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Roundtable on A.I. and Manufacturing and Services
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-ai-and-manufacturing-and-services
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore is organizing a roundtable on ‘A.I. and Manufacturing and Services’ on the 19th of January, 2018 from 2 to 5 pm at ‘The Energy and Resources Institute’ (TERI) Bangalore. The Roundtable seeks to discuss the various issues and challenges surrounding the implementation of AI and related technologies on manufacturing processes and services.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since the Industrial Revolution machines have substituted human labour and helped industries save time and money. This was succeeded by the advent of computers and technology which helped in completing tasks with better speed and accuracy than the human brain. The emergence of machine-learning technology and artificial intelligence has now made machines capable of doing work that was earlier considered to be something that could only be done by humans. From the use of AI in understanding customer shopping trends to its use in making automobiles, AI is becoming more of a norm than an exception. The analytics of how customers shop is now helping companies forecast their manufacturing needs. The synergy of technology and machines i.e. smart manufacturing, not only changes manufacturing and shipping but also improves worker safety. Different forms of smart manufacturing are also starting to come up in India: Wipro and Infosys have launched AI platforms, and the Indian Institute of Science is developing a smart factory with support from Boeing Company and General Electric. Infosys has also released an AI platform, ‘Nia’, which is programmed to forecast revenue and understand customer behaviour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The instances of use of machines to substitute human workforce, in some cases, has brought about a sense of worry. Recent trends in factory hiring show that jobs are being lost to automated forms of labour, further evidenced by a report from the research firm HorsesforSources, which predicts that India is set to lose 640,000 low-skilled job positions to automation by the year 2021.The IT sector in India is also under risk from the use of AI. Reports have also found that the rising unemployment in the IT sector has led to increased pressure on labour regulators.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Although there are some studies that state that the use of AI would bring about a market for people who would need to work along with AI, the FICCI and EY’s 2016 Report on the Future of jobs and its implication on Indian higher education suggests that one of the ways to combat the loss of jobs was reskilling and upskilling the labour force. India has taken the first step towards this by launching the National Skill Development Mission.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">From the use of neural networks to monitor steel plants for packing and shipping groceries, the use of intelligent machines has begun disrupting traditional business models in the industry. However, these advancements raise questions around labour, ethics, liability, and machine-human cooperation. Dialogue and debate are needed to understand how AI is being used in manufacturing, the potential benefits, and challenges of the same, and a way forward that optimizes innovation and protects human rights.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Roundtable Agenda</h2>
<p>Friday 19th January | 2:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.</p>
<div id="_mcePaste">2:00 - 2:30 Introduction and setting the scene</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">2:30 - 3:30 Discussion on the AI landscape in the manufacturing and services industry:</div>
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<li>Manner and extent of integration of AI into manufacturing and services</li>
<li>Relevant stakeholders and their roles in implementing AI in manufacturing and services</li>
<li>Future of AI and related technologies in AI in manufacturing and services </li>
<li>Impact on work and labour</li>
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<p>3:30 - 4:30 Discussion on challenges and solutions towards regulating AI in India:</p>
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<li>Challenges faced in the conception and implementation of the AI product/ service, and reasons for such challenges.</li>
<li>Regulatory provisions for implementation of AI in the manufacturing and services under the existing laws, and need for reforms.</li>
<li>Challenges posed by AI to existing policy and regulatory frameworks in the Indian as well as the global context, and possible solutions.</li>
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<p>4.30 - 5.00 Conclusion and way forward</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-ai-and-manufacturing-and-services'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-ai-and-manufacturing-and-services</a>
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No publisherAdminInternet GovernanceEventArtificial Intelligence2018-01-18T13:44:15ZEventRHoK Global June 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/rhok-bangalore-2013
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society is hosting the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Global event at its office in Bangalore on June 1 and 2, from 8.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">RHoK is a rapidly growing global initiative encompassing a community of over 5,500 innovators in over 30 countries striving to make the world a better place by developing practical, open source technology solutions to respond to some of the most complex challenges facing humanity. We do this by defining problems, organizing hackathons, and ensuring projects are effectively deployed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bangalore has been hosting RHoK hackathons since 2010. <span style="text-align:justify; ">RHoK pre-hackathon reception will be hosted on May 31, 2013 at CIS. The </span>tentative plan for tonight's reception can be found at <a href="https://www.smore.com/x3fm" target="_blank">https://www.smore.com/x3fm</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessEvent2013-05-31T13:58:00ZEventRe-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/re-releasing-konkani-vishwakosh-and-building-konkani-wikipedia
