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- Smartphones and the Return to Dependency — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Sep 07, 2014 06:32 AM
- The new age smartphones that operate by touch mean much more than exciting new technology to persons with visual impairment, they signify the return to the world of dependency, a situation that the group had successfully steered out of some years ago with the support provided by accessible devices and assistive technology.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 20) – Saumil Shah — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Sep 06, 2014 05:03 AM
- CIS interviews Saumil Shah, security expert, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
- Will domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2014 05:50 AM
- Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.
- Karnataka Goondas Act - A note on Legislative Competence — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Sep 06, 2014 04:47 AM
- A couple of weeks ago, we had an insightful guest post by Nehaa Chaudhari on amendments to Karnataka's Goondas Act, a draconian legislation which seeks to allow preventive detention for some types of copyright violations. Today, we have a follow up post on that, that argues that the recent amendments are unconstitutional.
- Understanding Surveillance and Privacy in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2014 06:08 AM
- Bhairav Acharya delivered a lecture at the Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on August 28, 2014.
- The Uncertain Future of India's Plan to Biometrically Identify Everyone — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2014 05:31 AM
- Last Sunday an 11-year-old boy in Andhra Pradesh, a state in southeast India, hung himself from a ceiling fan as his family slept.
- OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014 — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 06, 2014 05:09 AM
- GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
- Privacy in Healthcare: Policy Guide — by Tanvi Mani — last modified Aug 31, 2014 03:18 PM
- The Health Policy Guide seeks to understand what are the legal regulations governing data flow in the health sector — particularly hospitals, and how are these regulations implemented. Towards this objective, the research reviews data practices in a variety of public and private hospitals and diagnostics labs. The research is based on legislation, case law, publicly available documents, and anonymous interviews.
- We are Wikipedia — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 06, 2014 03:19 AM
- Wikimedia Deutchland has included a paragraph about WeAreWikipedia on their blog.
- Digital Publishing Meeting — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 09, 2014 08:25 AM
- As an initiative towards building a community, a meeting on digital publishing was conducted by C-DAC GIST Pune on August 22, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja attended the meeting.
- CIS' Comments on the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Aug 22, 2014 03:46 PM
- In July 2014, the Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India released a draft Open Access Policy. CIS participated in discussions along with experts brought on board by the Drafting Committee to develop and review the open access policy. As a follow-up, CIS prepared comments to the draft Policy. This post makes available CIS' comments to the draft Policy.
- Announcing the Tracks for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Aug 22, 2014 09:47 AM
- CIS recently announced that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post declares the track events to be conducted, seeks your participation and invites contributions from potential funders.
- ALC signs MoU for better net access — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 20, 2014 06:50 AM
- Andhra Loyola College (ALC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge (CSI-A2K) here on Thursday.
- Dot Bharat domain to roll out on August 21 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2014 07:08 AM
- Web addresses are set to get multilingual in India. Soon you will be able to type in addresses in a web browser in the Devnagri script – with “dot bharat” standing in for the currently common “dot in” domain to begin with. The roll-out of the same begins on August 21.
- Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy — by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
- The emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research and pedagogy. This blog post examines the emergence of the phenomenon of the alt-academy in the West, and examines the nuances and possibilities of such a space in the Indian context.
- Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access — by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM
- Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
- CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:22 AM
- This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.
- Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part II — by Samantha Cassar — last modified Aug 19, 2014 03:51 AM
- The following is a second post within a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Within this research, CIS attempts to understand how they engage with the law within their practice, particularly with respect to IP. Here we examine how these developers responded to a question on legal protection for their works.
- Learning to Forget the ECJ's Decision on the Right to be Forgotten and its Implications — by Divij Joshi — last modified Aug 19, 2014 05:24 AM
- “The internet never forgets” is a proposition which is equally threatening and promising.
- Preventive Detention for Copyright Violation: Karnataka Amends the 'Goondas' Act — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Aug 13, 2014 12:46 PM
- Last week, the Government of Karnataka amended the Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Gamblers Act, 1985 (“the Karnataka Goondas Act”). The Karnataka Goondas Act would now also apply to offences under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000. This article presents an overview on the various provisions of this law and discusses the potential impact of the amendment.
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