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We’re happy to share that CCG’s Report on Intermediary Liability in India was mentioned before the Karnataka High Court. It captures 20+ years of regulatory & judicial practice on IL and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject area. Read it here - bit.ly/3FsfB62
Replying to @Aditi_muses
The ASGI just recommended @CCGNLUD’s report on intermediary liability to the Justice Dixit and J. Dixit had already started reading it (he’s about 30 pages in) 🙂
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In our second piece, countering the view of smart cities being a hallmark of our utopian digital future, @Ilia__A unpacks the entangled forms of extractavism that are playing out within the smart city nexus by drawing on a case study of New Town Kolkata. tinyurl.com/2bpyw9fh
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Recently, despite some acknowledgment of #tech exceptionalism having run its course, wild digital gambles continue apace in the South. In our latest #DataSyn issue, we focus on such projects & their local implications. Read our complete newsletter: tinyurl.com/msbv889s 🧵
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and at the workplace! 🗄
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'AI On The Ground: A Snapshot of AI Use in India' examines the opportunities, challenges & risks posed by use of AI across key sectors & identifies policy priorities to align AI w/ public interest. ✅ ⚠️ Read the report👇🏽 responsibletech.in/post/ai-o… Stay tuned for our new project!
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Digital Futures Lab -- Digital Futures Lab/Issue #9: AI in India, Recommender Algos, and What To Do About Generative AI digitalfutureslab.substack.c…
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We will be hosting the South Asia rounds of the Price Media Moot in collaboration with @NLUDofficial & the @BonaveroIHR at @UniofOxford this weekend. We look forward to welcoming all teams for the South Asia rounds and wish them the best of luck for the competition!
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We are elated to announce the launch of our latest compendium, ‘Feminist Perspectives On Social Media Governance’! The essays are derived from the contributions we received during a roundtable we co-organized with @internetlabbr in April 2022. Read here: tinyurl.com/3ek6buaa
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The lack of conceptual and legal clarity on what qualifies as technology-facilitated gender-based violence leads to a failure to capture the range of violence and harms that women and other minority genders are subjected to in the digital realm. Read: bit.ly/3GZr6mR
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently released the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDB) for feedback. ➡️ See our full response here: bit.ly/3XfrMtq 🧵 #Thread on the key points from our response below (1/5)
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The promise of digital and financial inclusion in India needs a cultural shift, apart from technological & infrastructural aspects. Read @HAdarkar's chapter in #PreludeToADigitalFuture, edited by @OsamaManzar of @DEFindia: bit.ly/3QsMuUo
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Anita Gurumurthy: The key question for developing countries is how to democratise data. One way is to create a baseline for data availability – through a people-centred view of data. We need rule of law, elimination of harm when generating and using data. #G20India
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Read GRAIN (@GRAIN_org)'s assessment on the role of digitalization on agriculture with a focus on Asia, especially tracing the increasing presence of #BigTech companies across the supply chain and the big push on online commerce. 🔗projects.itforchange.net/sta…
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Also read Felix Maschewski (@FMaschewski) & Anna-Verena Nosthoff (@AnnaNosthoff)'s essay that focuses on the platform economy and the underlying power structures emerging in agri-tech, with examples from Alphabet and Amazon. 🔗projects.itforchange.net/sta…
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With a focus on #agriculture,the essays in our #StateofBigTech report locate themselves in geographical experiences of South & South East Asia as well as Latin America & discuss extractivist digital systems that have taken over agricultural practices through the use of Big Data.
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Read our submission to the Draft Telecommunications Bill 2022, drafted by @gaon_ka_ladka, Divyank Katira, @bebaak_suri, @ShwetaMohandas and @VipKharbanda. #TelecomBill cis-india.org/telecom/blog/c…
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Snippet from the #ECtHR on S.A.S v France (Autonomy) part of the #PrivacyLawLib that has 200+ cases from 15+ jurisdictions. Access the case summary: bit.ly/342toOd  Access the Privacy Law Library: privacylibrary.ccgnlud.org/
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Huge congratulations in order for our Founder & Executive Director @urvashi_aneja, who was invited to this year’s Global Tech Thinkers w/ President @EmmanuelMacron to talk about her vision for new digital rights for a fast-changing digital age. 🙌🏽 @DataGovNetwork @CHAsiaPacific
On the menu for this Tech Thinkers dinner with the President: Sir @timberners_lee, the futur of the web, splinternet, protecting democracy, digital commons, Internet governance and our common future
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