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- Off the Record — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 26, 2013 05:58 AM
- Social networks track our world but not relationships. We live in a world where things happen. And yet, with the presence of digital objects, the things that happen have increased in intensity and volume.
- Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013) — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 30, 2013 03:52 AM
- The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
- Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013) — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:40 AM
- A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.
- Review of Guidelines for Indian Government Websites-meeting notice — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 28, 2013 03:39 AM
- The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension has called for a meeting for review of guidelines for Indian Government websites. The meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Shri Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- Clarify and define terms in IT rules, panel tells govt. — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2013 10:02 AM
- In the wake of concerns that the government is increasingly using ambiguously-phrased terms in legal codes to crack down on online speech, the Parliament’s Committee on Subordinate Legislation has asked for greater clarity and definition on terms which can serve as grounds for restrictions.
- 2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2013 10:17 AM
- The event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
- Comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Service Delivery) Rules, 2011 — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Jul 12, 2013 12:12 PM
- Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Services Delivery) Rules, 2011. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha.
- WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 04, 2013 06:49 AM
- On February 27, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society conducted a workshop on the Working Group on Internet Governance report, titled "WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward" at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) + 10 meeting at Fontenoy Building, conference room # 7, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris from 9.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.
- National Resource Kit: The Uttar Pradesh Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Manojna Yeluri — last modified Apr 03, 2013 10:49 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society and the Hans Foundation are pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
- Comments on the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Jul 12, 2013 12:13 PM
- Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Sensitive Personal Data Rules. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha.
- Comments on the Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011 — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Jul 12, 2013 12:15 PM
- Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society submitted the following comments on the Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe Rules), 2011.
- The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 — Penalising 'Peeping Toms' and Other Privacy Issues — by Divij Joshi — last modified Jul 12, 2013 12:17 PM
- The pending amendments to the Indian Penal Code, if passed in their current format, would be a huge boost for individual physical privacy by criminalising stalking and sexually-tinted voyeurism and removing the ambiguities in Indian law which threaten the privacy and dignity of individuals.
- India's Biometric Identification Programs and Privacy Concerns — by Divij Joshi — last modified Jul 21, 2016 10:51 AM
- The invasiveness of individual identification coupled with the fallibility of managing big data which biometric identification presents poses a huge risk to individual privacy in India.
- What’s In a Name? — DNS Singularity of ICANN and The Gold Rush — by Sharath Chandra Ram — last modified Mar 31, 2013 05:35 AM
- March 2013 being the 28th birthday of the first ever registered Internet domain as well as the exigent launch of the Trademark Clearing House disguised as a milestone in rights protection by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for it’s new gTLD program, Sharath Chandra Ram, dissects the transitory role of ICANN from being a technical outfit to the Boardroom Big Brother of Internet Governance.
- What if the Net shut down for a few days — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2013 11:01 AM
- When spammers attacked Spamhaus, a European spam-fighting group in what was billed as the "biggest cyber attack in history", they managed to temporarily slow down the internet. But what if dedicated attackers succeeded in shutting down the internet for a longer time, maybe a few days? What would be the potential impact of such a scenario in a world where crucial data is stored on emails, most financial transactions have shifted online and an entire generation has grown up not realising what life without the web could be like?
- Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay — by Noopur Raval — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:44 AM
- This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
- Parliament panel blasts govt over ambiguous internet laws — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 28, 2013 08:37 AM
- The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation has come out with a report in which it has lambasted the government and asked it to make changes to IT rules that govern internet-related cases in India.
- Microsoft releases its first report on data requests by law enforcement agencies around the world — by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 12:19 PM
- In this post, the Centre for Internet and Society presents Microsoft´s report on law enforcement requests, with a focus on data requested by Indian law enforcement agencies.
- CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT Rules — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 03, 2013 10:54 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
- A Discussion on Intercept between UNCRPD & CEDAW — by Anandhi Viswanathan — last modified Mar 27, 2013 10:04 AM
- A seminar was jointly organized by the Shanta Memorial Institute of Rehabilitation – Odisha, CBR Network and Mitra Jyoti to discuss the intercept between the United Nations Convention for Protection of Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on February 4, 2013 at Mitra Jyoti in Bangalore. Anandhi Viswanathan participated in the seminar and shares her experiences in this post.
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