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the University of Goa invites you to this event on Thursday, September 26, 2013, 10.00 a.m. The one-hour event will be followed by a press conference.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was originally published in <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re-release_of_Konkani_Vishwakosh_under_Creative_Commons_License_CC-BY-SA_3.0_-_Invite.pdf">the Wikipedia page here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Upon <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan">CIS-A2K</a>'s explicit request, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/">Goa University</a> has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under <a class="external-link" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons License</a> (CC‐BY‐SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and thus preserve <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani language</a> and culture in the digital era. This encyclopaedia will also serve as one of the main sources of building and writing articles on Konkani Wikipedia (which is currently under incubation).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We'd like you to be a part of this event and help showcase Konkani community and language on a global digital platform such as Konkani Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/re-releasing-konkani-vishwakosh.pdf" class="internal-link">Please click to see the invite</a>. We look forward to seeing you at the event.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-09-25T05:48:56ZEventRAW Lectures #02: Anil Menon on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom'
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<b>Anil Menon will give a talk on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom' at the Centre for Internet and Society's office in Bangalore on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6 pm. Please join us for tea and coffee before the lecture at 5.30 pm.</b>
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<h4>Update: The video recording of the lecture can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/raw-lectures-02-anil-menon-video">here</a>.</h4>
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<p>The RAW Lectures series was initiated by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme to take stock, reflect, and chart courses into the studies of Internet in/from India. The lectures address the experiences and practices of Internet in India as plural and intertwined with longer-duration processes. The lectures also critically respond to the questions around the methods of studying Internet in/from India, and the opportunities and challenges of studying Indian society on/through the Internet.</p>
<p>It gives us great pleasure to announce that Anil Menon will present the second lecture of the series on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, at 6 pm.</p>
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<h3>Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom</h3>
<p>Story-telling, like the internet, depends on the existence of fixed protocols between the sender and the receiver. However, by manipulating ambiguity and contexts, speculative fiction constantly creates new and ever-changing protocols of reading. This makes it hard to define what exactly speculative fiction is. Spec-fic may be described as a catch-all term to describe genres such as magic-realism, fabulist fiction, slipstream, science-fiction, fantasy and various fusions thereof. In my talk, I will outline the history of spec-fic on the subcontinent, and show how it was used by authors such as Kylas Chundar Dutt to undermine imperialist narratives. In the last decade, the internet, which may be conceived as a speculative network, has emerged as another such tool. Internet access in India is growing at an extraordinary rate, but less well-known is the fact that Indian spec-fic is also undergoing a rather remarkable renaissance. I will show that these two threads of development are related, mutually reinforcing, and point to an interesting metaphor of speculative sovereignity, perhaps unique to India, and that serves to undermine any would-be tyrant’s protocols.</p>
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<h3>Anil Menon</h3>
<p>Anil Menon’s research work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as <em>Intl J. of Neural Networks</em>, <em>Neural Proc. Letters</em>, <em>IEEE Trans On Evolutionary Computation</em>, <em>Foundations of Genetic Algorithms</em>, <em>British J. of the History of Science</em>, and <em>Small Business Economics</em>. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies including <em>Interzone</em>, <em>Interfictions</em>, <em>Strange Horizons</em>, <em>Jaggery Lit Review</em>, and <em>Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet</em>. His stories have been translated into German, French, Chinese, Romanian and Hebrew. His debut novel <em>The Beast With Nine Billion Feet</em> (Zubaan Books, 2010) was short-listed for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword award and the Carl Brandon Society's 2011 Parallax Award. Along with Vandana Singh, he co-edited <em>Breaking the Bow</em> (Zubaan Books 2012), an international anthology of speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana epic. His most recent work is the novel <em>Half Of What I Say</em> (Bloomsbury, 2015).</p>
<p>Website: <a href="http://anilmenon.com/">http://anilmenon.com/</a>.</p>
