Author
Prasad Krishna
2,093 items.
21 Mar 2013
News
DML 2013 – Fourth Annual ConferenceThe fourth annual conference – DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The Centre for Internet and …
20 Mar 2013
News
Global Partners Meeting @ LondonPrivacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating …
19 Mar 2013
News
Indian police set up lab to monitor social mediaMumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
16 Mar 2013
News
New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on AadhaarThe Indian Government is going ahead with a new project dubbed RIC that will effectively undermine the existing UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority of India project and will cost a whopping $1 billion.
15 Mar 2013
News
Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubtsTwo separate organizations are capturing biometric data of over 1 billion Indians, creating fresh doubts in the government's justification to catalogue citizens.
13 Mar 2013
News
Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha …
13 Mar 2013
News
Rethinking the Internet: The Way ForwardTelecom Italia and Financial Times are organizing this event at Telecom Italia Future Centre in Italy on March 21 and 22, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event.
13 Mar 2013
News
Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin MaclayColin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
11 Mar 2013
News
Wikipedia at AvenirA 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
6 Mar 2013
News
Social media undermining journalistic credibility?The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
4 Mar 2013
News
Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ HangoutIndian politicians are slowly warming up to social media.
3 Mar 2013
News
UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
3 Mar 2013
News
People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say expertsInternationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
2 Mar 2013
News
Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
1 Mar 2013
News
Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activistsA group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
28 Feb 2013
News
Video Vortex # 9 Re:assemblies of VideoNishant Shah is a speaker at this event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Post Media Lab, Moving Image Lab, Leuphana, et.al. The event is being held at Luneberg from February 28, 2013 to March 2, 2013.
28 Feb 2013
News
Open DataCamp - 2013A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University …
28 Feb 2013
News
"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and SocietyThe DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
26 Feb 2013
News
D:coding Digital Natives - Seminar with Nishant ShahNishant Shah gave a talk on D:coding Digital Natives at Samhällsvetarhuset on February 26, 2013, from 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. The event was organized by HUMlab.
25 Feb 2013
News
International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, MethodologyThe Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford …
22 Feb 2013
19 Feb 2013
News
Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
18 Feb 2013
News
Indian Users’ Perspective On WIPO Negotiations On Treaty For Visually ImpairedSouth-East Asia is host to one-third of the world’s 39 million blind people. Over 20 million live in India alone. This week’s special session of the World Intellectual Property Organization aims to clean up the text of an international …
13 Feb 2013
News
Indian net service providers too play censorship tricksThe study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
13 Feb 2013
News
Hate speech: ban or ignore?The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the …
13 Feb 2013
News
Freedom of expression online: identifying and addressing challenges and developing a shared vision and a working partnership (WP1216)Wilton Park organized this event at Wiston House, Sussex, UK from February 13 to 15, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in it.
13 Feb 2013
News
Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in KashmirHacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
11 Feb 2013
News
Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu VardhanVishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in …
10 Feb 2013
News
Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
10 Feb 2013
News
Rahul Cherian passes awayRahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.