The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India
Ambika 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 Precarities, an anthology edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen and published with Data & Society.
Accessibility
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Groundbreaking disability rights activist Javed Abidi dies at 53
March 06, 2018
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) expresses profound regret at the demise of Mr. Javed Abidi, a groundbreaking disability rights activist.
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Comments on Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
November 26, 2017
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Comments on Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
January 03, 2018
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Why GST Is A Step Backward For The Disabled
July 03, 2017
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GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
June 24, 2017
Openness
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions
February 10, 2024
This report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians and advocates of the Open. The rough outline of the Open initiatives is accompanied by reflections on the nature of the Open here and the need to envision it differently from what it currently is.
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Security of Open Source Software : A Survey of Technical Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Actions
April 13, 2023
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Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in Software
April 13, 2023
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
October 11, 2022
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
October 11, 2022
Telecom
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How the Telecom Act undermines personal liberties
February 20, 2024
In this article, Prof. Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri analyse whether the law has enough safeguards and an independent regulatory architecture to protect the rights of citizens. The authors posit that the current version leaves the door open for an overenthusiastic enforcement machinery to suppress fundamental rights without any meaningful checks and balances.
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Comments to the Telecommunications Bill, 2023
December 22, 2023
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Why spectrum needs a change in approach
January 18, 2023
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CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022
November 22, 2022
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An Overview of Telecommunications Policy and Regulation Framework in India
March 25, 2022
Access to Knowledge (A2K)
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions
February 10, 2024
This report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians and advocates of the Open. The rough outline of the Open initiatives is accompanied by reflections on the nature of the Open here and the need to envision it differently from what it currently is.
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Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in India
February 10, 2024
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Commemorating Ulo Senthamizh Kodai (1945 - 2024): A Luminary of Tamil Open Knowledge Movement
February 08, 2024
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Information Disorders and their Regulation
January 31, 2024
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WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 3
April 28, 2023
Internet Governance
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Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
April 06, 2024
On 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
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India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection
April 04, 2024
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Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU
February 17, 2024
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Information Disorders and their Regulation
January 31, 2024
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DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship
January 25, 2024
researchers@work
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That Is Not A Livelihood – That Is Helplessness”: Field notes from the Fraazo Delivery Workers Strike in Noida, Greater Noida, and Ghaziabad
April 24, 2024
In this essay, Rikta Krishnaswamy of the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) narrates her experiences of organising and supporting delivery workers’ collective action against Fraazo (a now-defunct platform for produce and grocery delivery). Her essay sheds light on the challenges workers face in organising for better conditions of work. She describes how platforms hide behind legal smokescreens and threats of police action to shirk their responsibility as employers. To make matters worse, obscure employment terms and work management systems make it harder for workers to seek redress from the government through labour dispute resolution processes. The essay is illustrative of how digital platforms have exploited and violated freedoms of the gig workers they employ, while facing no accountability. For this to change, gig workers have to be guaranteed employment rights along with collective rights to their data.
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India
April 19, 2024
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Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms
April 11, 2024
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Digital Markets and India: Demystifying the Draft DCB
April 09, 2024
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Understanding Feminist Infrastructures: An Exploratory Study of Online Feminist Content Creation Spaces in India
March 25, 2024