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- IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69A Rules: Draft and Final Version Comparison — by Jadine Lannon — last modified Apr 30, 2013 10:10 AM
- Jadine Lannon has performed a clause-by-clause comparison of the 69A draft rules and 69A rules for Section 69A of the IT Act in order to better understand how the two differ. While there has been reshuffling of the clauses in the official rules, the content itself has not changed significantly. Notes have been included on some changes we deemed to be important.
- CIS Gets ITU-D Sector Membership — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Jul 11, 2013 10:11 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has become a sector member of ITU-D, the development sector of the International Telecommunication Union, the specialized UN Agency dealing with telecommunications and information communications (ICTs).
- CIS Intervention on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired at SCCR/SS/GE/2/13 — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 25, 2013 11:57 AM
- The informal session and special session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was organised by WIPO in Geneva from April 18 to April 20, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in the session and spoke about the rights of the visually impaired. An abridged version of this was read out during the meeting on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 22:15 due to time restrictions.
- Mixed Reactions Among Participants In WIPO Talks On Treaty For The Blind — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2013 08:08 AM
- At the close of this week’s negotiating session for an international treaty on copyright exceptions for blind and visually impaired persons, some governments, including upcoming host Morocco, expressed disappointment in the outcome of a three-day drafting session, as it left so much for the diplomatic conference. But most said they are optimistic that solutions can be found.
- CIS in GNI Annual Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2013 07:31 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) joined the Global Network Intiative (GNI) in March 2012. Recently, GNI brought out its Annual Report. Sunil Abraham is quoted in it.
- Report on the 2nd Privacy Round Table meeting — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:54 AM
- This post entails a report on the second Privacy Round Table meeting which took place on 20th April 2013.
- Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages — by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 22, 2013 01:37 PM
- In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.
- Report on the 1st Privacy Round Table meeting — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 30, 2013 11:11 AM
- This report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the first Privacy Round Table meeting in New Delhi, on 13th April 2013.
- Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 30, 2013 10:51 AM
- Recently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met wikipedians in Kolkata. The event was co-organized by the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikipedian community of Kolkata.
- Untangling the web of India's 'ungovernable' Net — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 16, 2013 06:06 AM
- India sells itself as a tech hub, outsourcing IT experts to the world. At home, it dreams of "equity on the Net." But millions remain unconnected and digital surveillance is on the rise.
- Wikipedia Workshop in Mangalore — Report in Kannada Prabha — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 16, 2013 04:11 AM
- A workshop was conducted for students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja on April 9, 2013. Kannada Prabha published a report about this on the following day, April 10, 2013.
- KP Rao feted — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 15, 2013 04:47 PM
- KP Rao who had designed fonts for Indian languages including Kannada and devised the first phonetic keyboard driver for Indian languages, was felicitated at a programme organised at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management on Tuesday, reports DHNS from Mangalore.
- Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 30, 2013 04:50 PM
- The Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju calls for regulating social media, saying it will prevent offensive material coming into the public domain. But is it really necessary to regulate the social media? If yes, is it possible to do it?
- Vote: Will Social Media Impact the Election? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 15, 2013 08:30 AM
- As India enters election mode, social media has become one of many platforms where possible prime ministerial candidates are being scrutinized.
- Social media may influence 160 LS seats in 2014 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 15, 2013 07:13 AM
- Social media is likely to influence politics and elections in 160 of India’s 543 Parliament constituencies, making Facebook and Twitter users the nation’s newest voting bloc, a new study suggests.
- India takes its first serious step toward privacy regulation – but it may be misguided — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 15, 2013 06:39 AM
- The world’s second-most populous nation may be on the cusp of embracing privacy legislation. After several false starts the Indian government appears ready to accept the need for some form of regulation.
- Report of Wiki Workshop in Mangalore — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 16, 2013 06:14 AM
- A wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to K.P. Rao and about the wikipedia workshop.
- Need to develop vernacular languages stressed — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 15, 2013 08:47 AM
- University of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Rama Swamy said on Wednesday that everyone has a duty to contribute to the development of vernacular languages.
- India's 'Big Brother': The Central Monitoring System (CMS) — by Maria Xynou — last modified Dec 06, 2013 09:39 AM
- In this post, Maria Xynou looks at India´s Central Monitoring System (CMS) project and examines whether it can target individuals´ communications data, regardless of whether they are involved in illegal activity.
- The Fifth Elephant 2013 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 08, 2013 04:11 AM
- HasGeek is organizing the Fifth Elephant from July 11 to 13, 2013 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore. Workshops on open source technologies and enterprise solutions will be held on July 11, 2013. You can participate in workshops only, conference only or both.
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