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- Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2013 10:19 AM
- The Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg organized the Summer School 2013 at Hamburg, Germany from July 29 to August 2, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist in the session on "Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India".
- Whats & Hows of Wiki — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:00 AM
- The Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki.
- Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 26, 2013 09:17 AM
- Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
- Your life's an open Facebook — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 26, 2013 04:53 AM
- The jury's out on Facebook's newly introduced Graph Search. While some argue that it's a stalker's dream come true, others say it's a great tool for social research. Shikha Kumar jumps right into the debate.
- Meeting of a Sub-committee on DNA Profiling Bill in Hyderabad — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 21, 2013 06:21 AM
- A sub-committee has been constituted as per the recommendations of the Expert Committee of DNA Profiling Bill. The sub-committee will have a meeting in Hyderabad on August 6, 2013.
- Free Software — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 31, 2013 08:50 AM
- To spread awareness on free software and its philosophy, Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, organized a 9-days workshop between July 20 and 28 at the Institute campus near Bidadi to focus on free software is real freedom to compute.
- Report on the 5th Privacy Round Table meeting — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 26, 2013 08:24 AM
- This report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the fifth Privacy Round Table in Calcutta, on 13th July 2013.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 8) - Jeff Moss — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 30, 2013 09:25 AM
- CIS interviews Jeff Moss, Chief Security Officer for ICANN, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
- A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hubli — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jul 31, 2013 09:28 AM
- On Sunday, July 21, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Hubli by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post throws more light on the workshop.
- Snooping technology: Will CMS work in India? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 22, 2013 07:19 AM
- The Indian government plans to spend $132 million on setting up its brand new Central Monitoring System this year.
- You Have the Right to Remain Silent — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 22, 2013 06:59 AM
- Reflecting upon the state of freedom of speech and expression in India, in the wake of the shut-down of the political satire website narendramodiplans.com.
- Parsing the Cyber Security Policy — by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Jul 22, 2013 06:37 AM
- An effective cyber-security policy must keep up with the rapid evolution of technology, and must never become obsolete. The standard-setting and review bodies will therefore need to be very nimble, says Chinmayi Arun.
- CII Conference on "ACT": Achieve Cyber Security Together" — by Kovey Coles — last modified Jul 26, 2013 08:17 AM
- The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) organized a conference on facing cyber threats and challenges at Hotel Hilton in Chennai on July 13, 2013. Kovey Coles attended this conference and shares a summary of the event in this blog post.
- The ASSOCHAM International Conference on the "Interface between Intellectual Property and Competition Law" — by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jul 22, 2013 05:54 AM
- An international conference on interface between intellectual property and competition law was organized by ASSOCHAM on July 12, 2013 in New Delhi. In this post, Nehaa Chaudhari shares select notes from the conference.
- DSCI Best Practices Meet 2013 — by Kovey Coles — last modified Jul 26, 2013 08:18 AM
- The DSCI Best Practices Meet 2013 was organized on July 12, 2013 at Hyatt Regency, Anna Salai in Chennai. Kovey Coles attended the meet and shares a summary of the happenings in this blog post.
- Interview with Mr. Reijo Aarnio - Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 19, 2013 01:02 PM
- Maria Xynou recently interviewed Mr. Reijo Aarnio, the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman, at the CIS' 5th Privacy Round Table. View this interview and gain an insight on recommendations for better data protection in India!
- सावधान आपके प्रोफ़ाइल पर है पुलिस की नज़र! — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 31, 2013 04:10 AM
- जन लोकपाल, दिल्ली रेप केस और बाबा रामदेव के आंदोलनों में उमड़ी भीड़ से घबराई सरकारी एजेंसियां अब सोशल मीडिया पर कड़ी नज़र रखने के लिए मैदान में उतरी हैं.
- Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education — by Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AM
- The digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on July 13, 2013.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 7) - Jochem de Groot — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 30, 2013 09:26 AM
- CIS interviews Jochem de Groot, former policy advisor to the Netherlands government, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
- Can India Trust Its Government on Privacy? — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jul 15, 2013 10:35 AM
- In response to criticisms of the Centralized Monitoring System, India’s new surveillance program, the government could contend that merely having the capability to engage in mass surveillance won’t mean that it will. Officials will argue that they will still abide by the law and will ensure that each instance of interception will be authorized.
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