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Value Added Services of Information & Communication Technology- Mobile Telephony for Farmers Benefit
— by Radha Rao — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:15 AMMr. G Raghunatha, State Manager, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Ltd., Bangalore and Secretary, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore has written an article on how ICT - Mobile Technology can be used for the farmers' benefit.
A Comment on the 2009 IGF Draft Programme Paper
— by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:15 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society is part of a broad group of civil society actors that submitted a comment on the Draft Programme Paper of the fourth Internet Governance Forum (IGF), taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2009. The IGF is a forum for multistakeholder policy dialogue on Internet governance issues. The comment decries the complete absence of attention for Internet Rights and Principles in the agenda as it stands as of today, and this despite repeated requests from a wide range of stakeholders to make this theme a central one. All stakeholder groups were invited to submit their comments on the Draft Programme Paper of the 2009 IGF to the IGF Secretariat by 15 August.
IT Act and Commerce
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AMThis is a guest post by Rahul Matthan, partner in the law firm Trilegal, and widely regarded as one of the leading experts on information technology law in India. In this post, Mr. Matthan looks at the provisions in the amended Information Technology Act of interest to commerce, namely electronic signatures and data protection.
Primer on the New IT Act
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AMWith this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments.
Comments on the Draft Rules under the Information Technology Act
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 21, 2011 06:13 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society commissioned an advocate, Ananth Padmanabhan, to produce a comment on the Draft Rules that have been published by the government under the Information Technology Act. In his comments, Mr. Padmanabhan highlights the problems with each of the rules and presents specific recommendations on how they can be improved. These comments were sent to the Department of Information and Technology.
Letter to ICANN on NCSG
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society sent the following mail to ICANN regarding their attempt to impose their own charter for a Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), instead of accepting the one drafted by the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC).
An Open Letter on Internet Governance to the UN Internet Governance Forum
— by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:40 AMThis open letter brings up concerns of democratic deficit in internet governance worldwide, and is addressed to the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It is to be delivered at the IGF's 3rd Annual Meeting at Hyderabad, India, from 3rd to 6th December, 2008. The signatories are Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, Delhi Science Forum, New Delhi, Free Software Foundation - India, IT for Change, Bangalore, and Knowledge Commons, New Delhi.
i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PMNishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
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