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- Is India Ignoring its own Internet Protections? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2012 05:33 AM
- India’s information technology law of 2008 limits the liability of Internet companies for material posted on their Web sites by users, including anything government regulators deem objectionable. The firms are supposed to be notified of offensive content — by users or the authorities — and then remove it when legally warranted.
- India internet: clean-up or censorship? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2012 11:17 AM
- Is India going the way of China? Not when it comes to development indicators. Or enhanced infrastructure. Or economic power. But in another category at which Beijing excels: web censorship.
- Twists and turns of the SOPA opera — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2012 09:48 AM
- Proposed DNS filtering threatens the core protocol on which the Internet's universality depends, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on 15 January 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
- Wikipedia turns 11 today — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2012 09:41 AM
- The world's largest free encyclopaedia turns 11 on Sunday. To mark the occasion, the Wikipedia community will host events in seven cities across the country. The community is also celebrating the first anniversary of the Wikimedia India chapter.
- Keeping it Private — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 27, 2012 03:50 AM
- As we disclose more information online, we must ask who might access it and why. This article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express on Sunday, 15 January 2012.
- Design!PubliC — Innovation and the Public Interest — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 16, 2012 08:48 AM
- On the 14th of October, 2011, the Center for Knowledge Societies organized the second edition of the Design Public Conclave, a conversation on how innovation can serve the Public Interest. The conclave was held at the lovely premises of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore.
- Activists cry foul against Aadhaar — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 31, 2012 04:24 AM
- Biometric experts, jurists and social activists today urged the state government to immediately snap ties with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and stop offering Aadhaar numbers to residents.
- Future of Integrated Science Education in Higher Education in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 15, 2012 09:50 AM
- The Higher Education Innovation and Research Application (HEIRA) at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Contemporary Studies (CCS) at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) hosted a two day workshop on 2 and 3 January 2012 on the Future of Integrated Science Education in Higher Education in India at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, where they invited a core group of academics and researchers from the leading technology and science studies institutes in the country, to look at the possibility of designing innovative and new curricula for undergraduate students in India.
- NGO questions people's privacy in UID scheme — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 12, 2012 11:45 AM
- Taking a leaf out of the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on finance (SCF) that raised objections on the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, Delhi-based NGOs have called upon the Jharkhand government to stay the execution of UID projects in the state. Jaideep Deogharia's article was published in the Times of India on 11 January 2012.
- Revealed: Bangalore’s Basic Instincts — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 10, 2012 06:50 AM
- This is a first – a sex survey that focusses only on Bangalore. Sure, we have sex surveys telling us what the country thinks. But we wanted to know what our city thinks about the three-letter word. The article was published in the Bangalore Mirror on 8 January 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted right near the end on why Bangalore might not figure in Google Search rends' top 10 India locations for porn-related queries.
- Mobile technologies and enlightened service packages help persons with disabilities connect to new opportunities — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Sep 13, 2012 01:38 PM
- Innovative approaches from mobile hardware and applications developers as well as operators are helping connect the estimated 15% of the global population that lives with some form of disability to the power of information and communication technology.
- Reversing India's Downward Trajectory — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Mar 01, 2012 05:30 AM
- The country can regain growth momentum with rate cuts and telecom reforms, writes Shyam Ponappa in this column published in the Business Standard on 5 January 2012.
- Facebook, Google face censorship in India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 09, 2012 05:10 AM
- Religious leaders in India are on a collision course with social media websites including Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Two Indian courts recently asked these American companies as well as 19 other websites to take down “anti-religious” material. They are now required to report their compliance by February. Betwa Sharma's blog post was published in SmartPlanet on 5 January 2012. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in it extensively.
- Report on the 'Open Access to Academic Knowledge' workshop — by Tom Dane — last modified Jan 08, 2012 10:57 AM
- On Wednesday the 2nd of November, during Open Access Week, the Indian Institute of Science in conjunction with the Centre for Internet and Society held a workshop on Open Access at the National Centre for Science Information, in Bangalore.
- Trail of the Trolls — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2012 07:55 AM
- Bullying and abuse on the Internet is on the rise. Smitha Verma finds out why most offenders are going scot-free in this article published in the Telegraph on 4 January 2012.
- Constitution of Group of Experts to Deliberate on Privacy Issues — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2012 07:49 AM
- It has been decided to constitute a Small Group of Experts under the Chairmanship of Justice A.P. Shah, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, to identify the privacy issues and prepare a paper to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. The constitution of the proposed group and ToR are as follows:
- 2011: The year India began to harness social media — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 04, 2012 07:19 AM
- About half a decade ago, netizens began to expand their online presence by forging new relationships, rediscovering old ones and sharing information and content on what came to be collectively termed as social media. The year gone by marked a new milestone for this social media phenomenon, which saw a paradigm shift from merely being a networking platform to becoming a political tool, writes Satarupa Paul in the Sunday Guardian on 1 January 2012.
- Click to Change — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 03, 2012 09:35 AM
- From organising political protests and flash mobs to uploading their versions of Kolaveri Di, people brought about change with the help of the internet, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in the Indian Express on 1 January 2012.
- Inputs for NTP 2011 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 02, 2012 05:07 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society wishes to commend the DoT on the draft of the New Telecom Policy and offers its suggestions to improve the draft with specific changes.
- The Historian Wins Over the Biographer — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 31, 2011 12:15 PM
- In Walter Isaacson's eponymous biography of Steve Jobs, the multibillion dollar man who is credited with single handedly changing the face of computing and the digital media industry, we face the dilemma of a biographer: how do you make sense of a history that is so new, it is still unfolding? Nishant Shah's detailed review of Steve Jobs' biography is now out in the Biblio and is is available online (after a free registration) as a PDF.
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