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- Do we need a Unified Post Transition IANA? — by Pranesh Prakash, Padmini Baruah and Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 27, 2015 12:46 AM
- As we stand at the threshold of the IANA Transition, we at CIS find that there has been little discussion on the question of how the transition will manifest. The question we wanted to raise was whether there is any merit in dividing the three IANA functions – names, numbers and protocols – given that there is no real technical stability to be gained from a unified Post Transition IANA. The analysis of this idea has been detailed below.
- CIS Participation at ICANN 54 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 18, 2016 12:47 PM
- Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India participated in the 54th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held at the Convention Center in Dublin from 17 October 2015 to 22 October 2015. Pranesh Prakash, Jyoti Panday and Padmini Baruah attended the meeting.
- The 'Global Multistakholder Community' is Neither Global Nor Multistakeholder — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 03, 2016 10:42 AM
- CIS research shows how Western, male, and industry-driven the IANA transition process actually is.
- A Kannada Wikipedia brochure for newbies — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 19, 2015 10:46 AM
- This brochure has been created keeping readers and new Wikipedia editors in mind. This would come handy to learn editing Kannada Wikipedia and creating/editing articles in Kannada.
- CIS Participated in T20 Mumbai, Regional Consultation Meeting, October 19, 2015 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 20, 2015 01:54 PM
- This is the first time that a T20 event, which is a series of preparatory meetings towards G20 summits, is taking place in India. Sumandro Chattapadhyay represented CIS in this consultation, and was a discussant in the session on Technology, Services, and Skills.
- National IPR Policy Series: Quick Observations on the Leaked Draft of the National IPR Policy — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Nov 19, 2015 05:13 AM
- Earlier this week, the “Don’t Trade Our Lives Away” blog leaked the supposed final draft of India’s National IPR Policy (“leaked draft”). This article presents quick comments on this leaked draft.
- How To Win Friends, FB Style — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 12:02 PM
- True to form—and Facebook—there was a warm, friendly and familial feel to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s townhall meeting at Melon, California, with Mark Zuckerberg on September 27. Modi got emotional (yet again) while talking about his mother. Zuckerberg, the youngish founder of the world’s largest social networking site, got his parents to meet and pose with Modi.
- Supreme Court provides partial relief for Aadhaar — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 05:01 AM
- In a small but significant win for the government, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the use of the Aadhaar number for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, pensions by central and state governments, and the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, in addition to its current use in the public distribution system (PDS) and the distribution of cooking gas and kerosene.
- Digital India: Did Modi get it wrong in Silicon Valley? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 04:44 AM
- A bear hug, a photo filter and a new debate on net neutrality - Ayeshea Perera examines the domestic fallout of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook townhall in US.
- FOSS & a Free, Open Internet: Synergies for Development — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:57 PM
- Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Civil Society is organizing a workshop on FOSS and a Free, Open Internet. The workshop will be held on November 13, 2015 from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash will be speaking at this event.
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Internet Economy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 16, 2015 03:40 PM
- Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) is organizing a session on “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Internet Economy” on November 11, 2015 from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Sunil Abraham is participating in this session as a speaker.
- Crowdsourcing Incidents of Communication Privacy Violation in India — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Oct 16, 2015 10:49 AM
- In the context of several ongoing threads of debates and policy discussions, we are initiating this effort to crowdsource incidents of violation of digital/online/telephonic privacy of persons and organisations in India. The full list of submitted incidents is publicly shared, under Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Please contribute and share with your friends and colleagues.
- CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM
- This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge, skills, competencies, and mindsets at some of the world’s most prominent digital scholarship programs. It then identifies the main strategies used to build this expertise, both formally and informally. The work is set in a global context, examining leading digital scholarship organizations in China, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The report team visited and spoke to us last year, as part of the study. Here are the Executive Summary and link to the final report.
- Cyfy 2015: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 17, 2015 02:44 PM
- In its third year, Cyfy; South Asia’s biggest internet policy conference is being held in New Delhi, from 14-16 October, 2015. The event is organized by Observer Research Foundation at Hotel Taj Mansingh. Sunil Abraham is a panelist in the session "Protection of Intellectual Property and Business Secrets in the Knowledge Economy".
- Comments on the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10) — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Oct 16, 2015 02:44 AM
- On 9 October 2015, the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released. Comments were sought on the Zero Draft from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
- Comparison of National IPR Strategy September 2012, National IPR Strategy July 2014 and Draft National IP Policy, December 2014 — by Amulya Purushothama — last modified Mar 08, 2016 01:49 AM
- This is an analysis of the first draft of India's National IPR Policy with an earlier document "India's National IPR Strategy".
- Peering behind the veil of ICANN's DIDP (II) — by Padmini Baruah — last modified Oct 15, 2015 03:14 AM
- In a previous blog post, I had introduced the concept of ICANN’s Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (“DIDP”) and their extremely vast grounds for non-disclosure. In this short post, I have made an analysis of every DIDP request that ICANN has ever responded to, to point out the flaws in their policy that need to be urgently remedied.
- Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India — by Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:40 PM
- The European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
- Enabling Multi-stakeholder Cooperation - Towards a Transnational Framework for Due Process — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:53 AM
- Internet & Jurisdiction Project organized a multi-stakeholder meeting of the global multi-stakeholder dialogue process in 2015 on October 8-9 in Berlin, Germany. Sunil Abraham participated in this meeting.
- CIS in Top 50 Tech Blogs of India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 14, 2015 06:24 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society is on the 30th position among the top technology blogs in India.
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