Centre for Internet and Society

शंभर वर्षांपूर्वीच्या पुस्तकांचे होणार डिजिटायझेशन

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:47:20Z

Lokmat (newspaper) covered Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha's Project news.

Read the original article in Lokmat here.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/93690292d930-93593094d93793e90292a94293094d93594091a94d92f93e-92a94193894d92491593e90291a947-93994b92393e930-92193f91c93f91f93e92f91d947936928

Take-away from the I&J Project Workshop at the UN Internet Governance Forum 2015

praskrishna — 2015-11-30T14:09:57Z

The Internet & Jurisdiction Project organized the workshop “Transnational due process: A case study in multi-stakeholder cooperation” at the Internet Governance Forum convened by the United Nations on November 13, 2015.

This was published on Internet & Jurisdiction website.

The 4-day conference convened over 2000 high-level participants from states, major global Internet companies, technical Internet operators, international organizations, civil society groups and academia.

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The workshop organized by the I&J Project discussed how to address the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and a patchwork of national jurisdictions by enabling multi-stakeholder cooperation. Sunil Abraham, the Director of CIS India, stressed the limits of traditional modes of inter-state legal cooperation on the Internet:

The MLAT system is completely broken […] both from the demand side and also from the supply side.

The US Cyber Coordinator of the State Department, Christopher Painter, stated the need to streamline procedures of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties, but also highlighted the importance of pursuing in parallel more innovative approaches, such as the Internet & Jurisdiction process:

MLATS are not always the right answer. There are other answers between law enforcement channels in terms of joint investigations and there are also creative solutions that might take some of the burden off that MLAT process and I think that those are worthy of exploration.

Representing the Canadian ccTLD .ca, Mark Bull reflected upon how to develop such solutions to maintain the global nature of the Internet.

We are talking about incredibly complex issues here and I believe that complexity necessitates a multi-stakeholder process to identify solutions. And that is what I think the beauty of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project is. And it’s why because of the multi-stakeholder structure, that’s why we believe it is the best and the most effective form for discussing issues this complex.

Panelist Eileen Donahoe, the Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch applauded the progress the Internet & Jurisdiction process made since 2012:

Let me say that the work of the I&J Project has been relentless and it is really important. This is one of the most complex spaces in Internet governance

The jurisdiction topic has become one of the most pressing Internet governance challenges, as I&J Project Director and Co-Founder Bertrand de La Chapelle pointed out:

There is a real element of urgency. The jurisdiction issue is at the core of many Internet governance problems. And it has been said in many workshops here in the IGF, but also outside of it. The problem is really getting worse. The jurisdiction problem is probably one of the biggest threats to the fabric of the Internet as we know it.

The objective of the workshop was to gather participants in the global Internet & Jurisdiction process from different stakeholder groups to report on progress and achievements. Furthermore, the workshop deepened the understanding of how to address jurisdictional tensions around the Internet and establish innovative legal cooperation mechanisms to prevent its fragmentation along national territorial boundaries.Council of Europe’s Elvana Thaci reminded participants of the importance to develop harmonized procedures across borders, as

Harmonization of substance is very difficult because the understanding of unlawfulness of content is very diverse.

Facebook’s Head of Policy Development, Matt Perault, talked about the need for appropriate procedures:

I am here because I believe the I&J Project is devoted to figuring out how to think about mechanisms for a race to the top on the issue of jurisdiction.

The pioneering Internet & Jurisdiction process has engaged more than 100 key entities around the world, creating a unique neutral space to build trust and catalyze operational solutions. As Will Hudson, Google’s Senior Advisor for International Policy, said:

We need to find solutions that work for all parties. It is one of the great strengths of the I&J Project, that it is looking at this challenge head on. We need to do things in this multi-stakeholder manner, and talk as a community because everyone has a stake in this and we cannot do this alone.

