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 - https://t.co/MuCQhh6hKV
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. https://t.co/ROdyNu1pMN
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: https://t.co/n56ZmPSbJn 🧵
'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👇🏽 https://t.co/lGDNnO2kBU
Stay tuned for our new project!
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!
While #crypto discourse is still alive, take a look at what @amannair_ had to say about the likely impact of an FTX-like collapse in India for @medianama 💸 😬
https://t.co/Mg47Pk2322
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: https://t.co/XMI3iFXc5F
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: https://t.co/kxGEAiLuoc
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently released the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDB) for feedback.
➡️ See our full response here: https://t.co/HgxKEtN3yA
🧵 #Thread on the key points from our response below (1/5)
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:
https://t.co/d8rgJJVL3P
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
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.
🔗https://t.co/D1VWlLof1p
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.
🔗https://t.co/XXRq6XliAp
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.
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: https://t.co/bj6Oul2d3Q
Access the Privacy Law Library: https://t.co/P8B4zyTOHb
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
✍🏽 @urvashi_aneja and Rishab Bailey offer a nuanced review of the government’s recently proposed National Data Governance Framework Policy for @360info_global.
🕊 Context, citizen control over data and protections are crucial.
🔗 https://t.co/tOmMnVZF6r