UN experts call for sensitive and timely response to online gender-based abuse: “Online gender-based abuse and violence are undeniably a scourge, and governments and companies should be taking action against it”, David Kaye, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of freedom of expression, said in a news releases that coincides with worldwide commemoration of International…
India Added 268.9 Million New Internet Users Since 2014, Says Adobe: India accounted for more than half of the 500-million new Internet users globally who have come on board in the last three years, a report by software firm Adobe said on Sunday. According to Mobile Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) Report, India has a strong…
Online access, confidence and more: How ‘internet saathis’ are digitally empowering women in rural India: For 39-year-old Asha Kamble, a resident of Supane village in Satara, stepping out of home on her own was unthinkable before the untimely death of her husband. Now, she travels to villages across the district with a smartphone and Tab,…
Kerala breaks the mould to assert internet rights: KOCHI: Finance minister TM Thomas Isaac’s assertion in his budget speech that the state will make ‘access to internet’ a citizen’s right is a bold idea ahead of its time. This is something that’s possibly ‘out of the comfort zone’ of the central government. Read More
U.N. expert urges states to work toward cyber surveillance treaty: GENEVA – The world needs an international treaty to protect people’s privacy from unfettered cybersurveillance, which is being pushed by populist politicians preying on fear of terrorism, according to a U.N. report debated on Wednesday. The report, submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council by…