Centre for Internet and Society

Namaste Telangana

praskrishna — 2015-12-29T16:50:25Z

Namaste Telangana

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Namaste Telangana

praskrishna — 2016-12-17T01:25:53Z

Namaste Telangana

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NALSAR.pdf

praskrishna — 2016-05-15T07:01:10Z

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NALSAR ii.pdf

praskrishna — 2016-05-15T06:56:24Z

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nagesh

praskrishna — 2011-11-09T05:06:21Z

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Nagaraj

praskrishna — 2022-02-28T15:43:55Z

Nagaraj

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Nadim

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Nadeem Akhtar

praskrishna — 2013-07-29T06:57:03Z

Nadeem Akhtar

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Naavi

praskrishna — 2012-01-28T07:20:30Z

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NA Vijayashankar

praskrishna — 2012-04-15T14:17:12Z

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Myth/History/Irreverence: Flaneurs and Whores of Our Time

praskrishna — 2011-04-04T07:22:36Z

As part of a longer discovery and reading of Walter Benjamin's work, Atreyee Majumder constructs an argument that the turgid notions of the new, the contemporary and the important are endless repetitions of nothing-new. Atreyee will give a lecture on this on 8 January 2011 at the Centre for Internet and Society.

Many epochs, many histories seem to collide in a transient yet euphoric sensation of the ‘new’, immediately turning into ash-like heap of nothing-new. This understanding of the historic contemporary as a shuffle of old cards, yields new lenses through which to interpret the turgidity of the 'new' and the 'novel' in our times — technologies, crises (climate change, political upheaval, etc.), Facebook. She revisits the notion of history as scaffolding — especially, through the Benjaminian point of view of the Flaneur and the Whore, albeit the ones of our time.

Atreyee Majumder

Atreyee graduated from the National Law School of India University in 2006 and is a PhD student of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the Yale University, with keen interests in political anthropology, spatiality, historicity, the interaction of many planes of history which constitute the historical residue of the contemporary. She is doing a dissertation research on the making of political subjects on the peri-urban terrain in Howrah, West Bengal, in the shadows of socialisms, and everyday dialog with metropolitan norms of civicness from neighbouring Kolkata. She has worked as an activist and researcher in the fields of law, environment and development in Delhi.

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Mysore University MoU

praskrishna — 2014-05-05T06:24:34Z

MoU with Mysore University

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Myanmar Digital Rights Forum proposes a path away from 66(d)

praskrishna — 2017-01-10T15:09:21Z

This was published by Coconuts Yangon on December 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Nica Dumlao from the Philippine Internet Freedom Alliance speaks at the forum. Photo: Phandeeyar

Over the last two years, Myanmar has experienced a connectivity revolution; tens of millions of people have hopped onto the web all at once. However, recent events have highlighted how vulnerable people in Myanmar are when communicating and sharing information online.

Daw Ei Myat Noe Khin, a Phandeeyar associate and co-organizer of the event, explained: “Myanmar’s laws and regulations were changed to enable millions of people to get connected. However, not nearly enough has been done to protect the rights of these users. Urgent legislative action is needed to ensure that the rights and freedoms that the Myanmar people now enjoy offline are also protected when they are using the internet.”

Rights groups and media organizations have noted the threats to freedom of speech posed by the arrest under Article 66(d) of Myanmar’s Telecommunications Law of journalists and ordinary citizens for Facebook posts.

Nay Phone Latt, the former political prisoner and free speech activist who now serves in the Yangon Region parliament, called for changes to Myanmar’s laws, which are now being used to sue people for as actions as little as leaving a comment on social media.

“Even though I am now an MP, my opinion on free speech has not changed,” he said.

He also called on Union-level lawmakers to attend similar forums and ultimately improve the laws relating to digital rights.

However, Article 66(d) is only one of many issues that need to be addressed. According to speakers at the forum, other critical issues include information privacy, the right to information, online hate speech, cyberbullying, revenge porn and phishing scams.

Vicky Bowman, director of Myanmar Center for Responsible Business, recounted the story from a few years ago of an NGO leader who gave away $80,000 of his organization’s money when he was duped by a phishing scam online.

“Are Myanmar people aware of digital rights? I don’t think so. They’re excited about SIM cards and gadgets, but they’re probably not reading the terms and conditions.”

There is still a lot to worry about in the realm of digital rights in Myanmar, she said.

In this challenging environment, the forum’s attendees are working to develop specific policy recommendations, strategies and campaigns to ensure digital rights to the people of Myanmar.

“The benefits of connectivity won’t be realized if people are scared to use the internet. The objective of the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum is to raise awareness about the importance of these issues and to develop concrete plans to address them,” said Daw Htaike Htaike Aung, executive director of Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO).

Some speakers offered the experiences of other countries as models for what Myanmar might be able to do to protect internet users. Sunil Abraham, the executive director of the Bangalore-based Center for Internet and Society, urged against thinking of companies and governments as monoliths. There are people in government, he said, who do have the rights of citizens in mind. He also advised digital rights campaigners to pursue change on all sides of the political spectrum, just as free-software activists found support in India’s communist and nationalist parties.

Ms Cheekay Cinco, a program manager for Engage Media, said: “This is not a Myanmar problem. Hyper-connectivity in the region has led to greater criminalization of online activities. Over the years, spaces in Southeast Asia have been created to talk about these issues. We can only spark development and change when these spaces continue to flourish and have participation from different sectors.”

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Myanmar Digital Rights Forum Agenda

praskrishna — 2016-12-17T00:32:46Z

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Myanmar Digital Rights Forum

praskrishna — 2016-12-17T00:44:25Z

Sunil Abraham was a speaker at the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Myanmar on December 14 and 15, 2016. The two day event was organized by Phandeeyar, You Can Do IT, Engage Media and Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business with support form the Embassy of Sweden.

More than 55 representatives from technology companies, government, media and civil society organizations gathered at the innovation lab Phandeeyar to participate in the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum. The event was organized to address critical digital rights challenges in Myanmar. Participants discussed the issues raised by the increasing access, in recent years, of large numbers of Myanmar citizens to the internet, social media and mobile phones. For more info see here.

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