Centre for Internet and Society

NET LOSS

praskrishna — 2012-06-25T06:15:06Z

Unless the IT Act is amended and the definition of ‘offensive’ online content clearly set out, attempts to gag the Internet will continue in our country, argues Abimanyu Nagarajan

The article was published in the Telegraph on June 20, 2012

Lately, the Indian government seems to be trying its best to control the Internet. In the past few weeks, dozens of file hosting or sharing sites have been blocked by court order. Earlier this year Union human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal, came down heavily on social networking sites and the Internet and waxed eloquent on the need to weed out “offensive” content there.

In fact, this week Google said that there was a 49 per cent increase in requests for content removal from India in the second half of 2011 compared to the first half. Of the 101 requests to take down 255 items, only five were made by the courts. The rest were by politicians and policemen.

In the now infamous cartoon case, a professor of Calcutta’s Jadavpur University was arrested for circulating a cartoon relating to chief minister Mamata Banerjee via email. One of the charges levelled against him was that he was culpable under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

Indeed, experts feel that the IT Act and its vague and loose definition of what constitutes “offensive” content on the Net or on a social networking site can easily be abused by those who wish to control online content.

Everything related to the Internet comes under the purview of the IT Act. As cyber law expert Pavan Duggal says, “The IT Act, 2000, covers all aspects pertaining to the use of computers, computer systems, computer networks, computer resources, communication devices as also data and information in the electronic format.”

Social networking sites and what gets posted there also come under the act. Section 2(1)(w) of the act uses the term “intermediary” to mean any legal entity that receives, stores or transmits a message, or provides any service with respect to that message on behalf of another person. By this definition social networking sites are “intermediaries” and there are strict sets of rules and guidelines listed under Section 43(a) of the act that they have to follow if they want to operate in India.

But what infuriates IT experts most is Section 66A of the IT Act, which leaves the term “offensive” utterly vague and fluid. It states: “Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device (a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; (b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will, persistently makes by making use of such computer resource or a communication device; (c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.”

In addition, Rule 3 of the IT Intermediaries Guidelines, 2011, lays down that all Internet service providers, telecom companies, email and blogging services must take down content that is “harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory…”. In fact, this provision allows you to send a takedown notice for any content that may have offended you and the item has to be deleted within 36 hours.

This is draconian, say IT experts. As Prashant Mali, a cyber law expert and president of Cyber Law Consulting, puts it, “The problem is that the offences listed under Section 66A are non-bailable, cognisable offenses. Technically speaking, since nothing is specific, you can always be arrested.”

Adds advocate Apar Gupta, a partner at law firm Advani and Company, “Section 66A is vague and stringent at the same time.”

The extent to which these provisions in the IT Act can be abused was recently demonstrated by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet Society (CIS). Sunil Abraham, executive director of CIS, talks about how the group flagged content as being offensive on a variety of sites, even though they weren’t so.

“We sent takedown notices to e-commerce, content hosting, and news media sites,” recalls Abraham. “And in most cases, we found the intermediaries were very risk averse. For example, there was one site that was talking about game theory — a mathematics model on decision making. As part of the article, they had linked out to a few gambling sites to support their research. We sent notices saying that the site promoted gambling and was therefore offensive. They didn’t just remove the links, they took the whole site down.”

Mahesh Murthy, CEO of Pinstorm, a digital advertising firm, points out that this means individuals are being allowed to do what should ideally be done by a court of law. “People who are not part of the judiciary, who are not elected officials, are taking decisions on censorship.”

Gupta reveals that the sites are not even required to inform a user that their content is being taken down. “The content vanishes into a black hole. All they have to do is remove the flagged content within 36 hours of it being reported,” he says.

IT experts have been crying themselves hoarse demanding that the government amends the IT Act and clearly sets out definitions for what constitutes “offensive” content. As Duggal says, “It will do immense service to the nation if the IT Act, 2000, is amended so as to provide more definitions, illustrations and parameters of what constitutes offensive content. Since the act is silent on what constitutes offensive material, the scope for abuse of Section 66A remains wide open.”