Participants

ANNE CARBLANC, Head of Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
BYRON HOLLAND, President and CEO, CIRA (Canadian ccTLD)
CHRISTOPHER PAINTER, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, US Department of State
EILEEN DONAHOE, Director Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch
EVANA THACI, Administrator, Council of Europe
MATT PERAULT, Head of Policy Development, Facebook
SUNIL ABRAHAM, Executive Director, CIS India
WILL HUDSEN, Senior Advisor for International Policy, Google

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/take-away-from-the-i-j-project-workshop-at-the-un-internet-governance-forum-2015

International Day of People with Disability

praskrishna — 2015-12-16T15:54:46Z

Nirmita Narasimhan was a panelist at this event organized by Capgemini in Bangalore on November 30, 2015.

The theme of the panel discussion was Accessibility. Nirmita Narasimhan was one of the guest speakers. She spoke about the work done on Accessibility at the Centre for Internet & Society.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/news/international-day-of-people-with-disability

Shopping on apps raise privacy and security concerns

praskrishna — 2017-03-21T14:56:26Z

The recently concluded online Diwali sales frequently offered consumers hefty discounts on merchandise if they shopped via store app, a move that experts say increases security risks for internet users.

The article by Vivek Ananth was published by the Softcopy, an IIJNM Web Publication on November 23, 2015. Sunil Abraham gave inputs.

“It makes the security much worse because of increased complexity from the user perspective,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director at Centre for Internet and Society.

“User will have to install multiple apps and then worry about the security implications arising from each app. From the e-commerce corporation perspective it might reduce effort but for users this is a nightmare.”

Do apps increase security risks?

The degree of risk depends on the specific app and can only be determined after a detailed security audit, Abraham said.

“Unfortunately there aren't many organisations doing such audits and making their results available to the public,” he added.

There are some users who say that privacy on the internet isn’t an option.

“Once you are online your privacy is kind of gone,” said Hasmit Trivedi of Mumbai. “I mean you are vulnerable.”

“That (browsing history being used to target advertisements) does concern me, but not to the extent that I'll stop using these websites,” said Sweta Rajan, a lawyer from Mumbai.

“Google has done this forever," said Dinoo Muthappa.“I don't even care if they use my search to place advertisements of what they think I need while browsing.”

Comfort and Convenience trumps privacy

“I don't really shop for things I'm not comfortable allowing the world to know. I'm ok with them using this (usage pattern and browsing information) for commercial reasons,” Rajan said.

“We live in a world where the cost of convenience is our privacy. Take my user preferences,” said Dinoo Muthappa, a lawyer from Delhi.“If it means you'll make money and somehow reflect as a discount to me later, that's fine,” she added.

“I frankly don't have a problem with it in principle,” said Akshara Kumar Chitoor, a lawyer from Bengaluru, about companies mining data to target advertisements at her. “I don't think it's very different from how certain TV channels carry certain advertisements because they know the audiences.I mean, you get Rin and Horlicks ads on Zee and Sony but not Romedy Now or Comedy Central.”

“The convenience of having it come home when I want and not having to face the guy who I know is ripping me off; these guys can use and sell my information,” Muthappa said.

“With my work timings I literally do not find time to go to a store and shop,”Rajan said. “I buy everything online. It's very convenient and time saving.”

“Personally, I think just browsing stuff to buy is much easier on your computer,” said Sreenath Unnikrishnan, a product developer from Singapore. “However, I do think apps are more convenient for payment. As in your card information is normally stored and can be accessed without having to log in and all. I can do that on a computer too, but it's less secure. At least that's what I think.”

Google and Facebook have their advertisement norms disclosed.

Twitter also follows a similar model using the email ids that their users have associated with their twitter handles.

“If the service is free - then as many have said before - you are the product, said Sunil Abraham executive director at Centre for Internet and Society. “Your personal information is being sold to marketers and advertisers. As Bruce Schneier puts it ‘surveillance is the business model of the Internet’".

