[P2P-F] Fwd: Government policy on AI, communication, and more
Michel Bauwens
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Wed Jul 4 10:55:22 CEST 2018
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From: Sunil Abraham <sunil at cis-india.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Government policy on AI, communication, and more
To: Michel <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Centre for Internet And Society Newsletter- May 2018
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Dear Michel,
“Given India’s socio-economic conditions, it would be fatal to implement
policies that seek to create a self-serving market of educational licenses
for the state, very much at the expense of ensuring quality and affordable
education.”
Anubha Sinha in the Asia Times
Over the past month, CIS submitted comments on a number of government
policy drafts, including the policy on digital communications, commercial
communications, and artificial intelligence. We also critiqued the
copyright policy of the Maharashtra government as a step backward in
providing accessible education. We welcome your comments and feedback.
Best wishes,
Sunil Abraham
Executive Director
Highlights
- Balbharati – the Maharashtra state bureau of textbook production and
curriculum research – has issued a copyright policy that forces all
publishers, digital educational-content creators, and coaching classes to
obtain expensive licenses for developing material directly or indirectly
relating to Balbharati’s content. This is an alarming development for
Indian students reported Anubha Sinha in an article in the Asian Times
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on June 20, 2018.
- CIS-A2K has started dialogue with the publishers for the last 6 months
regarding FOSS, Open knowledge and content donation to Wikimedia Projects
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=bff875ed50&e=f7d2287eaa>.
As a result Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Prakashak Sangh, an apex body of
publishers at all India level invited us for a orientation session at their
annual gathering in Pune.
- Submitted comments on the Draft Digital Communications Policy
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which
was released to the public by the Department of Telecommunications of the
Ministry of Communications on 1st May2018 for comments and views.
- Submitted comments on the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer
Preference Regulations
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which
was released to the public by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) on 29th May 2018 for comments and views.
- The Task Force on Artificial Intelligence was established by the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry to leverage AI for economic benefits, and
provide policy recommendations on the deployment of AI for India. Elonnai
Hickok, Shweta Mohandas and Swaraj Paul Barooah wrote a blog entry on
the artificial intelligence task force
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=8bf0b9d68b&e=f7d2287eaa>.
The blog entry was edited by Swagam Dasgupta.
- The world’s oldest networked infrastructure, money, is increasingly
dematerialising and fusing with the world’s latest networked
infrastructure, the Internet, wrote Sunil Abraham in an article published
in the Economic Times
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on June 10,2018.
- An essay by P.P. Sneha was published in Summer Hill, a journal
published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=5ed8c4dfac&e=f7d2287eaa>.
In the essay, edited by Dr. Bindu Menon, Sneha draws upon excerpts from a
study on the field of digital humanities and related practices in India, to
outline the diverse contexts of humanities practice with the advent of the
digital and explore the developing discourse around digital humanities in
the Indian context.
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Articles
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- Why NPCI and Facebook need urgent regulatory attention
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(Sunil
Abraham; Economic Times; June10, 2018).
- Digital Native: Cause an Effect
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(Nishant
Shah; Indian Express; June 17, 2018).
- Maharashtra's Copyright Policy Makes Education Unaffordable
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(Anubha
Sinha; Asia Times; June 20,2018).
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CIS in the News
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CIS gave inputs to the following media coverage:
- Allow admins to add users to online group chats only after permission:
SFLC.in
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(Times
of India;June 1, 2018).
- EC disables easy access to electoral data across states
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(Akshatha
M; Economic Times; June 5,2018).
- Draft bill proposes Rs 1 crore fine, 3 year jail for data privacy
violation
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(Vidhi
Choudhury; Hindustan Times; June 8, 2018).
- Citizens’ Draft Privacy Bill Seeks To Revolutionise Data Collection,
Storage In India
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(Arpan
Chaturvedi; Bloomberg Quint; June 9, 2018).
- Police to counter fake news on WhatsApp
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(Nilesh
Christopher and Naveen Menezes; Times of India;June 14, 2018).
- 'Full belief in fake texts shows cops not trusted'
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of India; June 18, 2018).
- Anushka finds support for her anti-litter tirade
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=ed547abccd&e=f7d2287eaa>(Nina
C. George; Deccan Herald; June 19, 2018).
- Jindal varsity's international affairs students shine in job market
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(Economic
Times; June 19, 2018).
