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Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp Deal — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:59 AM
Privacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as a standalone app?
Net Neutrality and Privacy — by Divij Joshi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:01 AM
The highly contentious and polarising debate on net-neutrality will have a large impact on shaping the future of the internet and ultimately on the users of the internet. One important issue which needs to be prioritized while debating the necessity or desirability of a legal regime which advocates net-neutrality is its implication on privacy.
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 26th Session- Consolidated Notes (Part 2 of 3) — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Mar 20, 2014 04:52 AM
From December 16 to 20, 2013, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met for the 26th session. This blog post (Part 2 of 3) summarizes Days 3 and 4 of the proceedings of the 26th SCCR, based on my notes of the session and WIPO's transcripts.
Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses Online — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 06, 2014 06:00 AM
The post was co-authored by Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash H L and Subhashish Panigrahi and published in the March issue of Foss Force.
NVDA e-Speak Text-to-Speech Project Update (March 2014) — by Suman Dogra — last modified Apr 09, 2014 06:27 AM
CIS in partnership with the Daisy Forum of India is engaged in a project supported by The Hans Foundation to develop enhancements to the open source screen reader for Windows NVDA (Non Visual desktop Access) and e-Speak text-to-speech synthesiser in 15 Indian languages.
NTIA to give up control of the Internet's root — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 18, 2014 06:21 PM
On Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and that this would happen by September 2015. Pranesh Prakash provides a brief response to that announcement.
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 26th Session- Consolidated Notes (Part 1 of 3) — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Mar 20, 2014 04:49 AM
From December 16 to 20, 2013, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met for the 26th Session. This blog post (Part 1 of 3) summarizes Days 1 and 2 of the proceedings of the 26th SCCR, based on my notes of the session and WIPO's transcripts.
004: A License to Share — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:38 AM
In this blogpost Devika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, takes a first look at the Creative Commons 4.0 Licence.
NGO Profile: Third World Network — by Puneeth Nagaraj — last modified Mar 14, 2014 01:32 PM
In the second blog in this series, I profile the work of the IP team of Third World Network (TWN) at the various International Organisations in Geneva.
Design!Public — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2014 11:14 AM
Centre for Knowledge Societies is organizing this event in partnership with Grameen Foundation India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNDP, et.al. Sunil Abraham is a speaker at this event to be held in New Delhi on March 14, 2014.
Report on the 9th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement — by Puneeth Nagaraj — last modified Mar 14, 2014 01:54 PM
The 9th Session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement ended here in Geneva last week. In this report, I look at the major issues discussed at the Session and the deadlock over future work of the Committee.
Open Education Week: Interview with Subhashish Panigrahi — by Noopur Raval — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:20 AM
Noopur Raval interviewed Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team about sharing information resources and attribution in academia.
New Standard Operating Procedures for Lawful Interception and Monitoring — by Divij Joshi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:13 AM
Government issues new guidelines to TSP’s to assist Lawful Interception and Monitoring.
When politics gets social — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 07:52 AM
In the run-up to the general election, social media companies explain how the political campaigns this time are very different from what they were five years ago.
The Internet Will Be Everywhere In 2025, For Better Or Worse — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:08 AM
In 2025, the Internet will enhance our awareness of the world and ourselves while diminishing privacy and allowing abusers to "make life miserable for others," according to a new report by the Pew Research Center and Elon University.
Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha — by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
In our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
International Conference on Cyberlaw & Cybercrime — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 08:56 AM
The International Conference on Cyberlaw and Cybercrime will take place on March 13, 2014. The event is organized by Cyberlaws.net and Pawan Duggal Associates. Sunil Abraham is participating in the event as a panelist.
Digital Humanities: The Ecto-Parasite — by Anirudh Sridhar — last modified Mar 12, 2014 01:04 PM
This blog entry, exploring Jacques Derrida's Mochlos can be read in three ways. The numbers below refer to the cells which should be read in the specified order. A.) 1-3-4: This essay views knowledge and the University as a technology and asks whether the Digital Humanities under this framework is unnecessary and elitist. We analyze the elitism through Kants attempts to distinguish the University's duties of truth and action and then find out why Derrida thinks this distinction is impossible to make because of the nature language. B.) 1-2-4: This essay starts off the same way but goes into the devouring margins of the University, whether its possible to safeguard against intrusion if the University is viewed as a language act and flips the question to see if the University is a parasite on the outside world and uses the Digital Humanities in this negotiation of power. It goes further to see if this parasitism is inevitable where there is language. C.) 2-4: This is a subset of the previous essay but stands alone as a commentary on a different kind of effect of capitalism on the University from the one explored in the previous blog.
Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation to Host Design Public — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 08:08 AM
The conclave in its 5th edition will feature Aam Aadmi Party members Rajmohan Gandhi and Somnath Bharti along with Sunil Abraham in conversation with Dr. Aditya Sood about different approaches through citizen centric governance.
NGO Profile: Knowledge Ecology International — by Puneeth Nagaraj — last modified Mar 11, 2014 04:10 PM
As CIS’ observer in Geneva, I will be profiling NGOs and other prominent actors at the WIPO. In the first in a series of blogs, I profile the work of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) at the various International Organisations in Geneva.
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