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Portal augurs well for transparency
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 25, 2011
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last modified
Jul 26, 2011 03:16 PM
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Internet Governance
Data.gov.in will have meta-data, which will facilitate discovery of data and access from portals of ministries, says T Ramachandra. The article was published in the Hindu on 25 July 2011.
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News & Media
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Facebook, my boyfriend is lousy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 24, 2011
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last modified
Jul 25, 2011 10:07 AM
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Internet Governance
While a sizeable chunk of users do not mind living their life in public, oversharing can have nasty repercussions in real life. This article by Sahana Saran was published in the Bangalore Mirror on 24 July 2011.
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Consumer Privacy in e-Commerce
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Sahana Sarkar
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published
Jul 23, 2011
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last modified
Mar 28, 2012 04:53 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Looking at the larger picture of national security versus consumer privacy, Sahana Sarkar says that though consumer privacy is important in the world of digital technology, individuals must put aside some of their civil liberties when it comes to the question of national security, as it is necessary to prevent societal damage.
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Privacy
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UID: The World’s Largest Biometric Database
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 23, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
At the start of his presentation, Sunil Abraham pointed to two aerial drawings of cybercafes: one where each computer was part of a private booth, and one where the computers were in the open so the screens would be visible to any one. Which layout would be more friendly to women, and why, Abraham wanted to know. Some participants selected the first option, liking the idea of the privacy, while others liked the second option so that the cybercafe owner would be able to monitor users’ activities.
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People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 22, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM
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Openness,
Projects
The Centre for Internet and Society in association with the Wikimedia Foundation has produced a documentary film "People are Knowledge". The film evolved out of a project on Oral Citations in India and South Africa funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship, to help overcome a lack of published materials in emerging languages on Wikipedia. New Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen has directed the film, with additional assistance from Zen Marie who handled the shooting in South Africa. The film explores how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Wikipedia, documenting a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and subsequently, with oral citations.
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Openness
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Openness
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by
kaeru
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published
Jul 22, 2011
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last modified
Dec 15, 2015 08:27 AM
Innovation and creativity are fostered through openness and collaboration. The advent of the Internet radically defined what it means to be open and collaborative. The Internet itself is built upon open standards and free/libre/open source software. Our work in the Openness programme focuses on open data, especially open government data, open access, open education resources, open knowledge in Indic languages, open media, and open technologies and standards - hardware and software. We approach openness as a cross-cutting principle for knowledge production and distribution, and not as a thing-in-itself.
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Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 21, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM
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filed under:
Digital Governance,
Open Data,
Public Accountability,
Openness,
e-governance
The Transparency & Accountability Initiative has published a book called “Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector”. We at the Centre for Internet & Society contributed the section on Open Government Data.
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Privacy Matters, Guwahati — Event Report
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 21, 2011
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last modified
Aug 26, 2011 10:31 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
On June 23, a public seminar on “Privacy Matters” was held at the Don Bosco Institute in Karhulli, Guwahati. It was organised by IDRC, Society in Action Group, IDEA Chirang, an NGO initiative working with grassroots initiatives in Assam, Privacy India and CIS and was attended by RTI activists and grass roots NGO representatives from across the North Eastern region: Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Assam and Sikkim. The event focused on the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
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Privacy
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Privacy & Media Law
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by
Sonal Makhija
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published
Jul 19, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
In her research, Sonal Makhija, a Bangalore-based lawyer, tries to delineate the emerging privacy concerns in India and the existing media norms and guidelines on the right to privacy. The research examines the existing media norms (governed by Press Council of India, the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 and the Code of Ethics drafted by the News Broadcasting Standard Authority), the constitutional protection guaranteed to an individual’s right to privacy upheld by the courts, and the reasons the State employs to justify the invasion of privacy. The paper further records, both domestic and international, inclusions and exceptions with respect to the infringement of privacy.
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Privacy
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RTI and Third Party Information: What Constitutes the Private and Public?
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by
Noopur Raval
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published
Jul 12, 2011
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last modified
Nov 24, 2011 09:21 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The passing of the Right to Information Act, 2005 was seen as giving an empowering tool in the hands of the citizens of India, six years post its implementation, loopholes have surfaced with misuse of the many fundamental concepts, which have yet not been defined to allow for a consistent pattern of decisions. Among many problems that emerge with the Act, a major problem is defining the extent to which an individual has access to other people’s information. While most of us tend to think that asking for other people’s phone numbers, personal details like passport number or IT returns are private and would be kept so, under the RTI Act and as seen in the Central Information Commission (CIC) decisions, all of these details can be availed of by someone who doesn’t know you at all!
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