The terms and conditions are sometimes very long and use difficult language.

“Transparency and Informed Consent are principles in most jurisdictions that have data protection law modelled on the EU Data Protection Directive,” Abraham said.“Part of the transparency principle is the accessibility of the language.”

The user though still has an option to opt out of the above process where their data is collected by these companies.
Privacy policies of internet companies are legal documents. These are required under data protection laws. This makes them complicated, said Abraham.

The users don’t care that their usage data is being mined by businesses till they have a bad experience, Abraham said.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-soft-copy-vivek-ananth-november-23-2015-shopping-on-apps-raise-privacy-and-security-concerns

Open Source India 2015

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:46:46Z

The twelfth Open Source India event organized by EFY Group was held at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore on November 19 and 20, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the event for the first day.

Open Source India (OSI) is the premierconference in Asia targeted at nurturing and promoting the Open Source ecosystem in the subcontinent. Started as LinuxAsia in 2004, OSI has been at the helm of bringing together the Open Source industry and the community in the last 11 years. The 12th edition of OSI this year aimed to take this event a notch higher by focusing on the Open Source ecosystem in Asia, and more specifically, in India.

For more information see the brochure of the event. Schedule of the event on Day 1 here and Schedule of the event on Day 2 here.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/open-source-india-2015

Design!Public (6th Edition)

praskrishna — 2015-11-30T02:11:45Z

The sixth edition of Design Public conceptualized and hosted by CivicLabs, an initiative of the Center for Knowledge Societies was held at Vihara Innovation Campus, New Delhi. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was a panelist.

The event created a platform through which urban administrators could engage with a wide range of expertise representing innovation, public policy, development, technology and entrepreneurship. The event brought together leading global and Indian practitioners representing these fields, to share and exchange best practices, learnings, approaches and philosophies in an attempt to chart a way forward for an ecosystem for civic innovation for India’s cities.

For more information see the Design Public website. Also see the blog post by Khusbhoo Dixit on this.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/design-public-6th-edition

Community Discussion for Making Tulu Wikipedia Live

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:45:54Z

CIS-A2K Programme Officer Rahmanuddin Shaik visited Mangalore on October 28 and 29 and again on November 5 and 6, 2015. During his visit he interacted with Wikipedians for making the Tulu Wikipedia live.

There were discussions on translations of system messages that appear on Wikipedia interface, creating templates pages and adding images. Around 79 strings were translated on Translatewiki.net, the community project for MediaWiki localization, and about 500 strings were approved. This event was organised at Tulu Bhavana, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Akademy. The director of the institution was part of the meeting who agreed for the following:

To relicense a lower resolution cover pages, and metadata of their 157 volumes of books under Creative Commons licenses. This will bring in those many articles on Tulu Wikipedia.
To give detailed information of winners of Tulu Sahitya Akademy award winners (this was being given away across 6 disciplines from 1993 onwards), which would add close to 100 biography articles on Tulu Wikipedia.

A possibility of CIS-A2K and Tulu Sahitya Akademy collaboration was also discussed briefly. Vishwanatha Badikana was there throughout these talks and he would be the contact person for further work.

Rahmanuddin was also invited to be a part of the World Konkani Literature festival where he spoke briefly about Konkani Wikipedia to the gathering.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live

Minutes of the First Meeting of Expert Committee of WIPO

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T08:27:01Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/minutes-of-the-first-meeting-of-expert-committee-of-wipo

Second Meeting of the Expert Committee on WIPO

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T08:27:54Z

The second meeting of the Expert Committee on WIPO was held in the Committee Room (6th floor) of Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi on November 2, 2015. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Special Secretary (I&B). Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha attended the meeting.

Download the minutes of the first meeting here.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/second-meeting-of-the-expert-committee-on-wipo

International Conference on Evolving Regime in Intellectual Property Protection

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T08:11:52Z

Jawaharlal Nehru University organized a conference from 2 to 4 November 2015 at its campus in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash was a speaker in the session "IP Enforcement".