So will the government heed the demand of cyber law professionals and other experts and amend the IT Act? That remains to be seen. But unless the government changes its posture vis-à-vis the Internet, and shifts from its position that it’s something that needs to be controlled, few believe that an amendment in this regard will be forthcoming any time soon.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/net-loss

CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online

praskrishna — 2012-06-28T10:01:00Z

The DC Chapter of the Internet Society, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State, invite you to an informal discussion on CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online on Monday, June 25, 2012.

Published in Communication, Culture & Technology. For more info, visit here.

The Arab Spring demonstrated how Internet technologies such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook could be used to mobilize protesters, publicize corruption and human rights violations, and connect activists and emigres. But in Iran , Syria , and elsewhere, we have seen repressive governments use the Internet to identify and track dissidents, to spread disinformation, and defame political opponents. Will the technologies of anonymization win out over new digital monitoring tools? Will new wireless data technologies foster democracy--or lead to more effective tracking and surveillance? Join us for an informal discussion with six people fighting for free speech on the Internet in their country--and around the world:

Dlshad Othman (Syria), an activist and IT engineer providing Syrians with digital security tools
Pranesh Prakash (India), a blogger and cyberlaw expert who is promoting a free Internet and online freedom of speech.
Koundjoro Gabriel Kambou (Burkina Faso), a journalist at Lefaso.net, is promoting human rights, democracy particularly among young people.
Sopheap Chak (Cambodia), the Deputy Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and one of Cambodia ’s leading bloggers.
Andres Azpurua (Venezuela) has trained 300 youth on using Web 2.0 tools to publicize human rights violations.
Emin Milli (Azerbaijan), a writer who is using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to spread information about human rights violations.

Moderator: Ambassador (ret.) Richard Kauzarlich, Deputy Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), George Mason University, http://traccc.gmu.edu/

Hosted by the Communication, Culture and Technology Program of Georgetown University 2nd Floor, Car Barn, 3520 Prospect St., N.W. , Washington , DC (enter from Prospect St.)

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/censorship-2020

Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India

praskrishna — 2012-07-26T08:29:17Z

by Satya N Gupta, Sunil Abraham and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom/unlicensed-spectrum-brief.doc

Unlicensed Spectrum Policy for Government of India

praskrishna — 2012-07-26T08:29:16Z

This file is authored by Satya N Gupta, Sunil Abraham and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom/unlicensed-spectrum-brief.pdf

Publication

praskrishna — 2012-12-14T10:01:05Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/publication

Publication

praskrishna — 2016-11-05T12:30:14Z

Our major research outputs on Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, Telecom and Digital Natives can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

Accessibility

Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective

Published by G3ict and CIS in cooperation with the Hans Foundation
Foreword by Axel Leblois, Founder and Executive Director of G3ict
Download Web Accessibility Policy Making [PDF, 335 Kb]
Download the Daisy File

Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices

Published by G3ict and CIS in cooperation with the Hans Foundation
Foreword by Axel Leblois, Founder and Executive Director of G3ict
Download Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities
Download Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities [Daisy Format]

e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities

Published in collaboration with G3ict and ITU and sponsored by the Hans Foundation

Foreword by Axel Leblois, Founder and Executive Director of G3ict

Download e-Accessibility Policy Handbook [PDF, 953 Kb]. Also available in Daisy Format and Braille
Download e-Accessibility Policy Handbook (Russian)

Access to Knowledge

Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011 — India Report

IP Watchlist was published by Consumers International in response to the US Special 301 Report. India Report was prepared by Pranesh Prakash
Originally published on the A2K Network website
Download the India Report [PDF, 150 Kb]

