Events
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- Transference: Reimagining Data Systems: Beyond the Gender Binary
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to participate in a day-long convening on the rights of transgender persons, specifically right to privacy and digital rights. Through this convening, we hope to highlight the concerns …
- Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets
The 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. This event will serve as a venue to bring …
- Reclaiming AI Futures
Join us on 23 November (Tuesday) at 7:30pm.
- Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a webinar wherein it will launch and present four research reports on digital labour in India. The webinar will be hosted on July 28, 2021 at 5 p.m. (IST) / 11.30 a.m. (UTC)
- Disinformation in the Indian Digital News Media Market
The Centre for Internet and Society and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with a …
- Privacy in the Age of the Pandemic
The Centre for Internet and Society, JKGA Law Chambers, and LawyersClubIndia invites you to the online panel discussion on ‘Privacy in the Age of the Pandemic.’
- How to Shut Down Internet Shutdowns
This talk will focus on the challenges and opportunities for research on internet shutdowns after the judgement of the Supreme Court in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India. Stepping beyond the judgement, there will be a wider discussion on …
- How safe is your harbour? Discussions on intermediary liability and user rights
The Centre for Internet and Society is holding discussions on 10 January 2020 to discuss research on automated content filtering, content takedown, traceability and the future of intermediary liability in India
- Cybersecurity Visuals Media Handbook: Launch Event
6th December | 6 pm | Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
- Domestic Work in the ‘Gig Economy’
The CIS and Domestic Workers’ Rights Union (DWRU) are hosting a discussion on the ‘gig economy’ and domestic work on Saturday, November 16 at Student Christian Movement of India, Mission Road, Bangalore. This event is a part of a project …
- Cultivating India’s Cyber Defense Strategy
The Centre for Internet & Society is hosting this roundtable discussion to identify critical vectors in India's Cyber Defense debate, and hash out next steps for a robust cyber defense agenda.
- Draft Model Fintech Security Standards: Closed Door Consultation
The Centre for Internet and Society has been researching privacy and security standards in the Indian ‘Fintech space’ for the past year. One component of our research has been to create Draft Security Standards for Fintech Entities, which …
- AI: A Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge
Sunil Abraham will be discussing the Policy Brief on AI: A Full Spectrum Regulatory Challenge from 6.30 - 7.30pm on September 27, 2019 at the Viceregal (2nd Floor), the Claridges, New Delhi. The discussion is being hosted by the Centre for …
- #MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The …
- Wikimedia Education SAARC conference
Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open from today, 25 April 2019. Deadline for applying for scholarship …
- Discussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya
Rootconf organised a discussion on open standards at CIS Bangalore office. Zainab Bawa, Karan Saini and Anwesha Das coordinated and organised the event.
- Train-the-Trainer 2019 at Vishakhapatnam
Train-the-trainer 2019 (TTT 2019), residential training program to groom leadership among the Indian Wikimedia community members, is going to happen in Visakhapatnam during 31 May, 1 and 2 June 2019 at Fairfield by Marriott Hotel at …
- Internet Speech: Perspectives on Regulation and Policy
The Centre for Internet & Society and the University of Munich (LMU), Germany are jointly organizing an international symposium at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on April 5, 2019
- Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and …
- What is IFF? A model for digital rights advocacy in India
- Wikimedia Summit India 2019
CIS-A2K team is organizing a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin.
- Talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young
The Centre for Internet & Society will be hosting public talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young, who are both 2019 India-U.S. Public Interest Technology Fellows at New America at its Bangalore office on March 4, 2019.
- SOTM Asia 2018
Saumyaa Naidu, Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon attend State of the Map 2018 conference co-organized by the Centre for Internet & Society and Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore on November 17 and 18, 2018.
- Workshop on Cybersecurity Illustrations
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is organizing a workshop to engage with the design community in order to examine, explore, and expand this visual narrative of cybersecurity.
- Roundtable on Cyber-security and the Private Sector
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a roundtable discussion on cyber-security and the private sector. The event will be held at Omidyar Network office in Bangalore from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
- Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These …
- Symposium on India’s Cyber Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges
CIS is organising a symposium on India's Cyber Strategy in New Delhi on the 31st of August, 2018, with Ambassador Asoke Mukerji (former Permanent Representative to the United Nations) delivering the keynote address.
- Symposium on India’s Cyber Strategy
CIS organised a Symposium on India’s Cyber Strategy.
- Workshop: Automotives Sector and the Future of Work in India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) will hold a Workshop on the Automotives Sector and the Future of Work in India on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 . The workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m at The Willow Hall at the Indian Habitat …
- Dialogues on AI - Ethics of AI for India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) organized the first session of the "Dialogues on AI" Roundtables in collaboration with Facebook on April 27, 2018 at Omidyar Network office in Bengaluru.