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27 Oct 2011
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Open Access Week begins in BangaloreOn Monday 24 October, the National Aerospace Laboratories in Bangalore held an event to mark the beginning of Open Access Week 2011
26 Oct 2011
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Facing up to Moral HazardSystems upholding the law and standards help navigate the grey areas of moral hazard and adverse selection writes Shyam Ponappa in this article published in the Business Standard on October 6, 2011.
24 Oct 2011
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Sixth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi: A SummaryThe sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was held from 27 to 30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Sunil Abraham participated in six workshops: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A …
24 Oct 2011
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Privacy & Sexual MinoritiesDanish Sheikh examines the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi …
24 Oct 2011
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Barriers to Access in a Connected WorldAccessibility is an imperative to achieve a truly inclusive and participatory society writes and every individual, corporation, organization and government has a crucial role to play in nurturing it, writes Nirmita Narasimhan in this …
18 Oct 2011
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Design!Public II in Bangalore ― Event ReportDesign Public, a high-level conclave on innovation, took place in Bangalore at the National Gallery for Modern Art on October 14, 2011. The event was organized by the Centre for Knowledge Societies in collaboration with the Centre for …
17 Oct 2011
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Indian Government Websites Not Accessible Enough for the DisabledInnumerable websites! All are citizen centric. But are they accessible to you? Srinivasu Chakravarthula examines this and stresses that website owners need to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to enable persons with …
14 Oct 2011
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SCOSTA and UID Comparison not Valid, says Finance CommitteeThe Standing Committee on Finance Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat has responded to the suggestions offered by CIS on the National Identification Authority of India, Bill 2010 and has requested it to mail its views by 14 October 2011.
12 Oct 2011
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Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique IdentifiersSahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh …
10 Oct 2011
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Hack Night in CIS ― A Meeting of Java Script HackersCIS hosted a hack night in conjunction with the tech-event organizers HasGeek at its office on 24 September 2011. The event brought together local java script hackers on a common platform. Tom Dane and Kiran Jonnalagadda participated in the …
4 Oct 2011
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CIS-TWN Analysis of WIPO Treaty for the Print Disabled (SCCR/22/15)CIS and the Third World Network (TWN) conducted a quick analysis of the "Consensus document on an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities presented by Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, …
3 Oct 2011
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UID: Questions without Answers – A Talk by Usha RamanathanUID enrolment is in full swing, providing an official identification to millions of Indians, yet there are numerous unanswered questions. A public talk on UID was held at the Institute of Science, Bangalore on September 6, 2011. Usha …
28 Sep 2011
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Understanding the Right to InformationElonnai Hickok summarises the Right to Information Act, 2005, how it works, how to file an RTI request, the information that an individual can request under the Act, the possible responses and the challenges to the citizen and the …
28 Sep 2011
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Re:Wiring BodiesAsha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to …
28 Sep 2011
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Porn: Law, Video, TechnologyNamita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from …
28 Sep 2011
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian CitiesThe monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence …
22 Sep 2011
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Archives and AccessThe monograph by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto, is a material history of the Internet archives. It examines the role of the archivist and the changing relationship between the state and private archives for looking at the politics …
21 Sep 2011
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Reviving GrowthThe government needs to reduce interest rates and undertake specific reforms to revive growth. The focus needs to be on communications, specifically broadband, it would yield results. Mobile communications have grown phenomenally but the …
15 Sep 2011
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced …
13 Sep 2011
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Stakeholders Meeting of the USOF on Facilitating ICT Access to Persons with Disabilities in Rural AreasThe Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a fund set up to provide universal access to telegraph services to rural and remote areas in India organized a stakeholders meeting on 7th September in New Delhi to launch a new scheme for …
9 Sep 2011
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Calling Out the BSA on Its BSThe Business Software Alliance (BSA) is trying to pull wool over government officials' eyes by equating software piracy with tax losses. Pranesh Prakash points out how that argument lacks cogency, and that tax losses would be better averted …
2 Sep 2011
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Photocopying the pastThere is no single correct position when it comes to intellectual property or IP. In fact, there are at least five correct positions that you could possibly adopt based on who you are — a pro-creator position, a pro-entrepreneur position, a …
30 Aug 2011
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Govt for Legalising Parallel Import of Copyright Works; Publishers OpposeSection 2(m) legalises the parallel imports of books and other copyrighted material into India and was part of the initial Copyright Amendment Bill introduced in the Parliament of India in 2010.
30 Aug 2011
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Copyright Amendment Bill in ParliamentThe Copyright Amendment Bill is expected to be presented in the Rajya Sabha by the Minister for Human Resource and Development, Kapil Sibal today afternoon. The much awaited Bill (since it has been in the offing since 2006) has undergone …
23 Aug 2011
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Bye Bye email?Email might be the default method of communication for most of us, but could it be going the telegram way.
23 Aug 2011
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital ActivismIn this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and …
23 Aug 2011
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital ActivismIn this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and …
23 Aug 2011
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An Interview with David BainesMaureen Agena interviewed David Baines, Deputy Director, Mada (Qatar Assistive Technology Center). Maureen asked questions regarding the status of disabled persons in Qatar, the level of ICT accessibility awareness for PWDs in Qatar, …
22 Aug 2011
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Whole Body Imaging and Privacy Concerns that FollowLaw student at the National University of Juridical Sciences, and intern for Privacy India, Srishti Goyal compares, contrasts, and critiques the Whole Body Imaging practices found in the US, the UK, and Australia, and makes recommendations …
22 Aug 2011
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IP Addresses and Expeditious Disclosure of Identity in IndiaIn this research, Prashant Iyengar reviews the statutory mechanism regulating the retention and disclosure of IP addresses by Internet companies in India. Prashant provides a compilation of anecdotes on how law enforcement authorities in …