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Event Report: Community Discussion on Open Standards
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/event-report-community-discussion-on-open-standards
<b>This community discussion organised by HasGeek was held at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India on June 20, 2019. </b>
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<p>Open standards are important for the growth and evolution of technology and practices for consumers and industries. They provide a range of tangible benefits, including, for instance, a reduction in cost of development for small businesses and organizations, facilitation of interoperability across different technologies in certain cases, and encouragement of competitiveness in the software and services market. Open standardization also encourages innovation, expansion in market access, transparency — along with a decrease in regulatory rigidity, as well as volatility in the market, and subsequently the surrounding economy, as well.</p>
<p>The importance of open standards is perhaps most strikingly evident when considering the ardent growth and impact the Internet — and the World Wide Web in particular — have been able to enjoy. The modern Internet has arguably been governed, at least for the most part, by the continuous development and maintenance of an array of inventive protocols and technical standards. Open standards are usually developed in a public-consultancy process, where the standards development organizations (“SDOs”) involved follow a multi-stakeholder model of decision-making. Multi-stakeholder models like this ensure equity to groups with varying interests, and also ensures that any resulting technology, protocol or standard which is developed is in accordance with the general consensus of those involved.</p>
<p>This event report highlights a community discussion on the state of open standardization in the age where immediately accessible cloud computing services are readily available to consumers — along with an imagined roadmap for the future; one which ensures steady ground for users as well as the open standards and open source software communities. Participants in the discussion focused on what they believed to be the key areas of open standardization, establishing a requirement for regulatory action in the open standards domain, while also touching upon the effects of market forces on stakeholders within the ecosystem, which ultimately guide the actions of software companies, service providers, users, and other consumers.</p>
<p>The event report can be accessed <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/resources/open_standards-event_report_2019.pdf">here.</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/event-report-community-discussion-on-open-standards'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/event-report-community-discussion-on-open-standards</a>
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No publisherKaran Saini, Prem Sylvester and Anishka VaishnavCommunitiesOpen StandardsEvent2019-08-02T06:51:00ZBlog Entry#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
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<b>With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a panel discussion on Friday, July 19 in our Bangalore office, where the researchers associated with the project will present preliminary findings, and ethical and methodological challenges of studying app-based platform-work in India. Panelists Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia and Simiran Lalvani, who have conducted field studies of ride-hailing and food-delivery work in Mumbai and New Delhi, will share their preliminary field insights along with reflections on what it meant to do such studies, how they went about studying gig-work, and challenges that arose in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Noopur Raval who co-led the project. We invite scholars, journalists, and all interested members of the public to join us for the event. Tea and snacks will be served at 5 pm. </b>
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<h4>This project is supported by research assistance from the Azim Premji University.</h4>
<h4>Download: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cis-india/website/master/img/CIS_MappingDigitalLabour_PanelDiscussion_20190719_web.jpg" target="_blank">Poster</a> and <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cis-india/website/master/img/CIS_MappingDigitalLabour_PanelDiscussion_20190719_flyer.jpg" target="_banner">Flyer</a></h4>
<h4>Session Recording: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lwpb3jRMQ" target="_blank">Video</a> (YouTube)</h4>
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<h3>Agenda</h3>
<p>5:00 pm - Tea and snacks in the CIS lawn</p>
<p>5:30 pm - Introduction to the project (Sumandro)</p>
<p>5:40-6:20 pm - Reflections based on field studies by the speakers (Anushree, Rajendra, Sarah, and Simiran)</p>
<p>6:20-6:40 pm - Speakers' responses to questions posed by the moderator (speakers and Noopur)</p>
<p>6:40-7:15 pm - Open discussion (moderated by Noopur)</p>
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<h3>Speakers and Moderator</h3>
<p><strong>Anushree Gupta</strong> is a Research Associate at Tandem Research. She is interested in studying the embeddedness of technology in society, with a focus on technical workers. Her research interests include technology mediated work, digital technologies and labour sociology. Her masters thesis examined the structure and dissemination of training in vocational education institutes (ITIs). Anushree has worked professionally on software development projects, including game development and social media analytics. She holds an MA in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a B. Tech. (ICT) from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.</p>
