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Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India: by Jyoti Panday — published Oct 14, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Economy, Public Accountability, Privacy, Platform Responsibility, Data Protection, Accountability, Digital Security, Digital India, Internet Governance
The European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
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Digital India - Now to Work: by Shyam Ponappa — published Oct 03, 2015 — last modified Nov 10, 2015 03:18 AM — filed under: Broadband, Telecom, Digital India, Spectrum
There's a buzz about Digital India again with an Indian PM finally reaching Silicon Valley. So are we close to broadband taking off, or is this just more hype?
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Iron out contradictions in the Digital India programme: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jul 28, 2015 — filed under: Digital India, Internet Governance, E-Governance, ICT
The Digital India initiative takes an ambitious 'Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani' approach to develop communication infrastructure, government information systems, and general capacity to digitise public life in India. I of course use 'public life' in the sense of the wide sphere of interactions between people and public institutions.
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India’s digital check: by Sunil Abraham — published Jul 08, 2015 — last modified Sep 15, 2015 02:55 PM — filed under: Digital India, Internet Governance, E-Governance
All nine pillars of Digital India directly correlate with policy research conducted at the Centre for Internet and Society, where I have worked for the last seven years. This allows our research outputs to speak directly to the priorities of the government when it comes to digital transformation.
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