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16 Jan 2012
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Wikipedia turns 11 todayThe world's largest free encyclopaedia turns 11 on Sunday. To mark the occasion, the Wikipedia community will host events in seven cities across the country. The community is also celebrating the first anniversary of the Wikimedia India …
16 Jan 2012
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Twists and turns of the SOPA operaProposed DNS filtering threatens the core protocol on which the Internet's universality depends, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on 15 January 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
16 Jan 2012
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India internet: clean-up or censorship?Is India going the way of China? Not when it comes to development indicators. Or enhanced infrastructure. Or economic power. But in another category at which Beijing excels: web censorship.
16 Jan 2012
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Activists cry foul against AadhaarBiometric experts, jurists and social activists today urged the state government to immediately snap ties with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and stop offering Aadhaar numbers to residents.
12 Jan 2012
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NGO questions people's privacy in UID schemeTaking a leaf out of the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on finance (SCF) that raised objections on the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, Delhi-based NGOs have called upon the Jharkhand government …
10 Jan 2012
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Revealed: Bangalore’s Basic InstinctsThis is a first – a sex survey that focusses only on Bangalore. Sure, we have sex surveys telling us what the country thinks. But we wanted to know what our city thinks about the three-letter word. The article was published in the Bangalore …
9 Jan 2012
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Facebook, Google face censorship in IndiaReligious leaders in India are on a collision course with social media websites including Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Two Indian courts recently asked these American companies as well as 19 other websites to take down “anti-religious” …
4 Jan 2012
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Trail of the TrollsBullying and abuse on the Internet is on the rise. Smitha Verma finds out why most offenders are going scot-free in this article published in the Telegraph on 4 January 2012.
4 Jan 2012
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Constitution of Group of Experts to Deliberate on Privacy IssuesIt has been decided to constitute a Small Group of Experts under the Chairmanship of Justice A.P. Shah, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, to identify the privacy issues and prepare a paper to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. The …
4 Jan 2012
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2011: The year India began to harness social mediaAbout half a decade ago, netizens began to expand their online presence by forging new relationships, rediscovering old ones and sharing information and content on what came to be collectively termed as social media. The year gone by marked …
31 Dec 2011
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Inaugural EPT Award for Open AccessThe Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of …
22 Dec 2011
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When the digital spills into the physicalNishant Shah, Director-Research, Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, tells us why flash mobs are an interesting sign of our times, and not just a passing fad.
22 Dec 2011
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India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship PlanIndia has the world's largest democracy, and one of the most rambunctious. Millions of its young people are cutting edge when it comes to high-tech. Yet the country is still very conservative by Western standards, and a government minister …
19 Dec 2011
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Unpacking Digital Natives from their Shiny PackagingThe ‘Digital natives’ concept is neither necessarily nor inherently positive, as YiPing Tsou highlights in her article Digital Natives in the Name of a Cause: From "Flash Mob" to "Human Flesh Search". The essay was published in the Digital …
19 Dec 2011
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Indecent ProposalsIf Kapil Sibal’s attempts to police net content fructify, it may even lead to a reversal of some of the forward-looking provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. The new proposal, for instance, will reverse Section 79 which …
19 Dec 2011
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How ‘private-censorship’ is making online content disappear, quietlyIf only Kapil Sibal knew how successful his ministry has already been in making online content quietly disappear and how pliant Internet companies can be in India when it comes to requests to remove content, thanks in some part to the rules …
19 Dec 2011
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Censorship — A Death Knell for Freedom of Expression OnlineOn December 8, 2011, NDTV aired an interesting discussion on internet censorship. Shashi Tharoor, Soli Sorabjee, Shekhar Kapoor, Ken Ghosh and Sunil Abraham participated in this discussion with NDTV's Sonia Singh.
16 Dec 2011
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On Natives, Norms and KnowledgePhilip Ketzel reviews Ben Wagner's essay "Natives, Norms and Knowledge: How Information Technologies Recalibrate Social & Political Power Relations Communications" published in Book 4: To Connect.
15 Dec 2011
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Digital Native: Twin Manifestations or Co-Located HybridsSamuel Tettner reviews ‘Digital Natives and the Return of the Local Cause’ from Book 1: To Be. The essay is authored by Anat Ben-David.
13 Dec 2011
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Technological beasts like Facebook, Orkut, YouTube & Google impossible to controlThey were places that let you be: to chat with buddies, exchange photos and plan parties. The rules of engagement were loose, voyeurism passed off as curiosity, vanity as sharing and gibes as friendly banter.
13 Dec 2011
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Did He, Didn’t He?During a recent cyber security event, Gulshan Rai, DG, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)—the man charged with protecting India’s cyberspace—allegedly made startling claims about two organisations that have relentlessly …
12 Dec 2011
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Online gag:Existing rules give little freedomEven as the controversy over Kapil Sibal's attempt to get internet giants such as Google and Facebook to prescreen user-generated content to weed out 'offensive' material rages, a yet-to-be-published study by Bangalore-based Centre for …
12 Dec 2011
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Online @ IndiaI haven't yet heard of anybody in India going on a rampage because somebody in Pakistan started an 'India hate' page. However, I have seen people kill and destroy because they got incited to violence and hatred through offline religious …
12 Dec 2011
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Much at stake for tech sector in UID projectWith the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance raising a red flag against the National Identification Authority of India ( NIAI) Bill to grant the UID (or Aadhar) project legal status, the project looks set for a slowdown. That could …
12 Dec 2011
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Internet, social media access should not be blocked: BanAmidst a raging controversy over the federal government’s proposal to monitor content in cyber space, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said access to the Internet and various social media must not be blocked as a way to prevent …
12 Dec 2011
10 Dec 2011
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India entering the Minority Report age?Indian government efforts to block offensive material from the Internet have prompted a storm of online ridicule along with warnings of the risk to India's image as a bastion of free speech.
9 Dec 2011
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Nirmita receives NIVH AwardNirmita Narasimhan received the NIVH Excellence Award from Justice AS Anand (retd), former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the National Institute for the Visually …
9 Dec 2011
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Los internautas indios se oponen a la censura a través de la RedLa idea del Gobierno indio de censurar los contenidos de internet ha chocado con el rechazo de la empresas del sector y de los internautas, que están usando las redes sociales para ridiculizar al ministro
9 Dec 2011
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India bid to censor Internet draws flakIndian government efforts to block offensive material from the Internet have prompted a storm of online ridicule along with warnings of the risk to India's image as a bastion of free speech.