<p>Anushree studied dimensions of platform-work among taxi drivers in Mumbai for this project.</p>
<p><strong>Rajendra Jadhav</strong> is working as a research consultant, research fellow, researcher and research mentor with various non government organisations and academic institute for last 12 years. Rajendra has worked with Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai as a Research Officer, as Program Director for PUKAR’s Youth Research Fellowship Program, and with National Dalit Watch - NCDHR, New Delhi as a National Coordinator for Research and Advocacy. Rajendra has pursued MA in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.</p>
<p>Rajendra studied dimensions of platform-work among food delivery persons in New Delhi for this project.</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Zia</strong> is an education reporter working with Live Mint, and has previously worked with the Times of India and has undertaken an independent study of mobility and transport in Delhi (focusing on paratransit in Delhi and the Delhi Ring Railway). Sarah has pursued MA in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.</p>
<p>Sarah studied dimensions of platform-work among taxi drivers in New Delhi for this project.</p>
<p><strong>Simiran Lalvani</strong> is currently working as a Consultant at Microsoft Research on a Future of Work project. She has an MA in Development and Labour Studies from the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.</p>
<p>Simiran studied dimensions of platform-work among food delivery persons in Mumbai for this project.</p>
<p><strong>Noopur Raval</strong> is a PhD researcher at the University of California Irvine where she studies issues of labor technology. She has also worked with the Wikimedia Foundation and Microsoft Research in the past. She is interested in questions of intersectionality, and is an avid consumer of popular culture and food.</p>
<p>Noopur is a co-principal investigator of this project (along with Sumandro).</p>
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No publishersumandroRAW EventsGig WorkDigital LabourPlatform-WorkResearchers at WorkEventMapping Digital Labour in India2019-07-20T11:58:19ZEventDiscussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/discussion-on-open-standards-with-bernd-erk-and-jiten-vaidya
<b>Rootconf organised a discussion on open standards at CIS Bangalore office. Zainab Bawa, Karan Saini and Anwesha Das coordinated and organised the event.</b>
<p>The discussions created awareness on:</p>
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<li>Consequences of building your applications around non-open standards.</li>
<li>Risks associated with non-open standards.</li>
<li>How to build your applications around open standards.</li>
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<p>Open standards are important for:</p>
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<li>Business</li>
<li>Application development</li>
<li>Communications</li>
<li>Open internet</li>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify; "><span>The event kicked off with Bernd Erk talking about how the convenience of availing services from a few 'cloud' providers is killing open standards in the space. </span>Jiten Vaidya then discussed his experience running a successful open source product and business, and the future of open standards in the space. Kiran Jonnalagadda and Gurshabad Grover contributed to and moderated the subsequent discussion.</div>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/discussion-on-open-standards-with-bernd-erk-and-jiten-vaidya'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/discussion-on-open-standards-with-bernd-erk-and-jiten-vaidya</a>
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No publisherAdminOpen StandardsOpennessEvent2019-07-04T16:53:37ZEventTrain-the-Trainer 2019 at Vishakhapatnam
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam
<b>Train-the-trainer 2019 (TTT 2019), residential training program to groom leadership among the Indian Wikimedia community members, is going to happen in Visakhapatnam during 31 May, 1 and 2 June 2019 at Fairfield by Marriott Hotel at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">TTT 2019 is the 6th iteration in the earlier iterations happened in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Based on internal needs-assessment conducted annually by CIS-A2K tweaks and improvises the design and expected outcomes of TTT every year. This year, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2018_-_June_2019/Skill_Building_Initiatives#Annual_Train-the-Trainer">A2K planned</a> to involve communities or community members in planning, and organizing the event to be more transparent. This year A2K has two major changes in organising the TTT.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>Indic communities were asked to take part in the bidding process in order to </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids">express interest </a><span>to host this iteration of TTT. Based on the bidding process, this year A2K is going to collaborate with </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VVIT_WikiConnect">VVIT Wikiconnect</a><span> to host TTT 2019 in Visakhapatnam.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedians from various language and project communities showed interest to attend TTT 2019. The jury considered these applications and selected 24 participants from 13 language and project communities. A2K involved Experienced Indian Wikimedians who are not part of CIS-A2K in the jury. Apart from the details provided by applicants over application form jury members made attempts to know more about participants and reached out some of them over brief telephone calls. Based on set parameters and analysis jury made decisions. Find the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019#Participants">selected participants’ list</a><span> here.</span></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Please find </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019"><span>the event page</span></a><span> for further details.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam</a>
