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UIDAI's Virtual ID, limited KYC does little to protect Aadhaar data already collected, say critics
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Admin
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published
Jan 16, 2018
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Aadhaar-issuing body, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), had barely started patting itself on the back for introducing the Virtual ID concept, what CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey called "one of biggest recent innovations in this field", when detractors came crawling out of the woodwork, all guns blazing.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Nirmita Narasimhan - Resume
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 29, 2016
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last modified
Apr 28, 2017 01:19 AM
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Accessibility
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Files
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Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Mar 29, 2016
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last modified
Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Geospatial Data,
Openness,
Digital India
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 03, 2016. Ms. Anubha Sinha represented CIS at the meeting, and shares her notes.
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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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News & Media
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Enabling Access to Education through ICT - Conference Report
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Dec 16, 2010
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last modified
Jan 28, 2013 10:14 AM
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Accessibility
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation G3ict, UNESCO, ITU, WIPO, The Deafway Foundation, DEF and SPACE with the gracious support of The Hans Foundation and the Department of Information Technology, MICT, New Delhi organized an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event was sponsored by Hans Foundation.
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Accessibility
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Blog
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14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons license
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 26, 2014
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last modified
May 06, 2014 06:26 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
This blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.
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Openness
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Blog
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Fair process frameworks for cross-border online spaces
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 21, 2013
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last modified
Oct 21, 2013 09:02 AM
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filed under:
Cyber Security,
Internet Governance
This workshop is being organised by the Internet & Jurisdiction Project, Civil Society of France, Western Europe and Others Group and Internet & Jurisdiction Project, Civil Society of Germany, Western Europe and Others Group. Sunil Abraham is one of the panelists for this workshop.
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News & Media
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Second Expert Meeting on Human Rights and the Internet
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 29, 2011
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last modified
Jun 08, 2011 10:01 AM
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Internet Governance
The second expert meeting on human rights and the Internet is being organised by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression on 30 and 31 March 2011 in Stockholm (Sweden). Anja Kovacs will participate in this meeting.
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notices
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First Round-table on Innovation, IP and Competition
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 24, 2016
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last modified
Apr 25, 2016 07:42 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge
The First Annual Roundtable on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition was organized by the recently established Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property & Competition (CIIPC) at the National Law University, Delhi. Dr. Arul George Scaria and Prof. Yogesh Pai are the co-directors of this Centre. The event was held on April 1 and 2, 2016 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha participated in the event.
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Access to Knowledge
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News & Media
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India's biometric database crosses billion-member mark
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 07, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
India's biometric database notched up one billion members on Monday, as the government sought to allay concerns about privacy breaches in the world's biggest such scheme.
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News & Media
