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- Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright Amendments — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2011 07:50 AM
- The Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (under which ministry copyright falls) recently tabled their report on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 before Parliament. There is much to be applauded in the report, including the progressive stand that the Committee has taken on the issue of providing access by persons with disabilities. This post, however, will concern itself with highlighting some of the problems with that report, along with some very important considerations that got missed out of the entire amendment debate.
- Enabling Access to Education through ICT - Conference Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 28, 2013 10:14 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation G3ict, UNESCO, ITU, WIPO, The Deafway Foundation, DEF and SPACE with the gracious support of The Hans Foundation and the Department of Information Technology, MICT, New Delhi organized an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event was sponsored by Hans Foundation.
- UID & Privacy - A Call for Papers — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:03 AM
- Privacy India is inviting individuals to author short papers focused on Unique Identity (UID) and Privacy. Selected candidates will have their papers published on the CIS website, and their transportation and accommodation provided for the “Privacy Matters” conference being held in Kolkata on 22 January 2010.
- Play Station — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AM
- Parents needn’t panic, the internet can also be a haven for kids.
- The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM
- Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
- An online community platform for people with different needs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 13, 2011 05:29 AM
- An online community platform designed for the print-impaired, probably the first such in the country, seeks to make the internet accessible to people with different needs.
- Should Ratan Tata be Afforded the Right to Privacy? — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:03 AM
- The Ratan Tata case has raised many important questions pertaining to privacy. This note looks at a few of those questions, and the debate that centers around them.
- UID Meeting in Bangalore – A Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2011 08:14 AM
- On 23 November 2010 a public meeting was held for the UID in Bangalore. The speakers included B.K Chandrashekar, former Chairman of the Karnataka Legislature Council, Mr. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary to Government of e-commerce, Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Society, Jude D’Souza, Technology Specialist and Mathew Thomas, Retired Army Officer.
- DSCI Information Security Summit 2010 – A Report — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:04 AM
- On 2 and 3 December 2010, the DSCI Information Security Summit 2010 took place in the Trident Hotel, Chennai. The two day summit included a broad spectrum of speakers/panels and topics, ranging from Securing Data & Systems to how to leverage the Cloud. The key speakers were Mr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, CERT-In, DIT, Mr. Rajeev Kapoor, Joint Secretary, DoPT, Govt. of India, Mr. Vakul Sharma, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, DSCI. Elonnai Hickok attended the summit.
- Public Statement to Final Draft of UID Bill — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:48 AM
- The final draft of the UID Bill that will be submitted to the Lok Sabha was made public on 8 November 2010. If the Bill is approved by Parliament, it will become a legal legislation in India. The following note contains Civil Society's response to the final draft of the Bill.
- CIS Submission on Draft Patent Manual 2010 — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified May 29, 2014 06:47 AM
- The patent office has released a revised version of the Draft Manual of Patent Practice and Procedure. Section 8.03.06.10 of the Manual deals with patenting of computer programmes. CIS is happy to note the many improvements in this draft of the Manual from the previous version. CIS made its submission along with a few suggestions that it thinks would make the document even better.
- Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report — by pushpa — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:28 AM
- Youth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. By 2010, the global youth population is expected reach almost 1.2 billion of which 85% reside in developing countries. Unleashing the potential of even a part of this group in developing countries promises a substantially impact on societies. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and governments and could facilitate radical restructuring of the world we live in. So, it’s time we start listening to them.
- Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 15, 2015 11:34 AM
- The Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
- Take 'Model T' for Telecom — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 10:16 AM
- We need an initiative coordinated by the PMO that optimises both services and government revenues, says Shyam Ponappa in his article published in the Business Standard on 2 December 2010.
- Intellectual Property Rights as seen in a graphic novel — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:32 AM
- While most engagements with the issue of Intellectual Property Rights take the form of academic papers and scholarly articles, the Centre for Internet and Society is approaching the subject through another medium – an online graphic novel. Commissioned by the organisation, and conceived, written and drawn by Mumbai-based Anand Ramachandran (a man who keeps himself busy in a number of ways, from writing satire columns to developing videogame designs), the novel, titled Learning to Floo, is being serialised on the CIS website.
- A Detour: The Internet and Forms of Narration: A Short Note — by Nitya V — last modified Sep 18, 2019 02:10 PM
- There are a number of blog posts on the Internet about transgendered and transsexual people but there is a separation between print as a medium and Internet as a medium. This blog post informally discusses the authority that attaches to media other than the Internet and how this authority is displaced when it comes to Internet texts of the same nature.
- Meeting on the Refreshable Braille Displays and Copyright Frameworks for Open Hardware Development — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:49 AM
- A meeting on Refreshable Braille Displays and Copyright Frameworks for Open Hardware Development will be held in the office of the Centre for Internet and Society on 4 December 2010.
- UID elicits mixed response — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:32 AM
- Which is the root cause for pilferage of welfare funds in India: fake identity or corruption?
- Information Security Summit 2010 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 06:33 AM
- The Information Security Summit 2010 will be held between 2-3 December 2010 in Chennai. The following is the agenda for the event.
- This Is All India Radia — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 07:28 AM
- Our news media blanked it out, but the Internet forced the issue, says Debarshi Dasgupta in an article published in the Outlook Magazine.
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