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DIDP Request #11: NETmundial Principles — by Aditya Garg — last modified Sep 14, 2015 03:08 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) followed up on the implementation of the NETmundial Principles that ICANN has been endorsing by sending them a second request under their Documentary Information Disclosure Policy. This request and their response have been described in this blog post.
CIS Submission on CCWG-Accountability 2nd Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 23, 2015 02:58 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted the below to ICANN's CCWG-Accountability.
Transnational Due Process: A Case Study in Multi-stakeholder Cooperation — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 07, 2015 03:47 PM
The Internet & Jurisdiction Project is organizing the workshop “Transnational due process: A case study in multi-stakeholder cooperation” at the Internet Governance Forum convened by the United Nations on November 10-13, 2015. Sunil Abraham will be a speaker in this event.
WikipediansSpeak with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni: Tulu Wikipedia in the making — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:06 PM
Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, Principal, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru shares with Dr. U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme his insights on bringing more contributors of different corners of the society to grow Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is in Incubator at present and there are a bunch of contributors who are expanding the project to bring it live.
India’s missing disabled population — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 10, 2015 04:31 PM
The highest rates of disability are amongst those who are vision-impaired, and those who have problems to do with movement.
The Internet in the Indian Judicial Imagination — by Divij Joshi — last modified Sep 09, 2015 05:26 AM
This post by Divij Joshi is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Divij is a final year student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and is a keen observer and researcher on issues of law, policy and technology. In this essay, he traces the history of the Internet in India through the lens of judicial trends, and looks at how the judiciary has defined its own role in relation to the Internet.
International Open Data Charter: Comments by CIS — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Sep 08, 2015 11:01 AM
The second meeting of Stewards of the International Open Data Charter is in progress in Santiago, Chile, where the revisions made to the Charter based on the comments received during the public consultation period that ended on July 31, 2015, are being re-discussed and finalised by the Stewards. Here we are sharing the comments submitted by us on the first public draft of the Charter published during the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2015. The comments include those submitted by Sumandro and Sharath Chandra Ram.
Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 v/s 2015 Bill — by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Sep 06, 2015 02:10 PM
This entry analyses the Human DNA Profiling Bill introduced in 2012 with the provisions of the 2015 Bill
Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series - Research Questions and a Literature Review on the Actor-Network Theory — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Sep 05, 2015 04:56 AM
This document is divided into two parts - the first part lays out a series of research questions, potentially seeking to apply actor-network theory as a research methodology. The second part seeks to map literature around the Actor-Network Theory ("ANT") as a research methodology.
More On Those Dropped Calls — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Oct 06, 2015 02:34 AM
A basic problem is that the cost of spectrum and licences relative to earnings is too high, structurally.
Data Flow in the Unique Identification Scheme of India — by Vidushi Marda — last modified Sep 03, 2015 05:02 PM
This note analyses the data flow within the UID scheme and aims at highlighting vulnerabilities at each stage. The data flow within the UID Scheme can be best understood by first delineating the organizations involved in enrolling residents for Aadhaar. The UIDAI partners with various Registrars usually a department of the central or state Government, and some private sector agencies like LIC etc– through a Memorandum of Understanding for assisting with the enrollment process of the UID project.
CIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence — by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:07 PM
As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence.
Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 29, 2015 06:35 AM
This proposal was made to the Global Multistakeholder Community on August 9, 2015. The proposal was drafted by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. The research assistance was provided by Padmini Baruah, Vidushi Marda, and inputs from Sunil Abraham.
Supreme Court Order is a Good Start, but is Seeding Necessary? — by Elonnai Hickok and Rohan George — last modified Sep 07, 2015 01:21 PM
This blog post seeks to unpack the ‘seeding’ process in the UIDAI scheme, understand the implications of the Supreme Court order on this process, and identify questions regarding the UID scheme that still need to be clarified by the court in the context of the seeding process.
Are we Throwing our Data Protection Regimes under the Bus? — by Rohan George — last modified Sep 10, 2015 02:02 PM
In this blog post Rohan examines why the principle of consent is providing us increasingly less of an aegis in protecting our data.
The new tattler in town — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 26, 2015 04:31 PM
WhatsApp messages, and in particular ‘admins’ of WhatsApp groups come under pressure as rumour-mongering catches the attention of the police.
Training in eSpeak Hindi — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 03, 2015 02:41 PM
NVDA team conducted a workshop at Jeevan Jyoti School for the Blind, Varanasi from August 26 to 28, 2015. Eighty five students and 13 teachers took part in the training programme.
The Changing Landscape of ICT Governance and Practice - Convergence and Big Data — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 07, 2015 01:48 PM
Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere' — by Smarika Kumar — last modified Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM
This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is interested in issues concerning law and technology. In this essay, Smarika explores how through the use of policy and regulation, the private marketplace of the internet is sought to be reined in and reconciled to the public sphere, which is mostly represented through legislations governing the internet.
"Sau Dhuni Teen" project: Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai — by Abhinav Garule — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:08 PM
A two-day multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organised at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai during the 22nd through the 24th August. This was one of the outreach events under the scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project that aims at bringing digital content on 100 notable persons, 100 key books, and 100 key concepts relating to women's studies, gender studies, and more broadly, interdisciplinary social sciences, between January 2015 and March 2016.
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