Centre for Internet and Society

International ‘code-athon' in Bangalore

praskrishna — 2012-04-27T10:48:34Z

The Centre for Internet & Society hosted this event in Bangalore. The Hindu covered the event.

April 22 will be the second day of an international code-athon being held simultaneously in cities across the world. In Bangalore, this International Space Apps challenge is being held at the Centre for Internet and Society in Domlur. This event, coordinated by the U.S. space agency NASA, is part of the U.S.'s programme to promote Open Government Partnership.

The challenge is grouped into four categories: Software Development, Open Hardware, Citizen Science Platforms and Data Visualisation. The contest aims at addressing strategic space exploration needs, a press release from CIS stated.

Click for the full story published in the Hindu on April 22, 2012.

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Intermediary Liabilty Poster

praskrishna — 2013-09-24T09:30:08Z

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Intermediary Liability in India

praskrishna — 2013-11-16T14:55:00Z

The report was produced by Rishabh Dara as part of the Google Policy Fellowship programme initiated jointly by the Centre for Internet and Society and Google.

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Intermediary Liability and Freedom of Expression

praskrishna — 2013-06-03T09:24:08Z

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Intermediary

praskrishna — 2021-06-26T02:53:37Z

Intermediary

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Interface Message Processor

praskrishna — 2013-03-04T16:44:02Z

Interface Message Processor

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Interest of State

praskrishna — 2013-07-01T09:27:01Z

Interest of State

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Interactive Seminar on Internet Freedom

praskrishna — 2017-03-29T03:56:03Z

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Intelligence agencies will not have open access to Aadhaar data: UIDAI chief

praskrishna — 2016-10-21T01:32:56Z

Intelligence agencies will not have free access to Aadhaar data, a top government official said on Thursday, looking to assuage fears of abuse of personal information.

The article by Aloke Tikku was published in the Hindustan Times on October 20, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issued identity cards to 1.07 billion Indians, last month decided to retain data related to the verification of Aadhaar-enabled transactions for seven years, leading to security concerns over data safety.

As reported by HT on Monday, privacy experts expressed concerns that transaction data retained for so long could be accessed by the security establishment for surveillance on individuals without sufficient grounds.

“This fear is completely misplaced,” ABP Pandey, UIDAI’s chief executive officer told HT in an interview.

Security agencies can access the data only in case of national security after they get the nod of an oversight committee headed by the cabinet secretary. This committee has to clear every order made by the designated joint secretary-level officer before the information is shared, he said.

“You cannot have any legal protection stronger than this,” Pandey added.

Aadhaar transaction data is not only protected by the most powerful, contemporary law to restrict access but also by strong cryptography.

“Even if someone attempts, the 2048-bit encryption is so strong that it will take them millions of computers and billions of years to decrypt the data,” he said.

A vocal critic of Aadhaar’s design, Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) suggested he wouldn’t rely too much on the legal framework. “You cannot put a legal band-aid on a broken technological solution. You need to get privacy and security right by design,” the director of the Bengaluru-based research body said.

Abraham said the problem could have been averted if the UIDAI did not store the data in a centralised form. Instead, it could have used its digital signature to sign proof of authentication that could be stored by the authenticating agency and the citizen on a smart card.

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Intellectuals stresses on need for revival of Bhagabat Tungi in Odisha villages as knowledge hub

praskrishna — 2014-05-06T07:03:49Z

Odia Intellectuals stresses on need for revival of Bhagabat Tungi in Odisha villages as knowledge hub. This was expressed by the intellectuals at a seminar organized by ‘The Intellects’ at Tyagaraj Nagar Jaggnath Mandir, New Delhi.

The article was published in Odishadiary on April 22, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.

It should be noted that The Intellects a Delhi based organization of Odia intellectuals and Shree Jagannath Mandir & Odisha Art And Cultural Center have come together to organize a seminar on the subject “Relevance Of Bhagabat Tungi In The Evolution Of Odia Language From Budha Era To Digital Age”.

