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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Blog
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Syllabus: “Policy and regulation conducive to rapid ICT sector growth in Myanmar: An introductory course”
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 03, 2013
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last modified
Oct 24, 2013 03:56 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
ICT
A five-day course is being offered by LIRNEasia in collaboration with Myanmar ICT Development Organization, with support from the Open Society Foundation and the International Development Research Centre of Canada in Myanmar from September 28 to October 5, 2013.
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India’s record on internet shutdown gets bleaker; now blocked in 2 NE states
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by
Admin
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published
Dec 15, 2019
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last modified
Dec 15, 2019 05:51 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
India reported over 100 internet shutdown in 2018, according to an annual study of Freedom House, a US-based non-profit research organization.
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News & Media
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SIF Concept Note
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by
Admin
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published
Jun 05, 2019
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Files
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CIS - A2K Work Plan: July 2016 - June 2017
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Apr 02, 2016
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last modified
Apr 29, 2016 09:36 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalyzing the growth of the free and open knowledge movement in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008. Since September 2012, we at CIS-A2K, have been actively involved in growing the movement in India through (i) a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for the period September 2012 - June 2014, (ii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2014 - June 2015 and (iii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2015 - June 2016. Based on the productive experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed this work plan for July 2016 to June 2017.
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Blogs
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 20, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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News & Media
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Vidhi Doshi - Fingerprint Payments Prompt Privacy Fears in India (The Guardian)
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by
Vidhi Doshi
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published
Feb 10, 2017
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last modified
Feb 13, 2017 09:21 AM
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filed under:
Demonetisation,
Digital Payment,
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics
This article by Vidhi Doshi on the use of Aadhaar-based payments by private companies in India was published by The Guardian on February 09, 2017. Sumandro Chattapadhyay is quoted in the article.
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
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by
Harsh Gupta
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published
Oct 20, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
Web Standards,
Encrypted Media Extensions,
Openness
World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
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Blogs
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Why should you keep a close eye on the net neutrality debate in the US
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by
Admin
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published
Nov 25, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance
As the United State's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gears up to repeal the net neutrality laws put in place in 2015, India should sit up and take note.
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News & Media
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Access at the cost of Net neutrality?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 09, 2015
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filed under:
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
In the Net neutrality debate, there is a conflict between two core values: ease of access and neutrality. The ease of access promised by applications like Free Basics compromises neutrality and may later morph into a method of predatory pricingIf programs that bring access to a part of the Internet in the immediate future were to entrench themselves, it could eventually lead to telecom companies abusing their dominant positionsIn the absence of a specific law mandating a neutral Internet, telecom companies enjoy a virtual carte blanche to discriminate between different applications. Though they have not yet exploited this autonomy fully, they are certainly moving towards that.
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