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How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)
Without getting into questions of what should and should not be unlawful speech, Pranesh Prakash chooses to take a look at how Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services, and how it makes it much easier than getting offline printed speech removed.
- Accessibility
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Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessible
The first ever exclusive international mobile accessibility event was held in Washington DC on 5 and 6 December 2011. The event co-organized by ITU and FCC and facilitated by G3ict, featured speakers from around the world and across sectors. The Joint Administrator of the Universal Service Obligation Fund of India also shared details of how the USOF in India is promoting access to ICT for the disabled in India using USOF funds.
- Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011
- The Business Case for Web Accessibility
- Openness
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Design!PubliC — Innovation and the Public Interest
On the 14th of October, 2011, the Center for Knowledge Societies organized the second edition of the Design Public Conclave, a conversation on how innovation can serve the Public Interest. The conclave was held at the lovely premises of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore.
- Report on the 'Open Access to Academic Knowledge' workshop
- Know your Users, Match their Needs!
- Internet Governance
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PRIVACY Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"
On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present conference analyzed the Draft Privacy Bill and the participants discussed the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
- Section 79 of the Information Technology Act
- How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)
- Access to Knowledge
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CIS Intervention on Future Work of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement
The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash intervened during the discussion of future work of the ACE with this comment.
- CIS Hosts Scanned Version of George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes
- Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting
- Telecom
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Reversing India's Downward Trajectory
The country can regain growth momentum with rate cuts and telecom reforms, writes Shyam Ponappa in this column published in the Business Standard on 5 January 2012.
- Inputs for NTP 2011
- Healing self-inflicted wounds
- Digital Natives
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The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
- The Digital Other
- Digital AlterNatives Video Contest: The Everyday Digital Native — To Be, To Think, To Act, To Connect