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- Open Letter to the Finance Committee: UID Budget — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 11:18 AM
- This note presents the aspects of the UID project, which have not been considered or incorporated into the UID’s budget. The costs include re-enrollment, loss in human time, and the cost of the audit function.
- Open Letter to the Finance Committe: Biometrics — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 01:12 PM
- This note points out the weaknesses inherent in biometrics and the pitfalls in using them. It recommends procedural safeguards that should be adopted by the UID in order to make the use of biometrics more secure and inclusive.
- Can the twitterati change the world? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:30 PM
- Whether it is the Ganapati immersion in Mumbai or a labour union dharna at Jantar Mantar or a hunger strike in Kolkata, India has had a rich history of people coming out on the streets. However, as cities are reshaped in the image of a 'world-class city', public spaces are being steadily appropriated into gated communities which cater to an elite section of the population.
- Procuring books in Indian libraries — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:27 PM
- Campaign to legalise parallel imports gathers steam.
- Can the mouse be a tool of revolution in India? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:26 PM
- Do you consider yourself a ‘slacktivist’?” Vikram Sengupta considers the question for a couple of seconds, and then excuses himself. “I’ll call you back. I’m in the middle of something right now,” he says, and hangs up. Being called a ‘slacktivist’ is probably not very flattering, first thing in the morning or at any other time of the day. But this writer has been at the receiving end of endless mails from him, mails which sought to impose a burning moral imperative to sign up instantly and save the grand Canadian Musk Ox or the Mexican Dumpy Frog. The question, therefore, is not unjustified.
- Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM
- Pratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation and perception of cities in India in context with the rise of Information Technologies for communication and presence of an active digital space.
- Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 06, 2015 03:52 PM
- Pratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation and perception of cities in India in context with the rise of Information Technologies for communication and presence of an active digital space.
- Digital Natives with a Cause? —Workshop in Santiago — an Afterthought — by Samuel Tettner — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:16 AM
- The Digital Natives had their third and final workshop in Santiago, Chile from 8 to 10 February 2011. Once again CIS and Hivos joined hands to organise the event. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Coordinator from CIS narrates his experiences from the workshop in this blog post.
- Spectrum auctions - 'Jhatka' or 'Halal'? — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 09:57 AM
- The choice is between sudden death and a slow one. The article by Shyam Ponappa appeared in the Business Standard on 3 February 2011.
- Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
- We engaged in an e-mail conversation with Thomas Abraham, the managing director of Hachette India, on the issue of parallel importation of books into India. We thought it would be in the public interest to publish a substantive part of that conversation. In this post he points at great length how our arguments are faulty. While we still believe that he doesn't succeed, we hope this will clarify matters a bit.
- Open Letter to the Finance Committee: Finance and Security — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 11:57 AM
- This note explores the three connections between finance and security and demonstrates the cost implications of operating a centrally designed identity management system as proposed by the UID. In doing so, it shows how the monitoring, storing, and securing of transactional data in a centralized database fall short of meeting the project's objectives of authentication, and thus is an additional cost. Further, it is argued that the blanket monitoring of the transaction database is not an effective method of detecting fraud, and is an expensive component of the project.
- A FLASH of Change — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:22 AM
- A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from September 2010 onwards. In this article published on February 6, 2011, Nishant Shah writes that citizens are organising, congregating, acting and thereby creating revolutions.
- Conference Report: 'Privacy Matters' Bangalore — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 08, 2011 05:13 AM
- On February 5th the 'Privacy Matters" conference was held at the TERI Regional Center in Bangalore. The event was a full day and centered around issues of privacy including: privacy rights of minorities, privacy and open government data, and privacy and identity.
- Digital Wrongs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:26 PM
- Protecting Intellectual Property Rights. This article by Rohin Dharmakumar was published in Forbes India on January 28, 2011.
- What Are You Accused of? Find Out Online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:48 PM
- Starting Tuesday, police authorities in the Indian capital will make many crime reports, also known as First Information Reports, publicly accessible from its Web site. The report can be attained by entering details such as the name of the accused or victim and also the area where the crime took place. So far, no crime reports have been posted on the Web site.
- Indian Law and "Parallel Exports" — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
- Recently, a lawyer for the publishing industry made the claim that allowing for parallel importation would legally allow for the exports of low-priced edition. Here we present a legal rebuttal of that claim.
- One among the clan of Wikipedians — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:49 PM
- In 2005, I lived in Johannesburg and worked as an activist to make knowledge more accessible. Between fighting copyright treaties in Geneva that would give corporations an even bigger stranglehold on our minds and finding ways to supply cheap textbooks to township schools, I talked about my work frequently. After one such event, organised by Nhlanhla Mabaso, the godfather of free and open source software in the country, I met two people who were particularly interested in my work. Their names were Angela Beesley and Erik Moller; they looked like college students, and said that they were helping to build an online encyclopaedia called Wikipedia. They were bright, warm and open - and I was hooked.
- E-Governance Interoperability Framework — Meeting in Iraq — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:04 AM
- A meeting to create a plan of action for the development of e-Governance Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) in Iraq and include formulation of an e-GIF policy and technical document within the larger framework of public sector modernization, was held from 25 to 27 January 2011. Sunil Abraham was the main resource person for this meeting.
- Analysing the Right to Privacy and Dignity with Respect to the UID — by Deva Prasad — last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:54 AM
- In the below note, Deva Prasad, LLM Candidate at NLSIU, explores the challenges that the UID project faces from a legal perspective.
- Why Parallel Importation of Books Should Be Allowed — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Feb 01, 2019 05:41 PM
- There has been much controversy lately with some publishers trying to stop the government from amending s.2(m) of the Indian Copyright Act, clarifying that a parallel import will not be seen as an "infringing copy". This blog post argues that the government should, keeping in mind the larger picture, still go ahead and legalise parallel imports.
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