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- FOEX Live: June 16-23, 2014 — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 24, 2014 10:23 AM
- A weekly selection of news on online freedom of expression and digital technology from across India (and some parts of the world).
- Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License — by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AM
- For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
- IANA Transition: Suggestions for Process Design — by Smarika Kumar — last modified Jun 22, 2014 09:15 AM
- With analysis of community-input and ICANN processes, Smarika Kumar offers concrete suggestions for process design. She urges the Indian government to take a stronger position in matters of IANA transition.
- CIS Policy Brief: IANA Transition Fundamentals & Suggestions for Process Design — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jul 08, 2014 08:39 AM
- In March 2014, the US government announced that it would transfer oversight of IANA functions to an as-yet-indeterminate global multi-stakeholder body. This policy brief, written by Smarika Kumar and Geetha Hariharan, explains the process concisely.
- Understanding IANA Stewardship Transition — by Smarika Kumar — last modified Jun 22, 2014 03:23 AM
- Smarika Kumar describes the process of the IANA stewardship transition, and enumerates what the NTIA announcement does and does not do.
- Commonwealth Domain Name System Forum 2014 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 03, 2014 09:27 AM
- This event took place on 19 June 2014 from 09:00-17:30 BST at ICANN50 | London in the Viscount room. It was organized by the CTO, hosted by ICANN, and supported by Nominet and the Public Interest Registry.
- Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM
- Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
- WSIS+10 High Level Event: A Bird's Eye Report — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 20, 2014 03:57 PM
- The WSIS+10 High Level was organised by the ITU and collaborative UN entities on June 9-13, 2014. It aimed to evaluate the progress on implementation of WSIS Outcomes from Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005, and to envision a post-2015 Development Agenda. Geetha Hariharan attended the event on CIS' behalf.
- Free Speech and Source Protection for Journalists — by Gautam Bhatia — last modified Jun 19, 2014 08:10 PM
- Gautam Bhatia explores journalistic source protection from the perspective of the right to freedom of speech & expression. In this post, he articulates clearly the centrality of source protection to press freedoms, and surveys the differing legal standards in the US, Europe and India.
- UN Human Rights Council urged to protect human rights online — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 19, 2014 01:28 PM
- 63 civil society groups urged the UN Human Rights Council to address global challenges to freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights on the Internet. Centre for Internet & Society joined in the statement, delivered on behalf of the 63 groups by Article 19.
- Living in the Archival Moment — by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:27 AM
- The archive has been and continues to be a key concept in Digital Humanities discourse, particularly in India. The importance of the archive to knowledge production in the Humanities, the implication of changes in archival practice with the advent of electronic publishing and digitisation, and the focus on curation as a critical and creative process are some aspects of the debate that this blog post looks at.
- This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM
- The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
- Research Advisory Network Meeting — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:39 AM
- All sessions will take place at the OECD Headquarters, located at 2 Rue André Pascal, 75016, Paris, France. Sunil Abraham is participating in the event.
- Vodafone Report Explains Government Access to Customer Data — by Joe Sheehan — last modified Jun 19, 2014 10:38 AM
- Vodafone Group PLC, the world’s second largest mobile carrier, released a report on Friday, June 6 2014 disclosing to what extent governments can request their customers’ data.
- Multi-stakeholder Models of Internet Governance within States: Why, Who & How? — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 16, 2014 02:27 PM
- Internet governance, for long a global exercise, has found new awareness within national frameworks in recent times. Especially relevant for developing countries, effective national IG mechanisms are important to raise awareness and ensure multi-stakeholder participation at technical, infrastructural and public policy levels.
- FOEX Live: June 8-15, 2014 — by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 16, 2014 10:22 AM
- A weekly selection of news on online freedom of expression and digital technology from across India (and some parts of the world). Please email relevant news/cases/incidents to geetha[at]cis-india.org.
- A Review of the Functioning of the Cyber Appellate Tribunal and Adjudicatory Officers under the IT Act — by Divij Joshi — last modified Jul 03, 2014 05:43 AM
- Tribunals and quasi-judicial bodies are a regular feature of the Indian judicial system, as they provide for easier and less onerous methods for dispute resolution, especially disputes which relate to technical areas and often require technical knowledge and familiarity with specialised factual scenarios.
- Content Removal on Facebook — A Case of Privatised Censorship? — by Jessamine Mathew — last modified Jun 16, 2014 05:23 AM
- Any activity on Facebook, be it creating an account, posting a picture or status update or creating a group or page, is bound by Facebook’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. These contain a list of content that is prohibited from being published on Facebook which ranges from hate speech to pornography to violation of privacy.
- Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week — by Diptiman Panigrahi — last modified Jun 16, 2014 06:16 AM
- WeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.
- Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 15, 2014 02:17 AM
- As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often asked: “Are you going to start a new research centre?” And the answer, for the most part, is “No.”
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