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- From Cyber India to Censor India: Groups challenge didactic govt — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 01, 2012 09:14 AM
- Aseem Trivedi is a political cartoonist who was closely associated with Anna Hazare's movement against corruption in India. Having published his cartoons in several newspapers, the 25-year-old, who hails from Kanpur, launched a website called www.cartoonsagainstcorruption.com last year with the intention of reaching his cartoons to a wider audience. But barely two months later, the website was taken down and access to it barred — without any notification to Trivedi.
- China 3: Build Comprehensive Ecosystems — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 01, 2012 04:47 AM
- Failures in electricity, transport and broadband have common strands. China's approach offers a possible alternative. Shyam Ponappa's column was published in the Business Standard on April 5, 2012.
- Arduino Introductory Workshop at CIS — by Priya Kuber — last modified May 01, 2012 07:50 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society organised a hands-on-free Arduino workshop in its office on March 3, 2012. Video is now online!
- Immigrants not Natives — by Sally Wyatt — last modified Apr 30, 2012 10:27 AM
- Sally Wyatt reviews the four-book collective, Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? edited by Nishant Shah & Fieke Jansen.
- ITU Tutorial on Audiovisual Media Accessibility — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 03, 2012 08:53 AM
- The fourth meeting of the ITU-T Focus Group on Audio Visual Media Accessibility (FG AVA) took place at the India International Centre, New Delhi on March 13, 2012. The meeting was held in furtherance to an invitation of the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), in cooperation with the ITU-APT Foundation of India. A two-day tutorial on Audio-Visual Media Accessibility followed the meeting on March 14 and 15, 2012 at the same venue. A total of 20 people participated in this event.
- Chilling Effects and Frozen Words — by Lawrence Liang — last modified Apr 30, 2012 07:32 AM
- What if the real danger is not that we lose our freedom of speech and expression but our sense of humour as a nation? Lawrence Liang's op-ed was published in the Hindu on April 30, 2012.
- It’s mainstream vs social — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 30, 2012 04:23 AM
- Mainstream and social media share an increasingly uneasy relationship. Mahima Kaul, a Guest Columnist with the Sunday Guardian wrote this article. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
- Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet — by Rishabh Dara — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:22 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched upon issues relating to freedom of expression. The results of the paper demonstrate that the ‘Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011’ notified by the Government of India on April 11, 2011 have a chilling effect on free expression.
- Social Media 1, Indian Government 0 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 27, 2012 04:44 AM
- The futility of the Indian government’s attempts to control what is posted on Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites was thrown into high relief this week, after a video purportedly showing Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singvi having sex in his office resulted in his resignation.
- India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderism — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 26, 2012 01:45 PM
- Cyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable of framing fair, just, and informed laws and policies. Pranesh Prakash suggests they learn from the DEIT's Internet Governance Division, and Brazil, and adopt multi-stakeholderism as a core principle of Internet policy-making.
- Private sector censors — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 26, 2012 01:30 PM
- If business decides what’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’ speech, it can lead to multiple interpretations and arbitrary decisions. The article by Salil Tripathi was published in LiveMint on April 25, 2012.
- Non human intelligence is closer than you think! — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 24, 2012 06:36 AM
- In one of the research projects that I have been involved in, I was recently a part of a jury, for a contest which required on-line voting. It sounded like a fun thing, giving the participants a chance to bring in their inherited networks and also expanding the reach of the contest entries.
- Views | Why the Left may for once be right — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:48 AM
- On the opening day of the upcoming parliamentary session on Tuesday, the Rajya Sabha is set to vote on an annulment motion against the IT rules, moved by P. Rajeeve of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- International ‘code-athon' in Bangalore — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 27, 2012 10:48 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society hosted this event in Bangalore. The Hindu covered the event.
- Campaign against curbs on websites gathers steam — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:19 AM
- For political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and his blogger-cum-journalist friend Alok Dixit, who both ran a website against corruption, a tryst with the blind side of law triggered their mission against “gagging” of the new-age Indian Internet user.
- Expect anti-net censorship echo in house — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:07 AM
- For the anti-Internet censorship movement in the country, hope is now in sight. Their fight against the intermediary provisions (section 79) of the IT laws, according to which, an intermediary (website, domain owner) would have to take off content that a third party (or complainant) finds ‘objectionable,’ without any room for appeal, has now garnered the attention of the government itself. What is at stake is our fundamental rights, warns CPM Member of Parliament P Rajeeve, who was perhaps the first at the government level to realise that there was a gaping hole in the provision, and took up the matter in the Rajya Sabha.
- Mobilising support for freedom on the Web — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:02 AM
- A motion in the Rajya Sabha has sought annulment of the IT intermediary guidelines, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on April 22, 2012.
- MPs to be taught ‘draconian’ IT Act Rules as India.net support galvanises for annul motion — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 10:39 AM
- The blog post by Prachi Shrivastava was published in Legally India on April 23, 2012.
- India arrests professor over political cartoon — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 10:27 AM
- Sharing funny, satirical cartoons over the Internet can land you in court and even in jail these days in the world’s largest democracy. The article by Rama Lakshmi was published in Washington Post on April 13, 2012.
- Privacy International's Trip to Asia — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 09:58 AM
- In February 2012, the PI team travelled to India, Bangladesh and Hong Kong to meet with our local partners in the region and speak at four conferences they had organized. We also got the chance to interview our partners in India and Bangladesh on the privacy issues facing them at the moment - this video is the result of those conversations.
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