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8 Apr 2025
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Navigating the Digitalisation of Finance: User experiences of risks and harmsOur study unpacks the experiences of marginalised users navigating the digitalisation of finance. Through a survey of 3,784 users, 18 interviews and 7 focus group discussions, our study’s findings highlight user experiences of risks and …
29 Nov 2024
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AI for Healthcare: Understanding Data Supply Chain and Auditability in IndiaThis report aims to understand the prevalence and use of AI auditing practices in the healthcare sector. By mapping the data supply chain underlying AI technologies, the study aims to unpack i) how AI systems are developed and deployed to …
15 Oct 2024
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Platforming precarity: Data narratives of workers sustaining urban platform servicesCIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 800 workers employed in the app-based taxi and delivery sectors across 4 cities in India as part of the ‘Labour Futures’ project supported by the Internet Society Foundation. The surveys covered …
6 Aug 2024
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Future of the Commons: A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Indian Languages, and Archives Conference ReportWe are pleased to share our report on the ‘Future of the Commons: A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Indian Languages, and Archives’ conference, held in July 2024 at the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) in Pune.
18 Apr 2024
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban IndiaAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social …
11 Apr 2024
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Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video PlatformsAn inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting …
30 Jan 2024
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Your economy, our livelihoods: A policy brief by the All India Gig Workers’ UnionIn this policy brief, the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) presents its critique on NITI Aayog’s report on India’s platform economy. Through experiences from over 3 years of organising gig workers across India, they highlight fallacies …
15 Dec 2023
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User Experiences of Digital Financial Risks and HarmsThe reach and use of digital financial services has risen in recent years without a commensurate increase in digital literacy and access. Through this project, supported by a grant from Google(.)org, we will examine the landscape of …
22 Oct 2023
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Strategies to Organise Platform WorkersIn 2022, the Centre for Internet and Society hosted a panel with Akkanut Wantanasombut, Ayoade Ibrahim, Rikta Krishnaswamy, and Sofía Scasserra at RightsCon, an annual summit on technology and human rights.
27 Jun 2022
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Making Voices HeardWe are happy to announce the launch of our final report on the study ‘Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India. The study was undertaken with support from the Mozilla Corporation.
24 May 2022
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22): #Home, May 25-27We are excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference will be held online on May 25-27, 2022.This annual conference series was initiated by the researchers@work (r@w) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather …
11 Feb 2022
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022Due to internal delays related to the pandemic, the Internet Researchers' Conference will now take place online in May 2022. Please see below for a link to the updated call for sessions.
27 Jun 2021
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Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in IndiaCIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. …
25 Jun 2021
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and SafetyBetween July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, …
3 Jun 2021
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Atmanirbhar Bharat Meets Digital India: An Evaluation of COVID-19 Relief for MigrantsWith the onset of the national lockdown on 24th March 2020 in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the fate of millions of migrant workers was left uncertain. In addition, lack of enumeration and registration of migrant workers became a …
26 Feb 2021
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Sameet Panda - Data Systems in Welfare: Impact of the JAM Trinity on Pension & PDS in Odisha during COVID-19This study by Sameet Panda tries to understand the integration of data and digital systems in welfare delivery in Odisha. It brings out the impact of welfare digitalisation on beneficiaries through primary data collected in November 2020. …
31 Dec 2020
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Media Market Risk Ratings: IndiaThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with …
17 Sep 2020
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade …
30 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig WorkTandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the …
7 Aug 2019
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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making …
13 May 2019
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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 …
30 Apr 2019
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FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security CommitmentsThe unprecedented growth of the fintech space in India has concomitantly come with regulatory challenges around inter alia privacy and security concerns. This report studies the privacy policies of 48 fintech companies operating in India to …
1 Apr 2019
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CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce PolicyCIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul …
31 Mar 2019
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Design and the Open Knowledge MovementWith the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September …
7 Mar 2019
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Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki WayTarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. …
2 Jan 2019
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Welcome to r@w blog!We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and …
5 Nov 2018
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Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar ReportWe are issuing a second clarificatory statement on our report titled “Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information” …
19 Sep 2018
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Wikisource Handbook for Indian CommunitiesWikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with …
16 Jul 2018
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ICANN Diversity AnalysisThe by-laws of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) state that it is a non-profit public-benefit corporation which is responsible at the overall level, for the coordination of the “global internet's systems of …
17 May 2018
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Internet Shutdown StoriesThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) has published a collection of stories of the impact of internet shutdowns on people's lives in the country. This book seeks to give a glimpse into the lives of those directly affected by these …