Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
21 Mar 2012
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Why your Facebook Stalker is Not the Real ProblemWe live in networked conditions. This is a statement that can now be taken at face-value, and immediately explains our highly connected, inter-meshed environments finds Nishant Shah in this article published in FirstPost on March 20, 2012.
20 Mar 2012
News
Click, Play, WatchFilmmakers are casting the net for viewers and opting for online releases to reach out to a wider audience, finds Rinky Kumar in this article published in MidDay on March 18, 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
13 Mar 2012
News
Save Your Voice — A movement against Web censorship‘Save Your Voice (SYV)’ is a movement against Web censorship and its main demand is the repealing of the Information Technology Act, said SYV founders, Aseem Trividi, a cartoonist, and Alok Dixit, a journalist, on Monday.
7 Mar 2012
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India’s Big Bet on IdentityThe world’s largest biometric authentication system reaches its first major milestone, but lots of challenges remain, writes Joshua J. Romero in ieeespectrum. Sunil Abraham was quoted in this story which was featured in March 2012 edition.
2 Mar 2012
Event
Cartonama WorkshopHasGeek presents an intensive, hands-on training for managing and building location based services at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Bangalore on 2nd and 3rd March, 2012. CIS is a partner for this event.
1 Mar 2012
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International Conference on Mobile LawPranesh Prakash spoke in the panel on Mobiles - Privacy and Social Media on March 1, 2012.
1 Mar 2012
Event
GeekUp with Erica HagenHasGeek is organizing a GeekUp with Erica Hagen of the GroundTruth Initiative on 1 March 2012 at 5 p.m. Erica will speak on the theme: "From Information to Empowerment: Unpacking the Equation".
29 Feb 2012
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Unique ID System: Pros and ConsOn September 16, 2011, the Citizen’s Voluntary Initiative for the City and Centre for Advocacy and Research organized a public consultation titled “Unique ID System: Pros and Cons” in Bangalore. The consultation was on the utility and …
29 Feb 2012
News
Secure IT 2012 — Securing Citizens through TechnologyThe event is co-organised by DST and NSDI, Govt. of India in partnership with Elets Technomedia Pvt. Ltd. on March 1, 2012 at Claridges in New Delhi.
29 Feb 2012
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Privacy in India — An Early DraftPrivacy India in partnership with Privacy International, UK, Society in Action Group, Gurgaon, and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is pleased to bring you the draft chapters of its book on privacy in India. These include the …
28 Feb 2012
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India debates limits to freedom of expressionFrom Google to Facebook, from world-famous author Salman Rushdie to a little-known political cartoonist, it has become increasingly easy in recent months to offend the Indian government, and to incur the wrath of the censor or even the …
28 Feb 2012
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Grooming the geekGeneration 2.0, the iPad child, is enriched by technology, and many parents are embracing it wholeheartedly. But can technology transform the way a child’s abilities develop?
28 Feb 2012
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Digitisation is making e-learning simpleThough the computer literacy in India is low, some companies are effectively spreading education using digital contents riding on the Internet.
28 Feb 2012
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Developing location-based servicesFor mapping enthusiasts, geeks and neogeographers in Bangalore, here's something to look forward to. Cartonama, a workshop that offers intensive hands-on training on tools to build and manage location data for location-based services, will …
23 Feb 2012
News
FUEL Kannada - Workshop on Kannada Computing TerminologyA two days workshop on the standardization of Kannada computing terminologies was organized on January 28th and 29th 2012 at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore under the FUEL project. This FUEL Kannada workshop aimed at …
22 Feb 2012
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The High Level Privacy ConclaveIndia in dire need of privacy law; experts say government is ironically creating huge national security risks in attempts to prevent crime and terrorism.
22 Feb 2012
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All India Privacy SymposiumAre we citizens or subjects? Experts gather in Delhi for public symposium on privacy, transparency, e-governance and national security in India.
17 Feb 2012
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OurSay: how India’s technology is cutting into corruptionIn the world’s largest democracy, corruption has long been part of the system of governance. However, transformative new technologies are playing an exciting and powerful role in citizen engagement, good governance and in the mobilisation …
15 Feb 2012
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India won't censor social media: Telecom MinisterIndia does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook, a minister said Tuesday, but he demanded that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media. The article by AFP was published in the Tribune on February …
14 Feb 2012
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Prometheus bound and gaggedFunny how a healthy person like me can collapse one day and end up in the hospital. The doctor who made me go through every lab test available, finally diagnosed the cause after a chat with me. Apparently, I collapsed because I’m getting …
14 Feb 2012
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Personal Data, Public ProfileWhether we like it or not, we live in a world that is rapidly being Googlised, writes Nishant Shah in an article published by the Financial Express on February 13, 2012.
13 Feb 2012
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World Narrow WebCensorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 February 2012.
13 Feb 2012
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Tweeple say it pithily with hash tagsTwitter best captures public irreverence to pomposity and the powers-that-be, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on February 11, 2012. Nishant Shah is quoted in this article.
13 Feb 2012
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Internet CurbsA Delhi high court judge threatens to go the China way. The IT act is closing in. The war on the web is a war on us, writes Rishi Majumder in an article that was published in Tehelka on 18 February 2012.
7 Feb 2012
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New Bill to decide on individual’s right to privacyA group of experts would identify issues relating to privacy and prepare a report to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. Vishwajoy Mukherjee's article was published in Tehelka on 6 February 2012.
6 Feb 2012
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Digital Futures: Internet Freedom and MillennialsLast year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed …
6 Feb 2012
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Common man as crusaderTamil Nadu saw its highest poll turn out in 44 years when 75% of its adults exercised their franchise in the 2011 assembly elections. There were 48 lakh Google searches for ‘Anna Hazare’ on June 8 2011 (when he began his fast) compared to a …
4 Feb 2012
Event
All India Privacy SymposiumPrivacy India in partnership with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Society in Action Group, Gurgaon, Privacy International, UK and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative is organizing the All India Privacy Symposium at …
3 Feb 2012
Event
The High Level Privacy ConclavePrivacy India in partnership with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Society in Action Group, Gurgaon and Privacy International, UK is organizing the High Level Privacy Conclave at the Paharpur Business Centre, Nehru …
3 Feb 2012
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India needs an independent privacy law, says NGO Privacy IndiaIndia needs an independent privacy law though there are a number of provisions in existing legislations that protect a citizen's privacy, according to an NGO that is lobbying for the cause. The story was published in the Economic Times on 2 …