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Prasad Krishna
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28 Nov 2011
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Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning SummitThe summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.
28 Nov 2011
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An Interview of Nirmita Narasimhan on ITU PortalITU Girls in ICT is now online! ITU interviewed Nirmita and published her profile on their website.
24 Nov 2011
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Is Facebook tracking your virtual footprints?Social media experts claim number of cases of privacy violations against the site has increased in past few months; Facebook rubbishes the allegations. This article by Sheetal Sukhija was published in MidDay on 22 November 2011.
23 Nov 2011
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3rd Canadian Science Policy ConferenceThe Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) organised the 2011 conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre from 16 to 18 November 2011. Sunil Abraham spoke in the session on Global Implications of Open and Inclusive Innovation.
21 Nov 2011
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Names Not Numbers MumbaiNames Not Numbers Mumbai is part of an annual series of invitation-only ideas conferences for 100 key players and thinkers across politics, business, media, culture, academia and technology to discuss and debate what individuality in a mass …
21 Nov 2011
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M-governance gains momentumGovernments worldwide have successfully deployed mobile-based technologies for providing a wide variety of public services, and the Indian States are following suit.
18 Nov 2011
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SOPA: The bill that could kill the InternetAs the US government’s House Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA), both supporters and opponents are ramping up their campaigning, with big names getting involved. And so they should. SOPA’s …
17 Nov 2011
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The 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series — A Post-event ReportThe Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), organised the 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series on the 21st and 22nd of May 2011 at the National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. …
17 Nov 2011
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International human rights community vs SOPAThe Centre for Internet and Society was mentioned in a news story published in BoingBoing. Cory Doctorow wrote the story published on November 17, 2011.
16 Nov 2011
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Broadband user base still has a long way to goInternet users in India have crossed the 100-million mark, still distant from China’s nearly 500 million and the 250 million or so in the US, but experts are buoyant about prospects in cyberspace even as low broadband penetration and poor …
14 Nov 2011
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The Write Stuff“Digital natives are no longer those youngsters who fit in the bracket of a Harvard return professional, glued to their PC all day,” says Nishant Shah, director of research, Centre for Internet and Society, a Bengaluru-based organisation. …
14 Nov 2011
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The Book of JobsThe man who made the computer personal, who changed the face of the digital media industry, who was inspired by Zen philosophy to create an eight-billion-dollar empire, Steve Jobs, died last month. Just a few weeks before his death, in the …
13 Nov 2011
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The Wikimedia India Program TrustA new entity, the “Wikimedia India Program Trust”, has now been formed and registered (in Delhi.) This will be the organization that will eventually drive India programs and house the team in India.
13 Nov 2011
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CIS Comments on Finance Committee Statements to Open Letters on Unique IdentityWe from the Centre for Internet and Society had sent six open letters to the Parliamentary Finance Committee on the UID. The Committee responded through an email on 12 October 2011. Our response to the points raised is reproduced below.
9 Nov 2011
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Comments on the National Policy of Information TechnologyThe NPIT 2011 has the laudable goal of making India a ‘knowledge economy with a global role’ by developing and deploying ICT solutions in all sectors to foster development within India and at a global level. The policy identifies several …
9 Nov 2011
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‘Not mandatory’ but maids, guards get fingerprintedThe Cubbon Park police have begun profiling domestic help in their jurisdiction. Personal details will be stored in a database, which can be accessed by potential employers, writes Hemanth Kashyap in this article published in Bangalore …
8 Nov 2011
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Western Ghats Portal: Workshop on Biodiversity InformaticsThe Western Ghats portal team is organising a one-day workshop to explore the contemporary state on biodiversity informatics on 25 November 2011 at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore.
8 Nov 2011
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Netizen Report: Transparency EditionGlobal Voices Online has carried a feature story, "Netizen Report: Transparency Edition". We at CIS had filed an RTI application about website blocking. This is reflected in this article by Rebecca MacKinnon which was posted online on 7 …
4 Nov 2011
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e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities (Russian Version)The e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities is based upon the online ITU-G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities (www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org) which was released in February 2010. This is …
3 Nov 2011
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Learn It YourselfThe peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.
3 Nov 2011
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Blocking online content: Google gets more requests than govtAllowing a peek into what kind of information is requested to be blocked online and by who, the Department of Information Technology (DIT), in response to an RTI (Right to Information) query, has provided some intriguing details, says …
26 Oct 2011
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India’s vanishing fingerprints put UID in questionA curious situation has come to light at the UID (unique identity) enrolment centres. Call it the phenomenon of vanishing fingerprints. You see, our unique fingerprints don’t necessarily last a lifetime and they can be damaged or destroyed …
26 Oct 2011
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Facing up to Moral HazardSystems upholding the law and standards help navigate the grey areas of moral hazard and adverse selection writes Shyam Ponappa in this article published in the Business Standard on October 6, 2011.
24 Oct 2011
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Sixth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi: A SummaryThe sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was held from 27 to 30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Sunil Abraham participated in six workshops: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A …
16 Oct 2011
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Ninth Workshop on Media EconomicsThe Higher School of Economics and the New Economic School have joined hands to organize the ninth workshop on media economics in Moscow on October 28 and 29, 2011. All events are scheduled to take place in Marriott Courtyard, a hotel in …
14 Oct 2011
12 Oct 2011
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Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique IdentifiersSahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh …
7 Oct 2011
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Can Innovation Solve the Grand Challenges of Indian Society?It’s nearly time again for Design Public the event, a high-level conclave on design, innovation, and the public interest. Our up-coming event will be in Bangalore on the 14th of October, and will be held at the National Gallery of Modern …
28 Sep 2011
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Making a difference, online and offlineA new collection examines how technology and issues of connectivity are shaping the lives of ‘digital natives’—and how the Net can influence social change, writes Gopal Sathe in an article published in LiveMint on September 27, 2011.
26 Sep 2011