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- Nothing to Kid About – Children's Data Under the New Data Protection Bill — by Shweta Mohandas and Anamika Kundu — last modified Mar 10, 2022 01:19 PM
- The pandemic has forced policymakers to adapt their approach to people's changing practices, from looking at contactless ways of payment to the shifting of educational institutions online.
- The State of the Internet's Languages Report — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Mar 07, 2022 03:01 PM
- The first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Internet and Society. This extraordinarily community-sourced effort, with over 100 people involved is now available online, with translations in multiple languages.
- Clause 12 Of The Data Protection Bill And Digital Healthcare: A Case Study — by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 01, 2022 03:07 PM
- In light of the state’s emerging digital healthcare apparatus, how does Clause 12 alter the consent and purpose limitation model?
- How Function Of State May Limit Informed Consent: Examining Clause 12 Of The Data Protection Bill — by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 01, 2022 02:56 PM
- The collective implication of leaving out ‘proportionality’ from Clause 12 is to provide very wide discretionary powers to the state.
- CIS Comments and Recommendations on the Data Protection Bill, 2021 — by Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Feb 14, 2022 04:07 PM
- This document is a revised version of the comments we provided on the 2019 Bill on 20 February 2020, with updates based on the amendments in the 2021 Bill.
- Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 — by Pranav M B — last modified Feb 11, 2022 09:54 AM
- Due to internal delays related to the pandemic, the Internet Researchers' Conference will now take place online in May 2022. Please see below for a link to the updated call for sessions.
- Notes for India as the digital trade juggernaut rolls on — by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Feb 09, 2022 03:04 PM
- Sitting out trade negotiations could result in the country losing out on opportunities to shape the rules.
- Submission to the Facebook Oversight Board: Policy on Cross-checks — by [in alphabetical order] Anamika Kundu, Digvijay Singh, Divyansha Sehgal and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Feb 09, 2022 05:31 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board on a policy consultation.
- What does the 2022 Finance Bill mean for crypto-assets in India? — by Vipul Kharbanda, Aman Nair — last modified Feb 03, 2022 06:31 AM
- To be Counted When They Count You: Words of Caution for the Gender Data Revolution — by Noopur Raval — last modified Feb 01, 2022 01:06 AM
- In 2015, after the announcement of the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals, a new global developmental framework through the year 2030, the United Nations described data as the “lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability” for the purpose of realizing these developmental goals. This curious yet key link between these new developmental goals and the use of quantitative data for agenda setting invited a flurry of big data-led initiatives such as but not limited to Data2X, that sought to further strengthen and solidify the relationship between ‘Big Development’ and ‘Big Data.’
- Report on Regulation of Private Crypto-assets in India — by Aman Nair, Vipul Kharbanda, Aryan Gupta — last modified Jan 27, 2022 09:16 AM
- Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report — by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Jan 04, 2022 03:06 PM
- Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Call for respondents: the implementation of government-ordered censorship — by Gurshabad Grover and Divyansha Sehgal — last modified Jan 04, 2022 08:10 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society is conducting interviews with people whose content has been affected by blocking orders from the Indian Government.
- Opinion: Delicensing 6 GHz, 60 GHz bands is crucial to improve Wi-Fi scenario in India — by Abhishek Raj — last modified Jan 03, 2022 03:30 PM
- Recently, there has been growing demand from industry bodies and associations to delicense 6 GHz and 60 GHz bands in India.
- Online caste-hate speech: Pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social media — by Damni Kain, Shivangi Narayan, Torsha Sarkar and Gurshabad Grover — last modified Dec 15, 2021 10:55 AM
- A research report on the contours of online caste-hate speech and how social media platforms moderate such expression.
- Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in India — by Abhishek Raj — last modified Dec 14, 2021 02:12 AM
- A paper titled "Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in India" authored by CIS' researcher Abhishek Raj got published in the book "Community Networks: Towards Sustainable Funding Models". This book was released at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum(IGF) 2021, and is also the official outcome of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3).
- Covid-19 and Platform Work: Reflections on Institutional Policy Responses — by Centre for Internet and Society, and IT for Change — last modified Dec 10, 2021 11:53 AM
- A Civil Society Agenda for E-Shram — by Centre for Internet & Society, and IT for Change — last modified Dec 10, 2021 12:16 PM
- Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets — by Aman Nair — last modified Dec 13, 2021 09:11 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society is launching its flagship report on regulating private crypto-assets in India, as part of its newly formed Financial Technology (or Fintech) research agenda. The event will be held on Zoom, at 17:30 IST on Wednesday, 15th December, 2021
- Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 02:11 AM
- Platforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society in India and an author of the report on ‘Platforms, Power and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India’.
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