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No publisherpavanCIS-A2KEventAccess to Knowledge2019-05-24T02:21:19ZEventWikimedia Education SAARC conference
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference
<b>Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open from today, 25 April 2019. Deadline for applying for scholarship is 20 May 2019. The conference organized by Christ University in association with CIS-A2K will be held from 20 - 22 June 2019 at Christ University in Bengaluru. The event is being co-organized by Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia & Education User Group.</b>
<p id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">Education is a core function of the Wikipedia project. Many Wiki chapters, the Wikimedia movement, user groups and affiliates are developing education programs across the globe. Wiki has been used as a teaching resource by many teachers. Students are doing assignments on Wiki and adopting modern technologies. The Wikimedia and Education movements have the same goal - to ensure that knowledge is made accessible to every person across the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The CIS-A2K team, for instance, is working with the language department of Christ University and other educational institutions to enrich the content of Indic Wikimedia projects with the help of students. Globally many students and educators are involved in the Wikimedia movement and the Education movement working towards democratising education and increasing accessibility of education materials. We believe that students should not only consume knowledge available on the internet but also be a part of the larger Open Internet movement, and help in creating open knowledge resources. The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind conference involving SAARC countries, engaging students, education program leaders, educators and researchers working with the Open Education and free knowledge movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This conference will allow us to understand the different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia Education movement. This will help us to create models, templates and documents that can be replicated in by other institutions or programs. We at CIS A2K were inspired to host such a conference through the course of our work with Christ University. This will be one of the many projects that will be able to use the conference as a platform to showcase their work among the global Wikimedia movement.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Conference Goals</h3>
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<li>To generate awareness of Wikipedian Education programs and activities happening in Asia by different community members/languages.</li>
<li>Sharing the knowledge and best practices of how to build "trust relationship" with new partners/teachers and how to improve trust in Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Challenges on student retention and how to engage students in the broader Wikimedia movement.</li>
<li>The best method to evaluate and measure the quality of the work done by students.</li>
<li>To introduce tools like the dashboard, across diverse languages, and other tools which will be useful for tracking, assessment, allocation of the topics and others.</li>
<li>Integration of Wiki activities with academic assignments, regular course syllabus.</li>
<li>To bridge the gap and develop a mutually beneficial liaison between Wiki communities and Wikimedia Education stakeholders.</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference</a>
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No publisherAdminCIS-A2KEventAccess to Knowledge2019-06-22T09:30:46ZEventManuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
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<b>Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance. </b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/ManuelBeltran_IoHO.jpg/image_large" alt="Manuel Beltrán - IoHO" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Manuel Beltrán - IoHO" /></p>
<h6>Image credit: Manuel Beltrán</h6>
<h3>Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession</h3>
<p>The Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO) explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Our work develops from a scenario in which forms of manual and intellectual labour traditionally performed by humans are increasingly automated by new technologies. In this context we investigate and challenge the socio-political and economic implications of new forms of labour, such as the production of data. The IoHO developed several projects exploring the production of data as a form of labour, as a different paradigm through which to interrogate and challenge dynamics of ownership over the production of data and the economic and governance objects emerging through it. Previous lines of inquiry around the framework of Data Labour Rights include Data Basic Income, Data Cooperative, Data Production Labour series, Investigative Discussion Sessions and Data Workers Union.</p>
<p>In this talk founder of the IoHO Manuel Beltrán, will introduce the work of the IoHO and discuss their current project Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD). CoD explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance. The project looks at the implications of how the dispossession of data unequally occurs in different contexts, through different means and for different purposes.</p>