Agenda

Time	Session	Theme	Speaker
Day 1: 2nd November, 2015
8:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-11:00	Inaugural session		Praveen Jha
			MR Murthy
			Sakthivel Selvaraj
			K.M. Gopakumar
11:00-11:15	Tea
11:15-13:00	Plenary 1	Twenty Years of TRIPS Implementation	Chair: D G Shah
			OPPI
			Amit Sengupta
			Biswajit Dhar
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:45	Parallel session 1a	TRIPS flexibilities	Chair: Mira Shiva
			Leena Menghaney
			Aditi Kahtri
			Shivani
			Prabhat Kuamr Saha
			Priyanka Kumari
			Krutika Gaur
			Chandan Wadhwa
	Parallel session 1b	Multinational Enterprises and Access to Medicines	Chair: Bruno Woeren
			Reji Joseph
			Suraksha Gupta
			Swadhin Mondal
			Dr. Jafar K
			Dr KD Raju
			Apurva Agarwal
			Aman Shukla
	Parallel session 1C	Lightening presentations 1	Chairs: Muraleedhran VR & Arun Nair
			T.M.Vasuprada
			Aakriti Jain
			Uttam Bhattacharya
			Soumya Sinha
			Azamat Ali
			Nidhi Saxena
			Aishwarya Khanna
			Mayank Kapila
			Krishna Kumar Verma
			Nidhi Nair
			Ravindra Chingale
			Smita Sahu
15:45-16:00	Tea
16:00-17:30	Plenary 2	TRIPS Plus	Chair: Chandani Raina
			Kajal Bhardwaj
			Nirmalya Syam
			D.G. Shah
			Alka Mehta
			Pranesh Prakash

Day 2: 3rd November, 2015
10:00-11:30	Plenary 3	IP and Access to Medicines	Chair: Manisha Shridhar
			Sakthivel Selvaraj
			Amit Sengupta
			Leena Menghaney

11:30-11:45	Tea
11:45-13:15	Parallel session 2a	Patent Pools and Voluntary Licensing	Chair: Ravi Duggal
			Shailey Gupta
			Kajal Bhardwaj
			Abhishek Tripathi
			Garima Singh
			Achyut Shankar Shukla
			Renuka PP
	Parallel session 2b	IP and Access to knowledge	Chair: T.C. James
			Zakir Thomas
			Saradindu Bhaduri
			Jayanta Ghosh
			Dr Kavitha Chalakkal
			Harilal Madhavan
			Amiya Kumar Pati
	Parallel Session 2c	Lightening presentations 2	Chair: Preeti Kumar and Dinesh Abrol
			Amritha Gunasekaran
			Aishwarya Dhancholia
			Deepesh Raj
			Aqa Raza
			Nikhil Kashyap
			Swapan Manna
			Veer Mayank
			Ganesh Mishra
			Harsh Kankane
			Rakhee Gupta
			Ashit Kumar Srivastava
			Yashwant Kumar Yash
			C.Prashanthi
13:25-14:15	Lunch			Presenter 3
14:15-16:00	Parallel session 3a	TRIPS and Agriculture	Chair: R.C. Aggarwal
			Shalini Bhutani
			Kumar Ankit
			Krishna Ravi Srinivas
			Dr.S.Elumalai
			Amit Singh
			Nidhi singh
			Anna David Thottappilly
			Rohit Moonka
	Parallel session 3b	IP enforcement	Chair: Madhukar Sinha
			Yogesh Pai
			Prashant Sugthan
			Pranesh Prakash
			Amjad Ali
			Abhilosh Chaturvedi
			Shirin Syed
			Indrani Barpujari
	Parallel session 3c	Lightening presentations 3	Chair: K.M. Gopakumar and Kajal Bhardwaj
			Nalini Kaushik
			Gouri Saxena
			Deepali Vashist
			Satatya Anand
			Kunjal Arora
			Aditya Mishra
			Aditya Amar
			Shivam Kumar
			Nidhi Singh
			Shova Devi
			Rashmi Kumari /Subir Kumar
16:00-16:15	Tea
16:15-17:30	Plenary 4	India's IP Policy	Chair: Rajeev Kher
			Carlos Correa
			Manisha Shridhar
			Dinesh Abrol
			Anand Grover
Day 3: 4th November, 2015
9:00-10:15		Lightening presentations 4	Chair: V.G. Hegre and Keerti Pradhan
			Alok Ranjan
			Jupi Gogoi
			Ruchika Sharma
			Divya Monga
			Atul Sharma
			Charu Srivastava
			Ravi Parupalli
			Prabhakar Maurya
10:15-11:30	Plenary 5	TRIPS and Sustainable Development Goals	Chair: Biswajit Dhar
			T.C. James
			K.M. Gopakumar
			Ranja Sengupta
11:30-11:45	Tea
11:24-12:30	Plenary 6	The way forward…	Chair: Muchkund Dubey
			B.S. Chimni (tbc)
			Jayant Dasgupta
			Carlos M. Correa
12:30-13:00	Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks
13:00 onwards	Lunch

