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- Best Practices in Digital Accessibility — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 16, 2016 10:35 PM
- Nirmita Narasimhan will be part of a discussion on the best practices in digital accessibility to be organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on 19 December 2016 in Bengaluru.
- ISIS and Recruitment using Social Media – Roundtable Report — by Vidushi Marda, Aditya Tejus, Megha Nambiar and Japreet Grewal — last modified Dec 16, 2016 02:19 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the Takshashila Institution held a roundtable discussion on “ISIS and Recruitment using Social Media” on 1 September 2016 from 5.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at TERI in Bengaluru.
- 25th Session of the WIPO SCP: Statement on Assessment of Inventive Step — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Dec 16, 2016 10:27 PM
- Statement emailed by Rohini Lakshané on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society to the Secretariat for the WIPO Standing Committee for the Law of Patents, Twenty Fifth Session, with reference to agenda item 7, "Sharing session on examples and cases relating to assessment of inventive step including, but not limited to, the topics suggested in document SCP/24/3, paragraph 8.
- Protection of Privacy in Mobile Phone Apps — by Hitabhilash Mohanty and Edited by Leilah Elmokadem — last modified Dec 15, 2016 02:18 PM
- The term “Fintech” refers to technology-based businesses that compete against, enable and/or collaborate with financial institutions. The year 2015 was a critical year for the Indian fintech industry, which saw the rise of numerous fintech start-ups, incubators and investments from the public and private sector.
- Mini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India — by dutta — last modified Dec 15, 2016 05:28 AM
- Mini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a report.
- Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editing — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 15, 2016 02:21 AM
- Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.
- Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures — by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM
- This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
- Enlarging the Small Print: A Study on Designing Effective Privacy Notices for Mobile Applications — by Meera Manoj — last modified Dec 14, 2016 04:27 PM
- The Word’s biggest modern lie is often wholly considered to lie in the sentence “I haveread and agreed to the Terms and Conditions.” It is a well-known fact, backed by empirical research that consumers often skip reading cumbersome privacy notices. The reasons for these range from the lengthy nature, complicated legal jargon and inopportune moments when these notices are displayed. This paper seeks to compile and analyse the different simplified designs of privacy notices that have been proposed for mobile applications that encourage consumers to make informed privacy decisions.
- A Shortcut to Freedom — by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 09:58 AM
- In our everyday life we need access to knowledge and information, we need books (and magazines, newspapers), movies (and documentaries, animations), music for education and entertainment purposes. Now, a delighting fact is almost everything we need, from a 1965 book to the latest Bollywood movie’s MP3 song, is available on the web. You knock the door, and it opens. Why should we care for free knowledge then? We have a got “a shortcut to freedom”.
- CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks — by Japreet Grewal, Pranesh Prakash, Sharath Chandra, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Sunil Abraham, and Udbhav Tiwari, with expert comments from Amelia Andersdotter — last modified Dec 12, 2016 01:59 PM
- This submission presents responses by the CIS on the Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks published by the TRAI on November 15, 2016. Our analysis of the solution proposed in the Note, in brief, is that there is no need of a solution for non-existing interoperability problem for authentication and payment services for accessing public Wi-Fi networks. The proposed solution in this Note only adds to over-regulation in this sector, and does not incentivise new investment in the sector, but only establishes UIDAI and NPCI as the monopoly service providers for authentication and payment services.
- Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software Products — by Anubha Sinha, Rohini Lakshané, and Udbhav Tiwari — last modified Dec 12, 2016 02:45 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software Products on December 9, 2016.
- Vijay Mallya cries foul after his Twitter and email accounts are hacked — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2016 01:50 PM
- The attackers said they were able to access over a gigabyte of data from Mallya's email.
- Most popular smartphone apps inaccessible to disabled: Study — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2016 05:12 AM
- Booking cabs, buying food and making payments online seem like they're just a swipe and a tap away, but for millions of disabled Indians, these apps are not designed for them to use.
- English gottila,job illa — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2016 04:47 AM
- Quoted as the ‘golden boy of Karnataka’, after winning two gold medals for India in Special Olympics in 2003 in Dublin, once Aslam Pasha quit his last job as a night watchman a week back.
- Bumpy road ahead for RFID Tags in vehicles — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2016 04:31 AM
- The government plans to make digital tags in vehicles mandatory to ensure seamless passage at the toll booths, but the implementation of the proposed move may not be so smooth.
- Fake Narendra Modi apps aplenty, but it’s up to users to protect themselves — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2016 04:24 AM
- The app, hosted on Google Play store, automatically gets excessive permission including full network access and ability to take pictures and videos once downloaded.
- Habeas Data in India — by Vipul Kharbanda and edited by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 10, 2016 04:01 AM
- Habeas Data is a latin word which can be loosely translated to mean “have the data”. The right has been primarily conceptualized, designed, ratified, and implemented by various nation-states in the background of a shared common history of decades of torture, terror, and other repressive practices under military juntas and other fascist regimes.
- The Digital Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Questions Raised by the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in India — by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda — last modified Dec 09, 2016 03:50 PM
- This is an edited version of part three of a study that considers the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) through aspects of intellectual property in India, namely, mobile patents, free and open source software, and India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. Through these, it demonstrates the potential of the internet in realising ESCRs.
- Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition — by Zeenab Aneez — last modified Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM
- This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The report comes out of a collaboration between the CIS and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and was supported by the latter. The research was undertaken by Zeenab Aneez, with contributions from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
- Privacy and Security Implications of Public Wi-Fi - A Case Study — by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Dec 12, 2016 12:29 PM
- Today internet is an essential necessity in everyday work and recognizing its vital role, governments across the world including the Indian government, are giving access to public Wi-Fi. However, use of public Wi-Fi brings along with it certain privacy and security risks. This research paper analyses some of these concerns, along with the privacy policies of key ISPs in India providing public Wi-Fi service in Bangalore-namely D-VoIS and Tata Docomo, as a case study to provide suitable recommendations.
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