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No publishersumandroLearningRAW LecturesResearchers at WorkEventProtocols2016-02-09T08:43:57ZEventRAW Lectures #02: Anil Menon on 'Speculative Fiction and Freedom' - Video
http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/raw-lectures-02-anil-menon-video
<b>Anil Menon spoke on 'Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom' at the second event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on January 13, 2016. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that followed.</b>
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<h2>RAW Lectures</h2>
<p>The Researchers at Work programme initiated the RAW Lectures series to take stock, reflect, and chart courses into the studies of Internet in/from India. The lectures address the experiences and practices of Internet in India as plural and intertwined with longer-duration processes. The lectures also critically respond to the questions around the methods of studying Internet in/from India, and the opportunities and challenges of studying Indian society on/through the Internet.</p>
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<h2>Lecture #02 - Undermining the Tyrant’s Protocols: Speculative Fiction and Freedom</h2>
<p><a href="http://anilmenon.com/" target="_blank">Anil Menon</a>’s research work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as <em>Intl J. of Neural Networks</em>, <em>Neural Proc. Letters</em>, <em>IEEE Trans On Evolutionary Computation</em>, <em>Foundations of Genetic Algorithms</em>, <em>British J. of the History of Science</em>, and <em>Small Business Economics</em>. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies including <em>Interzone</em>, <em>Interfictions</em>, <em>Strange Horizons</em>, <em>Jaggery Lit Review</em>, and <em>Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet</em>. His stories have been translated into German, French, Chinese, Romanian and Hebrew. His debut novel <em>The Beast With Nine Billion Feet</em> (Zubaan Books, 2010) was short-listed for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword award and the Carl Brandon Society's 2011 Parallax Award. Along with Vandana Singh, he co-edited <em>Breaking the Bow</em> (Zubaan Books 2012), an international anthology of speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana epic. His most recent work is the novel <em>Half Of What I Say</em> (Bloomsbury, 2015).</p>
<p><strong>More:</strong> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/raw-lectures-02-anil-menon" target="_blank">http://cis-india.org/raw/raw-lectures-02-anil-menon</a>.</p>
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<h2>Download</h2>
<p><strong>Video:</strong> <a href="https://archive.org/download/CISRAWLectureSeriesIIAnilMenon/CIS%20RAW%20Lecture%20Series%20-%20II%20(Anil%20Menon).mp4" target="_blank">MP4</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/download/CISRAWLectureSeriesIIAnilMenon/CIS%20RAW%20Lecture%20Series%20-%20II%20(Anil%20Menon).ogv" target="_blank">OGG</a>, and <a href="https://archive.org/download/CISRAWLectureSeriesIIAnilMenon/CISRAWLectureSeriesIIAnilMenon_archive.torrent" target="_blank">Torrent</a>.</p>
<p>The video is shared under Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a> license.</p>
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No publishersneha-ppLearningRAW LecturesResearchers at WorkEventProtocols2016-02-09T08:38:19ZBlog EntryRAW Lectures #01: Nishant Shah on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India'
http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/raw-lectures-01-nishant-shah
<b>Dr. Nishant Shah will give a talk on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' at the Centre for Internet and Society's office in Bangalore on March 6, 2015 at 6 p.m. Please join us for tea and coffee before the lecture at 5.30 p.m.</b>
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<h4>Update: The video recording of the lecture can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/raw-lecture-01-nishant-shah-video">here</a>.</h4>
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<p>Introducing the first research initiative at the Researchers at Work programme in the Centre for Internet and Society, Professor Nishant Shah wrote:</p>
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“Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India... We wanted to first propose that the Internet is not a monolithic object that exists in the same way across geographies and social borders. It is necessary to approach the Internets, as plural, available in different forms, practices and experiences to people from different locations and sections of the society... The second proposal was that while the digital and Internet technologies are new, they do not necessarily only produce new things. There is a need to map the histories and pre-histories of Internets.”</blockquote>
<p>The Researchers at Work programme is initiating the RAW Lectures series to take stock, reflect, and chart courses into the studies of Internet in/from India. The lectures will address the experiences and practices of Internet in India as plural and intertwined with longer-duration processes, as foregrounded by Nishant above. The lectures will also critically respond to the questions around the methods of studying Internet in/from India, and the opportunities and challenges of studying Indian society on/through the Internet.</p>
<p>It gives us immense pleasure to invite Nishant to present the first lecture of the series on Friday, March 06, 2015. The title of the lecture is "<strong>Once There was the Internet: Of Stories and Histories of Internet in India</strong>."</p>
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<img src="raw-lectures-01-nishant-shah/leadImage" alt="RAW Lectures #01 - Nishant Shah - Poster" height="400" />
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<h3>Dr. Nishant Shah</h3>
