Centre for Internet and Society

Durga

praskrishna — 2012-07-06T09:35:44Z

Lakshmi

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Dublin Descriptors

praskrishna — 2014-01-30T07:20:36Z

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DU.pdf

praskrishna — 2016-05-15T10:29:51Z

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DU (2).pdf

praskrishna — 2016-05-15T10:48:29Z

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DSCI meet

praskrishna — 2018-11-28T01:44:31Z

DSCI meet

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DSCI Best Practices Meet

praskrishna — 2017-07-07T01:39:23Z

Udbhav Tiwari represented CIS on a Panel titled "Reposing Trust in Citizen Identity Systems" at the DSCI Best Practices Meet held at the ITC Gardenia on June 22 and 23, 2017 in Bangalore.

The event discussions featured around privacy and Aadhaar.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/dsci-best-practices-meet

DSCI

praskrishna — 2019-02-02T01:46:45Z

DSCI

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DSCI

praskrishna — 2016-01-29T15:32:17Z

DSCI Event

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Droidcon India, first Android Conference in Bangalore

praskrishna — 2011-11-24T04:17:12Z

HasGeek is happy to announce the forthcoming Droidcon India on the 18th and 19th of November 2011 at the MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore. Droidcon.com, Bangalore Android User Group, MobileMonday Bangalore, Medianama, Android Advices and the Centre for Internet and Society are the event partners.

Droidcon is India’s first international Android conference and is part of the world’s largest series of Android conferences, with other editions in London, Bucharest (Romania), Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin. Droidcon India is a response to the booming market for Android, which has seen sales increase by 888.88 per cent in 2010, and reach nearly 50 per cent market share worldwide.

Organized by developers for developers, the multi-track two day event will provide a rich variety of content for delegates by attracting the best speakers in the Android community. HasGeek expects the participation of over 400 delegates, including students, developers, UX and UI designers, and people with strong interests in the Android ecosystem, both from India and beyond.

The sessions will be presented in an informal environment that gives everyone a chance to be heard. The theme for the conference covers a range of topics that include building well designed apps, dealing with device diversity, performance optimization, NFC, Arduino, and usage in the Enterprise. For more details about session topics visit http://goo.gl/F9bEB

For registrations and tickets, visit http://goo.gl/pmXpJ

Following the first day conference on November 18, there will be an after party for this event which will be held at the CounterCulture restaurant.

For more information on tickets and registrations, contact Zainab Bawa @ zainab@hasgeek.in or call @ +91 99454 73641.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/droidcon-india

Draft Right to Privacy

praskrishna — 2016-01-03T09:35:54Z

Draft Right to Privacy

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Draft IT guidelines may gag internet freedom

praskrishna — 2011-03-22T04:16:54Z

The draft rules proposed under the Information Technology Rules 2011 (due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) by the Indian government could lead to unprecedented levels of online censorship. This article by Shilpa Phadnis and Pranav Nambiar was published in the Times of India on March 11, 2011.

Intermediaries include telecommunications companies, internet service providers (ISPs) and blogging sites. Under the draft rules, intermediaries will have to notify users of their computer resource not to use, display, upload, publish, share or store a variety of `objectionable' content.

This includes infringement of proprietary information, blasphemy or abuse, information that could harm minors, content that impersonates another person or discloses sensitive personal information etc.

Sunil Abraham, executive director at the Centre for Internet and Society, said that these moves would have a chilling effect on internet freedom. For example Sec 3 (2)(a) states that any website with social media integrated into it and allows public to add content comes under the blanket surveillance regime. Sec 3 (h), which talks about impersonating another person, will potentially discourage cases like the fake IPL player who revealed rich information while keeping his real identity under wraps.

The draft rules use a standard set of rules across a variety of intermediaries including telecom service providers, blogging sites, online payment sites, e-mail service providers, and Web hosting companies.

Abraham believes that the government is explicitly targeting bloggers as a community and the draft rules are far from being tech neutral. "The government has come out with standard terms of use for due diligence. But you can't treat a small blogger on par with others who have large-scale commercial interests," he said.

According to the draft rules, an intermediary has to inform users that in case of non-compliance of its terms of use of the services and privacy policy, it has the right to immediately terminate the access rights of the users to its site. In case of infringement, the intermediary has to work with the user or owner of the information to remove access to the information.

Apar Gupta, partner in Accendo Law Partners, said intermediaries like blogs and search engines would have censorship powers. "It will not directly impeach the freedom of speech and expression. But intermediaries have to comply with some certain standards such as notify users on compliance issues,"he said.

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Draft Bill on Right to Privacy

praskrishna — 2012-01-30T11:57:25Z

The Right to Privacy Bill.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/draft-bill-on-right-to-privacy

Draft Annual Report (2010-11)

praskrishna — 2014-10-21T23:55:55Z

This is the draft of the 2010-11 Annual Report.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/about/reports/annual-report-2010-2011.pdf

Draft Agenda

praskrishna — 2011-02-28T14:44:52Z

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Dr. Surendra Pal

praskrishna — 2012-06-27T06:27:16Z

Dr.Surendra Pal is the associate director of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Satellite Centre and Programme Director of ISRO’s Satellite Navigation Program.

Pioneering the creation of India’s satellite navigation and communications systems, Dr. Pal was in charge of the design, development, and the fabrication of spacecraft-related telecommunication systems for all Indian scientific, remote-sensing and communication satellites. Further, he established essential satellite-based navigation schemes in India, such as developing the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) and GPS Aided and Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN).

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/surendra-pal