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- Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Hyderabad Book Fair — by [email protected] — last modified Feb 06, 2017 12:48 PM
- Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Hyderabad Book Fair in December welcoming members of the public to join as editors on the regional encyclopaedia.
- Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Rajahmundry Book Fair — by [email protected] — last modified Feb 06, 2017 12:48 PM
- Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the three day Rajahmundry Book Fair from 20 - 23 November 2016.
- Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Rajahmundry Book Fair — by [email protected] — last modified Jan 18, 2017 04:05 PM
- Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the three day Rajahmundry Book Fair from 20 - 23 November 2016.
- Mini Workshop on Tools: Wikipedia Monthly Meetup, Hyderabad — by Manasa Rao and Pavan Santhosh — last modified Feb 06, 2017 12:49 PM
- Telugu Wikipedia community held its monthly meet-up in Hyderabad on 28 August 2016.
- Lost your phone? Here's how you can make your mobile theft-proof — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 19, 2017 02:40 AM
- Losing a phone has become even more costly after the government's push for a cashless society.
- Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Sangli, Maharashtra — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 16, 2017 01:22 PM
- A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Willingdon College, Sangli on 18 January, 2017
- Demonetisation: Cost Vs Benefit — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2017 04:04 PM
- Sunil Abraham took part in a discussion on Demonetisation in NDTV's Big Fight programme aired on December 24, 2016.
- India’s Digital ID Rollout Collides With Rickety Reality — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2017 03:35 PM
- India’s new digital identification system, years in the making and now being put into widespread use, has yet to deliver the new era of modern efficiency it promised for shop owner Om Prakash and customer Daya Chand.
- Supreme Court issues notice to WhatsApp, Centre on data privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2017 03:06 PM
- Analysts said India lacked data protection laws.
- The Dangers Of Aadhaar-Based Payments That No One Is Talking About — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2017 02:39 PM
- Less than three months ago, India’s banking sector was hit by a data breach which compromised 32 lakh debit cards and led to fraudulent transactions worth Rs 1.3 crore.
- Digital transitions in the newsroom: How are Indian language papers adapting differently? — by Zeenab Aneez — last modified Feb 03, 2017 01:50 AM
- In a new report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Centre for Internet and Society, Zeenab Aneez explores how Indian newsrooms are adapting their workflow and processes to cater to an increasing digital audience and the implications these changes have on how journalists produce news.
- Super Cassettes v. MySpace (Redux) — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jan 18, 2017 02:31 PM
- The latest judgment in the matter of Super Cassettes v. MySpace is a landmark and progressive ruling, which strengthens the safe harbor immunity enjoyed by Internet intermediaries in India. It interprets the provisions of the IT Act, 2000 and the Copyright Act, 1957 to restore safe harbor immunity to intermediaries even in the case of copyright claims. It also relieves MySpace from pre-screening user-uploaded content, endeavouring to strike a balance between free speech and censorship. CIS was one of the intervenors in the case, and has been duly acknowledged in the judgment.
- The soon-to-be launched Aadhaar Pay will let you make purchases using your fingerprint — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2017 03:14 AM
- Paying for your groceries and other goods by using your biometrics instead of an e-wallet, debit card or cash seems to be the next phase in the Centre’s ambitious push to shift the country to a “less cash” economy, as its mandarins term it.
- Millions of Indians move from cash to digital payments. But some ask whether it’s safe — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2017 02:52 AM
- Minutes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began an ambitious new mobile-phone-payment application in December, several clones of the app popped up at Android smartphone stores.
- Global Governance Futures 2027 - Session 3, New Delhi — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Jan 15, 2017 11:46 AM
- The Global Governance Futures program (GGF) initiated by Global Public Policy Institute and supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung brings together young professionals to look ahead ten years and recommend ways to address global challenges. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will join Ankhi Das (Facebook) and Arun Mohan Sukumar (Observer Research Foundation) on Tuesday, January 17, to discuss the "data governance" scenarios developed by the GGF 2027 Fellows.
- Social Media Monitoring — by Amber Sinha — last modified Jan 16, 2017 02:23 PM
- We see a trend of social media and communication monitoring and surveillance initiatives in India which have the potential to create a chilling effect on free speech online and raises question about the privacy of individuals. In this paper, Amber Sinha looks at social media monitoring as a tool for surveillance, the current state of social media surveillance in India, and evaluate how the existing regulatory framework in India may deal with such practices in future.
- Comments on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy — by Padma Venkataraman, Rohini Lakshané, Sampada Nayak and Vidushi Marda — last modified Jan 13, 2017 03:56 PM
- ICANN sought community input on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy on 7 November 2016. In response to this the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.
- Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016) — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha — last modified Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM
- The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on December 09, 2016. The report was made public on December 27, and comments were sought from the general public. Here are the comments submitted by the Centre for Internet and Society.
- Telugu Wikipedia stall at Vijayawada Book Festival — by Pavan Santhosh — last modified Apr 15, 2017 04:23 PM
- The Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival in January, in order to increase reach of the regional language encyclopaedia.
- Myanmar Digital Rights Forum proposes a path away from 66(d) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 10, 2017 03:09 PM
- More than 55 representatives from technology companies, government, media and civil society organizations gathered at the innovation lab Phandeeyar to participate in the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum this morning. The two-day event was organized to address critical digital rights challenges in Myanmar.
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