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SOPA: The bill that could kill the Internet
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 18, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
As the US government’s House Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA), both supporters and opponents are ramping up their campaigning, with big names getting involved. And so they should. SOPA’s stakes are no less than the future of the Internet itself.
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News & Media
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Telecom Path-Breaker?
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Nov 18, 2011
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last modified
Nov 18, 2011 05:42 AM
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filed under:
Telecom
Does the draft National Telecom Policy-2011 reflect true brilliance or smoke-and-mirrors? It will be a game-changer if a shared network is implemented effectively, writes Shyam Ponappa in this article published in the Business Standard on November 3, 2011.
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Telecom
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Open Access Logo 2
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by
Tom Dane
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last modified
Nov 15, 2011 07:43 AM
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Professor Balaram talks Open Access
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by
Tom Dane
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published
Nov 15, 2011
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last modified
Aug 03, 2012 11:10 PM
Last week Tom Dane spoke with Professor P Balaram, Director of the Indian Institute of Science, about his thoughts on the Open Access movement. A podcast of the interview is available for download in the audio player within this post.
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Openness
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CIS Comments on Finance Committee Statements to Open Letters on Unique Identity
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 13, 2011
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last modified
Nov 13, 2011 02:39 AM
We from the Centre for Internet and Society had sent six open letters to the Parliamentary Finance Committee on the UID. The Committee responded through an email on 12 October 2011. Our response to the points raised is reproduced below.
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Internet Governance
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Comments on the National Policy of Information Technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 09, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The NPIT 2011 has the laudable goal of making India a ‘knowledge economy with a global role’ by developing and deploying ICT solutions in all sectors to foster development within India and at a global level. The policy identifies several praiseworthy goals such as the promotion of open standards and open technologies, accessibility for persons with disabilities, affordable ICT services, transparency, accountability, technology development for Indian languages, placing data in public domain for use and value addition, using social media to engage with citizens and investing in indigenous R&D and capacity building. We deeply appreciate this initiative of the Department of Information Technology and offer below brief comments to strengthen the draft.
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Internet Governance
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Sources of CIS Funding
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Nov 09, 2011
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last modified
Jul 07, 2018 01:19 AM
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filed under:
Meta
CIS's donors' names and the amount of the grants they've provided are being published in an effort to be absolutely transparent and to make it clear that our donors do not dictate the policy and research positions we espouse.
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Internet Governance
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Netizen Report: Transparency Edition
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 08, 2011
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last modified
Nov 09, 2011 04:31 AM
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filed under:
RTI,
Internet Governance
Global Voices Online has carried a feature story, "Netizen Report: Transparency Edition". We at CIS had filed an RTI application about website blocking. This is reflected in this article by Rebecca MacKinnon which was posted online on 7 November 2011.
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News & Media
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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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Once Upon A Flash
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 04, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:23 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
It was a dark and stormy evening. A young man in a dark blue Adidas jacket, collar turned up, eyes under green-black shades, hopped off a motorbike, tucked his thumbs into the front pockets of his low-slung retro jeans and surreptitiously made his way through a road thronging with rush-hour traffic and irate pedestrians yelping on their cellphones. He skipped across death traps with skilled ease: leaping over potholes, jumping over halfdug trenches, avoiding the occasional pair of doggy jaws that longed to mate with his ankles, ignoring the bikers who were using the pavements as new lanes for driving towards a honking traffic jam bathed in an orange and red neon that made the road look like a piece of burnt toast with dollops of vicious jam on it.
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Internet Governance