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Too Clever By Half: Strengthening India’s Smart Cities Plan with Human Rights Protection: by Vanya Rakesh — published Mar 22, 2016 — filed under: Internet Governance
The data involved in planning for urbanized and networked cities are currently flawed and politically-inflected. Therefore, we must ensure that basic human rights are not violated in the race to make cities “smart”.
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UID Research: by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 02, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:59 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.
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Workshop on Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights (Delhi, October 01): by Vanya Rakesh — published Sep 20, 2016 — last modified Sep 28, 2016 05:53 AM — filed under: Development, Big Data, Internet Governance, Digital Security, Digital India, Digitisation, Digital subjectivities, Biometrics, Big Data for Development, E-Governance, Digital Rights
CIS welcomes you to participate in the workshop we are organising on Saturday, October 01 at India Habitat Centre, Delhi, to discuss benefits, harms, and human rights implications of big data technologies, and explore potential research questions. A quick RSVP will be much appreciated.
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures: by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 14, 2016 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM — filed under: Digital Payment, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, UID, Internet Governance, Surveillance, Big Data, Aadhaar, Welfare Governance, Big Data for Development, Digital ID
This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
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