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30 Apr 2013
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From Open Citizen Radio Networks to the Race for .RADIO gTLDIn light of the recent shutdown of INDYMEDIA ATHENS server and its associated antagonistic Internet radio streaming services, Radio98FM and Radio Entasi, Sharath Chandra Ram, takes a look at open radio networks run by citizen operators as …
30 Apr 2013
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Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & ChallengesNitika Tandon, in this blog post, provides an analysis of the Konkani Wikipedia. She reflects on the challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia and identifies four possible solutions.
29 Apr 2013
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National Resource Kit: The Rajasthan Chapter (Call for Comments)The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Rajasthan.
29 Apr 2013
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Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History MonthMarch 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India …
28 Apr 2013
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Prioritizing Communications & EnergyAfter curbing unproductive expenditure and imports, we must focus on developing communications and energy.
28 Apr 2013
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Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, 419A Rules and IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69 RulesJadine Lannon has performed a clause-by-clause comparison of the 419A Rules of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and the 69 Rules under Section 69 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 in order to better understand how the two …
27 Apr 2013
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IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, 69A Rules: Draft and Final Version ComparisonJadine Lannon has performed a clause-by-clause comparison of the 69A draft rules and 69A rules for Section 69A of the IT Act in order to better understand how the two differ. While there has been reshuffling of the clauses in the official …
27 Apr 2013
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Girls in ICT Day at Mitra JyothiThe Centre for Internet and Society organized the first Girls in ICT Day in association with the Mitra Jyothi Trust in Bangalore on April 25, 2013. Sara Morais who participated in the event shares her experiences in this blog post.
26 Apr 2013
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CIS Gets ITU-D Sector MembershipThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has become a sector member of ITU-D, the development sector of the International Telecommunication Union, the specialized UN Agency dealing with telecommunications and information communications …
25 Apr 2013
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CIS Intervention on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired at SCCR/SS/GE/2/13The informal session and special session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was organised by WIPO in Geneva from April 18 to April 20, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in the session and spoke about the rights of …
24 Apr 2013
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Report on the 2nd Privacy Round Table meetingThis post entails a report on the second Privacy Round Table meeting which took place on 20th April 2013.
22 Apr 2013
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Report on the 1st Privacy Round Table meetingThis report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the first Privacy Round Table meeting in New Delhi, on 13th April 2013.
22 Apr 2013
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project PagesIn this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one …
8 Apr 2013
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India's 'Big Brother': The Central Monitoring System (CMS)In this post, Maria Xynou looks at India´s Central Monitoring System (CMS) project and examines whether it can target individuals´ communications data, regardless of whether they are involved in illegal activity.
6 Apr 2013
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Off the RecordSocial networks track our world but not relationships. We live in a world where things happen. And yet, with the presence of digital objects, the things that happen have increased in intensity and volume.
4 Apr 2013
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Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
3 Apr 2013
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Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.
31 Mar 2013
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What’s In a Name? — DNS Singularity of ICANN and The Gold RushMarch 2013 being the 28th birthday of the first ever registered Internet domain as well as the exigent launch of the Trademark Clearing House disguised as a milestone in rights protection by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …
31 Mar 2013
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WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going ForwardOn February 27, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society conducted a workshop on the Working Group on Internet Governance report, titled "WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward" at the World Summit on the Information Society …
31 Mar 2013
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The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 — Penalising 'Peeping Toms' and Other Privacy IssuesThe pending amendments to the Indian Penal Code, if passed in their current format, would be a huge boost for individual physical privacy by criminalising stalking and sexually-tinted voyeurism and removing the ambiguities in Indian law …
31 Mar 2013
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National Resource Kit: The Uttar Pradesh Chapter (Call for Comments)The Centre for Internet & Society and the Hans Foundation are pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
31 Mar 2013
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India's Biometric Identification Programs and Privacy ConcernsThe invasiveness of individual identification coupled with the fallibility of managing big data which biometric identification presents poses a huge risk to individual privacy in India.
31 Mar 2013
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Comments on the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Sensitive Personal Data Rules. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha.
31 Mar 2013
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Comments on the Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society submitted the following comments on the Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe Rules), 2011.
31 Mar 2013
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Comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Service Delivery) Rules, 2011Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Services Delivery) Rules, 2011. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of …
28 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, BombayThis is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
27 Mar 2013
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Microsoft releases its first report on data requests by law enforcement agencies around the worldIn this post, the Centre for Internet and Society presents Microsoft´s report on law enforcement requests, with a focus on data requested by Indian law enforcement agencies.
27 Mar 2013
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CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT RulesThe Centre for Internet and Society welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under …
27 Mar 2013
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A Discussion on Intercept between UNCRPD & CEDAWA seminar was jointly organized by the Shanta Memorial Institute of Rehabilitation – Odisha, CBR Network and Mitra Jyoti to discuss the intercept between the United Nations Convention for Protection of Rights of Persons with Disabilities …
26 Mar 2013
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The Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013: A Citizen's DraftThe Centre for Internet and Society has been researching privacy in India since 2010 with the objective of raising public awareness around privacy, completing in depth research, and driving a privacy legislation in India. As part of this …