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Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:58 AM
#MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.
Lessons from US response to cyber attacks by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:53 AM
Publicly attributing the attacks to a state or non-state actor is vital for building a credible cyber deterrence strategy.
5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:57 AM
More than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.
KEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture" by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:53 AM
Anubha Sinha participated in a seminar organized by KEI on October 3 and 4, 2018 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Anubha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the Treaty)".
Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governance by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:39 AM
Sunil Abraham gave a talk at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore on October 16, 2018. Sunil used a series of stories to explain how surveillance works and fails in the context of theft, murder, insider trading, terrorism, demonetization and encounter killings.
Participation in the meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:28 AM
From 30 September 2018 to 4 October 2018, Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings of the working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' held in Gjøvik, Norway. The meetings were organized by Standards Norway with support from NTNU, Microsoft, Telenor, et.al.
Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and Environment by Admin — last modified Oct 31, 2018 01:10 AM
Shweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment held at Tandem Research's office in Goa on October 5, 2018. She also made the framing intervention for the first session by addressing the question - What are the likely ethical conundrums, and plausible unintended consequences of the use of AI for sustainability?
Smart City Standardization - ICT Perspective by Admin — last modified Dec 10, 2018 04:00 PM
An event on Smart City standardization – ICT Perspective was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards in Bangalore on October 30, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity by Admin — last modified Oct 30, 2018 02:08 AM
P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community.
Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official Statement by Admin — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:35 AM
Going by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
Odia Virtual Academy launched by Admin — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:27 AM
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University) by Ananth — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:20 AM
This article gives the insight of Christ Wikipedia Education Program, how students are involved in different capacities in the program and shares the best practices of the Education Program.
Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:21 AM
Only 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.
Factcheck: No, phones of users who provided only Aadhaar as proof of identity won’t be disconnected by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:13 AM
Ever since the Supreme Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, which prohibited the use of the 12-digit biometrics-linked unique identity number by private entities as well as its linking with phone numbers and bank accounts, telecom companies and their customers in particular are wondering what this means for them.
Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say experts by Admin — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:06 AM
Data shows that the share of active WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled since 2017, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 28, 2018 06:02 AM
On September 25, 2018, Elonnai Hickok participated in a side event Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age organized by INCLO and Privacy International at the Human Rights Council 39th ordinary session. Elonnai spoke on artificial intelligence and privacy.
Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study by Dr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha A — last modified Oct 28, 2018 05:56 AM
We have published an article in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The article is titled "Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study". The authors of the article are Hindi faculty members of Christ University and Ananth Subray from the Centre for Internet & Society provided research assistance.
Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for Cyberspace by Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Oct 26, 2018 03:09 PM
This paper was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.
Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Oct 26, 2018 02:47 PM
The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated by both government and industry across the globe. AI offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance with principles of the rule of law and international human rights norms. Unfortunately, AI-powered solutions have often been implemented in ways that have resulted in the automation, rather than mitigation, of existing societal inequalities.
Panel Discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge by Admin — last modified Feb 22, 2019 03:32 PM
Pranesh Prakash was a panelist and moderator in a panel discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge on October 23, 2018 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The event was hosted by DST Centre for Policy Research (IISc), Bangalore.

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