<p>Instruments such as the Right Of Access provided by GDPR emerge from a European context but the flows of data operate in a transnational scale. We are exploring the potential and limits of this instrument in combination with others such as the Right To Information in India as tools to investigate and repossess our production of data across borders. We are particularly interested in feedback and discussing in how to think further about this last part.</p>
<h3>Manuel Beltrán</h3>
<p>Manuel is an artist and activist. He researches and lectures on contemporary art, activism, contemporary social movements, post-digital culture and new media. As an activist, he was involved in the Indignados movement in Spain, the Gezi Park protests in Turkey and several forms of independent activism and cyber-activism in Europe and beyond. In 2012 he co-founded the art collective Plastic Crowds and since 2013 he is head and co-founder of the nomadic school and artistic organization Alternative Learning Tank. In 2015 he founded the Institute of Human Obsolescence, through which he explores the future of labour, the social and political implications regarding our relationship with technology and the economic and governance systems surrounding the production of data.</p>
<h4><a href="http://speculative.capital">http://speculative.capital</a></h4>
<h4><a href="https://dataworkers.org">https://dataworkers.org</a></h4>
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No publishersumandroPracticeArtRAW EventsDigital LabourResearchers at WorkEvent2019-04-01T08:00:05ZEventWikimedia Summit India 2019
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019
<b>CIS-A2K team is organizing a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikimedia Summit India 2019</b> is an national-level event which intends to prepare representatives of various user groups, affliates, committees, groups, and teams associated to Wikimedia foundation from India who are going to attend in Wikimedia Summit 2019 and helping them understand about Movement Strategy process.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikimedia Summit 2019 (WMSummit 19) will be designed along the needs and status of the Movement Strategy Process and its Working Groups, as well as the participants’ input. The 2019 event will be an important milestone of the Movement Strategy Process.</p>
<p>Wikimedia Summit India 2019 will serve following goals:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Helping participants understand Ongoing phase in movement strategy process: Some of the participants are participating in Movement strategy process' ongoing phase in different capacities, while others might not have a good understanding about it. This conference aims to improve understanding about strategy process especially regarding 9 strategy Working groups and their scoping.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Preparation for WMSummit 19: The Summit will be an occasion where the affiliates’ and WMF’s leadership will come together to check in on the broader direction of the Strategy Process, with the opportunity to reinforce their co-ownership in this process. All Working Groups will have reached the point in their work where they prepare to draft and discuss first recommendations within their thematic area. From Indian Wikimedia movement's perspective, this offers them an opportunity to share their experience in different thematic areas of strategy process and help the broader movement strategy to have different perspectives. Also, this helps Indian Wikimedia movement to utilize experiences and learnings from different areas of Wikimedia movement and utilize them to grow the movement in India exponantially. Wikimedia Summit India 2019 also aims on gathering the collective and diverse experiences and learnings of Indian Wikimedia movement and understand where they can help in movement strategy process.</li>
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<h3>Schedule</h3>
<dl><dt>Friday - 15 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>6:30 PM to 8 PM: Introductions</li>
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<dl><dt>Saturday - 16 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>9:30 AM to 10 AM: Introduction to WMSummit India 2019</li>
<li>10 AM to 11:30 AM: Strategy Process: Necessity, Strategic direction 2030, Timeline</li>
<li>11:30 AM to 1 PM: Reinforcing co-ownership in Strategy process: How communities and affliates can be part of process</li>
<li>1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch</li>
<li>1:30 PM to 2:30 PM: Potential Impact of Strategy process</li>
<li>2:30 PM to 5 PM: Introducing various working groups: Working group representatives will be requested to explain over video calls</li>
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<dl><dt>Sunday - 17 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>10 AM to 10:20 AM: Working group scoping documents' introduction</li>
<li>10:20 AM to 12 PM: Various community learnings and to what working group's scope they matter: Group activity</li>
<li>12 PM to 1 PM:</li>
<li>1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch</li>
<li>1:30 to 2:30: Way forward: Consulting their community and framing agenda before WMSummit 2019</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2019-03-03T05:31:35ZEventTalks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/talks-by-richard-abisla-and-kaliya-young
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society will be hosting public talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young, who are both 2019 India-U.S. Public Interest Technology Fellows at New America at its Bangalore office on March 4, 2019.</b>
<p>The event is over. <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/cis_india/status/1102863819288666112">Pictures of the speakers were posted on Twitter</a>.</p>
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<h3>Agenda</h3>
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<li>4:30 - 5:10 p.m.: "Open Data from Below: Civil Society and Open Data" by Richard Abisla</li>