The conference was about the discussion over creative platform for future development of Odia language and literature. Delegates were drawn from diverse areas to provide more interdisciplinary insight in to issues and challenges that are in from of Odia language to march ahead in the new age of computer.

The seminar was attended by Rajya Sabha MP Baisnab Parida, Dr. Subash Pani, Dr. Bhagaban Prakash, researcher Subrat Prusti, writer and lawyer Biraja Mohapatra, journalist and Odiakart.com founder Sahasranshu Mahapatra, Subhashish Panigrahi- Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society and The Intellects chairman Shri Devendra Rout.

The program was attended by who is who of Delhi Odias like OdiaRadio Founder, Sitanshu Mohapatra, Journalist Asit Ranjan Mishra, OdishaDiary (www.orissadiary.com) founder Prachee Naik, The Intellects members Smrutidhara Rout, Anasuya Sahoo, Aditya Mohanty, Nirmal Dhal, Sangram Dhar, Sanjaya Parida, Pankajamala Sarangi, Premanda Swain, lawyer Sanjeeb Kumar Mohanty, Tarun Samantray, Dr. Anita Panda, Prof. Saudamini Barik, Jayaram Samal, Indubhushan Lenka, Kamdev Biswal of Tyagraj Nagar Jaggnath Temple and others.

This program was attended by nearly 600 Odias living across the national capital region. The Intellects also organsing 7-days BHAGABAT SANDHYA will also be organized at the premises of Shree Jagannath Mandir, Tyagraj Nagar, New Delhi from 21st April to 27 April 2014 in an effort to spread the noble principles of the SHREEMAD BHAGABAT.

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Intellectual Property Rights as seen in a graphic novel

praskrishna — 2011-04-02T06:32:01Z

While most engagements with the issue of Intellectual Property Rights take the form of academic papers and scholarly articles, the Centre for Internet and Society is approaching the subject through another medium – an online graphic novel. Commissioned by the organisation, and conceived, written and drawn by Mumbai-based Anand Ramachandran (a man who keeps himself busy in a number of ways, from writing satire columns to developing videogame designs), the novel, titled Learning to Floo, is being serialised on the CIS website.

“People are aware of the implications of IPR issues when it comes to movies and music,” said Ramachandran, over the phone from Mumbai. “Less so when it comes to patents and medicines. We’re trying to throw light on some of these issues through the comic.” One attraction of dealing with the subject through a story is that it becomes possible to avoid proselytising. “We’re telling a story, not taking a moral stand,” said Ramachandran.

The premise – an India many centuries in the future. IPR laws have slowly become so restrictive that people can’t even hum a popular tune without first paying a license fee. As a result creativity and originality have been strangled, and people’s brains have turned to mush. A band of rebels holds out, including an individual named Teech who, as the story opens, is in prison awaiting execution. Unknown to him and his cohorts, the government actually needs them because, as pirates, they have access to knowledge that has been lost to the rest of mankind. A prison break sets the story off at a cracking pace.

Ramachandran uses Celtx to write his scripts, and Xara Xtreme and the GIMP pencil and airbrush tool for the illustrations – all free software, he pointed out. The art is minimalist, with one or two facial features defining each character (Teech himself has no facial features), and the story is sped along by snappy dialogue and smooth storyboarding. CIS also has plans to produce a print version of the comic once it is complete. Ajay Krishnan

Learning to Floo can be read here
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Intellectual Property

praskrishna — 2015-03-19T13:45:23Z

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Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony and others join the grand AI partnership club

praskrishna — 2017-05-19T06:25:24Z

Adding more ammunition to the grand AI alliance, Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI, a collection of companies and non-profits that have committed to share best practices and communicating openly about the prospects and challenges of artificial intelligence research.

This was published by CIOL on May 17, 2017.

The group also announced a slew of non-profit partners including the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the AI Forum of New Zealand, the Centre for Democracy & Technology, the Centre for Internet and Society (India), Data & Society Research Institute among others.

The new members expand a group that already counts heavyweights like Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Apple.

