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29 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #16 - ICANN has no Documentation on Registrars’ “Abuse Contacts”Registrars on contract with ICANN are required to maintain an “abuse contact” - a 24/7 dedicated phone line and e-mail address to receive reports of abuse regarding the registered names sponsored by the registrar.
29 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #15: What is going on between Verisign and ICANN?During a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on “Internet Governance Progress After ICANN 53,” President and CEO of ICANN - Mr Fadi Chehade indicated that ICANN follows up with registries and registrars on receipt of any …
28 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #14: Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: RegistrarsIn September 2016, we filed two separate DIDP requests regarding ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Goals.
28 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #13: Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: RegistriesOn multiple occasions, Fadi Chehade, then President and CEO of ICANN has emphasized the importance of conducting audits (internal and external) to ensure compliance of ICANN’s contracted parties. At a US congressional hearing, he spoke …
27 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #9 - Exactly how involved is ICANN in the NETmundial Initiative?The importance and relevance of knowing ICANN’s involvement in the NETmundial Initiative cannot be overstated.
27 Jul 2016
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DIDP Request #10 - ICANN does not know how much each RIR contributes to its BudgetIn an effort to understand the relationship between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN, we requested current and historical information on the contract fees paid by the five RIRs (AfriNIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) to …
26 Jul 2016
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro …
25 Jul 2016
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The Gay Pride CharadeFor most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
25 Jul 2016
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One Pokémon to Rule Them AllAmerica’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space.
21 Jul 2016
19 Jul 2016
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Digital Transition in Newspapers in India: A Pilot StudyThis pilot study situates itself at the intersection of global trends in news and journalism, and emergent practises of legacy print media in India. Our aim is to explore how legacy print newspapers are transitioning to the online space. …
14 Jul 2016
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Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada WikipediaWe have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of …
13 Jul 2016
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No, India did NOT oppose the United Nations move to “make internet access a human right”Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution titled “The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet.”
13 Jul 2016
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New Approaches to Information Privacy – Revisiting the Purpose Limitation PrincipleArticle on Aadhaar throwing light on privacy and data protection.
12 Jul 2016
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Trans Pacific Partnership and Digital 2 Dozen: Implications for Data Protection and Digital PrivacyIn this essay, Shubhangi Heda explores the concerns related to data protection and digital privacy under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed recently between United States of America and eleven countries located around the …
11 Jul 2016
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RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published its first guideline on mobile banking in 2008, and the conversation on integrating Aadhaar numbers with bank account numbers on one hand and mobile numbers on the other started as soon as UIDAI was …
11 Jul 2016
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Online edit-a-thon on incidents in TeluguA week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.
10 Jul 2016
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Cross Border Cooperation on Criminal Matters - A Perspective from IndiaIn today’s increasingly interconnected world where information and data can be moved to and from different parts of the world in a matter of seconds, more and more transactions are taking place online.
9 Jul 2016
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Sub$-100 Phones: Browser Compatibility TestsThis post documents the results of browser compatibility tests conducted on six out of eight specimen mobile phones being studied under the Pervasive Technologies project. These phones are Internet-enabled and cost the equivalent of USD 100 …
9 Jul 2016
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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typefaceSantali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
9 Jul 2016
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Community celebrates birthday of Odia Wikipedia and Odia WiktionaryThis June, Odia Wikipedia turned 14 and Odia Wiktionary turned 11. Odia Wikimedia community member Chinmayee Mishra, CIS-A2K Programme Associate Sailesh Patnaik and I co-authored this blog in the Wikimedia Blog. The blog chronicles several …
6 Jul 2016
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How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?How are Indian newspapers adapting to the transition to digital news production, distribution, and consumption? How are they changing their journalistic work, their newsroom organisations, and their distribution strategies as digital media …
5 Jul 2016
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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected AbstractsWe received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
5 Jul 2016
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Big Data Governance Frameworks for 'Data Revolution for Sustainable Development'A key component of the process to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is the call for a global 'data revolution' to better understand, monitor, and implement development interventions. Recently there has been several international …
4 Jul 2016
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Comparative Analysis of Recommendations by NASSCOM and iSPIRT, 2013-2016This is the second of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This post conducts a detailed …
3 Jul 2016
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ತರಬೇತಿ ಮಾಡಲು ತರಬೇತಿಗೊಂಡಾಗ.... CIS-A2K TTT 2016Dhanalakshmi, a student from St Agnes College, Mangaluru, who was a participant of TTT 2016 has blogged her experience at Train-the-Trainer 2016 event organized by the Centre for Internet & Society earlier this year.
3 Jul 2016
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Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data AnxietiesThe Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in …
1 Jul 2016
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Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM, 2006-2012This is the first of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This posts focuses on the policy …
30 Jun 2016
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Public Consultation for the First Draft of 'Government Open Data Use License - India' AnnouncedThe first public draft of the open data license to be used by Government of India was released by the Department of Legal Affairs earlier this week. Comments are invited from general public and stakeholders. These are to be submitted via …
30 Jun 2016
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Digital Humanities in India – Concluding ThoughtsAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …