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4 Dec 2018
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International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018The event was co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health and was held at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore between December 3 and 5, 2018.
30 Nov 2018
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Internet Freedom at Crossroads - Common Paths towards Strengthening Human Rights OnlineThe 2018 Freedom Online Conference took place from 28 to 30 November 2018 in Berlin. Elonnai Hickok participated as a speaker.
30 Nov 2018
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Informational Privacy in India: An Emerging DiscourseCentre for Policy Research supported by Omidyar Network organized this event in New Delhi on November 29, 2018. Amber Sinha was a speaker on the first panel on privacy and its tradeoffs.
30 Nov 2018
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Facebook Privacy Design SprintPranav Bidare and Saumyaa Naidu participated in the Facebook Privacy Design Sprint on Friday, November 30, 2018.
30 Nov 2018
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Danish Expert Group on Data EthicsAmber Sinha was one of the stakeholders who provided inputs to the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics in June 2018 during their visit to New Delhi. The Expert Group has prepared and submitted its final report.
30 Nov 2018
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Are Chinese video apps violating the Indian law?The apps have benefited mightily from the short-video craze that’s taken hold among preteens and adolescents but this is putting them in danger from predators, experts said.
28 Nov 2018
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Open Street Maps help tackle disasters: ExpertsSpeakers showed how participatory maps were used to bring to light lapses in delivery of civic services.
28 Nov 2018
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Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'Considering the monopoly and clout that Google enjoys, it must be held accountable for promoting such stereotypes and values, experts say.
28 Nov 2018
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DSCI Bangalore Chapter meetGurshabad Grover and Karan Saini attended the DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet held in Bangalore at 10K NASSCOM Startup Warehouse on November 22, 2018.
28 Nov 2018
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Are connected tech toys too smart for their own good?Despite their merits, connected toys raise a few concerns about data privacy and security.
28 Nov 2018
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Amazon launches Machine Learning-based platform for healthcare spaceAmazon’s Comprehend Medical platform uses a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service to process unstructured medical text and information such as dosages, symptoms and signs, and patient diagnosis.
22 Nov 2018
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Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) organised a short course on 'ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, …
19 Nov 2018
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VFS Global to spend 3 million euro if data localisation is mandated in IndiaVFS Global, an international visa outsourcing and administration company, will spend about 3 million euros on migrating data of Indians from the UK and Germany if the Indian government mandates data localisation in the country.
18 Nov 2018
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Speculative Futures Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Media, Entertainment, and GamingPranav Manjesh Bidare attended the event organised by Quicksand between November 16 and 18, 2018 in Bangalore as a panelist.
16 Nov 2018
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IETF103Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) organized the IETF103 in Bangkok from November 3 to November 9, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
16 Nov 2018
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Briefing on BBC News pan-India research on how 'fake news' / digital misinformation spreadsAmber Sinha participated in a special private briefing on the BBC's pan India research on how misinformation spreads. The briefing was conducted on November 16, 2018 in New Delhi.
15 Nov 2018
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Building a Community of Practice: Reflections from 2nd All PartnersOn Wednesday, November 14th, the Partnership on AI held its 2nd annual All Partners Meeting in San Francisco, California. Representatives from our 80+ member organizations – for-profit companies, civil society organizations, academic …
7 Nov 2018
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Roundtable on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2018Akriti Bopanna and Ambika Tandon conducted a panel on 'Gender and Intermediary Liability' at the Digital Citizen Summit, hosted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, on November 1, 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
5 Nov 2018
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Human rights review of the verification code extension for EPPOn September 20, 2018 Gurshabad Grover sent a review of the human rights considerations in the Internet Draft, 'Verification Code Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-verificationcode-04), which is a …
1 Nov 2018
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Connections 2018Gurshabad Grover attended Connections 2018, a pre-IETF event organised by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) in Bangalore on October 31 and November 1, 2018.
31 Oct 2018
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Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and EnvironmentShweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment held at Tandem Research's office in Goa on October 5, 2018. She also made the framing intervention for the first session by addressing the question …
31 Oct 2018
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Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governanceSunil Abraham gave a talk at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore on October 16, 2018. Sunil used a series of stories to explain how surveillance works and fails in the context of …
31 Oct 2018
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Participation in the meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques'From 30 September 2018 to 4 October 2018, Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings of the working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' held in Gjøvik, Norway. The meetings were organized by Standards Norway with …
31 Oct 2018
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KEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture"Anubha Sinha participated in a seminar organized by KEI on October 3 and 4, 2018 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Anubha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the …
31 Oct 2018
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5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies HighlightedMore than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.
30 Oct 2018
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Smart City Standardization - ICT PerspectiveAn event on Smart City standardization – ICT Perspective was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards in Bangalore on October 30, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
30 Oct 2018
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Community Toolkit for Greater DiversityP.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and …
29 Oct 2018
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Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official StatementGoing by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
29 Oct 2018
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Odia Virtual Academy launchedChief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
28 Oct 2018
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Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: SurveyOnly 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.