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ICANN Workstream 2 Recommendations on Accountability
— by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Nov 23, 2018 02:56 PMOne of the most significant initiatives to improve the accountability of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commenced in 2014, when the Cross Community Working Group on Accountability was created. Its role was to develop a set of proposed enhancements to ICANN’s accountability to the global Internet community. This resulted in the first Work Stream (WS1) recommendations, which were eventually approved and incorporated into the bylaws of ICANN in 2016. These included a provision expressing the need for a second WS since the first one, done on a tight deadline,did not cover all the requisite issues. Instead WS1 only focused on issues that were needed to complete the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority(IANA) transition.
Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act
— by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Nov 20, 2018 04:18 PMThe Convention on Cybercrime adopted in Budapest (“Convention”) is the fist and one of the most important multilateral treaties addressing the issue of internet and computer crimes.
DIDP #32 On ICANN's Fellowship Program
— by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Nov 12, 2018 03:58 PMIn furtherance of its capacity building functions, ICANN selects Fellows for every public meeting. These are individuals from underserved and underrepresented communities who are trained to become active participants in the ICANN community.
Lessons from US response to cyber attacks
— by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:53 AMPublicly attributing the attacks to a state or non-state actor is vital for building a credible cyber deterrence strategy.
Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for Cyberspace
— by Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Oct 26, 2018 03:09 PMThis paper was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.
Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
— by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Oct 26, 2018 02:47 PMThe dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated by both government and industry across the globe. AI offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance with principles of the rule of law and international human rights norms. Unfortunately, AI-powered solutions have often been implemented in ways that have resulted in the automation, rather than mitigation, of existing societal inequalities.
377 Bites the Dust: Unpacking the long and winding road to the judicial decriminalization of homosexuality in India
— by Agnidipto Tarafder and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Oct 18, 2018 12:39 AMAn informal case comment tracing the journey and assessing the societal implications the recent 377 (Navtej Johar v Union of India).
Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Oct 16, 2018 02:08 PMIn recent times, there has been a rash of policies and regulations that propose that the data that Indian entities handle be physically stored on servers in India, in some cases exclusively. In other cases, only a copy needs to be stored.
Cross-Border Data Sharing and India: A study in Processes, Content and Capacity
— by Amber Sinha, Elonnai Hickok, Udbhav Tiwari and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Sep 29, 2018 12:37 AMA majority of criminal investigations in the modern era necessitate law enforcement access to electronic evidence stored extra-territorially. The conventional methods of compelling the presentation of evidence available for investigative agencies often fail when the evidence is not present within the territorial boundaries of the state.
A trust deficit between advertisers and publishers is leading to fake news
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:44 AMTransparency regulations is need of the hour. And urgently for election and political advertising. What do the ads look like? Who paid for them? Who was the target? How many people saw these advertisements? How many times? Transparency around viral content is also required.
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