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Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms
An inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting workflows.
- Accessibility
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Groundbreaking disability rights activist Javed Abidi dies at 53
March 06, 2018
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) expresses profound regret at the demise of Mr. Javed Abidi, a groundbreaking disability rights activist.
- Comments on Guidelines for Indian Government Websites November 26, 2017
- Comments on Mobile Accessibility Guidelines January 03, 2018
- Why GST Is A Step Backward For The Disabled July 03, 2017
- GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities June 24, 2017
- Openness
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions
February 10, 2024
This report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians and advocates of the Open. The rough outline of the Open initiatives is accompanied by reflections on the nature of the Open here and the need to envision it differently from what it currently is.
- Security of Open Source Software : A Survey of Technical Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Actions April 13, 2023
- Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in Software April 13, 2023
- Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949 October 11, 2022
- Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949 October 11, 2022
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How the Telecom Act undermines personal liberties
February 20, 2024
In this article, Prof. Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri analyse whether the law has enough safeguards and an independent regulatory architecture to protect the rights of citizens. The authors posit that the current version leaves the door open for an overenthusiastic enforcement machinery to suppress fundamental rights without any meaningful checks and balances.
- Comments to the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 December 22, 2023
- Why spectrum needs a change in approach January 18, 2023
- CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022 November 22, 2022
- An Overview of Telecommunications Policy and Regulation Framework in India March 25, 2022
- Access to Knowledge (A2K)
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions
February 10, 2024
This report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians and advocates of the Open. The rough outline of the Open initiatives is accompanied by reflections on the nature of the Open here and the need to envision it differently from what it currently is.
- Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in India February 10, 2024
- Commemorating Ulo Senthamizh Kodai (1945 - 2024): A Luminary of Tamil Open Knowledge Movement February 08, 2024
- Information Disorders and their Regulation January 31, 2024
- WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 3 April 28, 2023
- Internet Governance
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Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
April 06, 2024
On 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
- India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection April 04, 2024
- Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU February 17, 2024
- Information Disorders and their Regulation January 31, 2024
- DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship January 25, 2024
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Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms
April 11, 2024
An inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting workflows.
- Digital Markets and India: Demystifying the Draft DCB April 09, 2024
- Understanding Feminist Infrastructures: An Exploratory Study of Online Feminist Content Creation Spaces in India March 25, 2024
- Workers’ experiences in app-based taxi and delivery sectors: Key initial findings from multi-city quantitative surveys February 16, 2024
- Unpacking Algorithmic Infrastructures: Mapping the Data Supply Chain in the Healthcare Industry in India January 03, 2024
- Previous Events
- Transference: Reimagining Data Systems: Beyond the Gender Binary
- Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets
- Reclaiming AI Futures
- Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
- Disinformation in the Indian Digital News Media Market
- Privacy in the Age of the Pandemic
- How to Shut Down Internet Shutdowns
- How safe is your harbour? Discussions on intermediary liability and user rights
- Cybersecurity Visuals Media Handbook: Launch Event
- Domestic Work in the ‘Gig Economy’
- Previous Featured Posts
- Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms
- Your economy, our livelihoods: A policy brief by the All India Gig Workers’ Union
- User Experiences of Digital Financial Risks and Harms
- Strategies to Organise Platform Workers
- Making Voices Heard
- Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22): #Home, May 25-27
- Internet Researchers' Conference 2022
- Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
- IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Meets Digital India: An Evaluation of COVID-19 Relief for Migrants
- Sameet Panda - Data Systems in Welfare: Impact of the JAM Trinity on Pension & PDS in Odisha during COVID-19
- IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19
- COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig Work
- Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!
- Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
- FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security Commitments
- CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy
- Design and the Open Knowledge Movement
- Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki Way
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.
Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and regulatory practices around internet, technology, and society in India, and elsewhere.