- Data Privacy: Footprints on the Web
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(Sujit
Bhar; IndiaLegal; June 21, 2018).
- Death By WhatsApp
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(News18.com, June 25,2018).
- Tech transformation: how agriculture is being
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=aacd353388&e=f7d2287eaa>
redefined through digital innovation and startups
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=cf67e62fb4&e=f7d2287eaa>(Your
Story; June 29, 2018).
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Access to Knowledge
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Access to Knowledge (A2K) is a campaign to promote the fundamental
principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with
issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part
of the digital landscape. Our A2K program comprises 2 projects: Pervasive
Technologies done under a grant from International Development Research
Centre examining interplay between cost-effective pervasive technologies
and intellectual property and encouraging development of such technologies
for social good, and Wikipedia under a grant from Wikimedia Foundation to
enable the growth of Indic language communities and cultivate new editors
in different Indian languages.
*Event Organized*
- Marathi Publishers' orientation session on FOSS,Open knowledge &
Wikimedia Projects
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(Co-organized
by Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Prakashak Sangh and CIS-A2K; Maratha Chamber of
Commerce, Tilak Road, Pune; June 17, 2018).
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*Internet Governance
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The Tunis Agenda of the second World Summit on the Information Society has
defined internet governance as the development and application by
governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective
roles of shared principles, norms, rules, decision making procedures and
programs that shape the evolution and use of the internet. CIS is engaged
in two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy
International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression
(SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is
on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of
expression online.
*Blog Entries*
- NITI Aayog Discussion Paper: An aspirational step towards India’s AI
policy
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=dd42422a7b&e=f7d2287eaa>
(Sunil
Abraham, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha, Swaraj Barooah, Shweta Mohandas,
Pranav M Bidare, Swagam Dasgupta, Vishnu Ramachandran and Senthil
Kumar; June13, 2018).
- The AI Task Force Report - The first steps towards India’s AI framework
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(Authored
by Elonnai Hickok, Shweta Mohandas and Swaraj Paul Barooah and Edited by
Swagam Dasgupta;June 27, 2018).
*Submissions*
- Comments on the Draft National Policy on Official Statistics
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=2731563c90&e=f7d2287eaa>
(Gurshabad
Grover and Sandeep Kumar;June 7, 2018).
- Comments on the Draft Digital Communications Policy
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=e00b876364&e=f7d2287eaa>
(Anubha
Sinha, Gurshabad Grover and Swaraj Barooah; June 14, 2018).
*Participation in Event*
- Is Privacy Obsolete?
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(Organized
by TERI; Bangalore; June 22, 2018). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist.
Free Speech & Expression
Blog Entry
- Network Disruptions Report by Global Network Initiative
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=d3ac535426&e=f7d2287eaa>
(Akriti
Bopanna; June 12, 2018).
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Telecom
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CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications
services and resources, and has provided inputs to ongoing policy
discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared
reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for
persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding
projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:
*Submission*
- Comments on the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference
Regulations
<https://cis-india.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=249c88a496a450751f1a1a133&id=b92ce57a69&e=f7d2287eaa>
(Sandeep
Kumar, Torsha Sarkar, Swaraj Barooah, and Gurshabad Grover; June 22,2018).
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Researchers at Work
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The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research
initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of
social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media
technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual
accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the
Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:
*Event Organized*
- Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018
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(Co-organized
by IIM and IIT, Indore with support from CIS; IIM, Indore; June 1 -
2, 2018). P.P. Sneha was a speaker and gave the keynote address.
*Essay*
- New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital
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(Paper)
(P.P. Sneha; June 25, 2018).
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a ten year old non-profit
organisation with offices in Bengaluru and New Delhi, that undertakes
interdisciplinary policy and academic research on internet and digital
technologies. Our team, comprising of 31 members, works across our research
areas, which include: Accessibility for persons with disabilities, access
to knowledge, openness (including open data, free and open source software,
open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open content),
internet governance (including free speech, privacy, artificial
intelligence, big data, cyber security, and future of
work), telecommunication, and Researchers at Work [RAW].
The CIS has been funded by International Development Research Centre,
Wikimedia Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Hans
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