Internet Governance Blog
The Web of Our Strife
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jun 04, 2012 05:45 AMAt the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, India proposed the formation of a Committee on Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) to address what it sees as a policy vacuum in internet governance.
Beyond Sharing: Towards our Digital Futures
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 01, 2012 04:39 AMThe battle is not about file sharing and a petty film producer wanting to rake in the box office earnings. It is about the law’s incapacity to deal with post-analogue practices and processes.
Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for Applications
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 24, 2012 03:38 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by August 15, 2012.
Letter for Civil Society Involvement in WCIT
— by Center for Democracy & Technology — last modified May 24, 2012 06:55 AMThis page features a letter from academics and civil society groups from around the world to International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Touré regarding the lack of opportunity for civil society participation in the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) process.
The Private Eye
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 24, 2012 06:25 AMThe world’s largest digital social networking system, oh ok, Facebook, to just name names, was recently in a lot of buzz.
Open letter to Kolaveri Di makers: How Dare You!
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 23, 2012 07:02 AMWhen it comes to piracy, you are sure to have an opinion. You might either make a virtue out of it, talking about cultural commons and collaborative conditions of production. Or you might vilify it as the social fault-line that is destroying the very pillars of commerce and cultural negotiations.
Chilling Effects and Frozen Words
— by Lawrence Liang — last modified Apr 30, 2012 07:32 AMWhat if the real danger is not that we lose our freedom of speech and expression but our sense of humour as a nation? Lawrence Liang's op-ed was published in the Hindu on April 30, 2012.
Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet
— by Rishabh Dara — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:22 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched upon issues relating to freedom of expression. The results of the paper demonstrate that the ‘Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011’ notified by the Government of India on April 11, 2011 have a chilling effect on free expression.
India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderism
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 26, 2012 01:45 PMCyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable of framing fair, just, and informed laws and policies. Pranesh Prakash suggests they learn from the DEIT's Internet Governance Division, and Brazil, and adopt multi-stakeholderism as a core principle of Internet policy-making.
Non human intelligence is closer than you think!
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 24, 2012 06:36 AMIn one of the research projects that I have been involved in, I was recently a part of a jury, for a contest which required on-line voting. It sounded like a fun thing, giving the participants a chance to bring in their inherited networks and also expanding the reach of the contest entries.
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