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AI for Good
— by Shweta Mohandas and Saumyaa Naidu — last modified Oct 13, 2019 05:32 AMCIS organised a workshop titled ‘AI for Good’ at the Unbox Festival in Bangalore from 15th to 17th February, 2019. The workshop was led by Shweta Mohandas and Saumyaa Naidu. In the hour long workshop, the participants were asked to imagine an AI based product to bring forward the idea of ‘AI for social good’.
Designing a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN’s Policy Development Processes
— by Collin Kure, Akriti Bopanna and Austin Ruckstuhl — last modified Oct 03, 2019 02:43 PMAs co-chairs of Cross Community Working Party on Human Rights (CCWP-HR) at International Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN), Akriti Bopanna and Collin Kurre executed a Human Rights Impact Assessment for ICANN's processes. It was the first time such an experiment was conducted, and unique because of being a multi-stakeholder attempt.
AI: Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge Launch Workshop [Reference Files]
— by Pranav M B — last modified Aug 04, 2020 06:08 AMThese are the files released at the AI Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge Launch Event, organised by CIS, and CCG-NLUD on September 27 2019. At the event, Sunil Abraham discussed the draft policy brief linked below, which is an output of the Regulatory Practices Lab at CIS.
Artificial Intelligence: a Full-Spectrum Regulatory Challenge [Working Draft]
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 04, 2020 06:10 AMSetting International Norms of Cyber Conflict is Hard, But that Doesn't Mean that We Should Stop Trying
— by Arindrajit Basu and Karan Saini — last modified Oct 14, 2019 03:04 PMLast month, cyber-defense analyst and geostrategist Pukhraj Singh penned a stinging epitaph, published by MWI, for global norms-formulation processes that are attempting to foster cyber stability and regulate cyber conflict—specifically, the Tallinn Manual.
Comparison of the Manila Principles to Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines(Amendment) Rules], 2018
— by Akriti Bopanna and Gayatri Puthran — last modified Jun 01, 2020 07:48 AMThis paper looks at the Manila Principles intermediary liability framework in comparison to the amended draft Information Technology [Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment)] Rules, 2018 introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in December, 2018.
Examining the Constitutionality of the Ban on Broadcast of News by Private FM and Community Radio Stations
— by Gurshabad Grover, Torsha Sarkar, Rajashri Seal and Neil Trivedi — last modified Sep 27, 2019 04:36 PMGurshabad Grover and Torsha Sarkar along with Rajashri Seal and Neil Trivedi co-authored a paper that examined the constitutionality of the government prohibition on the broadcast of news against private and community FM channels.
Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi
— by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Sep 27, 2019 03:24 PMAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi generated empirical evidence about the CCTV programme well underway in Delhi. The case study was published by Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute, SEED, in the Development Informatics working paper series housed at the University of Manchester.
Core Concepts and Processes
— by Shruti Trikanand and Amber Sinha — last modified Oct 17, 2019 04:06 PMWhen we embarked on this research project, we began with the primary questions of what constitutes a digital identity system. In the last few years, with the rise in national digital identity projects, there has been significant academic and media attention to the idea, benefits and risks of a digital identity system.
Submission to Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace on the definition of Cyber Stability
— by Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok — last modified Sep 11, 2019 02:52 PM"The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace released a public consultation process that sought to solicit comments and obtain feedback on the definition of “Stability of Cyberspace”, as developed by the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC).
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