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/international-conference-on-evolving-regime-in-intellectual-property-protection

CIS Response to Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T06:32:22Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-response-to-draft-proposal-to-transition-the-stewardship-of-the-internet-assigned-numbers-authority-iana-functions-from-the-u-s-commerce-department2019s-national-telecommunications-and-information-administration

मराठी पुस्तके 'विकिस्रोत' ला, सकाळ

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:44:52Z

Marathi Wikipedia media coverage in Sakaal newspaper.

Scanned version of the article published in Sakaal on October 28, 2015:

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1

महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक संस्थेमधील एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाईन

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:57:00Z

Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Saamna.

A scanned version of the article published in Saamna on October 30 is below:

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93890293894d92594792e927940932-90f915-93991c93e930-91794d930902925-91192893293e908928

November 2015 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2016-01-03T12:42:42Z

Our newsletter for the month of November 2015 is below:

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to share the eleventh issue of CIS newsletter (November 2015). Previous editions of the newsletter can be accessed at http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters.

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Highlights
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The Internet Governance Forum was held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme for IGF 2015 was Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Sunil Abraham, Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday participated. Overall CIS spoke in 10 panels. Jyoti Panday has summarized the developments.
Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. CIS responded to the call .
The first draft of the National IPR Policy was released last December. Comments and suggestions were submitted to the DIPP on this. Akshath Mithal in his blog post analysed the comments available online and the trends that he was able to find.
Ramya Chandrasekhar wrote a blog post that has deconstructed and explained some aspects of the various proposals to enhance ICANN's accountability.
Mangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia. Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan have captured the development in a blog post.
Japreet Grewal in a blog post has attempted to understand the domain in which censorship laws are penetrating today giving the example of the role of group admin in Whatsapp.
Elonnai Hickok in a policy brief has reviewed different oversight mechanisms from the US, UK, and Canada and provides recommendations for ways in which India can strengthen its present oversight mechanisms for state surveillance and the intelligence community.
Rohan George has reviewed the literature surrounding big data and predictive policing and has provided an analysis of the legal implications of using predictive policing techniques in the Indian context.
Large blocks of underused spectrum lie tantalizingly out of reach, waiting for enabling regulation, administration, and to some extent technology, to accelerate our move towards Digital India, according to Shyam Ponappa's column published in the Business Standard.
CIS in collaboration with T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects and or-bits.com developed Silicon Plateau Vol-1. This book marks the beginning of an interdisciplinary artistic project, Silicon Plateau, the scope of which is to observe how the arts, technology and society intersect in the city of Bangalore.
P.P. Sneha has outlined a few questions/conflicts that the digital practitioners in arts and humanities disciplines are grappling with in the first among seven sections that has been published.
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society and CIS has set up the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund. The objective is to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The fund will be administered by the RAW programme at CIS.

