Centre for Internet and Society

Comments to National Digital Health Mission: Health Data Management Policy pdf

pranav — 2020-10-05T14:16:10Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/comments-to-national-digital-health-mission-health-data-management-policy-pdf

Vacancies at CIS

pranav — 2024-09-10T14:44:45Z

Call for applications: Public Interest Technologist

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancies

Vacancy for Chief Finance Officer

pranav — 2019-03-10T13:02:22Z

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Chief Finance Officer. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bangalore office (No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, 560071). The Chief Finance Officer will work closely with the CIS administrative and accounts team and will report to the Executive Director, as well as Directors/Managers of Projects.

Position Summary:

As the Chief Finance Officer, your job will be to oversee all matters concerning accounting and finance within the organisation, including but not limited to reimbursements, taxation issues, maintaining the books of accounts etc. You will be required to coordinate with the senior management to ensure seamless financial operations at CIS. This is a full time position.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for the overall finance-related aspects of the organisation that include supervising reimbursement procedure, taxation, maintenance of the books of accounts (monthly expenditure, financial statements, accounts receivable, accounts payable, disbursement journal, trial balance, tax reports, etc.), and preparation of budgets, proposals, objectives, audits, annual reports, etc.

Requirements:

7 or more years of experience as a financial officer or equivalent professional position.
2 or more references.
Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language.
Preferably prior experience of working at a Non-profit/Policy organisation.
Supervisory experience in dealing with a team.
Experience dealing with foreign remittance and familiarity with the FCRA guidelines.
Good knowledge of formulae in excel spreadsheets, and familiarity with Google Suite.
Good knowledge of Tally software.

Location: The position will based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office.

Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration.

Contract period: Initial contract will be till 30 June 2019, followed by a review and redrafting of a longer term contract.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to ajoy@cis-india.org. The last date to send in your application is 18 March 2019.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-chief-finance-officer

Vacancy: Programme Officer (Delhi)

pranav — 2019-03-29T08:44:03Z

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, for research on intellectual property rights and access to knowledge. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Delhi office.

Responsibilities

To support and drive new research initiatives of the work done by the IP team, the Programme Officer will be primarily responsible for the following tasks –

Planning and developing research in the subject areas (including, but not limited to) of access to knowledge, international trade and IP treaties, intermediary liability, limitations and exceptions in copyright law, software patents, licensing of SEPs;
Participating in strategic meetings organised by stakeholders;
Locating opportunities and building research partnerships with stakeholders contributing to current and emerging issues;
Contributing to current debates in the relevant research areas.

Core Competencies

Awareness of issues at intersection of Intellectual Property law and emerging tech
Critical appreciation of open knowledge initiatives
Effective communication and collaboration
Intellectual curiosity and openness
Respect for diversity

Functional Competencies

Ability to learn-at-work, especially about the IP-Access to Knowledge and tech ecosystem
Highly organised, motivated, and able to take initiative;
Ability to produce high quality writing outputs regularly
Able to travel for domestic and international engagements

Required Skills and Experience

A degree in law (at a minimum)
Publications to demonstrate good writing and analytical capabilities
Excellent communication skills

Location and Remuneration

This position is based out of the Delhi Office of CIS.

Monthly remuneration for the position will be INR 50,000 (including taxes).

Application Process

We invite interested (and eligible) candidates to apply for the position by sending the following documents to anubha@cis-india.org and copy sunil@cis-india.org, with “Application for Programme Officer (IP)” as the subject.

Cover letter: This should introduce your relevant academic, professional, and other experiences, and describe the kind of work you look forward to do as part of the IP team. We strongly recommend reading CIS’ outputs under this vertical while writing this letter.
CV: This should provide details of your academic, professional, and other achievements.
Work Samples: The position will require you to produce high quality writing outputs regularly. Please share two samples of your writing (published or unpublished). At least one sample should demonstrate an in-depth understanding of intellectual property law.

Interested candidates are invited to send their applications at the earliest - latest by Sunday, March 31st. The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by the CIS team. If needed, there will be multiple rounds of interviews. We will take the final hiring decision by early April, and invite the selected person to join us from May 1st, 2019.

Please do not hesitate to write to us at anubha@cis-india.org for any clarification regarding this.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-programme-officer-delhi

AI for Healthcare: Understanding Data Supply Chain and Auditability in India PDF

pranav — 2024-12-09T10:20:06Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/ai-for-healthcare-understanding-data-supply-chain-and-auditability-in-india-pdf

Reclaiming AI Futures

pranav — 2021-11-17T19:56:07Z

Join us on 23 November (Tuesday) at 7:30pm.

