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- ICANN 65 De-briefing Meeting — by Admin — last modified Jul 21, 2019 03:02 PM
- The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) organized an ICANN65 de-briefing meeting on July 16, 2019. Akriti Bopanna remotely presented on the Human Rights related developments that took place at the Marrakech meeting, over the course of the 4 days.
- What is the problem with ‘Ethical AI’? An Indian Perspective — by Arindrajit Basu and Pranav M.B. — last modified Jul 21, 2019 02:57 PM
- On 22 May 2019, the OECD member countries adopted the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The Principles, meant to provide an “ethical framework” for governing Artificial Intelligence (AI), were the first set of guidelines signed by multiple governments, including non-OECD members: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, and Romania.
- ออกแบบระบบข้อมูลประชาชนดิจิทัล: คุยกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญหาแนวทางเหมาะสม — by Admin — last modified Jul 21, 2019 02:32 PM
- Talk with Sunil Abraham, an expert on the Internet and good governance in the issue of creating a digital identification system.
- BIS LITD 17 meeting — by Admin — last modified Jul 21, 2019 01:58 PM
- On July 3, 2019, Gurshabad Grover attended the sixteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Section Committee (LITD17) at the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in New Delhi.
- Old Isn't Always Gold: FaceApp and Its Privacy Policies — by Mira Swaminathan and Shweta Reddy — last modified Aug 09, 2019 10:12 AM
- Leaving aside the Red Scare for a moment, FaceApp's own rebuttal of privacy worries are highly problematic in nature.
- Orientation programme, Wikipedia workshop & Action Plan meeting in PAH Solapur University — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Aug 05, 2019 03:21 PM
- CIS-A2K representatives visited PAH Solapur University, Solapur (PAHSUS) to finalise the action plan and MoU for the year 2019-20.
- Call for Essays — #List — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM
- The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
- You auto-complete me: romancing the bot — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:00 AM
- This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
- Comments on the Draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2019 concerning Statutory Licensing — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jul 11, 2019 07:04 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed rules 29,30,31 of the Draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2019. The comments were made in response to Notification G.S.R 393(E) published in the Gazette of India on May 30, 2019.
- Roundtable Discussion on “The Future of AI Policy in India” @ ICRIER — by Admin — last modified Jul 10, 2019 01:46 AM
- Radhika Radhakrishnan, attended a Roundtable Discussion on “The Future of AI Policy in India” organized by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi on July 1, 2019, to arrive at actionable recommendations for promotion of AI in India.
- Mozilla is funding a way to support Julia in Firefox — by Catalin Cimpanu — last modified Jul 10, 2019 01:33 AM
- Mozilla is funding a project for bringing the Julia programming language to Firefox and the general browser environment.
- How Sai Baba Was Made To Spy On Your Phone For Credit Ratings — by Gopal Sathe — last modified Jul 08, 2019 02:04 PM
- Researchers revealed that Hyderabad-based CreditVidya—a highly successful fintech company that rated people’s creditworthiness—collected data from people using music apps and Sai Baba apps.
- DIDP #34 On granular detail on ICANN's budget for policy development process — by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Jul 06, 2019 01:23 AM
- ICANN has Advisory Committees which help guide the policy recommendations that the ICANN community develops while its Supporting Organizations are charged with developing policy recommendations for a particular aspect of ICANN's operations. Supporting Organizations are composed of volunteers from the community. ICANN publishes a combined budget for all these bodies under the head of policy development and CIS inquired about the financial resources allocated to each of them specifically.
- PIB plans a fact-checking unit to counter fake news — by Smriti Kak Ramachandran — last modified Jul 05, 2019 02:31 AM
- Countering fake news has been high on the government’s agenda; in 2016; the MIB suggested expanding its analytics wing to monitor social media and set up an early warning system for possible flashpoints that the government may be unprepared for.
- Fostering Strategic Convergence in US-India Tech Relations: 5G and Beyond — by Justin Sherman and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Jul 05, 2019 02:19 AM
- The 2019 G-20 summit underscores the importance of fostering strategic convergence in U.S.-India tech relations.
- Setting the Agenda: A Behavioural Science approach to Data Privacy — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2019 04:47 PM
- Amber Sinha attended a meeting organised by the Centre for Social Behaviour Change (CSBC) at Ashoka University and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics on 26 June 2019 at CSBC office, Vasant Vihar in New Delhi.
- Digital ID Forum 2019 — by Admin — last modified Aug 07, 2019 02:09 PM
- Sunil Abraham was one of the panelists at this event at Chulalongkorn University on July 3, 2019.
- The Impact of Consolidation in the Internet Economy on the Evolution of the Internet — by Akriti Bopanna and Gurshabad Grover — last modified Jul 03, 2019 12:53 PM
- The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with the Internet Society organized an event on the impact of consolidation in the Internet economy. It was divided into two roundtable discussions, the first one focusing on the policies and regulation while the latter dealt with the technical evolution of the Internet. This report contributed to the Internet Society’s 2019 Global Internet Report on Consolidation in the Internet Economy.
- Joining the Dots in India's Big-Ticket Mobile Phone SEP Litigation — by Rohini Lakshané and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Jul 06, 2019 01:42 AM
- Rohini Lakshané and Shweta Mohandas have published their last update to this paper that chronicles mobile device SEP litigation in India. All developments in the lawsuits filed in the Delhi High Court and complaints made to the CCI that were published in reliable sources till 20 September 2018 are mentioned in this paper. The paper was an output under the Pervasive Technologies project.
- Facebook’s Libra: A bit too ambitious? — by Rajmohan Sudhakar — last modified Jul 02, 2019 05:14 AM
- Power desperately finds ways to propagate at the slightest hint of losing lustre, which the social network is beginning to experience at the moment.
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