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- CIS Intervention on Future Work of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 01, 2011 03:30 PM
- The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash intervened during the discussion of future work of the ACE with this comment.
- CIS Hosts Scanned Version of George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 01, 2011 01:31 PM
- Verbindingen/Jonctions (V/J), the bi-annual multidisciplinary festival organised by Constant is taking place on December 1, 2011. Amateur scanning of books often raises a lot of questions, around the issue of copyright. For this V/J13 is scanning George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes. The essay is in public domain in Russia, India and South Africa, but not in Europe and America due to copyright issues. CIS is hosting the scanned pages of the essay in public domain.
- Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 01, 2011 11:59 AM
- The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash responded to a presentation by Prof. Pierre Sirinelli of the École de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 on 'The French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting of December 16, 2009' with this comment.
- What is Dilligaf? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 01, 2011 09:52 AM
- On the web, time moves at the speed of thought: Groups emerge, proliferate and are abandoned as new trends and fads take precedence. Nowhere else is this dramatic flux as apparent as in the language that evolves online. While SMS lingo – like TTYL (Talk To You Later) and LOL (Laughing Out Loud)– has endured and become a part of everyday language, new forms of speech are taking over.
- In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PM
- This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
- Statement of CIS on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty at the 23rd SCCR — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 30, 2011 06:55 AM
- The twenty-third session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is being held in Geneva from November 22, 2011 to December 2, 2011. Pranesh Prakash delivered this statement on a new proposal made by South Africa and Mexico (SCCR/23/6) on a treaty for broadcasters.
- Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning Summit — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:55 PM
- The summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.
- Move over Kolaveri di, here comes Gowda — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 28, 2011 06:58 AM
- Transparency is the buzzword in governance and chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda is eager to set a new benchmark. You could soon watch what the chief minister is doing at office, live on YouTube. This article was published in dailybhaskar.com on November 28, 2011.
- An Interview of Nirmita Narasimhan on ITU Portal — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 28, 2011 06:36 AM
- ITU Girls in ICT is now online! ITU interviewed Nirmita and published her profile on their website.
- Is Facebook tracking your virtual footprints? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 24, 2011 03:02 AM
- Social media experts claim number of cases of privacy violations against the site has increased in past few months; Facebook rubbishes the allegations. This article by Sheetal Sukhija was published in MidDay on 22 November 2011.
- 3rd Canadian Science Policy Conference — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 23, 2011 03:57 PM
- The Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) organised the 2011 conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre from 16 to 18 November 2011. Sunil Abraham spoke in the session on Global Implications of Open and Inclusive Innovation.
- The Case for Accessible Banking — by Dinesh Kaushal — last modified Jan 03, 2012 04:54 AM
- Dinesh Kaushal examines the state of accessibility of banking services in India. By giving concrete examples of shortcomings in existing ATMs and net banking facilities which make it difficult for persons with disabilities to do electronic transactions, Dinesh urges banks to make a move to upgrade their ATMs and make their web services accessible.
- Know your Users, Match their Needs! — by Rebecca Schild — last modified Feb 27, 2012 03:06 PM
- As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society.
- Names Not Numbers Mumbai — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 21, 2011 05:04 AM
- Names Not Numbers Mumbai is part of an annual series of invitation-only ideas conferences for 100 key players and thinkers across politics, business, media, culture, academia and technology to discuss and debate what individuality in a mass age means. Names Not Numbers Mumbai is put together by the Media, Analysis & Networking company Editorial Intelligence in association with the British Council, the Financial Times and partners including Jnanapravaha.
- M-governance gains momentum — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 21, 2011 03:46 AM
- Governments worldwide have successfully deployed mobile-based technologies for providing a wide variety of public services, and the Indian States are following suit.
- SOPA: The bill that could kill the Internet — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 18, 2011 07:26 AM
- As the US government’s House Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA), both supporters and opponents are ramping up their campaigning, with big names getting involved. And so they should. SOPA’s stakes are no less than the future of the Internet itself.
- Telecom Path-Breaker? — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Nov 18, 2011 05:42 AM
- Does the draft National Telecom Policy-2011 reflect true brilliance or smoke-and-mirrors? It will be a game-changer if a shared network is implemented effectively, writes Shyam Ponappa in this article published in the Business Standard on November 3, 2011.
- International human rights community vs SOPA — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 28, 2011 10:15 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society was mentioned in a news story published in BoingBoing. Cory Doctorow wrote the story published on November 17, 2011.
- The 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series — A Post-event Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 17, 2011 10:25 AM
- The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), organised the 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series on the 21st and 22nd of May 2011 at the National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. The main theme for this year was Emerging Issues in Privacy Law: Law, Policy and Practice.
- Broadband user base still has a long way to go — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 16, 2011 02:59 AM
- Internet users in India have crossed the 100-million mark, still distant from China’s nearly 500 million and the 250 million or so in the US, but experts are buoyant about prospects in cyberspace even as low broadband penetration and poor online payment and distribution channels persist as hurdles.
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