The spectre of artificial intelligence looms large over us. According to the prevalent visions sold to us today, Artificial Intelligence will save us from ourselves — cut out humanity and let technology provide for our futures, mediating our interactions and our relationships with mathematical precision and computerised equanimity: 100 Smart Cities, ‘built from the internet up’, which recognise only the disciplined and data-annotated urban resident. Machines which prophesise on dishonesty and criminality and place us in an information straitjacket from which there is no escape. Technologies will mine data from the depths of our bodies and our environment, and, in turn, displace us from both.

What do these futures hold in store for us? Who do these visions of AI futures serve? How do we resist, reimagine and reclaim our technological futures? To paraphrase Ruha Benjamin, how do we imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones we cannot live within?

In early 2021, artists and activists from India were invited to reflect on the trajectory of Artificial Intelligence in India; to speculate, prophesise and craft new technological imaginaries through their art and writing, as part of Divij Joshi’s fellowship project with the Mozilla Foundation, the AI Observatory.

The resulting projects have been incorporated into the online exhibit – ‘Reclaiming AI Futures’. The projects and artworks in this exhibit span different digital media – films, gifs, written essays, interactive games, social media feeds – each of which critically reflect on AI and its political, cultural, economic and affective implications; on how technology mediates our identities, and how we might ‘reclaim’ agency from, or with, AI.

On November 23, 2021, from 7:30 – 9:00 PM, the contributors to this project will discuss their work and their visions for Reclaiming AI Futures in an online session, hosted by Divij and the Centre for Internet and Society.

The Contributors to Reclaiming AI Futures are:

All India IT and ITeS Employee’s Union and Critter’s Collective, ‘Reclaiming AI Futures for Economic Planning’, Mixed Media (Twitter)
Brindaalakshmi K., ‘Word!’, Speculative Fiction (English and Tamil)
Daksha Dixit, Simran Singh and Kartik Handa, ‘AlgoLeela’, Gifs
diane daayan, ‘I Am AI v.2.3.’, Roleplaying Game
Paulanthony George, ‘Illustrations for the AI Observatory’, Illustrations
Shristi Singh, ‘This Scene May Contain…’, Graphic Media
Vishal Kumaraswamy, ‘your dataset won’t let me thrive’ & ‘ your dataset must die’, Video Essays

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/reclaiming-ai-futures

Domestic Work and Platforms Presentation

pranav — 2019-11-29T10:08:57Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/raw/domestic-work-and-platforms-presentation

Call for Comments: Model Security Standards for the Indian Fintech Industry

pranav — 2019-12-16T13:16:25Z

The Centre for Internet and Society is pleased to make available the Draft document of Model Security Standards for the Indian Fintech Industry, for feedback and comments from all stakeholders. The objective of this document which was first published in November 2019, is to ensure that the data of users is dealt with in a secure and safe manner by the Fintech Industry, and that smaller businesses in the Fintech industry have a specific standard to look at in order to limit their liabilities for any future breaches.

We invite any parties interested in the field of technology policy, including but not limited to lawyers, policy researchers, and engineers, to send in your feedback/comments on the draft document by the 16th of January 2020. We intend to publish our final draft by the end of January 2020. We look forward to receiving your contributions to make this document more comprehensive and effective. Please find a copy of the draft document here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/call-for-comments-model-security-standards-for-the-indian-fintech-industry

EXTRATERRITORIAL ALGORITHMIC SURVEILLANCE AND THE INCAPACITATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

pranav — 2019-12-31T10:55:51Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/extraterritorial-algorithmic-surveillance-and-the-incapacitation-of-international-human-rights-law

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

Comparison of the Personal Data Protection Bill with the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Protection Act - PDF

pranav — 2020-02-21T13:11:21Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/comparison-of-the-personal-data-protection-bill-with-the-general-data-protection-regulation-and-the-california-consumer-protection-act-pdf

Governing ID: Principles for Evalution

pranav — 2020-03-02T08:20:55Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/governing-id-principles-for-evalution

Use of Digital ID for Verification

pranav — 2020-03-02T11:09:30Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/use-of-digital-id-for-verification

Digital ID Healthcare Case Study

pranav — 2020-03-02T11:46:25Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/digital-id-healthcare-case-study

PDP Bill Compilation Post Image

pranav — 2020-03-05T07:58:53Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/pdp-bill-compilation-post-image