Towards setting goalposts: Our comments to pre-consultation paper on net...
1. What should be regarded as the core principles of net neutrality in the Indian context? What are the key issues that are required to be considered so that the principles of net neutrality are...
View ArticleHello! Our submission to TRAI Consultation on Internet Telephony
The Internet Democracy Project is concerned with TRAI’s Consultation paper no. 13/2016 on Internet Telephony specifically from the perspective of the protection of network neutrality. The consultation...
View ArticleCoalition Report of Universal Periodic Review for India; Third cycle;...
I. Introduction Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) works with underdeveloped and marginalised communities and people living in socio-economically backward conditions by empowering them through...
View ArticleIndia’s Universal Periodic Review: Third cycle; Stakeholder report by the...
Follow up from the Previous Review As Internet rights are a relatively new concern for the Human Rights Council, only Sweden made a relevant recommendation in the previous review, requesting India to...
View ArticleOur submission to TRAI consultation on network neutrality in favour of...
Question 1: What could be the principles for ensuring nondiscriminatory access to content on the Internet, in the Indian context? [See Chapter 4] In our submission to the pre-consultation paper, we...
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Policing online abuse or policing women? Our submission to the United Nations...
In 2013, the Internet Democracy Project conducted field research on verbal online abuse faced by women in India and the strategies deployed by women to combat this abuse. We published its findings in a...
View ArticleDialing for data protection: Our comments to TRAI Consultation Paper on...
1. Are the data protection requirements currently applicable to all the players in the ecosystem in India sufficient to protect the interests of telecom...
View ArticleSubmission in response to the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on Data...
At the outset, the Internet Democracy Project would like to thank the Committee for this opportunity to share our ideas. However, we would also like to express our dissatisfaction at the process...
View ArticleUnshackling expression: A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia
In this special edition of GISWatch, APC brings together analysis on the criminalisation of online expression from six Asian states: Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand. The India...
View ArticleIs the fourth way going far enough? Our submission to MEITy on draft Personal...
The Internet Democracy Project welcomes the consultation by the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology on the draft personal data protection bill (“draft Bill”). We hope that responses...
View ArticleSolving for data justice: A response to the draft Personal Data Protection Bill
Submission by Concerned People 10 October 2018 In late July 2018, the B N Srikrishna Committee, instituted by the Government of India for this very purpose, released a draft Personal Data Protection...
View ArticleSubmission in response to the draft e-commerce policy
The draft e-commerce policy starts off with the subtitle “India’s data for India’s development.” This line while summarising the approach of the policy, is also a good starting point to identify some...
View ArticleData sovereignty, of whom? Limits and suitability of sovereignty frameworks...
Introduction Constitutions like our own are means by which individuals – the Preambular ‘people of India’ – create ‘the state’, a new entity to serve their interests and be accountable to them, and...
View ArticleThou shalt build NODEs in the air, but would that be fair? Our submission in...
The Internet Democracy Project welcomes the consultation by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India on the Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems 2020 and...
View ArticleWhen our bodies become data, where does that leave us?
What is the harm in linking digital wallets to India’s unique biometric ID Aadhaar? None, many people would argue. But Poornima*, a transgender activist living in a big city in north eastern India,...
View ArticleSubmission in response to the Draft Unmanned Aircraft System Rules 2020
The Internet Democracy Project welcomes the consultation by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India, on the draft Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2020. We would like to thank you for this...
View ArticleReclaiming the person in non-personal data. Our submission in response to...
The Internet Democracy Project welcomes the consultation by the Committee of Experts under the chairmanship of K-Gopalakrishnan, set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, on the...
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The Making of Political Ads: Classification as Distraction
[This piece is written by Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan] In recent years, advertising hasn’t simply been about selling products and the enterprise of political persuasion, it has also led...
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“I took Allah’s name and stepped out”: Bodies, Data and Embodied Experiences...
Introduction It’s the class that jetsets that is actually carrying this [virus] from place to place and it’s our unwillingness to self-isolate that creates community infection… We will…inevitably say,...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: Data sovereignty, of whom? Limits and suitability of...
Although there is no singular articulation of data sovereignty by the Indian government, shreds of it can be found in a number of legal and policy documents as well as in statements on data and new...
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