Centre for Internet and Society

CIS_BD4D_Guideline02_RS+AS_ComputerScience PDF

pranav — 2020-05-19T10:52:16Z

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CIS_BD4D_Guideline03_AS+PT_BigDataAIEthicsReview_SummaryNotes PDF

pranav — 2020-05-19T10:57:00Z

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icnl introduction revised

pranav — 2021-01-11T10:07:02Z

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Online Gender Based Violence pdf (10 April)

pranav — 2024-04-11T03:23:33Z

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20240517_DDCB comments summary

pranav — 2024-06-11T10:10:07Z

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Concept Note - FoW Automotive Workshop

pranav — 2018-07-20T17:14:55Z

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Report - State of Consumer Digital Security in India

pranav — 2021-07-05T10:56:49Z

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Disinformation in the Indian Digital News Media Market

pranav — 2021-07-06T09:15:16Z

The Centre for Internet and Society and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with a neutral assessment of news sites that they can utilise to defund disinformation.

To register, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/VDCFpzDyjCbRdP559

India’s news consumption is increasingly dominated by the internet. In 2021, it is estimated that 284 million online users in India will consume their news digitally in the country’s eight top languages, a figure which has nearly doubled since 2016. Yet, greater reliance on online news does not equate to greater trust. A greater share of Indians trust news from newspapers and magazines (55 percent) than do online sources (34 percent).

The harms of disinformation are proliferating around the globe—threatening our elections, our health, and our shared sense of facts. The infodemic laid bare by COVID-19 conspiracy theories clearly shows that disinformation costs peoples’ lives. Websites masquerading as news outlets are driving and profiting financially from the situation.

One effective means of combating disinformation is to target its funding sources. In this report, we analysed 56 websites based on the GDI risk rating, which provides advertisers, ad tech companies and platforms with greater information about a range of disinformation flags related to a site’s content (reliability of content), operations (operational and editorial integrity) and context (perceptions of brand trust).

We invite you to the launch event of the report Media Market Risk Ratings: India, and a panel discussion focused on online misinformation and disinformation in India, the role of digital news publishers, and effective strategies to combat disinformation.

See more details and an agenda here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/disinformation-in-the-indian-digital-news-media-market

Platforms, Power, and Politics pdf

pranav — 2021-07-07T15:15:20Z

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Platforms, Power, and Politics Press Release pdf

pranav — 2021-06-29T13:06:22Z

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State of Consumer Digital Security in India

pranav — 2021-07-05T11:07:24Z

This report attempts to identify the existing state of digital safety in India, with a mapping of digital threats, which will aid stakeholders in identifying and addressing digital security problems in the country. This project was funded by the Asia Foundation.

Since 2006, successive Union governments in India have shown increased focus on digital governance. The National e-Governance Plan was launched by the UPA government in2006, and several digital projects led by the state such as digitisation of the filing of taxes, appointment process for passports, corporate governance, and the Aadhaar programme(India’s unique digital identity system that utilises biometric and demographic data) arose under it, in the form of mission mode projects (projects that are part of a broader National e-governance initiative, each focusing on specific e-Governance aspects, like banking, land records, or commercial taxes). In 2014, when the NDA government came to power, the National e-Governance Plan was subsumed under the government’s flagship project of Digital India, and several mission mode projects were added. In the meantime, the internet connectivity, first in the form of wire connectivity, and later in the form of mobile connectivity has increased greatly. In the same period, use of digital services, first in new services native to the Internet such as email, social networking, instant messaging, and later the platformization and disruption of traditional business models in transportation, healthcare, finance and virtually every sector, has led to a deluge of digital private service providers in India.

Currently, India has 500 million internet users — over a third of its total population — making it the country with the second largest number of Internet users after China. The uptake of these technological services has also been accompanied by several kinds of digital threats that an average digital consumer in India must regularly contend with. This report is a mapping of consumer-facing digital threats in India and is intended to aid stakeholders in identifying and addressing digital security problems. The first part of the report categorises digital threats into four kinds, Personal Data Threats, Online Content Related Threats, Financial Threats, and Online Sexual Harassment Threats. Threats under each category are then defined, with detailed consumer-facing consequences, and past instances where harm has been caused because of these threats.

Read the full report here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/state-of-consumer-digital-security-in-india

GDI Launch Event Concept Note pdf

pranav — 2021-07-06T09:10:15Z

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Rethinking Data Exchange & Delivery Models pdf

pranav — 2021-04-08T05:06:10Z

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case fatality rate %

pranav — 2020-06-15T02:56:43Z

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StateGovtCovidApps PDF

pranav — 2020-07-14T08:03:10Z

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