Sounds interesting.
and in "other issues" are we also taking up Accessibility?
As an accessibility advocate, I might be intrested to come over.
happy hakcing.
Krishnakant.
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 01:31 PM, parminder wrote:
Dear All
We are planning a workshop on /*Regulating the Internet in public
interest - Net neutrality and other issues' *//**/on the 2nd of May in
New Delhi. It will be held from 930 AM to 430 PM at the India Islamic
Cultural Centre, on Lodhi Road.
A short note on he workshop is below. If the matter interests any of
you and youd like to attend please write to me offline. The digital
space is soon going to be a very importance one for global
contestations around trade and other forms of economic relationships,
and it is time that progressive groups begin to involve themselves in
this area.
Happy to provide any additional information or clarification...
Best, parminder,
IT for Change (www.ITforChange.net )
With Net Neutrality suddenly becoming a very hot news topic, we will
like to have a more in depth look at issues related to regulation of
the Internet, including the net neutrality issue. We will proceed from
the wide and deep social impact that the Internet is causing, which
trend is only going to furtherintensify. From such an examination, we
will try to understand what kind of regulation of the Internet may be
needed, not only in the infrastructure layer (the net neutrality issue
belongs here) but also the application and content layers, bringing
into the discussion the increasingly monopolistic and gate-keeping
role that big Internet corporations play with regard to so many
important social activities and systems today. It is unfortunate that
net neutrality is often presented as a telecom sector versus Internet
sector issue. TRAI's (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)
consultation paper titled 'Regulatory Framework for OTT Services
(read, Internet Services)' , which triggered the current net
neutrality tempest, seems to err towards such a false binary.
Unfortunately, most responses to the paper, while rightly seeking 'net
neutrality', appear to further reinforce such a binary.
It is important to get out of this problematic framing of the problem
as a kind of opposition between the telecom sector and the Internet
sector, and instead apply the lens of public interest to the issue of
regulation of the Internet. Internet is today not only the central
paradigm of our communication realm but increasingly also forms the
key element of the digitally-mutating new social systems in
practically all areas, ranging from media, entertainment, business,
work, and governance to education, health and livelihood support.
Ensuring an egalitarian architecture of the Internet therefore becomes
a key determinant of the the possible egalitarian nature of our
emerging social systems in various areas. It is this egalitarian
principle that underlies the need for 'net neutrality', but it may
also require appropriate regulation in other layers of the Internet
beyond the infrastructure layer. 'Neutrality' of the Internet is
important for free, open and equitable access to information and
knowledge, a truly democratic public discourse, freedom of expression,
decentralised economic activity, and, in general, for egalitarian
social systems, and to ensure economic and social justice for all.
/*The workshop is intended to be a preliminary exercise *//*for
progressive actors *//*to begin engaging with this key policy area,
and does not pre-suppose any kind of *//*specialised*//*knowledge from
the participants.*/ Depending on how the discussions go, however, it
is possible that we may also be able to frame a short response to the
consultation paper floated by TRAI.
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