<li>5:10 - 5:50 p.m.: "Exploring the Domains of Identity and Emerging Open standards for Decentralized Identity" by Kaliya Young</li>
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<h2>The Talks</h2>
<h3>"Open Data from Below: Civil Society and Open Data" by Richard Abisla</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Often NGOs and Civil Society Organizations' roles in the Open Data movement are considered to be solely last mile training with citizens. This talk will give examples from the TechSoup Global Network of how NGOs act to prioritize, organize, and create open data sets that can exist alongside official data sources, or become official government data. The talk will explore barriers to opening up data, both from within government and civil society, and possible solutions. For more info <a class="external-link" href="https://meet.techsoup.org/about-us/techsoup-global-network">click here</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">"Exploring the Domains of Identity and Emerging Open standards for Decentralized Identity" by Kaliya Young</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this seminar she will share two significant pieces of her work firstly the Domains of Identity that provides a clear picture of all the different domains individual's data ends up in databases. This can serve as the basis of a dialogue about the proper relationship between different domains. Secondly she has been at the heart of a community developing new Decentralized Identity Technology standards and will share more about them and how they can enable a many-to-many exchange of verifiable credentials between individuals and the institutions they interact with.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">The Speakers</h2>
<h3>Richard Abisla</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Richard Abisla is a 2019 India-U.S. Fellow at New America. Abisla is currently the Portfolio Manager for the Americas at Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. Abisla has a long history of working alongside local communities to help them access digital information and education and integrate technology into both their work and lives. He has created and directed technology education and adoption programs in Honduras, Jamaica, Chicago, and San Francisco, all the while focusing on increasing access to digital resources for those who need them most. Most recently, Abisla has focused on working with librarians and library users in Brazil to create applications and processes that help solve local problems through open data resources, as well as training librarians to integrate human-centered design principles into their work in order to plan more impactful programming.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Kaliya Young</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kaliya Young is a 2019 India-U.S. Fellow at New America. Young is one of the world’s leading experts on decentralized or self-sovereign identity technology. She is the author of A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity and currently holds the position of adjunct professor at Merritt College where she is developing a curriculum about identity. For the last 15 years, she has worked within the industry to catalyze the formation of a new layer of the internet designed to serve individuals. She began sketching out distributed social networks in 2003 and co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop in 2005 with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. More details can be <a class="external-link" href="https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/kaliya-young/">found here</a>. She is also known as <a class="external-link" href="https://www.identitywoman.net/">Identity Woman</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/talks-by-richard-abisla-and-kaliya-young'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/talks-by-richard-abisla-and-kaliya-young</a>
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No publisherAdminOpen DataEventOpenness2019-03-07T23:59:25ZEventInternet Speech: Perspectives on Regulation and Policy
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/internet-speech-perspectives-on-regulation-and-policy
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society and the University of Munich (LMU), Germany are jointly organizing an international symposium at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on April 5, 2019</b>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/FreeSpeechSymposium_Poster_02.jpg/@@images/89fe6323-7608-482a-8072-dc241e9f0fda.jpeg" alt="Free Speech Poster" class="image-inline" title="Free Speech Poster" /></p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/free-speech-symposium-agenda"><b>Click to download the agenda</b></a></p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/free-speech-symposium-agenda"> </a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/internet-speech-perspectives-on-regulation-and-policy'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/internet-speech-perspectives-on-regulation-and-policy</a>
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No publisherakritiFreedom of Speech and ExpressionInternet GovernanceFeaturedInternet FreedomEvent2019-04-01T16:38:54ZEvent Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
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<b>Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.</b>
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<h4>Venue: <a href="http://www.lamakaan.com/" target="_blank">Lamakaan</a>, Off Road 1, Near GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034</h4>
<h4>Location: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/grVp3tKUGiu" target="_blank">Google Maps</a></h4>
<h4>Conference Programme: <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/CIS_India/irc19-list-conference-programme" target="_blank">Read</a> (SlideShare) and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-conference-programme/at_download/file">Download</a> (PDF)</h4>