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Accessibility and Inclusion
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Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing a project on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed here.

►NVDA and eSpeak

# Monthly Updates

November 2015 Report (Suman Dogra; November 30, 2015).

►Other

International Day of People with Disability (Organized by Capgemini; Bangalore; November 30, 2015). Nirmita Narasimhan was a panelist.

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Access to Knowledge
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As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.

►Pervasive Technologies

# Blog Entries

MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT Roorkee (Karan Tripathi and Nehaa Chaudhari; November 17, 2015). Nehaa Chaudhari provided inputs, analysed, reviewed and edited this blog post.
A Study of J. Sai Deepak's Comments on Competition Law in India (Aarushi Bansal; November 19, 2015). Nehaa Chaudhari gave inputs and edited the blog entry.
The Procedure of CCI in cases of Anti-Competitive Agreements and Abuse of Dominant Position: A Flow-Chart (Sarthak Sood; November 24, 2015).

►Copyright and Patent

# Blog Entries

Ministry Clearances for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 (Swaraj Barooah; November 18, 2015).
National IPR Policy: Mapping the Stakeholders' Response (Akshath Mithal; November 24, 2015). Nehaa Chaudhari provided inputs and feedback and also edited this post.

# Participation in Events

Second Meeting of the Expert Committee on WIPO (Organized by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India; New Delhi; November 2, 2015).
International Conference on Evolving Regime in Intellectual Property Protection (Organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University; New Delhi; November 2 - 4, 2015).
India - Europe Conference on Building a Sustainable IPR - ICT Ecosystem for Promoting Innovation (Organized by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing; Bangalore; November 20, 2015). Rohini Lakshané attended this event.

►Wikipedia

As part of the project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English).

# Blog Entries

Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia (Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan; November 1, 2015).
Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way (Subhashish Panigrahi; Wikimedia Blog; November 25, 2015). This was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.

# Participation in Events

Making Tulu Wikipedia 'Live' (Organized by Tulu Sahitya Akademy; Mangalore; October 28 - 29 and November 5 - 6, 2015). Rahmanuddin interacted with Tulu Wikipedians. Rahmanuddin was also invited to be a part of the World Konkani Literature festival where he spoke briefly about Konkani Wikipedia to the gathering.
Open Source India 2015 (by EFY Group; NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore; November 19 - 20, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi attended the event.
Tulu Wikipedia Tutorial (Organized by Wikipedia community; Mangalore; November 2015). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja trained the people involved in the creation of the Tutorial video.
FUEL GILT Conference 2015 (Organized by Mozilla Corporation, Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Pune and Red Hat; Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur, Chennai; November 20 - 22, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi spoke at the event.

# Media Coverage

CIS gave its inputs to the following:

शंभर वर्षांपूर्वीच्या पुस्तकांचे होणार डिजिटायझेशन (Lokmat; November 11, 2015).
Dr. Pavanaja featured in Kannada Daily (Vijayavani; November 16, 2015).
तेसर फ्यूल कॉन्फरेंस आओर मोज़िला हैकाथन संपन्न (esamaad; November 19, 2015).
ଅନ୍‌ଲାଇନରେ ପଢ଼ିହେବ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ପ୍ରସାଦ ଦାସଙ୍କ ୩୦ଟି ବହି (Sambad; November 19, 2015).
तीसरा फ्यूल कॉन्फ्रेंस और मोज़िला हैकाथन संपन्न (Surkhiyan; November 23, 2015).
तीसरा फ्यूल जिल्ट कॉन्फ्रेंस और मोज़िला हैकाथन चेन्नई में संपन्न (Aaj Tak; November 24, 2015).
भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के मानक बनाने के लिए चेन्नई में हुआ तीसरा फ्यूल जिल्‍ट (Outlook; November 26, 2015).

