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- Aditya 365 — by Pavan Santhosh — last modified Nov 07, 2018 02:32 AM
- Telugu Wikimedian Aditya Pakide successfully completed 365 Wiki Commons Days. Aditya started contributing to project after a Facebook comment by A2K community advocate suggesting that the same picture would get more utilization in Commons and a brief training followed.
- Human rights review of the verification code extension for EPP — by Admin — last modified Dec 10, 2018 04:04 PM
- On September 20, 2018 Gurshabad Grover sent a review of the human rights considerations in the Internet Draft, 'Verification Code Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-verificationcode-04), which is a document adopted by the Registration Protocols Extensions (regext) Working Group at the IETF.
- Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar Report — by Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali — last modified Nov 05, 2018 12:08 PM
- We are issuing a second clarificatory statement on our report titled “Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information” published on May 1, 2017.
- Connections 2018 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2018 03:32 PM
- Gurshabad Grover attended Connections 2018, a pre-IETF event organised by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) in Bangalore on October 31 and November 1, 2018.
- Digital Native: Hashtag Fatigue — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 06:04 AM
- It is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
- Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk — by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:58 AM
- #MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.
- Lessons from US response to cyber attacks — by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:53 AM
- Publicly attributing the attacks to a state or non-state actor is vital for building a credible cyber deterrence strategy.
- 5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted — by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:57 AM
- More than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.
- KEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture" — by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:53 AM
- Anubha Sinha participated in a seminar organized by KEI on October 3 and 4, 2018 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Anubha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the Treaty)".
- Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governance — by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:39 AM
- Sunil Abraham gave a talk at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore on October 16, 2018. Sunil used a series of stories to explain how surveillance works and fails in the context of theft, murder, insider trading, terrorism, demonetization and encounter killings.
- Participation in the meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' — by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:28 AM
- From 30 September 2018 to 4 October 2018, Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings of the working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' held in Gjøvik, Norway. The meetings were organized by Standards Norway with support from NTNU, Microsoft, Telenor, et.al.
- Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and Environment — by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:10 AM
- Shweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment held at Tandem Research's office in Goa on October 5, 2018. She also made the framing intervention for the first session by addressing the question - What are the likely ethical conundrums, and plausible unintended consequences of the use of AI for sustainability?
- Smart City Standardization - ICT Perspective — by Admin — last modified Dec 10, 2018 04:00 PM
- An event on Smart City standardization – ICT Perspective was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards in Bangalore on October 30, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
- Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity — by Admin — last modified Oct 30, 2018 02:08 AM
- P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community.
- Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official Statement — by Admin — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:35 AM
- Going by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
- Odia Virtual Academy launched — by Admin — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:27 AM
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
- History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University) — by Ananth — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:20 AM
- This article gives the insight of Christ Wikipedia Education Program, how students are involved in different capacities in the program and shares the best practices of the Education Program.
- Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey — by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:21 AM
- Only 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.
- Factcheck: No, phones of users who provided only Aadhaar as proof of identity won’t be disconnected — by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:13 AM
- Ever since the Supreme Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, which prohibited the use of the 12-digit biometrics-linked unique identity number by private entities as well as its linking with phone numbers and bank accounts, telecom companies and their customers in particular are wondering what this means for them.
- Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say experts — by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:06 AM
- Data shows that the share of active WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled since 2017, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
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