Consumers International IP Watchlist 2009 — India Report

Openness

	Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Good Practices Handbook Published by LexUM (University of Montréal), SAFLII (The South African Legal Information Institute) and the Centre for Internet and Society with funding from IDRC as part of the “Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay?” research project launched in 2009. Download the Good Practices Handbook [PDF, 425 Kb]
	Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report Published by LexUM (University of Montréal), SAFLII (The South African Legal Information Institute) and the Centre for Internet and Society with funding from IDRC as part of the “Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay?” research project launched in 2009. Download the Environmental Scan Report [PDF, 860 Kb]
	Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Local Researcher's Methodology Guide Published by LexUM (University of Montréal), SAFLII (The South African Legal Information Institute) and the Centre for Internet and Society with funding from IDRC as part of the “Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay?” research project launched in 2009. Download the Local Researcher's Methodology Guide [PDF, 1.19 Mb]
	Open Government Data Study Published by CIS and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative Authored by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah Download Open Government Data Study [PDF, 1.03 Mb]
	The Online Video Environment in India - A Survey Report Published by CIS, iCommons and the Open Video Alliance Authored by Siddharth Chadha, Benjamin Moskowitz and Pranesh Prakash Download Online Video Environment in India [PDF, 1.22 Mb]
	Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Published by CIS and the Institute of Network Cultures Edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz Download Critical Point of View [PDF,

Internet Governance

Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet

Researched by Rishabh Dara
Published by CIS and Google India as part of the Google Policy Fellowship 2011 (Conducted for the first time in India and Asia Pacific).
Download Intermediary Liability in India [PDF, 406 Kb]

Telecom

	Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India Published by CIS and the Ford Foundation Authored by Satya N Gupta, Sunil Abraham and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan Download the Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India [PDF, 519 Kb]
	Open Spectrum for Development India Case Study Authored by Shyam Ponappa as part of the APC’s project work on Spectrum for development Download the Open Spectrum for Development India Case Study [PDF, 280 Kb]

Digital Natives

Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?

A four-book collective (To Be, To Think, To Act, To Connect), published by Hivos and CIS
Edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen
Download the Four-volume Collective [PDF Files]

Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers

Published by Hivos and CIS
Edited by Nishant Shah, Josine Stremmelaar and Fieke Jansen
Download the Position Papers [PDF, 1173 Kb]

Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report

Published by Hivos and CIS
Authored by Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham
Download the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [PDF, 647 Kb]

Researchers at Work

	Re:Wiring Bodies Monograph authored by Asha Achuthan Series Edited by Nishant Shah Section I (Attitudes to Technology) & Section II (Mapping Transitions) Download the Monograph [PDF, 2.58 Mb]
	Archive and Access Monograph authored by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto Series Edited by Nishant Shah Chapter I (Introduction), Chapter II (Land and the Unstable Document), Chapter III (History and the Region) and Chapter IV (In the Capital) Download the Monograph [PDF, 3.11 Mb]
	Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities Monograph authored by Pratyush Shankar Series Edited by Nishant Shah Chapter I (City, Technology & Cyber Space), Chapter II (The Idea of Space), Chapter III (The Imagination) and Chapter IV (The Transformation) Download the Monograph [PDF, 9.80 Mb]
	The Last Cultural Mile Monograph authored by Ashish Rajadhyaksha Series Edited by Nishant Shah Chapter I (Naming the Problem), Chapter II (Will-M-Miracle), Chapter III (The Television Revolution and the Bullet Theory), Chapter IV (The Education Miracle and the Device), Chapter V (The Unique Identity Number for Every Resident in India Project) Download the Monograph [PDF, 4.8 MB]
	Porn, Law and Video Technology Monograph authored by Namita A Malhotra Introduction by Maya Ganesh Series Edited by Nishant Shah Chapter I (For They Know Not What They Do), Chapter II (Pornography: The Trials and Tribulations of the Indian Courts), Chapter III (Family Jewels and Public Secrets), Chapter IV (Film, Video and Body), Chapter V (Amateur Video Pornography), Chapter VI (Downloading the State), Chapter VII (Technology Beast) and Chapter VIII (Vignettes for the 'Next') Download the Monograph [PDF, 6.62 Mb]

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/publication/publication

IP Watchlist 2009

praskrishna — 2012-06-21T08:57:23Z

India report prepared by Pranesh Prakash in 2009.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/ip-watchlist-2009.pdf

Annual Report (2008-09)

praskrishna — 2012-06-20T12:23:29Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/annual-report-2008.pdf

Annual Report (2009-10)

praskrishna — 2012-06-20T11:54:08Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/annual-report-2009.pdf

Google Hangout with Ashoka Fellow Sunil Abraham

praskrishna — 2012-06-20T09:16:33Z

Sunil Abraham, an Ashoka Fellow from India, visited the DC Office and shared his work on public accountability, access, and learning at the intersection of internet and society.