<p>Nishant is the Professor of Culture and Aesthetics of New Media at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Research Associate at COMMON MEDIA LAB, Affiliate at DIGITAL CULTURES RESEARCH LAB, and International Tandempartner at HYBRID PUBLISHING LAB. He is the co-founder and former-Director-Research at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India.</p>
<p>In his varied roles, he has been committed to producing infrastructure, frameworks and collaborations in the global south to understand and analyse the ways in which emergence and growth of digital technologies have shaped the contemporary social, political and cultural milieu. He edited a series of monographs on “Histories of Internet(s) in India” that looks at the complicated relationship that technologies have with questions of gender, sexuality, body, city, governance, archiving and gaming in a country like India. He was also the principal researcher for a research programme that produced the four-volume anthology “Digital AlterNatives With a Cause?” that examines the ways in which young people’s relationship with digital technologies produces changes in their immediate environments.</p>
<p>His Ph.D. thesis titled “The Technosocial Subject: Cities, Cyborgs and Cyberspace” builds a framework to examine the technosocial identities that are produced at the intersection of law, digital technologies and everyday cultural practices in emerging information societies like India. Nishant was an Asia Research fellow looking at the cost and infrastructure of building IT Cities like Shanghai. He is the author of a recent thought-piece titled “Whose Change is it Anyway? – Towards a future of digital technologies and citizen action in emerging information societies” that seeks to revisit the debates around digital activism and change in the global context. His current interests are in critically intervening in debates around Digital Humanities and conditions of change mediated by technologies.</p>
<p>More: <a href="http://cdc.leuphana.com/people/#nishant-shah" target="_blank">http://cdc.leuphana.com/people/#nishant-shah</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaRAW LecturesResearchers at WorkEventRAW Events2016-01-10T08:05:30ZEventPublic Law and Jurisprudential Issues of Privacy: A Talk at CIS
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/public-law-and-jurisprudential-issues-of-privacy-talk-at-cis
<b>On Friday, September 27, 2013, Abhayraj Naik will give a talk on public law and jurisprudential issues related to privacy. CIS will host the talk at its office in Bangalore from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.</b>
<h3>Abhayraj Naik</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abhayraj Naik is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Yale Law School. He previously taught public law at the Jindal Global Law School of the OP Jindal Global University where he also co-directed the Centre for Public Law & Jurisprudence from September 2009 to July 2012.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abhay is actively associated with the Environment Support Group, Bangalore (<a href="http://www.esgindia.org">http://www.esgindia.org</a>), and has also been associated with the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, USA; Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, USA; Culture Move, Bangalore and other national and international advocacy, activism and research groups for several years now.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abhay's research interests include legal theory, philosophy, criminal justice reform, urban governance, ecology, and technology policy. His current research projects include interdisciplinary studies of urban street vending, information privacy, fiduciary duties, forgiveness, biopiracy, and criminal justice reform.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He enjoys cycling, travel, poetry, music, and radical educational and ecological activism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Abhay currently teaches at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>VIDEO</strong></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEventInternet GovernancePrivacy2013-12-30T12:39:23ZEventPublic Event: Exploring Maps for Making Change
http://editors.cis-india.org/events/public-event-exploring-maps-for-making-change
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, in collaboration with Tactical Tech, would like to invite you to 'A Conversation on Maps for Making Change - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India', at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong>When
a migrant labourer draws a map of India, what does it look like? Can
maps prove a correlation between corporate investment and Operation
Green Hunt in Chhattisgarh? </strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">For
the past five months, twenty five activists, researchers, artists and
techies have explored together, as part of the Maps for Making Change
project, the potential of geographical mapping techniques to support
struggles for social justice in India. As Maps for Making Change
comes to an end, they would like to share with you their journey,
their thoughts and their work, and to enter into a conversation with
a much wider group of people about the potential and challenges of
mapping for social justice now that new
technologies can in theory be mobilised to fight for social justice
by anyone with an interest in maps, but in practice remain confined
to the hands of a privileged few.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong>Join
us:</strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><em><strong>from
4 pm onwards</strong></em>, for an exhibition that allows you to explore
the work of Maps for Making Change participants through
installations, websites, conversations, information, video, ... and
maps.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><em><strong>from
5 pm to 5.30 pm</strong></em>, for refreshments.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><em><strong>from
5.30 pm onwards</strong></em>, for a panel discusion which our panelists
will kick off by sharing some of their own reflections and comments
on mapping for social justice, to open up the conversation to a much
broader discussion with all those present in the audience.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Panelists:</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Reuben
Jacob, Inclusive Planet</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"> Shakun
Mohini, Vimochana</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"> Shubhranshu
Choudhary, Knight International Journalism Fellow and Community
Media Activist</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"> </p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><em>For
more information, please contact Anja Kovacs, Centre for Internet and
Society: 98 11 74 72 12, <a href="mailto:anja@cis-india.orgO">anja@cis-india.org</a>.
Or check out the Maps for Making Change wiki:
maps4change.cis-india.org.</em></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong>Looking
forward to seeing you at CIS on 28 April!</strong></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/events/public-event-exploring-maps-for-making-change'>http://editors.cis-india.org/events/public-event-exploring-maps-for-making-change</a>
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No publisheranjaRAW EventsPracticeResearchers at WorkEventMaps for Making Change2015-10-24T14:19:32ZEventPublic Debate on 'Differential Pricing': Series 3
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/public-debate-on-differential-pricing-series-3
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, in association with ICRIER and the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, is pleased to announce “A Series of Public Debates on Differential Pricing” in the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. The third public debate will be held at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road near Air Force Bal Bharti School, New Delhi on February 5, 2016.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In light of the recent consultation paper released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the objective of these debates will be to deconstruct the issue of differential pricing through a discussion on the variety of views this subject has attracted. Speakers will also discuss possible implications of differential pricing policy on questions of access, diversity, competition and entrepreneurship.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Each debate will comprise three rounds. In the first round, speakers will present the body of their arguments over 10 minutes each. The second round will be a rebuttal round, with each speaker being given 5 minutes. The third and final round will see the floor being opened to the audience who will engage the speakers with comments and questions.</p>
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No publishervidushiFreedom of Speech and ExpressionTelecomEventInternet Governance2016-01-28T13:53:12ZEventPublic Debate on 'Differential Pricing': Series 2
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/public-debate-on-differential-pricing-series-2
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, in association with ICRIER and the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, is pleased to announce “A Series of Public Debates on Differential Pricing” in the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. The second public debate will be held at Pherozeshah Mehta Bhavan, Vidyanagari, Kalina, Mumbai on February 3, 2016.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In light of the recent consultation paper released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the objective of these debates will be to deconstruct the issue of differential pricing through a discussion on the variety of views this subject has attracted. Speakers will also discuss possible implications of differential pricing policy on questions of access, diversity, competition and entrepreneurship.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Each debate will comprise three rounds. In the first round, speakers will present the body of their arguments over 10 minutes each. The second round will be a rebuttal round, with each speaker being given 5 minutes. The third and final round will see the floor being opened to the audience who will engage the speakers with comments and questions.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom/blog/public-debates-on-differential-pricing" class="internal-link">Download the Invite</a></h2>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/public-debate-on-differential-pricing-series-2'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/public-debate-on-differential-pricing-series-2</a>
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No publishervidushiFreedom of Speech and ExpressionTelecomEventInternet Governance2016-01-28T13:51:06ZEventPublic Debate on 'Differential Pricing': Series 1
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/a-series-of-public-debates-on-differential-pricing-series-1
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, in association with ICRIER and the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, is pleased to announce “A Series of Public Debates on Differential Pricing” in the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. The first public debate will be held at the Centre for Internet & Society office in Bangalore on February 1, 2016. </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In light of the recent consultation paper released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the objective of these debates will be to deconstruct the issue of differential pricing through a discussion on the variety of views this subject has attracted. Speakers will also discuss possible implications of differential pricing policy on questions of access, diversity, competition and entrepreneurship.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Each debate will comprise three rounds. In the first round, speakers will present the body of their arguments over 10 minutes each. The second round will be a rebuttal round, with each speaker being given 5 minutes. The third and final round will see the floor being opened to the audience who will engage the speakers with comments and questions.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="resolveuid/a01978fec6244f86b178b26006f1b312" class="internal-link">Download the Invite</a></h2>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/a-series-of-public-debates-on-differential-pricing-series-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/a-series-of-public-debates-on-differential-pricing-series-1</a>
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No publishervidushiFreedom of Speech and ExpressionTelecomEventInternet Governance2016-01-27T13:51:06ZEventProduction Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/production-sprint-public-exhibition-at-cis
<b>The Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.</b>
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<p><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/mc-flyer.pdf" class="internal-link">Download the event flier</a> [PDF, 402 Kb]</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">What does 'Making Change' mean to you? What are the processes of change? The infrastructure of change? The actors of change? A round-table discussion and exhibition by 23 change makers from 15 countries in Asia, at the Centre for Internet & Society, Saturday, 7th June, 5 - 7 p.m. Please do come.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Making Change project questions traditional understandings of change –where change is employed in the name of power, reduced to a ‘spectacle’ by global media and goes largely unquestioned in the public discourse- and aims to build more adequate frameworks to address the idea of change in the context of common knowledge, networked media and information societies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Making Change is hosting focused, intensive, and production-oriented workshops called <strong>Production Sprints</strong> to facilitate the convergence of actors and ideas.These will be spaces of knowledge exchange between change-makers around processes, narratives and experiences of change and of experimentation with multi-modal forms and formats of knowledge production (text, image, sound, etc). Participants will be asked to group around four topics: concepts, crises ecologies and networks of change. These visions and practices, we hope will produce new ways of thinking about change.</p>
<p>During the Bangalore production sprint, we will document the various knowledges acquired through the pre-production stage and the 5 day intensive sessions on formats, storytelling and visual presentation modes; and we will close with an exhibition of the resulting narratives of change. We invite you to come and participate in the exhibition.</p>
<p>Date: June 7th, 2014<br /> Time: 5pm- 7pm<br /> Location: The Center for Internet and Society</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/production-sprint-public-exhibition-at-cis'>http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/production-sprint-public-exhibition-at-cis</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaRAW EventsMaking ChangeNet CulturesResearchers at WorkEvent2015-10-24T14:23:30ZEventPrivacy Round Table, New Delhi (October 2013)
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi-october-19-2013
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and DSCI cordially invite you to a "Privacy Round Table" at the FICCI Federation House in Tansen Marg on October 19, 2013.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click the below links to:</p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-round-table-delhi-october-13.pdf" class="internal-link">Download the event brochure</a></li>
<li>Download the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-september-2013.pdf" class="internal-link">latest version of the Draft Privacy Bill</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jacob Kohnstamm, Data Protection Authority, Netherlands and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party, Chantel Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner, Canada, and Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, UK will make presentations:</p>
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<td>10:00 <br />10:30 <br /></td>
<td>Introduction and summary of previous Roundtables</td>
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<td>10:30 <br />11:00</td>
<td>“Data Protection in the European Union” <br />Mr. Jacob Kohnstamm, <i>Data Protection Authority, Netherlands and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party</i><br /></td>
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<td>11:00 <br />11:15</td>
<td>Tea</td>
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<td>11:15 <br />12:15</td>
<td>Regulatory Frameworks and Jurisdiction<br /> a. Co-Regulation vs. Self Regulation vs. Statutory Regulation<br />b. Applicability of regulatory framework to domestic processing vs. multiple/international jurisdictions<br /></td>
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<td>12:15 <br />12:45</td>
<td>“An Overview of the Canadian Privacy Regime”<br />Ms. Chantal Bernier, <i>Assistant Privacy Commissioner, Canada</i><br /></td>
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<td>12:15 <br />13:30</td>
<td>The Privacy Commissioner<br />a. Composition of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (officers, funding, organizational structure)<br />b. Powers of the Privacy Commissioner (investigation, audit, privacy impact assessment etc)<br /> c. Functions of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner<br /></td>
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<td>13:30 <br />14:30</td>
<td>Lunch</td>
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<td>14:30 <br />15:30</td>
<td>Rights of the individual and exceptions to the right to privacy<br /> a. Rights of the individual including: notice, access, deletion etc.<br />b. Exceptions to the right to privacy: national security, public<br /> order, public interest, prevention and detection of crime etc.<br /></td>
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<td>15:30 <br />16:00</td>
<td>“An overview of the Privacy Regime in the UK” <br /> Mr. Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, UK <br /></td>
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<td>16:00 <br />16:15</td>
<td>Tea</td>
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<td>16:15 <br />17:00</td>
<td>Defining and protecting personal data and personal sensitive data<br />a. Definitions and distinctions between personal data vs personal sensitive data<br />b. Levels of protection for personal data vs. personal sensitive data<br /> c. Penalty and remedy for breach of personal data vs. personal sensitive data<br /></td>
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<td>17:00 <br />18:00</td>
<td>Penalty and Redress<br /> a. Forms and extent of penalty: fine, public notice, shut down of services etc.<br /> b. Forms of redress for the individual<br /> c. Enforcement of penalty and redress<br /></td>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">The Speakers</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center; "><b>Jacob Kohnstamm</b></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Before his appointment as Chairman of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dutchdpa.nl/Pages/home.aspx">Dutch Data Protection Authority</a> in 2004, Jacob Kohnstamm was active in Dutch politics as member of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament, as State Secretary for Internal Affairs and as member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament (between 1981 and 2004). Before that, he worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since February 2010, Jacob Kohnstamm is Chairman of the <a class="external-link" href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/">Art. 29 Working Party of European Data Protection Authorities</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since November 2011, Jacob Kohnstamm is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.</p>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Chantel.png/@@images/14ec1d2b-18ac-4327-ad26-1e4f38cdbc4c.png" title="Chantal" height="271" width="221" alt="Chantal" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; "><b>Chantal Bernier</b></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Chantal Bernier was appointed Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada in December 2008.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ms. Bernier started her career in the federal government as a lawyer in the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/">Department of Justice, Canada</a>. She went on to hold a directorship at the Privy Council Office before being appointed Assistant Deputy Minister at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and later on at Public Safety Canada.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.usherbrooke.ca/">University of Sherbrooke</a> and a Masters in Public International Law from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx">London School of Economics and Political Science</a>.</p>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Christopher.png/@@images/a67e609e-590e-4c77-b957-ba785a06b691.png" title="Christopher" height="138" width="228" alt="Christopher" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; "><b>Christopher Graham</b></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Christopher Graham became UK Information Commissioner in June 2009, with responsibility for overseeing the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection Act regimes — upholding information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. He is the Vice Chair of the Article 29 Working Party of the European Data Protection Authorities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Christopher was the director general of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.asa.org.uk/">Advertising Standards Authority </a>(ASA) from April 2000 to June 2009. From 2003-5, he was chairman of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.easa-alliance.org/">European Advertising Standards Alliance</a> (EASA), the federation of advertising self-regulatory bodies across the EU Single Market.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Prior to joining the ASA, Christopher was for three years Secretary of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.bbc.com/?/">BBC</a>. Christopher first joined the broadcaster as a news trainee in 1973. He was a Current Affairs Producer for BBC Radio and TV before becoming Managing Editor of News Programmes for TV and Radio.</p>
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<h2>Confirmations and RSVP</h2>
<p>Please send your email confirmations for attending the Delhi Privacy Round Table on October 19, 2013, to Elonnai Hickok (<a class="mail-link" href="mailto:elonnai@cis-india.org">elonnai@cis-india.org</a>)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi-october-19-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi-october-19-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEventInternet GovernancePrivacy2013-09-28T02:52:26ZEventPrivacy Round Table, New Delhi
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), FICCI and DSCI cordially invites you to attend the "Privacy Round Table" to be held at the FICCI, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi on Saturday, August 24, 2013, 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., to discuss the "Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy" by the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, the text of the "Citizen's Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013, drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society, and "Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation" by DSCI.
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<p style="text-align: center; "><i>Featured Remote Presentation from Jamie Hine and Betsy Broder, Federal Trade Commissioner, US</i></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The discussions and recommendations from the meeting will be published into a compilation, and presented at the Internet Governance meeting planned for October 2013.</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/rep_privacy.pdf">Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-2013.pdf" class="external-link">The Privacy Protection Bill, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/strengthening-privacy-protection.pdf" class="internal-link">Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-round-table-delhi.pdf" class="internal-link">Click to read the brochure</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Draft Agenda for the Roundtable Discussion</h3>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy.</td>
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<td>11.30</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Overview, explanation, and discussion: Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-regulation.<br /></td>
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<td>12.15</td>
<td>Tea</td>
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<td>12.30</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013.<br /></td>
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<td>13.15</td>
<td>Lunch</td>
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<td>14.15</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">In depth discussion and overview of discussions and feedback from previous Roundtables and subsequent amendments to the Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013.</td>
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<td>16.00</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">The US Privacy Framework: Remote Presentation from Jamie Hine and Betsy Broder, Federal Trade Commission, US.</td>
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<td>17.00</td>
<td>Tea</td>
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<h3>Confirmations and RSVP:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please send your email confirmations for attending the <b>New Delhi Privacy Roundtable</b> on August 24, 2013, to <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:elonnai@cis-india.org">elonnai@cis-india.org</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-delhi</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEventInternet GovernancePrivacy2013-08-12T10:41:08ZEventPrivacy Round Table, Mumbai
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-mumbai
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society cordially invites you to attend the "Privacy Round Table" in Mumbai on Saturday, June 15, 2013, 10.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., to discuss the "Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy" by the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, the text of the "Citizen's Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013, drafted by the Centre for Internet and Society, and "Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation" by DSCI.</b>
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<p>Note: <i>Billy Hawkes, Irish Data Protection Commissioner will be attending and presenting at the Roundtable</i>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The discussions and recommendations from the meeting will be published into a compilation, and presented at the Internet Governance meeting planned for October 2013.</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/rep_privacy.pdf">Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-2013.pdf" class="external-link">The Privacy Protection Bill, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/strengthening-privacy-protection.pdf" class="internal-link">Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-round-table-mumbai.pdf" class="internal-link">Click to see the brochure</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Draft Agenda for the Round Table Discussion</h3>
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<td>10.30 <br /></td>
<td>Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy</td>
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<td>11.30 <br /></td>
<td>Overview, explanation, and discussion: Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-regulation</td>
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<td>12.15 <br /></td>
<td>Tea</td>
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<td>Overview, explanation, and discussion: The Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013</td>
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<td>Lunch</td>
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<td>In depth discussions: The Citizens Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013</td>
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<p>Please send your email confirmations for attending the Mumbai Privacy Round Table on Saturday, June 15, 2013, to <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:bernadette@cis-india.org">Bernadette Langle</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-mumbai'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-mumbai</a>
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