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- Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRs — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 07, 2012 04:15 AM
- Given below are the responses from the representatives of civil society in India (The Society for Knowledge Commons, Centre for Internet & Society, The Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and Media for Change) to the Government of India's proposals for the upcoming WCIT meeting, in December 2012, in Dubai.
- On social media, Modi goes soft — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 02, 2012 06:20 AM
- “Truth stands on its own; it doesn’t need a prop.” Is this Mahatma Gandhi? No, it’s Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Twitter. Gujarat’s elections are near, but in the arena of social media, Modi has already won. From over a million subscribers on Twitter to a Facebook page flooded with “likes”, Modi’s net is cast wide.
- Arrested for tweeting: Legitimate or Curbing Free Speech? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 02, 2012 06:09 AM
- As a man in Puducherry is arrested for allegedly posting on Twitter that MR Chidambaram's son had amassed wealth more than that of Robert Vadra, we discuss whether freedom of speech is absolute.
- Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Proposals for the Future ITRs and Related Processes — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 07, 2012 08:00 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories of this submission which was sent in November 2012, in response to the International Telecommunication Union's call for public comments in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai from December 3 to 14, 2012.
- Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia — by Noopur Raval — last modified Nov 04, 2012 02:12 AM
- This was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh readers.
- Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot — by Noopur Raval — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:17 AM
- This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
- First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized! — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 30, 2012 12:44 PM
- The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
- Super Cassettes v. MySpace — by Ujwala Uppaluri — last modified Oct 31, 2012 10:27 AM
- The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The consequences for free expression and particularly for file sharing by users of services online are especially unfavourable.
- Banking and Accessibility in India: A Study on Banking Accessibility in India — Call for Comments — by Vrinda Maheshwari — last modified Oct 30, 2012 04:50 AM
- The adoption of accessible features and technologies by banks in India is low despite there being legislative and executive push for it. It is important for the banks to understand not just their obligations but also the benefits that will accrue to them if they follow the suggested guidelines.
- The Hathitrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPO — by Rahul Cherian — last modified Oct 30, 2012 04:28 AM
- Those of you who have been following my earlier posts on the WIPO negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired will remember that one of the biggest concerns of the World Blind Union on the draft wording of the Treaty was with the definition of an “authorized entity” that can undertake conversion and distribution of accessible format copies.
- Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates — by Shiju Alex — last modified Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM
- Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
- Bolstering right to remain private — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 29, 2012 09:00 AM
- The Justice AP Shah panel has done to well to lay down an enforceable roadmap that can strengthen privacy laws in the country. It’s now for the legislature to take the issue to a logical conclusion.
- The Rules of Engagement — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
- Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
- Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success! — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 10, 2012 08:30 AM
- A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.
- Rethinking DNA Profiling in India — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Oct 29, 2012 08:00 AM
- DNA profile databases can be useful tools in solving crime, but given that the DNA profile of a person can reveal very personal information about the individual, including medical history, family history and so on, a more comprehensive legislation regulating the collection, use, analysis and storage of DNA samples needs included in the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill.
- Privacy Perspectives on the 2012 -2013 Goa Beach Shack Policy — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Oct 25, 2012 10:23 AM
- CCTVs in India are increasingly being employed by private organizations and the government in India as a way to increase security and prevent/ deter crime from taking place. When the government mandates the use of CCTV’s for this purpose, it often does so by means of a blunt policy mandate, requiring the installation of CCTV systems, but without any further clarification as to who should oversee the use of the cameras, what bodies should have access to the records, how access should be granted or obtained, and how long the recordings should be retained.
- Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 23, 2012 10:26 AM
- Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need to be re-thought and refigured to produce new accounts of what it means to be human, to be friends, and to be connected in our networked societies.
- Digital Habits: How and Why We Tweet, Share and Like — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 23, 2012 10:13 AM
- There aren’t always rational explanations for the ways in which we behave on networks. While there are trend spotting sciences and pattern recognition methods which try to make sense of how and why we behave in these strange ways on networks, they generally fail to actually help us understand why we do the things that we do when we are connected.
- Who’s that Friend? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 04, 2012 06:46 AM
- If you are reading this, stand on your right foot and start hopping while waving your hands in the air and shouting, “I am crazy” at the top of your voice. If you don’t, your Facebook account will be compromised, your passwords will be automatically leaked, and somebody will use your credit card to smuggle ice across international waters.
- Panel suggests law to protect individual privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 22, 2012 02:37 PM
- A government-appointed expert panel Thursday called for a law to protect individual privacy against misuse of information collected by various agencies, public and private, and through various methods like telephone tapping.
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