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18 Feb 2013
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Indian Users’ Perspective On WIPO Negotiations On Treaty For Visually ImpairedSouth-East Asia is host to one-third of the world’s 39 million blind people. Over 20 million live in India alone. This week’s special session of the World Intellectual Property Organization aims to clean up the text of an international …
13 Feb 2013
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Indian net service providers too play censorship tricksThe study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
13 Feb 2013
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Hate speech: ban or ignore?The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the …
13 Feb 2013
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Freedom of expression online: identifying and addressing challenges and developing a shared vision and a working partnership (WP1216)Wilton Park organized this event at Wiston House, Sussex, UK from February 13 to 15, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in it.
13 Feb 2013
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Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in KashmirHacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
11 Feb 2013
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Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu VardhanVishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in …
10 Feb 2013
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Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
10 Feb 2013
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Rahul Cherian passes awayRahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
8 Feb 2013
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Rahul Cherian, founder of NGO Inclusive Planet, passes awayRahul Cherian, who worked extensively on disability law and rights in India, and other issues like intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday while on on a family holiday in Goa according to this report in the …
8 Feb 2013
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Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to ArrestsOnline abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
8 Feb 2013
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Inclusive Planet co-founder, Disability Law activist, and Cancer Survivor, Rahul Cherian passes awayRahul Cherian, the co-founder of Inclusive Planet and an expert on Intellectual Property and disability law, passed away on February 7, 2013 in Goa due to sudden illness.
7 Feb 2013
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RIP: Rahul Cherian, human rights activist, Inclusive Planet co-founderRIPRahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away today at the age of 39, while on a family holiday in Goa.
6 Feb 2013
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Censorship and sensibility in IndiaThe past few weeks in India have seen films, an all-girl rock band, a fashion show, a Booker prize-winning novelist and a reputed academic become targets of harassment, legal action or threats of violence.
31 Jan 2013
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Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in MediaThe Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Odia-Wikipedia and Academy for Media Learning organized a workshop on January 29, 2013. This was covered in Sambad on January 30, 2013.
30 Jan 2013
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An innovative concept comes to the foreThere’s very little awareness about Bitcoin — a new digital currency and payment system, designed for the voting process of ‘Bitfilm 13’ — in the City. Aaron Koenig, the managing director at Bitfilm Networks Hamburg, addressed this issue …
29 Jan 2013
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Surveillance Camp: Privatized State SurveillanceThis is the second in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF’s Surveillance Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
29 Jan 2013
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, DhenkanalThe first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants.
26 Jan 2013
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9th International Asian ConferenceITechLaw is organizing the 9th Annual Asian ITechLaw Conference on February 14 and 15, 2013 in India's high technology capital - Bangalore, India. Sunil Abraham will be speaking at this event.
25 Jan 2013
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Internet Freedom in India – Open to DebateIn the aftermath of an Index on Censorship debate in New Delhi, Kirsty Hughes says India’s web users are standing at a crossroads
25 Jan 2013
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Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron SwartzA small crowd gathered here on Saturday afternoon in the basement of the Centre for Internet and Society to participate in the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight, organised by HasGeek.
23 Jan 2013
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Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: country perspectivesThis blog post is fourth in a series of eight blog posts to report on the “Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression” recently concluded in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
21 Jan 2013
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Fifth International IPR Conference (GIPC 2013)ITAG Business Solutions is organizing its Fifth International IPR conference "GIPC 2013" at Hotel LaLit Ashok, Bangalore, India on the theme "IPR: The Powerhouse of Tomorrow". Snehashish Ghosh is participating in the event and will speak on …
18 Jan 2013
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Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?This week Index held a high level panel debate in partnership with the Editors Guild of India and the India International Centre to discuss the question “Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?” Mahima Kaul reports
17 Jan 2013
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Is freedom of expression under threat in digital age?With social networking site Facebook boasting of 1 billion members globally and micro-blogging site Twitter claiming millions, opinion was divided on whether the freedom of expression was under threat in the digital age.
15 Jan 2013
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7th India Digital Summit 2013This summitt organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India is being held in New Delhi from January 16 to 17, 2013 at the Lalit Hotel
13 Jan 2013
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Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of ExpressionInternet Democracy Project, Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment and Global Partners & Associates are organizing this event in Dhaka on January 14 - 15, 2013.
7 Jan 2013
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Panel Discussion on E-Commerce at NLSIUPranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event held at the National Law School of India University on January 7, 2013.
7 Jan 2013
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Clash of the cyberworldsIn an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur across the political spectrum of nations, even in liberal democracies.
4 Jan 2013
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Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business TransformationMobile India 2013 is being held at the Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore on 9 January 2013. Sunil Abraham is speaking at this event.
4 Jan 2013
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Cool Jobs | Parmesh Shahani, Head, Godrej India Culture LabThe man behind Mumbai’s most original ideas space on being a cross-pollinator