Watch the video below

Click to see the original from YouTube.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/google-hangout-with-sunil

Global Networks, Individual Freedoms: A Peer Forum on Internet Freedom and Human Rights

praskrishna — 2012-06-28T09:12:28Z

In Connection with the 2012 Internet Freedom Fellows Program, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva is pleased to invite Pranesh Prakash to a peer forum at the United States Mission to the United Nations on Thursday, June 21, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Join the Internet Freedom Fellows, diplomats, UN representatives, civil society, technologists and social media experts, Geneva media and other professionals engaged in the intersection of human rights, internet freedom and technology.

This peer forum is part of the Internet Freedom Fellows program, which brings human rights activists from across the globe to Geneva, Washington, and Silicon Valley to meet with fellow activists, U.S. and international government leaders, and members of civil society and the private sector engaged in technology and human rights.

This year’s Internet Freedom Fellows, all human rights activists and active practitioners of digital media, are from Syria, India, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Venezuela and Azerbaijan.

For additional information on the program, please visit Internet Freedom Fellows.

Program

9:00 a.m.	Welcome and introduction David Kennedy / John Horniblow
9:15 - 10:15	Freedom to Connect and Freedom from Fear: The problem of surveillance in a networked world. Rebecca MacKinnon – Co Founder Global Voices Online, Author “Consent of the Networked”, Boards of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Global Network Initiative
10:15 - 10:45	Developing Networked Voices and Promoting the protection of Human Rights Andreas Harsono, blogger and human rights activist (Indonesia), and Rosebell Kagumire, multimedia journalist working on peace and conflict issues in the Eastern Africa region (Uganda) 2011 Internet Freedom Fellows and journalists (via Skype)
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	Moderated Panel Discussion – How Do we Protect Human Rights in a world of global networks? How do the needs of the grassroots, civil society and business inform the process of upholding the UDHR and IHL in networks and technologies? Dr. Robert Whelan (ICRC), Pranesh Prakash, Salil Trepathi (IHRB), Nicolas Seidler (ISOC), Emin Milli Moderated Panel Discussion followed by Q &A
12:00 - 13:00	Buffet Luncheon
13:00 - 13:30	The Open Internet - Empowering Digital Humanitarianism Paul Conneally - Head of Communications for ITU and a former Red Cross delegate (in various positions, locations and with IFRC plus ICRC and the Irish Red Cross).
13:40 - 14:10	Global Network Initiative and the multistakeholder approach ensuring an Open Internet David Sullivan -Policy and Communications Director Global Network Initiative
14.15 - 14.40	The Silicon Valley Standard and implications for technology companies in the protection of Human Rights and other freedoms Brett Solomon -Exec Director Access Now (via Skype)
15:00	Twiplomacy Matthias Luefkins Managing Director, Digital, EMEA– Burson Marstellar

Participation is limited. Please RSVP by noon on Friday, June 15 to iff@usmission.ch. When responding, please indicate whether you will also join us for the luncheon buffet.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/peer-forum-on-internet-freedom-and-human-rights

Cos spying on competitors, staff: Study

praskrishna — 2012-06-20T08:46:38Z

Most companies are spying on their competitors and their own employees, according to a recent survey conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

The Statesman published this article on June 19, 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in it.

The survey's results raise questions about whether employees have enough privacy in the workplace. Rubbishing the survey's findings, head of the Indian Council of Corporate Investigators, Mr Kunwar Vikram Singh, said businesses are not spying but verifying facts.

The Assocham survey said almost 1,200 of 1,500 executives surveyed admitted to hiring people to spy on their employees and monitor their lifestyles. They said they watch former employees, too, especially those who had been laid off or kicked out for fraud.

In the survey, which was done between January and May this year in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, the Delhi-National Capital Region and Mumbai, about 900 top industry officials said they carry out corporate espionage, bug the offices of their rivals and plant moles in other companies. About a quarter of respondents said they have hired computer experts to hack networks and track e-mails of their rivals.

