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10 Jul 2023
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Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and IndiaThrough this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management …
4 Jul 2023
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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economyAmbika Tandon and Abhishek Sekharan published an academic paper highlighting the importance of women’s networks of information sharing and care in navigating opaque platform design. The paper is part of an issue of Gender and Development on …
4 Jul 2023
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CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors?Recent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
3 Jul 2023
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Metaphors of Work, from ‘Below’Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon authored a chapter that describes platforms as more than technological interfaces. The chapter invokes some of the metaphors that gig workers use to make sense of platforms. This chapter was part of an edited …
3 Jul 2023
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Gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy: Experiences of on-demand beauty workers in IndiaAbhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado, and Ambika Tandon contributed an essay on gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy in India, reflecting on the experiences of women beauty workers who organised India’s first women-led …
28 Apr 2023
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WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 328 Apr 2023
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WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 1Member states delivered opening statements and deliberated on the progress, substantive provisions, and method of work on the draft broadcasting treaty text. This blog post summarises positions and contentions that supported: 1)The need for …
27 Apr 2023
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WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 213 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023
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Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in SoftwareDividing and breaking up a software project into smaller modules with functionality that can be reused to build other software is an increasingly common practice in software development today. We examine our infrastructural dependence on …
28 Mar 2023
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CIS Statement in WIPO SCCR 43Shweta Mohandas delivered a statement on behalf of CIS, on day 1 of the 43rd WIPO SCCR session on the Broadcast Treaty.
14 Mar 2023
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CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in IndiaResults from a nation-wide empirical study on web censorship
15 Feb 2023
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Civil Society’s second opinion on a UHI prescriptionOn January 13, Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas from CIS participated in an online collaboration organised by Internet Freedom Foundation for a joint submission to the Consultation Paper on Operationalising Unified Health Interface (UHI) in …
7 Feb 2023
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Comments to the proposed amendments to The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021This note presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India, on the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“proposed amendments”). We thank …
20 Jan 2023
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The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) published its comments and recommendations to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, on December 17, 2022.
22 Nov 2022
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CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India invited comments on the Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.
29 Oct 2022
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Why spectrum needs a change in approachRajat Kathuria and Isha Suri write: It must be recognised that spectrum needs to be combined with other infrastructure to enable service delivery.
21 Oct 2022
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Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian LanguagesThis research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by …
21 Oct 2022
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Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource ProjectsThis is a short study on identifying the infrastructural gaps on Indian language Wikisource projects, and potential strategies to address the same. The study was undertaken by Jayantha Nath, Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Satdeep Gill, with …
21 Oct 2022
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Exploring Knowledge Repositories on Water Resources in IndiaThis research study explores knowledge repositories on water resources in India, with a focus on how the digital transition has impacted the process of creation & access to these resources and possible collaborations to build open digital …
21 Oct 2022
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‘Techplomacy’ and the negotiation of AI standards for the Indo-PacificResearchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute have partnered with the Centre for Internet and Society (Bengaluru) to produce a ‘techplomacy guide’ on negotiating AI standards for stakeholders in the Indo-Pacific.
17 Oct 2022
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Demystifying Data Breaches in IndiaDespite the rate at which data breaches occur and are reported in the media, there seems to be little information about how and when they are resolved. This post examines the discourse on data breaches in India with respect to their …
11 Oct 2022
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in …
11 Oct 2022
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay …
3 Oct 2022
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Getting the (Digital) Indo-Pacific Economic Framework RightOn the eve of the Tokyo Quad Summit in May 2022, President Biden unveiled the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), visualising cooperation across the Indo-Pacific based on four pillars: trade; supply chains; clean energy, decarbonisation …
29 Sep 2022
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NHA Data Sharing Guidelines – Yet Another Policy in the Absence of a Data Protection ActIn July this year, the National Health Authority (NHA) released the NHA Data Sharing Guidelines for the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY) just two months after publishing the draft Health Data Management Policy.
13 Aug 2022
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Designing Domestic Work PlatformsThis research was conducted by The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) with funding from Association for Progressive Communication (APC) through the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN), supported by International Development …
9 Aug 2022
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Surveillance Enabling Identity Systems in Africa: Tracing the Fingerprints of AadhaarBiometric identity systems are being introduced around the world with a focus on promoting human development and social and economic inclusion, rather than previous goals of security. As a result, these systems being encouraged in …
26 Jul 2022
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Procurement Through Digital PlatformsProcurement policies, both public and private, can play a significant role in determining inclusive market participation, particularly for informal women workers and their collective enterprises.
21 Jul 2022
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Deployment of Digital Health Policies and Technologies: During Covid-19In the last twenty years or so, the Indian government has adopted several digital mechanisms to deliver services to its citizens.