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The Centre for Internet and Society’s Comments and Recommendations to the: Indian Privacy Code, 2018
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by
Shweta Mohandas, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha and Shruti Trikanand
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published
Jul 20, 2018
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
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.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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September 2011 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 26, 2011
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last modified
Jul 30, 2012 06:34 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW
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.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
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.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Dec 26, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Web Politics,
Making Change,
Digital Natives
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.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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The policy langurs
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Jan 07, 2011
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last modified
May 10, 2012 10:15 AM
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filed under:
Telecom
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.
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Telecom
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Blog
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListsAsDatabase
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 26, 2018
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filed under:
Proposed Sessions,
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC19,
Researchers at Work
Details of a session proposed by Ria De and Samata Biswas for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
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RAW
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Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 21, 2013
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last modified
Sep 06, 2013 04:56 AM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Dec 31, 2012
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 04:02 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
SAFEGUARDS
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.
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Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education
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by
Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 18, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AM
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filed under:
Video,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Digital Humanities
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.
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Digital Natives
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CIS Para-wise Comments on Cyber Café Rules, 2011
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by
Prashant Iyengar
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published
Feb 25, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance
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.
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Internet Governance
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