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- Will Only Legal Backing For Aadhaar Suffice? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 16, 2016 02:31 AM
- Aadhaar is set to become mandatory, but the opponents of the scheme are not amused. Concerns about privacy of the Aadhaar number and the authenticity of the biometric data being collected have been expressed by people right from the beginning. But the government has not done much to address these issues.
- ಅಂತರ್ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಮಹಿಳಾ ದಿನಾಚರಣೆ ೨೦೧೬, ಕ್ರೈಸ್ಟ್ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ — by Prashasti — last modified Jul 03, 2016 12:04 PM
- ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೮ ನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ವಾದ್ಯಂತ ಅಂತಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಮಹಿಳಾ ದಿನ ಎಂದು ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿಶ್ವದ ಹಲವು ಕಡೆ ವಿಶೇಷ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ಒಂದು ತಿಂಗಳ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲೂ ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿಶೇಷ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಭಾಷೆಯ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯವೂ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.
- The New Aadhaar Bill in Plain English — by Amber Sinha, Vanya Rakesh and Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Mar 11, 2016 04:41 AM
- We have put together a plain English version of the The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016.
- GNI-Industry Dialogue Learning Session: Human Rights Impact Assessments and Due Diligence in the ICT sector — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Apr 06, 2016 03:42 PM
- Elonnai Hickok attended the meeting organized by Global Network Initiative on March 11, 2016 in Washington D.C.
- Are we Losing the Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech on Indian Internet? — by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 16, 2016 02:44 PM
- The article was published in DNA on March 10, 2016.
- Aadhaar Bill fails to incorporate suggestions by the Standing Committee — by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 10, 2016 03:58 PM
- In 2011, a standing committee report led by Yashwant Sinha had been scathing in its indictments of the Aadhaar BIll introduced by the UPA government. Five years later, the NDA government has introduced a new bill which is a rehash of the same. I look at the concerns raised by the committee report, none of which have been addressed by the new bill.
- Aadhaar Bill 2016 & NIAI Bill 2010 - Comparing the Texts — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 09, 2016 11:25 AM
- This is a quick comparison of the texts of the Aadhaar Bill 2016 and the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010. The new sections in the former are highlighed, and the deleted sections (that were part of the latter) are struck out.
- A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill — by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Mar 09, 2016 04:08 AM
- This blog post does a clause-by-clause comparison of the provisions of National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
- Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 06, 2016 03:31 PM
- While one wishes to welcome govt’s attempt to bring Aadhaar within a legislative framework, the fact is there are too many problems that still remain unaddressed for one to be optimistic.
- Report on NVDA with E-Speak and BookShare Online Library — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Apr 02, 2016 05:54 AM
- With the objective to sensitize and impart the skillset in handling NVDA – the Screen Reader and the usage of BookShare Online Library for the print disabled to the Special Educators, Karna Vidya Technology Centre in collaboration with Computer and Internet Society conducted a one-day Workshop on NVDA with E-Speak and BookShare Online Library on 27 02 2016 (Saturday) at Karna Vidya Technology Centre. Special Educators from Chennai, Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur totaling 48 have participated actively and got benefited from the Workshop.
- Flaws in the UIDAI Process — by Hans Varghese Mathews — last modified Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM
- The accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals whose identifiers match might be termed duplicands. When very many people are to be identified success can be measured by the (low) proportion of duplicands. The Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.
- The Crypto Wars Are Global — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2016 04:06 PM
- Connectivity: Let's Apply What We Know — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Apr 06, 2016 01:19 AM
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana. Reprise good decisions, and avoid the missteps.
- Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 21, 2016 09:57 AM
- We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.
- Can Wikipedia revive dying Indian languages? — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 29, 2016 02:54 PM
- Yes, by encouraging content and involvement, Wikipedia language communities keep languages relevant.
- Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N. — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 29, 2016 02:15 PM
- Vasanth S.N. has edited the Kannada-langauge Wikipedia since 2006. As part of the WikipediansSpeak series, I caught up with Vasanth to learn about his contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. In the discussion Vasanth shares his long time involvement in the Wikimedia movement, and what drives him every day to edit Wikipedia and helping other fellow Wikimedians.
- India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO model — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2016 03:44 AM
- Ability to access 'net from mobe no longer considered a miracle.
- Violence call key to 'sedition' — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2016 03:06 AM
- Words, whether spoken or shouted, that question or even malign the government cannot be labelled as sedition, unless they specifically incite violence, lawyers and human rights experts familiar with fundamental rights and sedition laws have said.
- Why the Internet is Making India Furious — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2016 03:01 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore is a kind of hacker club for wonks and lawyers obsessed with issues of digital rights and global development. Not exactly the mainstream kids’ lunch table. But the Center was brought into sudden relief this week, thanks to … Mark Zuckerberg.
- Comments by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Report of the Committee on Medium Term Path on Financial Inclusion — by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Mar 01, 2016 01:53 PM
- Apart from item-specific suggestions, CIS would like to make one broad comment with regard to the suggestions dealing with linking of Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts. Aadhaar is increasingly being used by the government in various departments as a means to prevent fraud, however there is a serious dearth of evidence to suggest that Aadhaar linkage actually prevents leakages in government schemes. The same argument would be applicable when Aadhaar numbers are sought to be utilized to prevent leakages in the banking sector.
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