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- DIDP Request #13: Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: Registries — by Asvatha Babu — last modified Jul 28, 2016 03:40 PM
- On multiple occasions, Fadi Chehade, then President and CEO of ICANN has emphasized the importance of conducting audits (internal and external) to ensure compliance of ICANN’s contracted parties. At a US congressional hearing, he spoke about the contract monitoring function of ICANN.
- Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 28, 2016 03:03 AM
- Film makers, activists and journalists accused Facebook of blocking their accounts this week after they posted messages and images related to the violence in the trouble-torn province of Kashmir. In recent weeks, the India administered, Muslim-majority Kashmir state has been facing violence and curfews after protests erupted against the killing of a popular leader of a terrorist group.
- DIDP Request #9 - Exactly how involved is ICANN in the NETmundial Initiative? — by Asvatha Babu — last modified Jul 27, 2016 03:53 PM
- The importance and relevance of knowing ICANN’s involvement in the NETmundial Initiative cannot be overstated.
- DIDP Request #10 - ICANN does not know how much each RIR contributes to its Budget — by Asvatha Babu — last modified Jul 27, 2016 02:57 PM
- In an effort to understand the relationship between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN, we requested current and historical information on the contract fees paid by the five RIRs (AfriNIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) to ICANN annually.
- Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India' — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM
- The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
- One Pokémon to Rule Them All — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 25, 2016 01:16 AM
- America’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space.
- The Gay Pride Charade — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 25, 2016 01:10 AM
- For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
- Belling the trolls — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 24, 2016 04:44 PM
- Online abuse - specially against women - is like one of those rapidly-mutating viruses that resists all antibodies.
- Perumal Murugan and the Law on Obscenity — by Japreet Grewal — last modified Aug 09, 2016 01:01 PM
- Digital Transition in Newspapers in India: A Pilot Study — by Zeenab Aneez — last modified Jul 20, 2016 11:43 AM
- This pilot study situates itself at the intersection of global trends in news and journalism, and emergent practises of legacy print media in India. Our aim is to explore how legacy print newspapers are transitioning to the online space. The study will address questions in two thematic clusters: 1) the work of journalism, and 2) how the emergence of the digital, both as a source of news, and the medium of distribution, is shaping the work of newspaper journalists.
- Workshop on Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 03, 2016 03:14 PM
- To discuss the focus areas of the Patent Declaration with key stakeholders in India, the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development organized a workshop at Conference Hall of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi on July 12 and 13, 2016. Sunil Abraham was a speaker.
- Meeting on Net Neutrality and Related Issues — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2016 03:56 PM
- A meeting was convened by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 15, 2016 in New Delhi to discuss Net Neutrality and related issues. Sunil Abraham attended this meeting.
- Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia — by Ananth Subray — last modified Aug 16, 2016 08:31 AM
- We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.
- New Approaches to Information Privacy – Revisiting the Purpose Limitation Principle — by Amber Sinha — last modified Nov 09, 2016 01:54 PM
- Article on Aadhaar throwing light on privacy and data protection.
- No, India did NOT oppose the United Nations move to “make internet access a human right” — by Pranesh Prakash and Japreet Grewal — last modified Jul 13, 2016 04:09 PM
- Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution titled “The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet.”
- Tamil Nadu likely to hold Facebook accountable for suicide case — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 13, 2016 01:44 PM
- The recent suicide of a 21-year-old woman from Salem district in Tamil Nadu over her morphed pictures being uploaded on Facebook could turn into a flash-point between the state police and the world's most-popular social networking site.
- Place for a safety net — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 13, 2016 02:45 AM
- Vinupriya took her life last week, humiliated by the morphed images of her naked body posted on a social media site. Experts warn that the spike in Internet traffic brings with it an increase in online sexual crimes. Measures must be taken urgently to save lives, they tell T.V. Jayan.
- Trans Pacific Partnership and Digital 2 Dozen: Implications for Data Protection and Digital Privacy — by Shubhangi Heda — last modified Jul 12, 2016 07:56 AM
- In this essay, Shubhangi Heda explores the concerns related to data protection and digital privacy under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed recently between United States of America and eleven countries located around the pacific ocean region, across South America, Australia, and Asia. TPP is a free trade agreement (FTA) that emphasises, among other things, the need for liberalising global digital economy. The essay also analyses the critical document titled ‘Digital 2 Dozen’ (D2D), which compiles the key action items within TPP addressing liberalisation of digital economy, and sets up the relevant goals for the member nations.
- Online edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu — by Subhashish Panigrahi and Pavan Santhosh — last modified Jul 11, 2016 04:23 PM
- A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.
- RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016 — by Shivalik Chandan — last modified Jul 11, 2016 06:27 AM
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published its first guideline on mobile banking in 2008, and the conversation on integrating Aadhaar numbers with bank account numbers on one hand and mobile numbers on the other started as soon as UIDAI was established. However, it is the post-2010 period, with rapid growth of the e-commerce sector in India, that saw rise of digital financial services and intermediaries, and hence the demand for regulatory intervention in the sector. This essay by Shivalik Chandan tracks RBI policies and guidelines responding to and shaping the regulatory framework of the digital financial sector in India, including both mobile banking and online transactions.
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