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INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID Project
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 09, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:00 AM — filed under:
Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
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Blog Entry On Talking Back: A Report on the Taiwan Workshop
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 09, 2010 — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:35 AM — filed under: ,
What does it mean to Talk Back? Who do we Talk Back against? Are we alone in our attempts or a part of a larger community? How do we use digital technologies to find other peers and stake-holders? What is the language and vocabulary we use to successfully articulate our problems? How do we negotiate with structures of power to fight for our rights? These were the kind of questions that the Talking Back workshop held in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 16 to 18 August 2010 posed.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Innovate / Activate
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 09, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM — filed under:
The event will be held on 24 and 25 September 2010 at New York Law School.
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WEBINAR: Closed for Business
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 09, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM — filed under:
A Global Panel Discusses International Copyright Laws and Their Impact on the Open Internet
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The madness of software patents
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 07, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:17 AM — filed under:
India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted, writes Lata Jishnu in an article published in Down to Earth.
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Why piracy is tough to rein in
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 06, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM — filed under:
“Video market is being treated as a poor cousin of the film industry”
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Blog Entry Enabling Access to Education through ICT - A Conference in Delhi
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 03, 2010 — last modified Feb 04, 2013 09:24 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment and the Deafway Foundation is organizing an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event is sponsored by Hans Foundation.
Located in Accessibility / Blog
Blog Entry Seminar on Software Patent and the Commons
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 02, 2010 — last modified Oct 23, 2011 02:22 PM — filed under: , ,
A pre-grant opposition has been filed against a software patent application filed in the patent office by Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturers of Blackberry. The opposition was filed on August 31, 2010 by the Software Freedom Law Centre which has recently expanded its operations to India. This exciting development was announced by Mishi Choudhary from SFLC on the lines of the seminar on “Software Patents and the Commons” organised on 1 September 2010 in Delhi jointly by SFLC, the Centre for Internet and Society, the Society for Knowledge Commons and Red Hat. Filing more such oppositions to software patents in India was in the pipeline and this is just the beginning of a movement to take on monopolisation of knowledge and ideas through patenting software, the organisers said.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Seminar on Software Patents and the Commons
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 01, 2010 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 03:59 AM — filed under:
A seminar on Software Patents and Commons is being held on 1 September, 2010 in Delhi. It is jointly organised by CIS, Knowledge of Commons and the Software Freedom Law Centre. The event is sponsored by Red Hat. Pranesh Prakesh will speak on Arguments against Software Patents in India.
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Cybercrime and Privacy
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 31, 2010 — last modified Sep 14, 2010 01:21 PM — filed under: ,
Elonnai Hickok examines privacy in the context of India’s legal provisions on cybercrime. She picks up the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act as amended in 2008 dealing with cyber crimes and provides a fair analysis of the pros and cons of the amended Act.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog / Privacy
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