Many more respondents — 1,110 of those questioned — said they use social media sites to track their rival companies and employees. “Most of the companies have mentioned their sensitive details including their data, plans, clients’ details, products and other confidential and trade-related secrets on their page and unknowingly share the same in the social media circuit,” said Mr DS Rawat, national secretary-general of Assocham, “which is why it is the most favoured spying activity being carried out by the companies.”

The practice of companies pilfering trade secrets and ideas may be bad for the country's business environment, said Mr Rawat. It “might dampen the spirit of innovation in the long-run,” he said.

The Indian Council of Corporate Investigators’ Mr Singh, however, disputed Assocham's picture of rampant corporate espionage. “I totally deny that corporates are spying on their employees,” he said. “It is not spying. It is verification of facts.”

Mr Singh said that when companies look into their employees or other companies, for example, before they enter into joint ventures, they are just carrying out “due diligence”. He said they legally gather information needed for companies to survive. He also denied there were any privacy issues.

Mr Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society, though, said there are growing concerns about privacy in the workplace, including about intense video surveillance. “Managers started to object to this,” he said. “What they started saying was it really undermines the morale of these locations ... friends and relatives would ask, 'In spite of you being so educated, it's funny your companies don't trust you at all.'”

Companies need to develop more nuanced ways to deal with these problems — perhaps something more similar to the military's multiple levels of clearance — and different ways for people to acquire and lose trust, Mr Abraham said.

Whether or not surveillance is legal, depends on the type, Mr Abraham said. There is some private information a person will expect to remain private, and some information that is expected to be public — like Twitter feeds.

There is no law against monitoring this second type, known as “clear view surveillance”, he said, and blanket legislation could clash with freedom of expression. He said an ideal law for this should include a “proportional relation to power” clause, which would limit the legal ability of the powerful to monitor, but allow individual citizens more leeway.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/co-spying-on-competitors-staff

Internet At Liberty 2012

praskrishna — 2012-07-05T05:24:33Z

Activists and experts from all over the world came together for this event organised by Google on May 23 and 24, 2012 to explore free expression in the digital age.

Sunil Abraham was a speaker in Plenary IV Debate 3: In a world where nearly nine out of ten Internet users are not American, what is the responsibility of United States institutions in promoting internet freedom? Cynthia Wong, Mohamed El Dahshan, Dunja Mijatović and Judy Woodruff were the other speakers in this panel. See the video below:

Video

Internet at Liberty 2012: Plenary IV - Sunil Abraham, Cynthia Wong, Mohamed El Dahshan and Dunja Mijatović

View the video on YouTube

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/internet-liberty-2012

HasGeek presents The Fifth Elephant

praskrishna — 2012-06-19T06:38:13Z

HasGeek and the Centre for Internet & Society invite you the Fifth Elephant at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore on July 27 and 28, 2012.

Why The Fifth Elephant?

Modern technology with ubiquitous connectivity and cloud-hosted computing power is increasingly becoming important for making sense of data. The infrastructure, tools, processes and algorithms for storage, analytics and visualization shape the meanings and value that can be derived from the data. At the same time, these technologies are strongly intertwined i.e., the database infrastructure shapes how data is accessed for processing, as well as the tools you can (or cannot) use to represent the data in certain ways on the frontend. Similarly, the paradigms used for simplifying and storing data — MapReduce, NoSQL, RDBMS — variously enable the morphing of complex data into meaningful formats. Working with each one of them involves limitations and possibilities.

The Fifth Elephant is the first of its kind of events where you will meet different people working with different kinds of data. It is an opportunity for learning about new tools, technologies, platforms, processes and best practices, and engaging with business leaders, IT decision-makers, journalists, analysts and developers. It is also an opportunity to showcase data products, APIs, services and platforms.

A Conference? An Event?

The Fifth Elephant is not simply a series of lectures. It is a space for interactions with a diverse audience to serendipitously explore insights and solutions for your data problems, to understand how hidden meanings in data can be made manifest, and to learn how others are working with data. The event is open to data analysts and scientists, statisticians, geeks, enthusiasts, data-driven product managers and designers, enterprise architects, journalists, researchers, developers and database professionals.

