Centre for Internet and Society — Archive
An archive of blog posts, events and news published by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (2008 onwards).
3108 blog posts · 446 events · 2600 news items
Latest blog posts
- Unrecognised and Vulnerable: Reviewing social protection instruments for platform workers
In this issue brief, Chetna V M and Chiara Furtado reflect on developments in social protection for platform workers in India, issues of exclusions and insufficient coverage for workers, and tensions between existing social protection …
- How Concentration Kills Innovation: A Round Table on Investing and Innovating in the Age of Big Tech
We are at the cusp of pivotal technological transformation – driven by rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence, computing, robotics, biotechnology, and digital infrastructure, including the next generation of communication …
- Mapping the Legal and Regulatory Frameworks of the Ad-Tech Ecosystem in India
The main purpose of regulations in any sector is essentially twofold, one is to ensure that the interests of the general public or consumers are protected, and the other is to ensure that the sector itself flourishes and grows. Too much …
- Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information Disorder
In this paper, we investigate the underexplored emotional drivers of information disorder, with a particular focus on how it manifested in COVID-19 misinformation in India. While "fake news" has received considerable attention for its …
- Whose Technology is it Anyway? An exploratory essay on the political economy of India's digital revolution
The story of India's digital journey has become an oft-cited tale of economic success across the globe, inspiring similar experiments in other nations in the Global Majority world - most prominently across sub-Saharan Africa. At home, …
- Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information Disorder
In this paper, we investigate the underexplored emotional drivers of information disorder, with a particular focus on how it manifested in COVID-19 misinformation in India. While "fake news" has received considerable attention for its …
- Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information Disorder
In this paper, we investigate the underexplored emotional drivers of information disorder, with a particular focus on how it manifested in COVID-19 misinformation in India. While "fake news" has received considerable attention for its …
- Navigating the Digitalisation of Finance: User experiences of risks and harms
Our study unpacks the experiences of marginalised users navigating the digitalisation of finance. Through a survey of 3,784 users, 18 interviews and 7 focus group discussions, our study’s findings highlight user experiences of risks and …
- The Cost of Free Basics in India: Does Facebook's 'walled garden' reduce or reinforce digital inequalities?
In this essay—written in April 2016 soon after India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) upheld net neutrality and effectively banned Free Basics in India— the author uses development theories to study the Free Basics programme. The …
- State of Openness in India's E-Governance Applications
Open source software (OSS), also commonly known as free and open source software (FOSS) or free libre open source software (FLOSS), is software that is made available with its source code. It is licensed liberally, granting users access to …
Recent events
- Transference: Reimagining Data Systems: Beyond the Gender Binary
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to participate in a day-long convening on the rights of transgender persons, specifically right to privacy and digital rights. Through this convening, we hope to highlight the concerns …
- Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets
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. This event will serve as a venue to bring …
- Reclaiming AI Futures
Join us on 23 November (Tuesday) at 7:30pm.
- Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a webinar wherein it will launch and present four research reports on digital labour in India. The webinar will be hosted on July 28, 2021 at 5 p.m. (IST) / 11.30 a.m. (UTC)
- Disinformation in the Indian Digital News Media Market
The Centre for Internet and Society and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with a …
In the news
- Women in Gig Work
Aayush Rathi was a speaker on a panel on domestic work and digital platforms, as part of WageIndicator Foundation’s 5th webinar on women and gig work.
- Women at (gig) work: When financial freedom comes at a cost
Chiara Furtado was quoted in a news article on women’s experiences working on ride-hailing and delivery platforms.
- Procurement Through Digital Platforms: Women's Worker Collectives
CIS experimented with the informal nature of Twitter Spaces to host a dissemination event (in Hindi) along with SEWA. The event moderated by Chiara Furtado was held on the Twitter platform on September 13, 2022.
- PDC 2022
Divyansha Sehgal and Yatharth presented their work - Designing Domestic Work Platforms - on critical design assessments of gig work platforms at the Participatory Design Conference.
- Online cab booking | Why finding a cab is a nightmare now
Many drivers said the rise in commissions payable to ride-hailing platforms and higher fuel costs, among other expenses, have made it impossible for them to survive in the once-lucrative profession.