The WSIS+10 Review
In the early 2000s, two World Summits on the Information Society were held: the first one in 2003, in Geneva; the second, in 2005, in Tunis. The stated goal of WSIS was ‘to achieve a common vision,...
View ArticleHate speech
Online speech that is offensive, abusive or hateful has attracted great attention in India and elsewhere, and often leads to calls for its criminalisation. But while the right to freedom of expression...
View ArticleIntermediary liability
The question of intermediary liability has been one of the most challenging for Internet governance. At the heart of the Internet are companies that do not create any content, but provide crucial...
View ArticleThe global Internet governance architecture
At the Internet Democracy Project, we believe that greater international coordination among governments at times is essential to safeguard the human rights of all Internet users, including in India....
View ArticleCyber security, surveillance and human rights
With the advent of new technology, new security threats have emerged for people, businesses and states. Oftentimes, responses to such threats, including states’ exercise of their unprecedented power to...
View ArticleThe ITU and global Internet governance
Landmark events to look out for: World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), Dubai, 3-14 December 2012, where the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) are being reviewed...
View ArticleFreedom of expression
As the Internet has provided states (and corporates) with evergrowing surveillance capacities, it is crucial that this power is balanced by strong protections of the right to freedom of expression of...
View ArticleGender, free speech, censorship
Be it online or offline, censorship measures are frequently justified by concerns to safeguard morality or protect women. While the Internet provides women with important new opportunities to express...
View ArticleNet neutrality and other telecom policy
The physical life of the internet is obscured from view. Undersea cables, airwaves, wireline networks- all these elements that rarely come to the foreground of our thoughts interact in complex ways to...
View ArticleGender and surveillance
While the surveillance powers of the Indian government and its agencies are continuously expanding and companies, too, grab more and more of our data, most people still seem to think that this is not...
View ArticleData
The definitive buzzword of the internet age, ‘data’ comes with much baggage. Laws and regulation reckoning with data are being crafted to deal predominantly with frameworks of data protection. However,...
View ArticlePrivacy and surveillance
Privacy and data protection have been the most popular responses - in law and regulation as well as in popular understanding - to issues of surveillance and dataveillance. In this section, we...
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