<h4>Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-code-of-conduct-and-friendly-space-policy/at_download/file" target="_blank">Download</a> (PDF)</h4>
<h4>Poster: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list/image" target="_blank">Download</a> (JPG)</h4>
<h4>Registration: Directly at the venue, it is a free and open conference</h4>
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<h3><strong>IRC19: #List</strong></h3>
<p>For the last several years, #MeToo and #LoSHA have set the course for rousing debates within feminist praxis and contemporary global politics. It also foregrounded the ubiquitous presence of the <em>list</em> in its various forms, not only on the internet but across diverse aspects of media culture. Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the <em>list</em> as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. Directed by the Supreme Court, the Government of India has initiated the National Register of Citizens process of creating an updated <em>list</em> of all Indian citizens in the state of Assam since 2015. This is a <em>list</em> that sets apart legal citizens from illegal immigrants, based on an extended and multi-phase process of announcement of draft <em>lists</em> and their revisions. NRC is producing a <em>list</em> with a specific question: who is a citizen and who is not? UIDAI has produced a <em>list</em> of unique identification number assigned to individuals: a <em>list</em> to connect/aggregate other <em>lists</em>, a <em>meta-list</em>.</p>
<p>From Mailing Lists to WhatsApp Broadcast Lists, <em>lists</em> have been the very basis of multi-casting capabilities of the early and the recent internets. The <em>list</em> - in terms of <em>list</em> of people receiving a message, <em>list</em> of machines connecting to a router or a tower, <em>list</em> of ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ ‘added’ to your social media persona - structures the open-ended multi-directional information flow possibilities of the internet. It simultaneously engenders networks of connected machines and bodies, topographies of media circulation, and social graphs of affective connections and consumptions. The epistemological, constitutive, and inscriptive functions of the <em>list</em>, as <a href="http://amodern.net/article/on-lists-and-networks/" target="_blank">Liam Young documents</a>, have been crucial to the creation of new infrastructures of knowledge, and to understand where the internet emerges as a challenge to these.</p>
<p>As a media format that is easy to create, circulate, and access (as seen in the number of rescue and relief lists that flood the web during national disasters) or one that is essential in classification and cross-referencing (such as public records and memory institutions), the <em>list</em> becomes an essential trope to understand new media forms today, as the skeletal frame on which much digital content and design is structured and consumed through.</p>
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<li>Who makes lists?</li>
<li>How are lists made?</li>
<li>Who can be on a list, and who is missing?</li>
<li>Who gets counted on lists, and who is counting?</li>
<li>What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender?</li>
<li>What modalities of creation and circulation of lists affords its authority, its simultaneous revelations and obfuscations?</li>
<li>What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious?</li>
<li>What makes lists ephemeral, and what makes their content robust?</li>
<li>What makes lists hegemonic, and what makes them intersectional?</li>
<li>What makes lists ordered, and what makes them unordered?</li>
<li>What do listicles do to habits of reading and creation of knowledge?</li>
<li>What new modes of questioning and meaning-making have manifested today in various practices of list-making?</li>
<li>How and when do lists became digital, and whatever happened to lists on paper?</li>
<li>Are there cultural economies of lists, list-making, and getting listed?</li>
<li>Are lists content or carriage, are they medium or message?</li></ul>
<p>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions.</p>
<h3><strong>Sessions</strong></h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-ayushmanbhavah" target="_blank">#AyushmanBhavah</a></strong> - Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-butitisnotfunny" target="_blank">#ButItIsNotFunny</a></strong> - Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-callingoutandin" target="_blank">#CallingOutAndIn</a></strong> - Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-enlistingprivacy" target="_blank">#EnlistingPrivacy</a></strong> - Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-fomo" target="_blank">#FOMO</a></strong> - Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-legitlists" target="_blank">#LegitLists - Form follows function: List by design</a></strong> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listinterface" target="_blank">#ListInterface</a></strong> - Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-loshaandwhatfollowed" target="_blank">#LoSHAandWhatFollowed</a></strong> - Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-powerlisting" target="_blank">#PowerListing</a></strong> - Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-storiesrecordslegendsrituals" target="_blank">#StoriesRecordsLegendsRituals</a></strong> - Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh</p>
<h3><strong>Papers</strong></h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#brindaalakshmi" target="_blank">Orinam: An online list archiving queer history, activism, support, experiences and literature</a></strong> - Brindaalakshmi.K</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#gayas" target="_blank">De-duplicating amidst disaster: how rescue databases were made during 2018 Kerala floods</a></strong> - Gayas Eapen</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#monish-ranjit" target="_blank">Making the ‘Other’ Count: Categorizing ‘Self’ using the NRC</a></strong> - Khetrimayum Monish Singh and Ranjit Singh</p>