The platform will be hosting a series of AI Grand Challenges to encourage and incentivize researchers working on AI. It has also announced an award for best paper on the topic of “AI, People, and Society” to aid in addressing a similar goal.

The partnership group also said that it will create working groups to research and define best practices for specific topics and sectors within the field. It’s also creating a fellowship to assist nonprofits and nongovernmental organisations looking to participate in AI issues.

Interestingly, the group is still open which means the list will only get longer in the coming months.

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Intel, eBay, SAP, Salesforce y Sony colaborarán en inteligencia artificial

praskrishna — 2017-05-19T06:50:06Z

Junto a otras empresas como Zalando, McKinsey & Company o Cogitai han decidido unirse a la asociación Partnership on AI impulsada por Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM y Microsoft.

The blog post by Monica Tilves was published by Silicon on May 17, 2017.

El año pasado, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM y Microsoft dieron vida a Partnership on AI, una organización “para avanzar en la comprensión pública de las tecnologías de inteligencia artificial” y “formular las mejores prácticas sobre los desafíos y oportunidades en el campo”.

A esta iniciativa se han ido uniendo con el paso del tiempo compañías como Apple, que se sumó en enero a Partnership on AI. Ahora sus responsables han anunciado la incorporación de nada más y nada menos que veintidós nuevos nombres.

Por un lado trabajarán con esta asociación las firmas tecnológicas Cogitai, eBay, Intel, Salesforce, SAP y Sony. Además de McKinsey & Company y Zalando.

Cabe destacar que por parte de Intel, Salesforce, SAP y Sony participarán, respectivamente, el responsable del AI Products Group formado hace unos meses en la compañía de Santa Clara, Yinyin Liu; el vicepresidente de Machine Learning, Markus Noga, el científico jefe Richard Socher; y el director de Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Hiroaki Kitano.

En la lista de nuevos socios también aparecen los nombres de catorce entidades sin ánimo de lucro como UNICEF. El resto serían: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, AI Forum of New Zealand, Center for Democracy & Technology, Centre for Internet and Society – India, Data & Society Research Institute, Digital Asia Hub, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of Humanity Institute, Future of Privacy Forum, Human Rights Watch, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Upturn y XPRIZE Foundation.

Se espera que nuevas compañías se vayan uniendo a Partnership on AI en el futuro para ahondar en el pujante tema de la inteligencia artificial.

Partnership on AI se encuentra en estos momentos en plena búsqueda de un director ejecutivo que se encargue de supervisar las operaciones de la organización.

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Integrating Urdu with Modern Technology the Need of Hour

praskrishna — 2014-04-01T11:15:54Z

A report of the Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University by the Department of Translation Studies on March 6, 2014. Syed Muzamiluddin is quoted.

Advancing technology necessitates integrating language with the concurrent developments. These thoughts were expressed by Syed Muzammiluddin, Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore during the Urdu Wikipedia workshop organised at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.

Continuing his lecture, Muzammil said Wikipedia is a freely accessible online repository of knowledge available in multiple languages across the world. He emphasised that while other language Wikipedia communities have geared up the momentum and contributed immensely, Urdu still needs its fair share of contributors.

Prof. Zafaruddin, head, Dept. of Translation Studies emphasised that the department desires to see all the students contributing to the Urdu Wikipedia and hence this event has been organised.

Dr Vishnu Vardhan from the Centre for Internet and Society addressed the gathering through the video conference and stressed the significance of Urdu language and the need for proactive contribution on Urdu Wikipedia.

In the later session, the students got the first hand exposure of the Wikipedia editing basics. Since all the participants had opened their accounts prior to the event, they all actively edited articles on the Urdu Wikipedia.

The event coordinator Dr Faheemuddin said that student look forward to this event as the beginning of their long term association with Urdu Wikipedia. The function ended with a vote of thanks by Dr Faheemuddin. Those present at the function included Dr Khalid Mubashir uz Zafar, Dr Mahmood Kazmi, Dr Junaid Zakir, Dr Kahkashan Lateef and Translator Shekh Sadi Arshad.

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