The following were published in October but mirrored on the CIS website recently:

मराठी पुस्तके 'विकिस्रोत' ला, सकाळ (Sakaal; October 28, 2015).
'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स (Maharashtra Times; October 28, 2015).
महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक संस्थेमधील एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाईन (Saamna; October 30, 2015).

►Openness

Design Public Conclave, 6th Edition (Organized by by Civic Labs, an initiative of the Center for Knowledge Studies, and part of the Vihara Innovation Network, in partnership with Social Innovation Exchange, Okapi, Business World, Business World for Smart Cities, and the Delhi Jal Board; New Delhi; November 3, 2015). Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha participated in the event.

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Internet Governance
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As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.

►Internet Governance Forum

IGF 2015 was held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme for IGF 2015 was Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Sunil Abraham, Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday participated. Overall CIS spoke in 10 panels.

The Social Role of the Communications and the Strengthening of the Freedom of Expression Panel - "Cultural Diversity and Freedom of Expression" (Organized by Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Communications of Brazil; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 9, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist. Thirty-three participants took part in this pre-event.
Open Forum - DINL, Digital Infrastructure Association (Organized by Digital Infrastructure Netherlands Foundation; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 10, 2015). Jyoti Panday was a speaker at this workshop. CIS participated in the open forum to discuss the increase in government engagement with "the internet" to protect their citizens against crime and abuse and to protect economic interests and critical infrastructures. Thirteen participants attended the open forum.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Internet Economy (Organized by Multistakeholder Advisory Group; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 11, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist. Fifty five delegates attended the event. CIS participated in the discussions focusing on internet economy and internet role in sustainable development goals.
Cases on the right to be forgotten, what have we learned? (Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 11, 2015). Jyoti Panday attended the event. CIS took part in the event to understand arguments, scope, discussions and current situation of the Right to be Forgotten outside the EU and around the world in rulings and legislations. Fifty four participants attended the event.
The Benefits and Challenges of the "Free Flow" of Data (Organized by Public Knowledge; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 12, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist. Twenty-four delegates attended the event. CIS was part of the panel which discusssed the many benefits and challenges of the free flow of data. The workshop fostered a discussion of the ways in which stakeholders could address the underlying reasons for data flow restrictions.
Encryption and Anonymity: Rights and Risks (Organized by ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 12, 2015). Pranesh Prakash was a speaker. CIS participated in the roundtable that discussed recommendations and the latest challenges to the protection of anonymity and encryption. Sixty three delegates attended.
A Dialogue on "Zero Rating" and Network Neutrality (Organized by Chalmers & Associates; Jao Pessoa; Brazil; November 12, 2015). Pranesh Prakash was a speaker. CIS took part in the discussion to promote access to expert insight and multi-stakeholder community discussion. Eighty five delegates attended the session.
Empowering the next billion by improving accessibility (Organized by Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability and Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs; November 13, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist. Pranesh Prakash participated in the discussions. CIS took part in the discussions that examined the technological and programmatic solutions available today for an effective removal of such barriers, potentially bringing a considerable number of new users to the Internet.
FOSS & a Free, Open Internet: Synergies for Development (Organized by Civil Society; Jao Pessoa, Brazil; November 13, 2015). Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash spoke at the event. CIS took part in the discussions that explored links between the Free and Open nature of the Internet and the Free and Open Source Software through a series of experience sharing among the speakers as well as audiences.
Transnational Due Process: A Case Study in MS Cooperation (Organized by Internet & Jurisdiction Project; Jao Pessoa; November 13, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist. The tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and diverse national jurisdictions is a prime concern. The round-table described the method employed to develop this framework, challenges encountered and solutions found as well as the potential distribution of roles among the respective stakeholders in the operation of the diverse framework components. Twelve delegates attended this workshop.

