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26 Mar 2013
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Press controls ‘send wrong message to rest of world’Britain could trigger an international media crackdown if the Government goes ahead with plans for a Royal Charter to introduce a new Press regulator, free speech campaigners warned yesterday.
26 Mar 2013
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Future of Privacy in IndiaDSCI and ICOMP are organizing a meet on Privacy at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi on April 5, 2013. Sunil Abraham will be participating in this event as a speaker.
26 Mar 2013
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Faculty Seminar: Talk on Normativising Competitive Markets Contextually; Transmission Art Installation — Reordered SpacesThis event was organized by Azim Premji University on December 26, 2012. Sharath Chandra Ram installed and presented the Re-ordered Spaces. Abhayraj Naik gave a talk.
25 Mar 2013
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in PrajavaniA Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
25 Mar 2013
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Internet Censorship, Surveillance, and Corporate TransparencyGoogle’s Dorothy Chou will be in conversation with international experts Annenberg School of Communication, St., Philadelphia, on April 3, 2013, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Malavika Jayaram is participating in the event as a panelist. The …
25 Mar 2013
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India’s Civil Liberties Crisis: Of Bans, Blocks, Bullying and BiometricsMalavika Jayaram will be a speaker at this event which is organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies and will be held at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia, on March 28, 2013, from 12 …
21 Mar 2013
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Namaste, Mr. Eric SchmidtAn article by R. Jai Krishna published in the Wall Street Journal on March 20, 2013 quotes Sunil Abraham.
21 Mar 2013
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Korean Trans Cine-Media in Global Contexts: Asia and the WorldThis conference to be held from March 27 to 29, 2013 is being organized by Trans - Asia Screen Culture Institute, Cinema Studies, Korean National university of Arts, Korean Film Archive and Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda …
21 Mar 2013
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DML 2013 – Fourth Annual ConferenceThe fourth annual conference – DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The Centre for Internet and …
20 Mar 2013
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Global Partners Meeting @ LondonPrivacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating …
19 Mar 2013
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Indian police set up lab to monitor social mediaMumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
16 Mar 2013
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New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on AadhaarThe Indian Government is going ahead with a new project dubbed RIC that will effectively undermine the existing UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority of India project and will cost a whopping $1 billion.
15 Mar 2013
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Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubtsTwo separate organizations are capturing biometric data of over 1 billion Indians, creating fresh doubts in the government's justification to catalogue citizens.
13 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha …
13 Mar 2013
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Rethinking the Internet: The Way ForwardTelecom Italia and Financial Times are organizing this event at Telecom Italia Future Centre in Italy on March 21 and 22, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event.
13 Mar 2013
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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin MaclayColin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
11 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia at AvenirA 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
6 Mar 2013
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Social media undermining journalistic credibility?The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
4 Mar 2013
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Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ HangoutIndian politicians are slowly warming up to social media.
3 Mar 2013
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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
3 Mar 2013
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People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say expertsInternationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
2 Mar 2013
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Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
1 Mar 2013
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Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activistsA group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
28 Feb 2013
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Video Vortex # 9 Re:assemblies of VideoNishant Shah is a speaker at this event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Post Media Lab, Moving Image Lab, Leuphana, et.al. The event is being held at Luneberg from February 28, 2013 to March 2, 2013.
28 Feb 2013
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Open DataCamp - 2013A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University …
28 Feb 2013
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"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and SocietyThe DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
26 Feb 2013
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D:coding Digital Natives - Seminar with Nishant ShahNishant Shah gave a talk on D:coding Digital Natives at Samhällsvetarhuset on February 26, 2013, from 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. The event was organized by HUMlab.
25 Feb 2013
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International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, MethodologyThe Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford …
22 Feb 2013
19 Feb 2013
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Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.