<h3><strong>About the IRC Series</strong></h3>
<p>Researchers and practitioners across the domains of arts, humanities, and social sciences have attempted to understand life on the internet, or life after the internet, and the way digital technologies mediate various aspects of our being today. These attempts have in turn raised new questions around understanding of digital objects, online lives, and virtual networks, and have contributed to complicating disciplinary assumptions, methods, conceptualisations, and boundaries.</p>
<p>The researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiated the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series to address these concerns, and to create an annual temporary space in India, for internet researchers to gather and share experiences.</p>
<p>The IRC series is driven by the following interests:</p>
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<li>creating discussion spaces for researchers and practitioners studying internet in India and in other comparable regions,</li>
<li>foregrounding the multiplicity, hierarchies, tensions, and urgencies of the digital sites and users in India,</li>
<li>accounting for the various layers, conceptual and material, of experiences and usages of internet and networked digital media in India, and</li>
<li>exploring and practicing new modes of research and documentation necessitated by new (digital) objects of power/knowledge.</li></ul>
<p>The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc16" target="_blank">first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference</a> series was held in February 2016. It was hosted by the <a href="https://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CPS/" target="_blank">Centre for Political Studies</a> at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund. The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17" target="_blank">second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised in partnership with the <a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/" target="_blank">Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy</a> (CITAPP) at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017. The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc18" target="_blank">third Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised at the <a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/" target="_blank">Sambhaavnaa Institute</a>, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018, and the theme of the conference was *offline*.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list'>http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list</a>
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No publishersneha-ppInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC19Researchers at WorkEvent2019-01-31T06:41:38ZBlog EntrySOTM Asia 2018
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/sotm-asia-2018
<b>Saumyaa Naidu, Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon attend State of the Map 2018 conference co-organized by the Centre for Internet & Society and Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore on November 17 and 18, 2018.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">State of the Map Asia 2018 featured two full days of talks, workshops, an opening and closing keynote. It was an exciting two days! The program was created by curating proposals from the community and through a scoring process by the committee.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The program was held at the Indian Institude of Management campus in Bangalore. Much of the program was between two auditoriums. We also had plenty of space set aside for breakout sessions and birds of a feather meetups. (Click <a href="https://stateofthemap.asia/program/program.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></a> to download the program.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://stateofthemap.asia/program/">Click here to see the agenda</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/sotm-asia-2018'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/sotm-asia-2018</a>
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No publisherAdminEventInternet Governance2018-11-28T01:22:44ZEventWorkshop on Cybersecurity Illustrations
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is organizing a workshop to engage with the design community in order to examine, explore, and expand this visual narrative of cybersecurity.</b>
<h2>Concept Note</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The notions around cybersecurity are deeply influenced by the visual associations available on it in the public sphere. The existing imagery on cybersecurity usually consists of stereotypical visual elements such as a silhouette of a man, binary codes, locks, etc. The dark colour palette in these visuals primarily comprising shades of blues and greens adds to the masculine imagery. The conception of the term is limited by these images. The Centre for Internet and Society hence, plans to engage with the design community in order to examine, explore, and expand this visual narrative of cybersecurity. CIS is organising a workshop on the 15th of November, in collaboration with a design collective in order to brainstorm ideas on creating illustrations for cybersecurity that shift the focus from coding to the human aspects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Presently, the visuals suggest only data breaches when it comes to cybersecurity. Several nuanced concepts such as the implication on more vulnerable populations are not reflected in the images. The illustrations can also present the different stakeholders in the cybersecurity ecosystem. The workshop would be directed at generating more dialogues on cybersecurity through visuals.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Agenda</h2>