The Agenda

The Fifth Elephant will be held on July 27 and 28, 2012 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore. Day 1 covers the technology track — big data infrastructure, analytics and visualization. Day 2 invites talks from business and industry — finance, retail, health, media, telecom — to showcase the nature of data in each of these sectors and how they are working (and not working) with the data.

Apart from demos, lectures and tutorials, there will be opportunities for open house discussions and presentations on Hadoop, NoSQL versus RDBMS paradigms, and legal and licensing frameworks for data sharing, among others. Hacker corners, a dedicated participant lounge and interactive sponsor booths will further the learning, showcasing and engagement at the event.

For submitting talks and speaking proposals, visit funnel.hasgeek.com/5el.
Corporate tickets available for company delegates and employees. For more information write to info@hasgeek.com
For sponsorship queries, write to zainab@hasgeek.com

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/has-geek-presents-the-fifth-elephant

Recruitment Tracker: 21 students placed out of the 49 who sat for recruitment in Christ University’s School of Law, Class of 2012

praskrishna — 2012-06-18T08:45:53Z

The Class of 2012 at the School of Law, Christ University saw 21 students placed out of the 49 who sat for recruitment. The graduating class has a batch strength of 77 students. The batch saw 8 pre-placement offers, 4 students being accepted for LLM’s abroad and 3 students opting for litigation while 1 student opted to appear for the civil services examination.

Published by the Bar & Bench News Network on June 11, 2012

Pangea 3 was the biggest recruiter, bagging four students while Nishith Desai Associates, Murli & Co., Clutch Group and Prudent Insurance Brokers Private Limited hiring two students each. J. Sagar Associates, Linklegal, PXV Law Partners, BMR Advisors and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Corporation picked up one student each.

The Centre for Internet and Society, human-rights organisation Justice and Care, Teach for India and the Freeland Wildlife Trust hired one student each. Out of the four students who have opted for a Masters programme, two will be going to the National University of Singapore and one each to Cornell University and George Washington University.

At the time of publication, the recruitment process for one student was currently under progress at J. Sagar Associates.

Name of the Company / Firm	Number of Students Recruited
Pangea3	4
Nishith Desai & Associates	2
Murli & Co.	2
Prudent Insurance Brokers	2
Clutch Group	2
BMR Advisors	1
J Sagar Associates	1
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Corporation	1
PXV Law Partners	1
Link Legal	1
Freeland Wildlife Trust	1
Centre for Internet & Society	1
Justice and Care	1
Teach for India	1
TOTAL	21

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/news/recruitment-tracker-21-students-placed

Centre for Internet and Society

NET LOSS

CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online

Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India

Unlicensed Spectrum Policy for Government of India

Publication

Publication

Accessibility

Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective

Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices

e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities

Published in collaboration with G3ict and ITU and sponsored by the Hans Foundation

Access to Knowledge

Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011 — India Report

Consumers International IP Watchlist 2009 — India Report

Openness

Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Good Practices Handbook

Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report

Free Access to Law Is it Here to Stay? Local Researcher's Methodology Guide

Open Government Data Study

The Online Video Environment in India - A Survey Report

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

Internet Governance

Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet

Telecom

Unlicensed Spectrum Policy brief for Government of India

Open Spectrum for Development India Case Study

Digital Natives

Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?

Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers

Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report

Researchers at Work

Re:Wiring Bodies

Archive and Access

Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities

The Last Cultural Mile

Porn, Law and Video Technology

IP Watchlist 2009

Annual Report (2008-09)

Annual Report (2009-10)

Google Hangout with Ashoka Fellow Sunil Abraham

Watch the video below

Global Networks, Individual Freedoms: A Peer Forum on Internet Freedom and Human Rights

Program

Cos spying on competitors, staff: Study

Internet At Liberty 2012

Video

HasGeek presents The Fifth Elephant

Why The Fifth Elephant?

A Conference? An Event?

The Agenda

Recruitment Tracker: 21 students placed out of the 49 who sat for recruitment in Christ University’s School of Law, Class of 2012