt Elliott Makerspace
Makerspaces

Hsing Wei, Eyebeam and New Visions
DTC Lab = teachers + technologists + designers = digital prototypes in 3 months

Venue: Wyndham Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA 94102

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