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On the Internet, how much is too much? — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:19 PM
The Hindu carried a piece on 05/08/2009, discussing the Avinash Kashyap / defamation of the President case.
IT Act and Commerce — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
This is a guest post by Rahul Matthan, partner in the law firm Trilegal, and widely regarded as one of the leading experts on information technology law in India. In this post, Mr. Matthan looks at the provisions in the amended Information Technology Act of interest to commerce, namely electronic signatures and data protection.
Copyright v. Exercise of Fundamental rights — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Feb 20, 2013 11:07 AM
In this article, Rahul Cherian analyzes the legal and ethical framework around the issue of copyright in relation to converting materials into accessible formats for the print impaired.
Copyright Challenges for Print Impaired Persons in India — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:51 AM
Print impaired persons in India face several hurdles in accessing reading materials- the biggest one being the Indian Copyright Act 1957
Response to the Call from Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry for Review of the Copyright Act — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:51 AM
This blog entry contains a letter sent by Rahul Cherian of Indojuris and Nirmita Narsimhan of the Centre for Internet and Society in response to a call from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry for review of the Copyright Act.
Primer on the New IT Act — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
With this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments.
Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemology — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:42 AM
The previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric technologies, that sees technology as a handmaiden of development, as instrument - good or evil, and as discrete from 'man'. Feminist and gender work in India has thereafter articulated approximately four responses to technology across state and civil society positions - presence, access, inclusion, resistance. The demand for presence of women as agents of technological change, the demand for improved access for women to the fruits of technology, the demand for inclusion of women as a constituency that must be specially provided for by technological amendments, and a need for recognition of technology’s ills particularly for women, and the consequent need for resistance to technology on the same count. Bearing in mind that women’s lived experiences have served as the vantage point for all four of the responses to technology in the Indian context, I will now suggest the need to revisit the idea of such experience itself, and the ways in which it might be made critical, rather than valorizing it as an official counterpoint to scientific knowledge, and by extension to technology. This post, while not addressing the 'technology question' in any direct sense, is an effort to begin that exploration.
Comments on the Draft Rules under the Information Technology Act — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 21, 2011 06:13 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society commissioned an advocate, Ananth Padmanabhan, to produce a comment on the Draft Rules that have been published by the government under the Information Technology Act. In his comments, Mr. Padmanabhan highlights the problems with each of the rules and presents specific recommendations on how they can be improved. These comments were sent to the Department of Information and Technology.
Letter to ICANN on NCSG — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society sent the following mail to ICANN regarding their attempt to impose their own charter for a Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), instead of accepting the one drafted by the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC).
N.C.P.E.D.P. and BarrierBreak Technologies put forward National Policy on Electronic Accessibility — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:43 PM
Article in Disability News and Information Service, 15 July 2009
Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in India — by Asha Achuthan — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM
In this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these arguments and postcolonial formulations. Overall, the post also records notions of the 'political' that inform the contour of these critiques.
Is NASSCOM anti-Open Standards? — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:43 PM
Article by Shalini Singh on techgoss.com, 10 July 2009
Tactical Media 3.0--FOSS: The Dynamics of Freedom — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:42 PM
CIS Executive Director Sunil Abraham will speak at 'Tactical Media 3.0--Foss: The Dynamics of Freedom', a workshop on techniques and philosophy of Free and Open Source Software, 27 July to 1 August, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Presentation at TIFR: 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons' — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:42 PM
CIS Distinguished Fellow Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons' at TIFR, Mumbai, on Friday, 24 July 2009.
Archive and Access: Digitisation and Private Records--The Case of the Regional Archive — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:32 AM
This is the first in a series of posts by CIS-RAW researcher Aparna Balachandran on the Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), looking at different aspects of their functioning in order to think about the issue of access in relation to regional archives in the country. More specifically, these posts will engage with the relationship of the TNA with the ways in which history is thought and written about in the Tamil region, both within the academy and outside. These posts are part of the CIS-RAW project 'Archive and Access'.
Call for participation: Conference @ Bangalore - 'WikiWars' — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:43 PM
Call for Participation: Conferences and Reader on critical insights and experiences on the Wikipedia
CPOV: Critical Point of View — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
Second Response to Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
The government is in the process of drafting a national policy on open standards for e-governance. The National Informatics Centre recently released draft version 2 of the policy, and CIS sent in its comments on the draft.
Presentation at IDRC: ‘Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective’ — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Apr 02, 2011 03:59 PM
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, CIS Distinguished Fellow, will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective' at IDRC, Ottawa, Canada, on 13 July 2009.
Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A Report — by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM
Zainab Bawa reports on the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, on 17 June 2009, in collaboration with the Liberty Institute, New Delhi.
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