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CIS Comments on Finance Committee Statements to Open Letters on Unique Identity
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 13, 2011
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last modified
Nov 13, 2011 02:39 AM
We from the Centre for Internet and Society had sent six open letters to the Parliamentary Finance Committee on the UID. The Committee responded through an email on 12 October 2011. Our response to the points raised is reproduced below.
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Eaccessibility Handbook
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Nov 10, 2011 09:37 AM
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Comments on the National Policy of Information Technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 09, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The NPIT 2011 has the laudable goal of making India a ‘knowledge economy with a global role’ by developing and deploying ICT solutions in all sectors to foster development within India and at a global level. The policy identifies several praiseworthy goals such as the promotion of open standards and open technologies, accessibility for persons with disabilities, affordable ICT services, transparency, accountability, technology development for Indian languages, placing data in public domain for use and value addition, using social media to engage with citizens and investing in indigenous R&D and capacity building. We deeply appreciate this initiative of the Department of Information Technology and offer below brief comments to strengthen the draft.
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Droidcon India, first Android Conference in Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 09, 2011
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last modified
Nov 24, 2011 04:17 AM
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Event Type,
Internet Governance
HasGeek is happy to announce the forthcoming Droidcon India on the 18th and 19th of November 2011 at the MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore. Droidcon.com, Bangalore Android User Group, MobileMonday Bangalore, Medianama, Android Advices and the Centre for Internet and Society are the event partners.
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Events
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‘Not mandatory’ but maids, guards get fingerprinted
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 09, 2011
The Cubbon Park police have begun profiling domestic help in their jurisdiction. Personal details will be stored in a database, which can be accessed by potential employers, writes Hemanth Kashyap in this article published in Bangalore Mirror on 9 November 2011. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in this article.
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sunilkumar
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 09, 2011 05:08 AM
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nagesh
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Nov 09, 2011 05:06 AM
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Netizen Report: Transparency Edition
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 08, 2011
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last modified
Nov 09, 2011 04:31 AM
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RTI,
Internet Governance
Global Voices Online has carried a feature story, "Netizen Report: Transparency Edition". We at CIS had filed an RTI application about website blocking. This is reflected in this article by Rebecca MacKinnon which was posted online on 7 November 2011.
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Western Ghats Portal Workshop in Bangalore
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 08, 2011 04:59 AM
The Western Ghats portal team is organising a workshop in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham is participating in this workshop.
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Openness
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Western Ghats Portal: Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 08, 2011
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filed under:
Open Data,
Openness
The Western Ghats portal team is organising a one-day workshop to explore the contemporary state on biodiversity informatics on 25 November 2011 at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore.
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