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14 Jul 2015
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Net Neutrality and the Law of Common CarriageNet neutrality makes strange bedfellows. It links the truck operators that dominate India’s highways, such as those that carry vegetables from rural markets to cities, and Internet service providers which perform a more technologically …
14 Jul 2015
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Freedom of Expression in a Digital AgeThe Centre for Internet & Society, the Observer Research Foundation, the Internet Policy Observatory, the Centre for Global Communication Studies and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania organized this …
13 Jul 2015
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Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada ScriptThis is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
13 Jul 2015
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Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet RegulationThis note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society …
13 Jul 2015
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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 22) - AnonymousCIS interviews a Tibetan security researcher and information activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series. He prefers to remain anonymous.
10 Jul 2015
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Users and the InternetThis post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, with more than eight years of work experience in …
8 Jul 2015
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Regulatory Perspectives on Net NeutralityIn this paper Pranesh Prakash gives an overview on why India needs to put in place net neutrality regulations, and the form that those regulations must take to avoid being over-regulation.
8 Jul 2015
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India’s digital checkAll nine pillars of Digital India directly correlate with policy research conducted at the Centre for Internet and Society, where I have worked for the last seven years. This allows our research outputs to speak directly to the priorities …
3 Jul 2015
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Report: 5G Technologies Workshop by IEEEA report on the 5G Technologies Workshop organised by the Bangalore Chapter of the IEEE Communication Society at Bangalore on May 22 -23, 2015.
2 Jul 2015
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The Centrality of Cash FlowsGreece's experience tells us that cash flows are crucial to economic outcomes. No matter how far-reaching the vision, ambition, and slogans, the effects of cash flows are profound and inevitable.
2 Jul 2015
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Statement by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Broadcast Treaty at SCCR 30The 30th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's ("WIPO") Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ("SCCR") is underway in Geneva from 29 June, 2015 to 03 July, 2015. While CIS was unable to attend this meeting, …
2 Jul 2015
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Anti-Spam Laws in Different Jurisdictions: A Comparative AnalysisThis paper is divided into three sections. The first section puts forth a comparative table of the spam laws of five different countries - the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom - based on eight …
1 Jul 2015
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WhatsApp and the Creation of a Transnational SocialityThis post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her broader research …
30 Jun 2015
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WhatsApp and Transnational Lower-End Trading NetworksThis post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her broader research …
30 Jun 2015
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Report on Training in eSpeak MarathiThe NVDA team conducted a training at SIES College, Sion, Mumbai on June 28, 2015. Thirty-four delegates attended the training programme. Harshad Jadhav was the trainer.
30 Jun 2015
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Report on eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training Workshop in TirunelveliThe training workshop by the NVDA team was held at Anne Jane Askwith Higher Secondary School for the Visually Impaired, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli from June 3 - 7, 2015. Sixteen delegates attended the workshop.
30 Jun 2015
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Indic Scripts and the InternetThis post by Dibyajyoti Ghosh is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Dibyajyoti is a PhD student in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. He has four years of full-time work experience in projects which dealt with …
30 Jun 2015
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Details for Contributing Posts to RAW BlogThe RAW Blog hosts writings contributed by researchers, professionals, artists, workers, and others.
29 Jun 2015
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Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer GroupThis is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia …
28 Jun 2015
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Comments on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO SecretariatTechnical Background Paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat in relation to the Broadcast Treaty (“Technical Background Paper) provides information on new and emerging technologies and on legal developments in the broadcasting sector. This …
25 Jun 2015
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National IPR Policy Series : Follow-up RTI to DIPP on the IPR Think TankThis RTI was prepared by Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari as a follow-up, based on the responses of the DIPP to our earlier RTI requests (available at …
25 Jun 2015
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Magic words in WikipediaThe struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the …
24 Jun 2015
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Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in IndiaIt is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing …
24 Jun 2015
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The US 301 Report – A Myopic View of IP RightsVarun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari discuss the 2015 US 301 Report, focussing on its narrow and convenient understanding of IP rights. A farrago of contradictions, it supports a rightsholder-centric view but not when the right, Geographical …
24 Jun 2015
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Report on eSpeak Marathi Training at MJ College, JalgaonThe Centre for Internet & Society conducted a workshop for reading and writing using eSpeak with NVDA at Dreamy Eyes Resource Centre in Jalgaon on June 23 and 24, 2015.
22 Jun 2015
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The generation of e-EmergencyThe next generation of censorship technology is expected to be ‘real-time content manipulation’ through ISPs and Internet companies.
21 Jun 2015
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IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (II)This paper is the second in a multi-part series, in which we provide an overview of submitted proposals and highlight areas of concern that will need attention moving forward. The series is a work in progress and will be updated as the …
20 Jun 2015
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National IPR Policy Series : India's National IPR Policy - What Would WIPO Think?As part of the National IPR Policy Series, CIS is evaluating how India's National IPR Policy framework and process holds up to WIPO's suggestions. In this note, Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari examine in particular, the functioning of the …
20 Jun 2015
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IANA Transition Stewardship & ICANN Accountability (I)This paper is the first in a multi-part series, in which we provide a background to the IANA transition and updates on the ensuing processes. An attempt to familiarise people with the issues at stake, this paper will be followed by a second …
20 Jun 2015
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DesiSec: Cybersecurity and Civil Society in IndiaAs part of its project on mapping cyber security actors in South Asia and South East Asia, the Centre for Internet & Society conducted a series of interviews with cyber security actors. The interviews were compiled and edited into one …