Project Name: Rampant Corruption Initiated by: MKSS (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan) The first “right to information” movement started in India as a social resistance movement in order to bring transparency in village accounts for minimum wages in rural India. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) in rural villages of Rajasthan in the early 1990s started as…
“Equal access to participation and decision making by women in the social, political and economic life of the nation,” states the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women presented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2001. But the truth is that women in India are still struggling in a male-dominated culture despite…
“Even we don’t have the ability to read that email,” ProtonMail creator Andy Yen told BostInno. “If we can’t read it, we obviously can’t turn it over to any government agencies.” Following a year of NSA bulk Internet surveillance program leaks, a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard students have come together to…
India UPR Brief: India Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was presented by Attorney General of India, Goolam Vahanvati and his Ministerial delegates. In its UPR presentation, India stressed on three policies – Right to Information, Right to Education & Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA). However, ‘internet-related human rights issue’ was not mentioned during the…
Sexual rights! What are you talking about? Does this kind of right exist in India? I never thought about it before I attended Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and Technology. The meeting was organized by Association of Progressive Communications (APC) from 11th to 17th April 2014 in Port Dickson, Malaysia. The main objective of this 7-day workshop…
The period 2014-19 is set to witness a transition in political governance in India’s democratic landscape. A new transformation in wider governance areas and intervention, with new ideas, vision and milestones, is discernable. The country’s digital landscape for its billion plus population is set to build upon existing strengths and learning over the past decade…
The India media is the subject of the news yet again. This time though, the private news channels — the usual suspects – are only reporting the news. Instead, the latest war of words among politicians has thrown the public service broadcaster, Doordarshan, into the limelight. Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
A friend recently blogged about the Indian elections and wrote in his post about a tweet from the Aam Admi Party’s Somnath Bharti, in frustration as he wasn’t able to upload a video of his party workers being beaten up in Amethi, that he would have done so if the broadband would have been better.…
The conversation about internet governance has started making headlines in India over the past few months. Much of this can be traced back to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, that broke the controversial news that US government had used top internet service providers and even content providers to carry out surveillance across the world. The same country, which had…
Selected Cases Of Women As Change Agents (by Osama Manzar): A majority of Indian population lives in villages. A large number of women live in and operate from rural India, where disparity amongst men and women is intrinsic. Due to deep–seated patriarchy in the society, women have always been under- presented in the country and…