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Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
— by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Nov 18, 2015 06:33 AMFollowing the comment-period on the Zero Draft, the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
Breaking Down ICANN Accountability: What It Is and What the Internet Community Wants
— by Ramya Chandrasekhar — last modified Nov 05, 2015 03:29 PMAt the recent ICANN conference held in Dublin (ICANN54), one issue that was rehashed and extensively deliberated was ICANN's accountability and means to enhance the same. In light of the impending IANA stewardship transition from the NTIA to the internet's multi-stakeholder community, accountability of ICANN to the internet community becomes that much more important. In this blog post, some aspects of the various proposals to enhance ICANN's accountability have been deconstructed and explained.
ISO/IEC/ JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups Meeting, Jaipur
— by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Dec 21, 2015 02:38 AMI attended this event held from October 26 to 30, 2015 in Jaipur.
How India Regulates Encryption
— by Pranesh Prakash & Japreet Grewal — last modified Jul 23, 2016 01:24 PMConnected Trouble
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 28, 2015 04:47 PMThe internet of things phenomenon is based on a paradigm shift from thinking of the internet merely as a means to connect individuals, corporations and other institutions to an internet where all devices in (insulin pumps and pacemakers), on (wearable technology) and around (domestic appliances and vehicles) humans beings are connected.
Do we need a Unified Post Transition IANA?
— by Pranesh Prakash, Padmini Baruah and Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 27, 2015 12:46 AMAs we stand at the threshold of the IANA Transition, we at CIS find that there has been little discussion on the question of how the transition will manifest. The question we wanted to raise was whether there is any merit in dividing the three IANA functions – names, numbers and protocols – given that there is no real technical stability to be gained from a unified Post Transition IANA. The analysis of this idea has been detailed below.
The 'Global Multistakholder Community' is Neither Global Nor Multistakeholder
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 03, 2016 10:42 AMCIS research shows how Western, male, and industry-driven the IANA transition process actually is.
Comments on the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
— by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Oct 16, 2015 02:44 AMOn 9 October 2015, the Zero Draft of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released. Comments were sought on the Zero Draft from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.
Peering behind the veil of ICANN's DIDP (II)
— by Padmini Baruah — last modified Oct 15, 2015 03:14 AMIn a previous blog post, I had introduced the concept of ICANN’s Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (“DIDP”) and their extremely vast grounds for non-disclosure. In this short post, I have made an analysis of every DIDP request that ICANN has ever responded to, to point out the flaws in their policy that need to be urgently remedied.
Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India
— by Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:40 PMThe European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
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