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Achal Prabhala

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21 Mar 2019
Blog post
Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019
Achal Prabhala, Feroz Ali, Ramya Sheshadri, Roshan John, Anubha Sinha
A coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions.
25 Apr 2014
Blog post
NETmundial Day 2
Achal Prabhala
Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.
24 Apr 2014
Blog post
NETmundial Day 1
Achal Prabhala
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's speech at the opening of NETmundial in São Paulo was refreshingly free of the UN-speak that characterised virtually every single other presentation this morning. The experience of sitting for five hours …
23 Apr 2014
Blog post
NETmundial Day 0
Achal Prabhala
Day O of NETmundial began at Arena NetMundial, an alternative-ish, Brazilian counterpart to the official "multistakeholder" meeting being organised at the very expensive Grand Hyatt. Arena NETmundial began today and will extend until the …
4 Jun 2012
Blog post
A Ludicrous Ban
Achal Prabhala, Lawrence Liang
Achal Prabhala and Lawrence Liang have written an article for the Open Magazine about the bizarre ways in which the Internet is regulated in 21st century India.
24 May 2012
Blog post
Copyright Madness
Lawrence Liang, Achal Prabhala
Prompted by courts and piracy-fearing businesses, Indian ISPs have taken down popular, legitimate websites. This Op-ed by Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala was published in the Indian Express on May 22, 2012.