Regulating social media or reforming section 66A? Our recommendations to the...
Introduction The Internet has undoubtedly posed new challenges for balancing the right to freedom of expression on the one hand and the right to equality or non-discrimination on the other. Regardless...
View ArticleIs a reconciliation of multistakeholderism and multilateralism in internet...
Over the past two years, as the debate about who should govern the internet picked up speed, internet governance has received increasing attention across the world. For the next year and a half, three...
View ArticleRe-Interpreting Document 98: India’s proposals at the ITU Plenipot 2014 and...
Introduction At the recently concluded ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan1], India proposed a controversial new resolution that sought to contribute to realising a more secure information society....
View ArticleDigital India abroad: India’s foreign policy and digital rights
Introduction Since the late 2000s, the subject of human rights in the context of the Internet has gained increasing prominence on the international agenda1. First introduced in the UN Human Rights...
View ArticleAll of the Internet for all of the people: Our response to TRAI consultation...
Question 1: Is it too early to establish a regulatory framework for Internet/OTT services, since internet penetration is still evolving, access speeds are generally low and there is limited coverage of...
View ArticleWhich direction for the WSIS+10 Review? Our preliminary submissions
1. To what extent has progress been made on the vision of the people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society in the ten years since the WSIS? In the ten years since the WSIS,...
View ArticleAddressing India’s Global Cybersecurity Concerns: Norm Development,...
Introduction Over the past few years, India has repeatedly argued that the UN should play a greater role in the formulation of international Internet-related public policies. Since the country has...
View ArticleBut is it still the Internet if it is isolating? Our response to the...
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in its report on net neutrality has noted that the Internet is an important public resource and that open and non-discriminatory access to the Internet is...
View ArticleThe road to WSIS+10: Key perspectives from India
INTRODUCTION With growing global political weight and one of the biggest digital markets in the world, India, a leading developing country in the G77, is poised to play a critical role in the WSIS+10...
View ArticleCybersecurity and Bilateral Ties of India and the United States: A Very Brief...
In September 2015, in a much-publicised visit, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker met India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of...
View ArticlePattaya Key Messages on the WSIS+10 Review: Voices from the Asia-Pacific region
From 3 to 5 September, a group of 38 people from 15 different countries participated in the Asian Regional Consultation on the WSIS+10 Review, co-oganised by the Internet Democracy Project. While the...
View ArticleOpportunism or glasnost? India’s embrace of multistakeholderism in Internet...
In June 2015, India made waves in the Internet governance world by finally formally announcing that it would support multistakeholderism. What received less attention is that the government at the same...
View ArticleImportance of a rights-based approach to development needs to be recognised:...
Until Friday 18 September, comments were invited on the UN Non-Paper for the WSIS+10 Review from UN member-states, observer states and all relevant stakeholders. The Internet Democracy Project...
View ArticleOpen letter to Facebook about its ‘real name’ policy
The Internet Democracy Project joined 74 other human rights, digital rights, LGBTQ, and women’s rights advocates to come together as a broad global coalition and send an open letter to Facebook...
View ArticleCharting a concrete path for the future of the Information Society: Our...
Comments were invited on the Zero-Draft for the WSIS+10 Review from UN member-states, observer states and all relevant stakeholders until 15th October 2015. The Internet Democracy Project submitted...
View ArticleComparing the WSIS10 Draft Outcome Document with the Joint Civil Society...
The draft outcome document for the WSIS+10 Review was recently made available, which will form the basis for textual negotiations during the informal consultations that are scheduled to take place in...
View ArticleJoint statement on WSIS+10: Calling for an open preparatory process
At the conclusion of the 10th Internet Governance Forum on 13 November 2015, a group of over 25 organizations came together to issue a joint statement on the WSIS+10 Review process. You can join the...
View ArticleWe stand with Moroccan free expression advocates
The Internet Democracy Project has joined the Global Voices community in a statement of support for seven Moroccan journalists and human rights defenders who will face trial on November 19, on charges...
View ArticlePutting people at the centre of the Information Society: Our comments on the...
Comments were invited on the recently released Draft Outcome Document for the WSIS+10 Review process from UN member states, observer states and all relevant stakeholders till the 17th of November 2015....
View ArticleFacebook responds to Nameless Coalition petition, but leaves a lot to be desired
On 5th October, a coalition of organizations and individuals, including the Internet Democracy Project, petitioned Facebook to bring attention to the harm that is being caused by its Authentic Identity...
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