►Big Data

# Article

Connected Trouble (Sunil Abraham; November 1, 2015).

# Blog Entry

Predictive Policing: What is it, How it works, and its Legal Implications (Rohan George; November 24, 2015).

# Event Organized

Big Data in the Global South International Workshop (Organized by Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro; Hotel Windsor Florida, Rua Ferreira Viana, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; November 16 - 17, 2015). Sunil Abraham and Vipul Kharbanda were speakers at this event.

# Participation in Event

Leveraging Mobile Network Big Data for Development Policy: Opportunities & Challenges (Organized by LIRNEasia; IDRC, New Delhi; November 27, 2015).

►Privacy

# Blog Entries

Policy Brief: Oversight Mechanisms for Surveillance (Elonnai Hickok; November 24, 2015).
The Short-lived Adventure of India's Encryption Policy (Bhairav Acharya; November 27, 2015). This was originally written for the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association.

# Participation in Event

ISO/IEC/ JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups Meeting (Organized by Bureau of Indian Standards and Data Security Council of India; Jaipur; October 26 – 30, 2015). Vanya Rakesh attended the meeting.

►Free Speech, Expression and Censorship

# Submission

Comments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10) (Geetha Hariharan; November 18, 2015).

# Article

The Humpty-Dumpty Censorship of Television in India (Bhairav Acharya; The Wire; September 23, 2015). The article was mirrored on CIS website recently.

# Blog Entries

Breaking Down ICANN Accountability: What It Is and What the Internet Community Wants (Ramya Chandrasekhar; November 5, 2015).
Summary Report Internet Governance Forum 2015 (Jyoti Panday; November 23, 2015).
The Case of Whatsapp Group Admins (Japreet Grewal; November 26, 2015).

►Cyber Security

# Participation in Events

Technology, Innovation and Societal Change (Organized by Indian Institute of Management; Bangalore; November 4, 2015). Vanya Rakesh attended the event.
Ground Zero Summit (Organized by Infosec Consortium; November 5 - 8, 2015; New Delhi). Amber Sinha attended the event.
Cyber Security Summit 2015 (Organized by Government of Karnataka in association with Biz Wingz Production House; JW Marriot, Bangalore; November 27, 2015). Sunil Abraham was a panelist.

►Miscellaneous

# Article

WhatsApps with fireworks, apps with diyas: Why Diwali needs to go beyond digital (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; November 23, 2015).

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Telecom
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CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:

# Op-ed

The Buzz Around TV White Space (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; November 4, 2015 and Organizing India Blogspot; November 5, 2015).

# Blog Entry

Gauging Users' Reactions Towards Zero Rating (Aadya Misra; November 25, 2015). The author likes to thank Amba Kak, on whose research the survey was conducted.

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Researchers at Work
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The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It is interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:

# Book

Silicon Plateau Vol-1 (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; November 28, 2015).

# Blog Entries

Digital Humanities in India? (P.P. Sneha; November 12, 2015).
A Question of Digital Humanities (P.P. Sneha; November 16, 2015).
CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; November 16, 2015).

# Event Organized

Launch of Silicon Plateau Vol-1 (Organized by Or-bits.com and CIS; T.A.J. Residency, Wheeler Road Extension, Cooke Town, Bangalore; November 27, 2015).

# Upcoming Event

First Edition of Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) 2016 - Studying Internet in India: Call for Sessions (Organized by CIS; New Delhi; February 25 - 27, 2016).

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News & Media Coverage
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CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:

Come, be my guest (Hindu; November 14, 2015)
Shopping on apps raise privacy and security concerns (Vivek Ananth; Softcopy, an IIJNM Web Publication; November 23, 2015).

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About CIS
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with diverse abilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of
social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.

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We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at tanveer@cis-india.org.

CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.

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'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:55:38Z

Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Maharashtra Times.

Scanned version of the media coverage below:

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