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Openness

Response to the Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance

The National Informatics Centre (NIC),Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has recently published a...

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Access to Knowledge

Arguments Against the PUPFIP Bill

Summary How is the legislation unnecessary? The Indian government does not have vast reserves of underutilized patents, as the U.S....

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Internet Governance

Expert Committee Meetings

Expert Committee Meetings.zip — ZIP archive, 2319 kB (2375322 bytes)

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Internet Governance

The Personal Data (Protection) Bill, 2013

Personal Data (Protection) Bill.pdf — PDF document, 193 kB (198250 bytes)

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Openness

Social Mashup!

Who’s invited? Start-up social entrepreneurs, senior social entrepreneurs, funders/investors and anyone else interested in early stage social entrepreneurship. What will...

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Telecom

Handy Origins of the winds of change

The Internet, for all the celebrated changes it has made in our lives, still had limited penetration in our country...

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Accessibility

Lawyers get socially involved: The Right to Read

“Imagine life without books, without having anything to read. Wouldn’t it get suffocating?” asks Moiz Tundawala, a visually impaired student...

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Telecom

CIS Comments on TRAI Consultation Paper on Promoting Local Telecom Equipment Manufacturing

Read TRAIs Consultation Paper on Promoting Local Telecom Equipment Manufacturing Preliminary This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet...

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Telecom

CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022

Reviewed by Pallavi Bedi Preliminary The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research...

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RAW

Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a Translator

Download the paper here. Read the original paper published by Taylor & Francis here. I, the cyborg The cyborg, a...

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RAW

New Modes and Sites of Humanities Practice

Sections 01. Digital Humanities in India? 02. A Question of Digital Humanities 03. Reading from a Distance – Data as...

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RAW

RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016

1. Introduction 2. Mobile Banking in India 2.1. Customer Enrolment Issues identified by the RBI 2.2. Technical Issues identified by...

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