September 2, 2016 – Digital Rights of India and South Asia, DEF

IEEE Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions Event in Delhi to Drive Collaboration on Connecting the Unconnected

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions (IIAS) – Delhi. The 15 September event in Delhi, India, organized by the IEEE Internet Initiative, will bring together government officials and leaders from development banks, industry, the technical community, non-governmental organizations/civil-society organizations and others for…

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Here’s how govt is looking to secure India’s cyber space

The Centre is planning to set up a National Cyber Security Coordination Centre (NCSCC) to fully secure the country’s cyber space, Union minister for electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday. He further said action has been initiated to set up the NCSCC to strengthen the country’s cyber security posture.

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Data shows 43 percent of the 9,127 victims were below the age of 18

NEW DELHI, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Reports of human trafficking in India increased by 25 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, with more than 40 percent of cases involving children being bought, sold and exploited as modern day slaves, government crime data showed. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said there…

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Digitally connecting every village of the state government’s priority: Assam CM

GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowaltoday asserted that his government’s utmost priority is to build a Digital Highway so that every village of the state is digitally connected within the next five years. “Each rural household will be digitally connected so that people can get their needs fulfilled without having to travel to bigger cities…

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India: More than 34,000 cases of rape reported in 2015

The figures, released on Tuesday, showed that victims ranged from female children younger than six years old to women over 60 years, with those aged between 18 and 30 reporting the largest number of rape attacks – totalling almost 17,000. Victims knew their alleged rapists in 33,098 of the 34,651 reported rape cases, or 95.5…

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Fewer cyber crimes, arrests than last year

KOLHAPUR: The state, which topped the chart in cyber crime cases in 2014, has slid to second position behind Uttar Pradesh according to the National Crime Records Bureau report for 2015 released on Tuesday.

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