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Blog Entry The Centre for Internet and Society’s Comments and Recommendations to the: Indian Privacy Code, 2018
by Shweta Mohandas, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha and Shruti Trikanand published Jul 20, 2018 — filed under: , ,
The debate surrounding privacy has in recent times gained momentum due to the Aadhaar judgement and the growing concerns around the use of personal data by corporations and governments.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
September 2011 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 26, 2011 last modified Jul 30, 2012 06:34 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage that happened in the month of September 2011.
Located in About Us / Newsletters
Blog Entry Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Sep 26, 2015 — filed under: , ,
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
by Denisse Albornoz published Dec 26, 2013 last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
Located in Digital Natives / Making Change
Blog Entry The policy langurs
by Shyam Ponappa published Jan 07, 2011 last modified May 10, 2012 10:15 AM — filed under:
The comforts of civilised living for all Indians require dedicated collective effort. The article by Shyam Ponappa was published in the Business Standard on 6 January 2011.
Located in Telecom / Blog
Blog Entry IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListsAsDatabase
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Nov 26, 2018 — filed under: , , , ,
Details of a session proposed by Ria De and Samata Biswas for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain
by Pranesh Prakash published Aug 21, 2013 last modified Sep 06, 2013 04:56 AM — filed under: ,
Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary
by Elonnai Hickok published Dec 31, 2012 last modified Jul 12, 2013 04:02 PM — filed under: ,
On December 13 and 14, 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation organized the Surveillance and Human Rights Camp held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting examined trends in surveillance, reasons for state surveillance, surveillance tactics that governments are using, and safeguards that can be put in place to protect against unlawful or disproportionate surveillance.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education
by Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi published Jul 18, 2013 last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AM — filed under: , , ,
The digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on July 13, 2013.
Located in Digital Natives
Blog Entry CIS Para-wise Comments on Cyber Café Rules, 2011
by Prashant Iyengar published Feb 25, 2011 last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM — filed under: ,
On February 7th 2011, the Department of Information Technology, MCIT published draft rules on its website (The Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011) in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 87(2) (zg), read with Section 79(2) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Comments were invited from the public before February 25th 2011. Accordingly, Privacy India and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore have prepared the following para wise comments for the Ministry’s consideration.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog