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- Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence and Women’s Political Participation in India: A Position Paper — by Yesha Tshering Paul, Amrita Sengupta — last modified Dec 18, 2024 07:12 PM
- AI for Healthcare: Understanding Data Supply Chain and Auditability in India — by Amrita Sengupta (PI), Shweta Mohandas (Co-PI), (In alphabetical order) Abhineet Nayyar, Chetna VM, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Yatharth — last modified Nov 30, 2024 08:17 AM
- This report aims to understand the prevalence and use of AI auditing practices in the healthcare sector. By mapping the data supply chain underlying AI technologies, the study aims to unpack i) how AI systems are developed and deployed to achieve healthcare outcomes and, ii) how AI audits are perceived and implemented by key stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Explainer | Tying and Bundling — by Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri — last modified Oct 16, 2024 01:58 AM
- Earlier this year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs released the draft Digital Competition Bill for public comment. Although much has been written about the ex-ante process it proposes, there is little discussion of the nine Anti-Competitive Practices, or ACPs, that the draft Bill builds on. Even when it exists, this discussion is often accompanied by heavy jargon, thereby limiting its accessibility for small businesses, workers, and consumers who are most affected by these ACPs.
- Platforming precarity: Data narratives of workers sustaining urban platform services — by Aayush Rathi, Abhishek Sekharan, Ambika Tandon, Chetna V. M., Chiara Furtado, Nishkala Sekhar, and Sriharsha Devulapalli — last modified Oct 15, 2024 02:42 AM
- CIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 800 workers employed in the app-based taxi and delivery sectors across 4 cities in India as part of the ‘Labour Futures’ project supported by the Internet Society Foundation. The surveys covered key employment indicators, including earnings and working hours, work-related cost burdens, income and social security, and platform policies and management. Findings from these surveys are presented as data visualisation briefs centring workers’ everyday experiences. These data briefs form a foundational evidence base for policy and action around labour rights, social protection, and urban inclusion in platform work.
- Envisioning the Role of Open Knowledge in the Implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 — by Ashwini Lele — last modified Aug 27, 2024 02:53 PM
- The National Education Policy 2020 brings a significant change in India's educational landscape, representing a comprehensive overhaul to address the evolving developmental imperatives of the country.
- Online Censorship: Perspectives From Content Creators and Comparative Law on Section 69A of the Information Technology Act — by Divyansha Sehgal, Gurshabad Grover — last modified Aug 26, 2024 07:05 AM
- This study presents a comparative analysis of Indian censorship law and experiences of people who have had their online content censored.
- Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectives — by Shaik Salauddin — last modified Aug 13, 2024 02:50 AM
- This report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The survey was conducted with workers working for app-based platform companies like Ola, Uber, InDriver, Swiggy, Zomato, and Flipkart.
- Future of the Commons: A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Indian Languages, and Archives Conference Report — by Soni Wadhwa, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Garima Agrawal and Nishant Shankar — last modified Aug 06, 2024 03:24 AM
- We are pleased to share our report on the ‘Future of the Commons: A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Indian Languages, and Archives’ conference, held in July 2024 at the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) in Pune.
- Combinations and Competition: Why the draft DCB must account for digital mergers and acquisitions — by Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri — last modified Aug 08, 2024 07:47 AM
- Mergers and Acquisitions (collectively, M&As or Combinations) have been a common practice in industry consolidation for many years now. In fact, as Zuckerberg’s infamous quote suggests, it might be one of the central pillars of today’s internet economy.
- Karnataka’s uniform fare policy—Do attempts at parity consider the impact on workers? — by Chiara Furtado and Nishkala Sekhar — last modified Jul 08, 2024 03:53 AM
- Chiara Furtado and Nishkala Sekhar write in The News Minute about the Karnataka transport department’s February 2024 fare policy aiming for parity between aggregator (app-based) and other taxis. While policy interventions towards parity is a welcome step, the article highlights how inequalities and systemic barriers to parity remain for workers.
- Draft Circular on Digital Lending – Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders — by Garima Agrawal — last modified Jul 03, 2024 04:40 PM
- CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments on the “Draft Circular on Digital Lending: Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders” to the Reserve Bank of India. We welcome the opportunity provided to comment on the guidelines, and we hope that the final guidelines will consider the interests of all the stakeholders to ensure that it protects the privacy and digital rights of all consumers, including marginalised and vulnerable users, while encouraging innovation and improved service delivery in the fintech ecosystem. Our comments look at two concerns addressed by the draft guidelines, i.e. reducing information asymmetry and market fairness. In addition to this we share comments around a third concern that requires additional scrutiny, i.e. data privacy and security.
- Legal Advocacy Manual — by Radhika, Shruti Trikanad and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Jul 01, 2024 08:16 AM
- The Legal Advocacy Manual summarizes the key legal and constitutional questions and jurisprudence related to laws that affect the right to freedom of expression and privacy online, including internet shutdowns, content takedown, online surveillance and device seizure.
- A Guide to Navigating Your Digital Rights — by Anamika Kundu, Radhika, Shruti Trikanad, Torsha Sarkar — last modified Jul 01, 2024 08:18 AM
- ‘Future of work’ or 21st–century oppressed labour?: Findings from an AIGWU survey with 50 Urban Company housekeeping workers in Bengaluru — by Nihira Ram — last modified May 16, 2024 03:29 PM
- n this essay, Nihira Ram shares findings from a survey done by the All India Gig Workers Union with more than 50 migrant workers living in a slum in Bengaluru. The workers primarily provided cleaning and domestic services on the platform, Urban Company (previously UrbanClap).
- Comments to the Draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024 — by Abhineet Nayyar, Isha Suri, and Pallavi Bedi (in alphabetical order) — last modified Jun 11, 2024 10:13 AM
- This submission is a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society India (CIS) to the draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024, published by the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), (hereafter “draft DCB” or “draft Bill”).
- Commemorating Chandan Chiring (1990-2024) — by Nayan Jyoti Nath and Ajay Das — last modified May 07, 2024 11:51 PM
- With a heavy heart, I am deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Chandan Chiring Phukan at 11:30 pm on Saturday, April 27th. Chandan Chiring was born on November 14, 1990, in Titabor, Jorhat district of Assam.
- Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India — by Amrita Sengupta and Yesha Tshering Paul — last modified Oct 15, 2024 10:57 AM
- On 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
- That Is Not A Livelihood – That Is Helplessness”: Field notes from the Fraazo Delivery Workers Strike in Noida, Greater Noida, and Ghaziabad — by Rikta Krishnaswamy — last modified Apr 24, 2024 02:05 AM
- In this essay, Rikta Krishnaswamy of the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) narrates her experiences of organising and supporting delivery workers’ collective action against Fraazo (a now-defunct platform for produce and grocery delivery). Her essay sheds light on the challenges workers face in organising for better conditions of work. She describes how platforms hide behind legal smokescreens and threats of police action to shirk their responsibility as employers. To make matters worse, obscure employment terms and work management systems make it harder for workers to seek redress from the government through labour dispute resolution processes. The essay is illustrative of how digital platforms have exploited and violated freedoms of the gig workers they employ, while facing no accountability. For this to change, gig workers have to be guaranteed employment rights along with collective rights to their data.
- The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India — by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi — last modified Apr 19, 2024 03:11 AM
- Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social Precarities, an anthology edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen and published with Data & Society.
- Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms — by Divyansha Sehgal and Lakshmi T. Nambiar — last modified Apr 11, 2024 03:24 AM
- An inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting workflows.
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