People living in Mira Bhayandar especially students, widows and senior citizens will not have to travel all their way to Thane for procuring important government documents. In a much needed respite for them, the district authorities resumed its SETU sub-office in Bhayandar. Considered to be an ‘electronic bridge’ between the common man and government agencies…
The power of a voice can be revolutionary. The ability to share ideas and band together for a common cause and the greater good is a very unique facet of humanity, and over the years this practice has grown. As the gap between us grows smaller, the voices grow louder. We’re connected now more than…
May 5 (PTI) To curb misuse of government grants and effectively supervise infrastructure projects, Maharashtra government will install a live monitoring system that will be controlled through the state Secretariat. An official from the State planning department said the round-the-clock monitoring of all working projects will be done through a satellite and will start functioning…
IMPACT RESEARCH STUDY: OWNERSHIP, USABILITY, ACCESSBILITY & ACCESS TO RIGHTS USING ICT TOOLS & APPLICATIONS Report on Survey Research for IMPACT DEF research team, Rahul Choudhary, Maubani Dutta, and Bijo Abraham, visited Jhansi and Kaushambi in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India to conduct survey research. The team visit the Kaushambi district out of Allahabad, Uttar…
As India launches an $18 billion plan to spread the information revolution to its provinces, the problems it faces are a holdover from the past – electricity shortages, badly planned, jam-packed cities, and monkeys. The clash between the old world and the new is sharply in focus in the crowded 3,000-year-old holy city of Varanasi,…
Court Judgment on 66 A: A victory for freedom of expression “Freedom of expression can be defined in three aspects: Discussion, Advocacy and Incitement.” This historic statement was made today by Justice Nariman, declaring the complete victory of freedom of speech in India. Today – 24 March 2015 – we got a landmark decision from…
Facebook Inc recorded a slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014, according to its Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal. Requests for account data increased to 35,051 in the second half of 2014 from 34,946 in the first half, with requests from countries such…
New rules that aim to protect the openness of the Internet will allow telecom and cable groups to prioritize and earn potentially vast income from some types of data, setting up likely clashes with regulators in the future. Telecom companies such as AT&T and Vodafone have convinced US and European regulators, finalizing so-called “net neutrality”…
Internet activists declared victory over the nation’s big cable companies on Thursday, after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to impose the toughest rules yet on broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to prevent them from creating paid fast lanes and slowing or blocking web traffic.
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Consultation Report Consultation brief DEF held a consultative meeting on Internet Rights project with APC-IMPACT Advisory Committee members, think-tank and academic institutions, independent consultants, staff at European Union and civil society groups. The objective of the consultative meeting was present the secondary research conducted around the Frank La Rue Framework concerning Freedom of Expression online…