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14 Feb 2022
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CIS Comments and Recommendations on the Data Protection Bill, 2021This document is a revised version of the comments we provided on the 2019 Bill on 20 February 2020, with updates based on the amendments in the 2021 Bill.
11 Feb 2022
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022Due to internal delays related to the pandemic, the Internet Researchers' Conference will now take place online in May 2022. Please see below for a link to the updated call for sessions.
9 Feb 2022
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Notes for India as the digital trade juggernaut rolls onSitting out trade negotiations could result in the country losing out on opportunities to shape the rules.
7 Feb 2022
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Submission to the Facebook Oversight Board: Policy on Cross-checksThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board on a policy consultation.
3 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022
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To be Counted When They Count You: Words of Caution for the Gender Data RevolutionIn 2015, after the announcement of the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals, a new global developmental framework through the year 2030, the United Nations described data as the “lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for …
27 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022
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Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping ReportGig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
4 Jan 2022
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Call for respondents: the implementation of government-ordered censorshipThe Centre for Internet and Society is conducting interviews with people whose content has been affected by blocking orders from the Indian Government.
3 Jan 2022
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Opinion: Delicensing 6 GHz, 60 GHz bands is crucial to improve Wi-Fi scenario in IndiaRecently, there has been growing demand from industry bodies and associations to delicense 6 GHz and 60 GHz bands in India.
15 Dec 2021
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Online caste-hate speech: Pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social mediaA research report on the contours of online caste-hate speech and how social media platforms moderate such expression.
14 Dec 2021
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Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in IndiaA paper titled "Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP): An Opportunity for Funding Rural Internet Connectivity in India" authored by CIS' researcher Abhishek Raj got published in the book "Community Networks: Towards Sustainable Funding …
10 Dec 2021
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Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-AssetsThe Centre for Internet & Society is launching its flagship report on regulating private crypto-assets in India, as part of its newly formed Financial Technology (or Fintech) research agenda. The event will be held on Zoom, at 17:30 IST on …
10 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021
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A Civil Society Agenda for E-Shram7 Dec 2021
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Practicing Feminist PrinciplesAI can serve to challenge social inequality and dismantle structures of power.
7 Dec 2021
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Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in IndiaPlatforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior …
7 Dec 2021
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AI in the Future of WorkArtificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
6 Dec 2021
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Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig EconomyIn response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
6 Dec 2021
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Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
2 Nov 2021
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Who Funds UsCIS is able to conduct its research only through the support of both long term, and short term donors, who are also acknowledged throughout our website on the publications they support. Below is a list of past donors across the years who …
26 Sep 2021
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International Cyber Law Toolkit scenario: Internet blockageArindrajit Basu and Gurshabad Grover’s scenario and international law analysis Internet Blockage was published as part of the NATO Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s Cyber Law Toolkit as part of its September 2021 annual …
20 Sep 2021
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#CultureForAll Conference on Cultural MappingSahapedia is organising the #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping, digitally on September 28 and 29, 2021. The conference will take place in collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Azim Premji …
31 Aug 2021
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Facial Recognition Technology in IndiaThe Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology. Authors, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman …
24 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021/ReportIn March 2020, the whole world came to a standstill. What many deemed as a regular ‘flu’ turned out to be the pandemic that brought everyone to their knees. The things that we always did, we could no longer do them. We were all confined to …
10 Aug 2021
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Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19The Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the …
3 Aug 2021
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Finding Needles in Haystacks - Discussing the Role of Automated Filtering in the New Indian Intermediary Liability RulesOn the 25th of February this year The Government of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The new Rules broaden the scope of which entities can be considered as …
3 Aug 2021
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Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine CertificatesWe examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
27 Jul 2021
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Standing Committee's recommendations are at odds with Access to KnowledgeThe Indian Parliamentary Committee's report weighs on several aspects of the Indian IPR system and issues of protection and enforcement. This blog post summarily notes the observations and recommendations of the Committee on the Copyright …