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- The Panama Papers and the question of privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 24, 2016 02:03 PM
- This statement was originally published on privacyinternational.org on 4 April 2016.
- Surveillance Project — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 05, 2016 03:21 PM
- The Aadhaar project’s technological design and architecture is an unmitigated disaster and no amount of legal fixes in the Act will make it any better.
- A Large Byte of Your Life — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:35 AM
- With the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering.
- Mapping MAG: A study in Institutional Isomorphism — by Jyoti Panday — last modified Mar 03, 2017 12:59 AM
- The paper is an update to a shorter piece of MAG analysis that had been conducted in July 2015. At that time our analysis was limited by the MAG membership data that was made available by the Secretariat. Subsequently we wrote to the Secretariat and this paper is based on the data shared by them including for the years for which membership details were previously not available.
- CIS - A2K Work Plan: July 2016 - June 2017 — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 29, 2016 09:36 AM
- One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalyzing the growth of the free and open knowledge movement in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008. Since September 2012, we at CIS-A2K, have been actively involved in growing the movement in India through (i) a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for the period September 2012 - June 2014, (ii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2014 - June 2015 and (iii) the FDC Grant received for the period July 2015 - June 2016. Based on the productive experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed this work plan for July 2016 to June 2017.
- Dataset: Patent Landscape of Mobile Device Technologies in India — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified May 03, 2016 08:06 PM
- Patent landscape of mobile technology patents and patent applications held by 50 companies operating in India. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
- Brainstorming Workshop on PG Programme on Media Studies for UGC E-Pathshala Programme — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2016 07:00 AM
- Nehaa Chaudhari will be speaking at this conference to be organized by Jamia Milla Islamia on April 5, 2016 in New Delhi.
- Fifth Annual IP Teaching Workshop — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2016 06:53 AM
- The V Annual IP Teaching Workshop- 2016 was organised by the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC), at National Law University Delhi in association with National Academy of Law Teaching, NLU-D, on March 31 and April 1, 2016 in Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari was a speaker.
- Global Congress 2015 - A Collection of Resources — by Nisha S Kumar — last modified May 03, 2016 02:24 AM
- The 4th edition of the Global Congress 2015 was organized at the National Law School of India University in New Delhi from 15 - 17 December 2015. The largest ever in Asia, the Global Congress was jointly organized by the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) in association with National Law University, Delhi, Open A.I.R., CREATe, Columbia University and American University.
- Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Mar 29, 2017 04:03 AM
- Though India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 mobile device vendors, it has, until recently, remained relatively unaffected by the global smartphone wars. Over the past three years, however, a growing number of patent enforcement actions have been brought by multinational firms against domestic Indian producers. These actions, which have largely resulted in judgments favoring foreign patent holders, have given rise to a variety of proposals for addressing this situation.
- Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 31, 2016 04:28 PM
- A two day workshop on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives was organized by MHRD Chair on Intellectual Property Rights, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Advocacy, and National Law School of India University in Bangalore on March 4 and 5, 2016. Nehaa Chaudhari spoke in 2 sessions: Exception & Limitations to Copyrighted Works and WIPO Initiatives.
- BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM
- Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
- RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 06, 2016 03:10 PM
- RightsCon is the world’s leading event convened around the issues of the internet and human rights. The annual conference convenes business leaders, visionaries, technologists, legal experts, civil society members, activists, and government representatives from across the globe on issues at the intersection of tech and human rights. The event was organized by RightsCon.
- Will Aadhaar Act Address India’s Dire Need For a Privacy Law? — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Apr 05, 2016 04:01 PM
- 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM
- While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
- Woman Alleges Harassment at Major International Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2016 05:06 PM
- A prospective lawyer's name tag was flipped, and she was asked rude questions by a CEO at a conference, where, ironically enough, she was invited to devise sexual harassment policies.
- ICANN 55 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2016 02:41 PM
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its 55th meeting in Marrakech, Morocco from March 5 to 10, 2016. Padmini Baruah and Vidushi Marda attended the event organized by Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Consular and Social Affairs.
- TRAI Consultation on Differential Pricing for Data Services - Post-Open House Discussion Submission — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 30, 2016 01:13 PM
- The Centre for Internet and Society sent this submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) following the Open House Discussion on Differential Pricing of Data Services, held in Delhi on February 21, 2016.
- Report on eSpeak with NVDA Screen Reader and Assistive Technology for Visually Challenged — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Apr 02, 2016 06:33 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore and National Association for the Blind, New Delhi in collaboration with Centre for Differently Abled Persons, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli organized a workshop on eSpeak with NVDA Screen Reader and Assistive Technology for Visually Challenged at Centre for Differently Abled Persons, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli on January 21, 2016.
- Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM
- The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 03, 2016. Ms. Anubha Sinha represented CIS at the meeting, and shares her notes.
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