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- UN Questionnaire on Digital Innovation, Technologies and Right to Health — by Pahlavi and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Nov 21, 2022 04:10 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) contributed to the questionnaire put out by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on digital innovation, technologies and the right to health. The responses were authored by Pahlavi and Shweta Mohandas, and edited by Indumathi Manohar.
- Global Civil Society Coalition launches website to promote Access to Knowledge — by Anubha Sinha — last modified Oct 12, 2022 12:05 PM
- Parichiti - Domestic Workers’ Access to Secure Livelihoods in West Bengal — by Anchita Ghatak — last modified Dec 30, 2020 10:01 AM
- This report by Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti presents findings of a pilot study conducted by the author and colleagues to document the situation of women domestic workers (WDWs) in the lockdown and the initial stages of the lifting of restrictions. This study would not have been possible without the WDWs who agreed to be interviewed for this study and gave their time generously. We are grateful to Dr Abhijit Das of the Centre for Health and Social Justice for his advice and help. The report is edited by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon, and this work forms a part of the CIS’s project on gender, welfare and surveillance supported by Privacy International, United Kingdom.
- Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
- This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
- Wiki Women for Women Well-Being: An Initiative to Bridge the Gender Gap in the Wikimedia Community — by Nitesh Gill and Shruti Anandan — last modified Dec 28, 2020 02:58 PM
- WWWW is a project which focused on bridging the female related content gap on Indic Wikimedia communities. The idea of WWWW was given by Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, who worked with other women leaders from different communities and made a plan to engage with the editors for this project. CIS-A2K has started a series of interviews to introduce women with brilliant ideas and who have done contributions for Wikimedia and this is the first interview under the “Series of Interviews.” This Interview was done by Nitesh Gill.
- India Digital Freedom Series: Internet Shutdowns, Censorship and Surveillance — by Gurshabad Grover — last modified Jan 11, 2021 10:07 AM
- A series of reports on digital rights and civic space in India, focusing on four areas where restrictive policies threaten fundamental freedoms and impede public participation: internet shutdowns, censorship, platform governance and surveillance.
- Policy on Prohibition And Redressal of Sexual Harassment Against All Persons — by Internal Committee on Prohibition of Sexual Harassment — last modified Jul 02, 2024 04:22 PM
- Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel Discussion — by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 23, 2020 02:03 PM
- Women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the discursive, experiential and policy implications of these data-intensive developments on access to public health and welfare systems by women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons in India. The panelists presented studies undertaken as part of two projects at CIS, one of which is supported by Privacy International, UK, and the other by Big Data for Development network established by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
- Data Lives of Humanities Text — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
- The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
- Call for Papers: #CultureForAll Conference — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 23, 2020 01:34 PM
- We are collaborating with Sahapedia, Azim Premji University, and University of Cape Town to invite papers on cultural mapping for the #CultureForAll conference scheduled to be held in March 2021. Cultural mapping is a set of activities and processes for exploring, discovering, documenting, examining, analysing, interpreting, presenting, and sharing information related to people, communities, societies, places, and the material products and practices associated with those people and places. All interested academicians, researchers, PhD students, and practitioners are invited to submit papers. The conference is supported by Tata Technologies and MapMyIndia.
- Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations — by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2020. Here are the overview, full text of the submitted inputs, and names of organisations and individuals who endorsed them.
- Would banning Chinese Telecom Companies make 5g secure in India? — by Aman Nair — last modified Dec 22, 2020 06:04 AM
- Data driven election campaigning and India's proposed data protection framework — by Shweta Reddy — last modified Mar 12, 2021 06:23 AM
- This essay will examine if the proposed data protection framework of India is equipped to deal with the shift towards data driven elections.
- Response to TRAI Consultation Paper on Broadband Connectivity and Speed — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Dec 20, 2020 08:43 AM
- CIS comments on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s Consultation Paper on Roadmap to Promote Broadband Connectivity and Enhanced Broadband Speed
- Government COVID-19 Responses in the Context of Privacy : Part II — by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Dec 09, 2020 04:17 AM
- This is the second part in a two part series of posts analysing the privacy implications of the state’s responses to COVID-19.
- Comments on Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture — by Shweta Reddy, Pallavi Bedi, Anubha Sinha, Shweta Mohandas — last modified Dec 09, 2020 06:18 AM
- CIS has submitted comments to the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture
- Intermediary liability and Safe Harbour: On due diligence and automated filtering — by Gurshabad Grover — last modified Nov 29, 2020 09:17 PM
- This post discusses this ‘due diligence’ obligation in the intermediary liability regime in India, with a focus on its scope and whether it includes the possibility of automated content filtering.
- Understanding the Data Gaps on Wikidata Concerning Heritage Structures of West Bengal — by Bodhisattwa Mandal — last modified May 15, 2021 12:31 PM
- This is a short study on identifying the data gaps related to heritage structures in West Bengal on Wikidata, and potential strategies to address the same. The report is authored by Bodhisattwa Mandal, with editorial oversight and support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and external review by Sumandro Chattapadhyay. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019-2020.
- The PDP Bill 2019 Through the Lens of Privacy by Design — by Saumyaa Naidu, Akash Sheshadri, Shweta Mohandas, and Pranav M Bidare; Edited by Arindrajit Basu, Shweta Reddy; With inputs from Amber Sinha — last modified Nov 13, 2020 07:51 AM
- This paper evaluates the PDP Bill based on the Privacy by Design approach. It examines the implications of Bill in terms of the data ecosystem it may lead to, and the visual interface design in digital platforms. This paper focuses on the notice and consent communication suggested by the Bill, and the role and accountability of design in its interpretation.
- CIS Comments on Draft ODR Report — by Aman Nair & Pallavi Bedi — last modified Mar 22, 2021 05:24 AM
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