The British Council and English in Action have jointly organised a two day seminar on “Education, Technology and Women: Key Issues for Development”. The policy seminar held on 16-17 September 2014, offered a timely platform to discuss and influence policy agendas surrounding education and technology and their access by women in Bangladesh and around the world. The…
At the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (‘PP-14’ or ‘Plenipot’) of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), India has tabled a draft proposal on “ITU’s Role in Realising Secure Information Society”. The Draft Resolution identifies 3 security concerns with exchange of information and resource allocation on the Internet: First, it is troubling for India that present network architecture has “security weaknesses”…
All hell broke loose for Chaganti Rahul Reddy of Arundalpet in Andhra Pradesh after he casually posted a message on Facebook allegedly praising Cyclone Hudhud for devastating Visakhapatnam. The police turned up at his place on Friday and arrested him for the ‘offensive’ post. Reddy had unwittingly become a victim of the notoriously vague and…
Facebook has created the ability for users to connect directly to the social network via anonymising “dark web” service Tor. While it was already possible to access Facebook via Tor, the new set-up means all data is encrypted and Tor users are not mistaken for hacked accounts. Users could access the site “without losing the…
The cyber crime cell of Thane police is looking for a person or persons unknown who circulated a woman’s profile picture on WhatsApp with a caption falsely calling her a conwoman. The defamatory message has spread to Hyderabad, Nagpur and other cities through WhatsApp and Facebook. The incident has caused infamy, trauma, and sleepless nights…
Call it an attempt to bridge the digital divide with a Digital India flavour or a race to engage as many eyeballs as possible in a bid to sell more online advertising space on the web and to millions of those Indians with mobiles. Regardless of how you perceive it, the world’s largest social networking…