Topic
Digital ID
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3 Dec 2021
News
Panel discussion on 'How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan' at Freedom Online ConferenceAmber Sinha participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan at the Freedom Online Conference yesterday.
3 Aug 2021
Blog post
Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine CertificatesWe examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
14 Jul 2020
Blog post
Social Entitlements for the Transgender CommunityThis report has been authored by Deepa Krishnappa and Tasneem Mewa, and edited by Ambika Tandon, Gurshabad Grover and Rajesh Srinivas.
2 Mar 2020
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13 Sep 2019
Blog post
Core Concepts and ProcessesWhen we embarked on this research project, we began with the primary questions of what constitutes a digital identity system. In the last few years, with the rise in national digital identity projects, there has been significant academic …
8 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019
Blog post
Design and Uses of Digital Identities - Research PlanIn our research project about uses and design of digital identity systems, we ask two core questions: a) What are appropriate uses of ID?, and b) How should we think about the technological design of ID? Towards the first research question, …
8 Aug 2019
3 Jul 2019
News
Digital ID Forum 2019Sunil Abraham was one of the panelists at this event at Chulalongkorn University on July 3, 2019.
29 May 2019
Blog post
Picking ‘Wholes’ - Thinking in Systems WorkshopA System's Thinking masterclass was conducted by Dinesh Korjan on 27th and 28th May in the CIS Delhi office.
13 May 2019
Blog post
Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital IdentityOmidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information …
29 Mar 2019
Blog post
Programme Officer - Digital IdentityThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to be associated with a two year long research project on digital identity. We may hire up to three Programme Officers as part of this …
1 May 2017
Blog post
(Updated) Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar Numbers with sensitive personal financial informationSince its inception in 2009, the Aadhaar project has been shrouded in controversy due to various questions raised about privacy, technological issues, welfare exclusion, and security concerns. In this study, we document numerous instances …
23 Jan 2017
Blog post
Seminar on Understanding Financial Technology, Cashless India, and Forced Digitalisation (Delhi, January 24)The Centre for Financial Accountability is organising a seminar on "Understanding Financial Technology, Cashless India, and Forced Digitalisation" on Tuesday, January 24, at YWCA, Ashoka Road, New Delhi. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will …
12 Jan 2017
Blog post
Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on …
14 Dec 2016
Blog post
Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and CountermeasuresThis report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of …