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Response to RTI on Decisions of the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jan 09, 2013
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology responded to a right to information (RTI) application filed by Saket Bisani on behalf of the Centre for Internet & Society on July 13, 2012 through notification No. 14(110)/2012-ESD, dated October 3, 2010.
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Resources
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I & P Partners Meeting at Rio
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 07, 2013
Sunil Abraham made a presentation on Open Business and IP.
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Openness
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Blog
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Clash of the cyberworlds
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 07, 2013
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last modified
Jan 15, 2013 06:57 AM
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Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur across the political spectrum of nations, even in liberal democracies.
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News & Media
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What's Needed Is User-Centric Design, Not Good Intentions
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Jan 06, 2013
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last modified
Jan 25, 2013 11:26 AM
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Telecom
The inadequacy of essentials and conveniences around us results from a slack approach to both design and execution. We know we are deficient in execution, but we need to be more aware of deficiencies in approach and design. Good intentions, while important, cannot substitute for good systems design and execution.
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Telecom
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Blog
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National Resource Kit - Tamil Nadu Chapter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 06, 2013
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last modified
Jan 23, 2013 10:58 AM
The Tamil Nadu chapter draft is put up for comments.
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Accessibility
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Blog
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Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business Transformation
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 03, 2013
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last modified
Jan 15, 2013 08:40 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Mobile India 2013 is being held at the Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore on 9 January 2013. Sunil Abraham is speaking at this event.
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News & Media
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Mining the Web Collective
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by
Sharath Chandra Ram
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Dec 31, 2012
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last modified
Jan 06, 2013 11:48 PM
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Internet Governance
In March 2012, Dr Bruno Latour and his team from the Sciences Po Media Lab organized a workshop that assembled a selected group of researchers from India to explore methods of Controversy Mapping. It was hosted by Dr J. Srinivasan, Director of the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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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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Internet Governance
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December 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM
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filed under:
Openness
Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
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Openness
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Blog