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- Corporate push to Modi’s Rs.4.5-billion digital dream — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 16, 2015 02:26 AM
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Rs. 4.5-billion digital dream seems to find favour with the corporate world, which calls it a “very progressive step” and “massive tech push”.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 24) – Shantanu Ghosh — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 15, 2015 02:58 PM
- CIS interviews Shantanu Ghosh, Managing Director, Symantec Product Operations, India, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 23) – Justin Searle — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 15, 2015 02:44 PM
- CIS interviews Justin Searle, security expert, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
- Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age — by Geetha Hariharan and Jyoti Panday — last modified Jul 15, 2015 02:42 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society, the Observer Research Foundation, the Internet Policy Observatory, the Centre for Global Communication Studies and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania organized this conference on April 21, 2015 in New Delhi.
- Net Neutrality and the Law of Common Carriage — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 11:09 AM
- Net neutrality makes strange bedfellows. It links the truck operators that dominate India’s highways, such as those that carry vegetables from rural markets to cities, and Internet service providers which perform a more technologically advanced task.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 22) - Anonymous — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 13, 2015 01:40 PM
- CIS interviews a Tibetan security researcher and information activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series. He prefers to remain anonymous.
- Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM
- This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
- Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 10:12 AM
- This note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Internet Policy Observatory of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- Users and the Internet — by Purbasha Auddy — last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM
- This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, with more than eight years of work experience in digital archiving. She has also been teaching for the last two years in the newly-started post-graduate diploma course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics offered by the SCTR. In this essay, Purbasha explores the constructions of the ideas of the Indian Internet users through the advertisements that talk about data packages, mobile phones or apps.
- Regulatory Perspectives on Net Neutrality — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jul 18, 2015 02:46 AM
- In this paper Pranesh Prakash gives an overview on why India needs to put in place net neutrality regulations, and the form that those regulations must take to avoid being over-regulation.
- India’s digital check — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 15, 2015 02:55 PM
- All nine pillars of Digital India directly correlate with policy research conducted at the Centre for Internet and Society, where I have worked for the last seven years. This allows our research outputs to speak directly to the priorities of the government when it comes to digital transformation.
- 'IRCTC’s Aadhaar play can violate SC order and derail National Security' — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 07, 2015 03:10 PM
- Your online railway bookings are going to become a wee bit more difficult if they aren’t already so.
- The Digital Divide: pros and cons of Modi's latest big initiative — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 06, 2015 02:11 AM
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Digital India (DI) initiative on 1 July, at an event attended by scores of government officials as well as industry leaders.
- Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Prajavani) — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM
- As part of its ongoing partnership with St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, CIS-A2K along with the Wikipedia community in Karnataka organized a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia. Prajavani reported this in their edition published on July 5, 2015.
- Upload More Kannada Articles on Wikipedia — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:09 AM
- Uploading information in Wikipedia helps to develop language, said Indian Languages Programme Manager U B Pavanaja here on Saturday. The article was published in Indian Express (Mangaluru edition) on July 5, 2015.
- Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani) — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AM
- As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
- Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM
- Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
- Report: 5G Technologies Workshop by IEEE — by Rohini Lakshané — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:45 AM
- A report on the 5G Technologies Workshop organised by the Bangalore Chapter of the IEEE Communication Society at Bangalore on May 22 -23, 2015.
- The Centrality of Cash Flows — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Aug 25, 2015 04:27 PM
- Greece's experience tells us that cash flows are crucial to economic outcomes. No matter how far-reaching the vision, ambition, and slogans, the effects of cash flows are profound and inevitable.
- Anti-Spam Laws in Different Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis — by Rakshanda Deka — last modified Jul 02, 2015 04:21 PM
- This paper is divided into three sections. The first section puts forth a comparative table of the spam laws of five different countries - the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom - based on eight distinct parameters- jurisdiction of the legislation, definition of ‘spam’, understanding of consent, labelling requirements, types of senders covered, entities empowered to sue, exceptions made and penalties prescribed. The second section is a brief background of the problem of spam and it attempts to establish the context in which the paper is written. The third section is a critical analysis of the laws covered in the first section. In an effort to spot the various loopholes in these laws and suggest effective alternatives, this section points out the distinctions between the various legislations and discusses briefly their respective advantages and disadvantages.
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