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CIS Comments and Recommendations to the Human DNA Profiling Bill, June 2015 — by Elonnai Hickok, Vipul Kharbanda and Vanya Rakesh — last modified Sep 02, 2015 05:09 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted a clause-by-clause comments on the Human DNA Profiling Bill that was circulated by the Department of Biotechnology on June 9, 2015.
Responsible Data Forum: Discussion on the Risks and Mitigations of releasing Data — by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Sep 06, 2015 02:29 PM
Workshop on Open Data for Human Development - Sessions Report — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Aug 28, 2015 08:16 AM
CIS facilitated a workshop on open data policy and tools for government officials from Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Tripura, and those from Bhutan and Maldives, in June 2015. The workshop was co-facilitated with Akvo, DataMeet, and Mapbox, and was supported by International Centre for Human Development of UNDP India. Here we share the workshop report and other related documents. The report is written by Sumandro, along with Amitangshu Acharya of Akvo.
Conflict of interest cloud over CCI chief — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2015 04:27 PM
The chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and three of the six commission members are participating in a conference organised by Assocham and sponsored by private companies like Ericsson, trade associations and two legal firms specialising in intellectual property cases. This, civil society organisations argue, raises issues of conflict of interest in a quasi-judicial body like CCI participating in a conference organised by private parties that have cases before the commission.
Letter questions the propriety of CCI’s participation in ASSOCHAM conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2015 03:27 PM
Serious concerns relating to conflict of interest have been raised against participation of CCI at the ASSOCHAM IP conference to be held soon.
The seedy underbelly of revenge porn — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2015 02:25 PM
Intimate photos posted by angry exes are becoming part of an expanding online body of dirty work.
'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community' — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AM
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
Wikipedia workshop in the theme of “Sau Dhuni Teen” in Pune University — by Abhinav Garule — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:08 PM
A two-day Wikipedia workshop was organised in the Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on the 20th August 2015. The workshop was focused on enriching Wikipedia with 100 articles related to notable Indian women under the scope of the “Sau Dhuni Teen” project.
Survey of Estimates of Economic Value of Open Government Data — by Ömer Faruk Sarı — last modified Aug 22, 2015 08:42 AM
This is a survey of estimates of economic value of open government data, and public sector information in general, across regions, countries, and sectors offered by several reports published during the last decade. The survey is undertaken by Ömer Faruk Sarı, a student of Business Administration at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, and research intern with CIS.
Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 04, 2015 08:25 AM
A three-day Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted for science lecturers of institutions who gathered at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Bengaluru this August 18. The idea of this event was to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus.
Stats from 2014 reveal horror of scrapped section 66A of IT Act — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 26, 2015 07:28 AM
An average of six netizens were arrested every day in 2014 for posting offensive content online under section 66A of the Information Technology Act, a draconian and much abused law no longer in use.
Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Open Review — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:51 AM
This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and modification. Please share your comments via email sent to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org with 'Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Comments' as the subject line. This text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Open Review — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM
This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and modification. Please share your comments via email sent to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org with 'Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Comments' as the subject line. This text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
Security: Privacy, Transparency and Technology — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 15, 2015 10:53 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been involved in privacy and data protection research for the last five years. It has participated as a member of the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, which has influenced the draft Privacy Bill being authored by the Department of Personnel and Training. It has organised 11 multistakeholder roundtables across India over the last two years to discuss a shadow Privacy Bill drafted by CIS with the participation of privacy commissioners and data protection authorities from Europe and Canada.
Journalism Students of the SDM College Ujire Enrich Karnataka’s Folklore And Folk Art in Kannada Wikipedia — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 15, 2015 09:09 AM
As part of an ongoing partnership with the Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujjire, with active support from a few Kannada Wikipedia editors, CIS-A2K began an outreach programme so that the journalism students could help many Kannada readers about Karnataka’s rich folklore and folk art.
Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 15, 2015 09:07 AM
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.
A Review of the Policy Debate around Big Data and Internet of Things — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Aug 17, 2015 08:36 AM
This blog post seeks to review and understand how regulators and experts across jurisdictions are reacting to Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) from a policy perspective.
War Driving in Lhasa Vegas — by Oxblood Ruffin — last modified Aug 17, 2015 08:19 AM
This post by Oxblood Ruffin is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Oxblood Ruffin is a hacktivist and film maker. He joined the CULT OF THE DEAD COW in 1996 as its Foreign Minister. Colonel Ruffin is co-author of the Hacktivismo Enhanced Source Software Licencse Agreement (HESSLA), network curmudgeon, and line cook. He will publish a book on information warfare in 2016. In this essay, Colonel Ruffin traces the history of Internet access in Dharamsala, and the factors at play in shaping it - mundane and maverick, familiar and outlier.
Talamaddale on August 23 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 20, 2015 03:57 PM
A talamaddale ‘Karna Chedana’ and ‘Shalya Nirgamana’ will be organised at Abhisheka mandira on the premises of Manjunatha temple at Kadri on August 23 at 2.30 p.m. Yakshagana playback singers Balipa Narayana Bhagawatha and Puttige Raghurama Holla will take part.
ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 06, 2015 12:09 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated on August 12. It was followed by hands-on workshop. SahilOnline has reported this on August 14, 2015.
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