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IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #MetaverseInquilab by Admin — last modified Mar 18, 2022 01:01 PM
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #LetsMoveIn by Admin — last modified May 19, 2022 02:54 PM
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #DigitisingCrisesRemakingHome by Admin — last modified Apr 25, 2022 12:23 PM
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022- #Home.
Call for Interns by CIS — last modified Mar 30, 2023 02:29 AM
Big Tech’s privacy promise to consumers could be good news — and also bad news by Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri — last modified Jan 18, 2023 11:25 PM
Rajat Kathuria, Isha Suri write: Its use as a tool for market development must balance consumer protection, innovation, and competition.
UN Questionnaire on Digital Innovation, Technologies and Right to Health by Pahlavi and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Nov 21, 2022 04:10 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) contributed to the questionnaire put out by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on digital innovation, technologies and the right to health. The responses were authored by Pahlavi and Shweta Mohandas, and edited by Indumathi Manohar.
Global Civil Society Coalition launches website to promote Access to Knowledge by Anubha Sinha — last modified Oct 12, 2022 12:05 PM
Parichiti - Domestic Workers’ Access to Secure Livelihoods in West Bengal by Anchita Ghatak — last modified Dec 30, 2020 10:01 AM
This report by Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti presents findings of a pilot study conducted by the author and colleagues to document the situation of women domestic workers (WDWs) in the lockdown and the initial stages of the lifting of restrictions. This study would not have been possible without the WDWs who agreed to be interviewed for this study and gave their time generously. We are grateful to Dr Abhijit Das of the Centre for Health and Social Justice for his advice and help. The report is edited by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon, and this work forms a part of the CIS’s project on gender, welfare and surveillance supported by Privacy International, United Kingdom.
Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
Wiki Women for Women Well-Being: An Initiative to Bridge the Gender Gap in the Wikimedia Community by Nitesh Gill and Shruti Anandan — last modified Dec 28, 2020 02:58 PM
WWWW is a project which focused on bridging the female related content gap on Indic Wikimedia communities. The idea of WWWW was given by Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, who worked with other women leaders from different communities and made a plan to engage with the editors for this project. CIS-A2K has started a series of interviews to introduce women with brilliant ideas and who have done contributions for Wikimedia and this is the first interview under the “Series of Interviews.” This Interview was done by Nitesh Gill.
India Digital Freedom Series: Internet Shutdowns, Censorship and Surveillance by Gurshabad Grover — last modified Jan 11, 2021 10:07 AM
A series of reports on digital rights and civic space in India, focusing on four areas where restrictive policies threaten fundamental freedoms and impede public participation: internet shutdowns, censorship, platform governance and surveillance.
Policy on Prohibition And Redressal of Sexual Harassment Against All Persons by Internal Committee on Prohibition of Sexual Harassment — last modified Dec 02, 2024 11:42 PM
Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel Discussion by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 23, 2020 02:03 PM
Women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the discursive, experiential and policy implications of these data-intensive developments on access to public health and welfare systems by women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons in India. The panelists presented studies undertaken as part of two projects at CIS, one of which is supported by Privacy International, UK, and the other by Big Data for Development network established by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Data Lives of Humanities Text by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
Call for Papers: #CultureForAll Conference by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 23, 2020 01:34 PM
We are collaborating with Sahapedia, Azim Premji University, and University of Cape Town to invite papers on cultural mapping for the #CultureForAll conference scheduled to be held in March 2021. Cultural mapping is a set of activities and processes for exploring, discovering, documenting, examining, analysing, interpreting, presenting, and sharing information related to people, communities, societies, places, and the material products and practices associated with those people and places. All interested academicians, researchers, PhD students, and practitioners are invited to submit papers. The conference is supported by Tata Technologies and MapMyIndia.
Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2020. Here are the overview, full text of the submitted inputs, and names of organisations and individuals who endorsed them.
Would banning Chinese Telecom Companies make 5g secure in India? by Aman Nair — last modified Dec 22, 2020 06:04 AM
Data driven election campaigning and India's proposed data protection framework by Shweta Reddy — last modified Mar 12, 2021 06:23 AM
This essay will examine if the proposed data protection framework of India is equipped to deal with the shift towards data driven elections.
Response to TRAI Consultation Paper on Broadband Connectivity and Speed by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Dec 20, 2020 08:43 AM
CIS comments on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s Consultation Paper on Roadmap to Promote Broadband Connectivity and Enhanced Broadband Speed
Government COVID-19 Responses in the Context of Privacy : Part II by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Dec 09, 2020 04:17 AM
This is the second part in a two part series of posts analysing the privacy implications of the state’s responses to COVID-19.

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