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<li>10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.: Introduction and Presentation of the Brief</li></ul>
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<li>11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Brainstorming session (ideation and suggestions from participants for keywords)</li></ul>
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<li>1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Lunch</li></ul>
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<li>2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: Breakaway session in groups (creation of draft illustrations)</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations.pdf">Download the file to read more</a></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">You can find the event report <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/workshop-on-cyber-security-illustrations" class="internal-link" title="Workshop on Cyber Security Illustrations">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations</a>
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No publisherAdminEventInternet Governance2018-12-10T06:13:50ZEventVan Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli
<b>CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Bombay University has formulated and going to start a "Diploma course in Community Resource Management " with the support of TRTI, Pune from 2nd of oct 2018. This is a historic attempt to impart education of the level of a diploma to rural, especially tribal youth without any condition of academic qualification. The course was conducted at Mendha(Lekha) an hamlet in Dhanora taluk of Gadchiroli District. CIS-A2K has collaborated with TRTI to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli</a>
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No publisherAdminCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEvent2018-11-06T01:36:39ZEventRoundtable on Cyber-security and the Private Sector
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-cyber-security-and-the-private-sector
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a roundtable discussion on cyber-security and the private sector. The event will be held at Omidyar Network office in Bangalore from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">An increased proliferation of cyber attacks from multiple vectors and a variety of actors has necessitated a multi-stakeholder response to cyber-security that requires private sector involvement, both at the policy and technical fields. This contribution has come in the recent past not only through active involvement at the domestic levels but also through norm-setting in the international arena.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This symposium seeks to discuss the various cyber-security concerns in the Indian private sector and maps initiatives being undertaken by various actors towards furthering cyber-security in an attempt to identify challenges, points of tension, brainstorm solutions-thereby mapping the way forward through engagement not only with private sector actors but also in dialogue with civil society and policy-makers. CIS has undertaken some preliminary research in this area to further discussion in this area and serve as a forum for sharing perspectives for various stakeholders.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The symposium will be divided into three sessions, broadly in the form of a roundtable with different modus operandi in each session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A Concept Note for the event can be found <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/concept-note-pvt-sector-cybersecurity-roundtable" class="internal-link" title="Concept Note: Pvt Sector Cybersecurity Roundtable">here</a>, and the agenda can be found <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/pvt-sector-cyber-security-agenda" class="internal-link" title="Pvt Sector Cyber-security Agenda">here</a>. If you would like to attend, please rsvp pranav@cis-india.org, or register <a class="external-link" href="https://goo.gl/forms/j3PSo56sdLyX8aNw2">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-cyber-security-and-the-private-sector'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-cyber-security-and-the-private-sector</a>
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No publisherpranavCyber SecurityEventInternet Governance2018-10-15T09:18:35ZEventSymposium on India’s Cyber Strategy
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/symposium-on-india2019s-cyber-strategy
<b>CIS organised a Symposium on India’s Cyber Strategy.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event saw a total of around 30 participants from industry, academia, law/policy, media, and civil society, and had a panel comprised of Asoke Mukerji, Madhulika Srikumar, and Parminder Jeet Singh.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Presentations</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/cis-presentation-on-cyber-security">India’s Strategic Interests in the Norms Setting Process in Cyberspace</a> (Presentation by Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji, Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/arindrajit-presentation">The Potential for the Normative Regulation of Cyberspace</a> (Presentation by Arindrajit Basu)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/symposium-on-india2019s-cyber-strategy'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/symposium-on-india2019s-cyber-strategy</a>
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No publisherAdminCyber SecurityEventInternet Governance2018-10-02T06:02:59ZEvent