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- Digital native: Who will watch the watchman? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 03, 2017 04:18 PM
- The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
- Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good Night — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 03, 2017 04:07 PM
- If there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
- MediaWiki Training 2017 — by Tito Dutta and Ananth Subray — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:43 AM
- MediaWiki Training 2017 conducted in Bangalore
- Comments on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities 'Vision Document 2030' — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Feb 28, 2017 03:58 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted comments for the consideration of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) on the Vision Document 2030 brought out earlier this month.
- Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2017 02:46 AM
- Medianama and Mint organized #NAMApolicy open house on 'Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation' on February 22, 2017 at the India Habitat Centre. Japreet Grewal and Amber Sinha attended the event.
- Can the Judiciary Upturn the Lok Sabha Speaker’s Decision on Aadhaar? — by Amber Sinha — last modified Feb 27, 2017 03:44 PM
- When ruling on the petition filed by Jairam Ramesh challenging passing the Aadhaar Act as a money Bill, the court has differing precedents to look at.
- Free and Open Source Software and Standards for Public Health Information Systems in India: “Making them Work” by Bridging the Policy Practice Gap — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2017 03:36 PM
- Anubha Sinha spoke at the ORF Health Policy Workshop on the panel: The policy landscape in India with respect FOSS software and standards in the public sector more generally. The event was organized by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi on February 27 and 28, 2017 in New Delhi.
- India To Let Private Companies Access Citizens’ Biometric Data — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2017 03:09 PM
- India, home to the world’s largest national biometric registry, plans to begin sharing citizens’ data with the country’s private companies and startups.
- T20 Mumbai 2017: Dialogue on the Emerging World Economy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2017 03:04 PM
- Gateway House, Indian Council on Global Relations organized a dialogue on emerging world economy in Mumbai on 13 and 14 February 2017. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.
- Is Your Aadhar Biometrics Safe? Firms Accused Of Storing Biometrics And Using Them Illegally — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 27, 2017 01:56 AM
- Fears of Aadhar biometric security have been compounded as the government is sprinting towards the next phase of ‘cashless India’ and digitization
- WikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1 — by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Feb 27, 2017 01:42 AM
- The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.
- LinkedIn will help people in India train for semi-skilled jobs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 24, 2017 01:51 AM
- Microsoft has launched Project Sangam, a cloud service integrated with LinkedIn that will help train and generate employment for middle and low-skilled workers.
- Privacy Gaps in India's Digital India Project — by Anisha Gupta and Edited by Amber Sinha — last modified Feb 21, 2017 01:55 AM
- This paper seeks to assess the privacy protections under 15 e-governance schemes: Soil Health Card, Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), Project Panchdeep, U-Dise, Electronic Health Records, NHRM Smart Card, MyGov, eDistricts, Mobile Seva, Digi Locker, eSign framework for Aadhaar, Passport Seva, PayGov, National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP), and Aadhaar.
- Big Data in Governance in India: Case Studies — by Amber Sinha, Vanya Rakesh and Vidushi Marda and Edited by Elonnai Hickok, Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Sunil Abraham — last modified Feb 26, 2017 04:24 PM
- This research seeks to understand the most effective way of researching Big Data in the Global South. Towards this goal, the research planned for the development of a Global South big data Research Network that identifies the potential opportunities and harms of big data in the Global South and possible policy solutions and interventions.
- Marathi Wikisource & Digitisation Workshop — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Mar 05, 2017 02:34 AM
- A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) team on February 17 and 18, 2017. Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited and Jnana Prabhodini were the co-organizers. The discussions were held at Jnana Prabodhini, Sadashiv Peth, Pune on February 17 and C Trade Tower, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune on February 18, 2017.
- No Genie At Your Fingertips — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 16, 2017 04:02 PM
- Aadhaar biometrics will now enable cashless shopping sans card and smartphone. A look at the hopes and fears.
- Digital illusions — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 16, 2017 02:53 PM
- The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana.
- 50p and Digital Payments Masterclass Learning - CIS — by Udbhav Tiwari — last modified Jun 15, 2017 12:29 PM
- Sunil Abraham, Saikat Dutta and Udbhav Tiwari from the CIS team attended 50p on the 24 and 25 of January 2017 in Bangalore, India. We had the following learnings from the event, which will shape our work in the digital finance and payments space in the future.
- India's Aadhaar with biometric details of its billion citizens is making experts uncomfortable — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2017 02:57 PM
- "Indians in general have yet to understand the meaning and essence of privacy," says Member of Parliament, Tathagata Satpathy.
- Surveillance in India: Policy and Practice — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 15, 2017 01:05 AM
- The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy organized a brainstorming session on net neutrality on February 8, 2017 and a public seminar on surveillance in India the following day on February 9, 2017 in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash gave a talk.
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