We’ve a stellar line-up of audio system, and as at all times, an incredible set of attendees for MediaNama’s dialogue on ‘App Bans and Community Charges’, being held in Delhi on August 10, 2023. We even have an inventory of reads to familiarise you with TRAI’s newest session paper on on-line communications bans, which explores web neutrality and licensing of on-line messaging as properly.
Please apply to attend by filling the shape right here.
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2023
Time: 12:30 PM to five:15 PM
Venue: The LaLit, Delhi
This dialogue is being organised with assist from Google and Meta, and in partnership with CCOAI, the Centre for Communications Governance on the Nationwide Regulation College (Delhi), the Centre for Web and Society, and The Web Freedom Basis.
Agenda and confirmed audio system
- 12:30 – 01:30 PM Registration and Lunch
- 01:30 – 03:00 PM Understanding points with banning of particular apps:
- Radhika Roy (Web Freedom Basis)
- Maknoon Wani (Council for Strategic and Protection Analysis)
- Samar Bansal (Lawyer)
- 03:00 – 04:00 PM Web Neutrality and collaborative frameworks between telcos and on-line providers:
- Amrita Chaudhary (CCAOI)
- Anjali Hans (Vodafone Thought)
- Vakasha Sachdev (Logically.AI)
- 04:00 – 05:15 PM Regulation of on-line messaging and calling:
- Neeti Biyani (ISOC)
- Aman Taneja (Ikigai)
- Sumeysh Srivastava (The Quantum Hub)
We’re awaiting a number of speaker confirmations nonetheless and can replace this checklist when we’ve confirmations.
Studying Listing: High Reads on OTT Regulation, Web Shutdowns, and Extra
Basic overview
- The TRAI session paper on OTT Regulation [Read]
- A abstract: TRAI releases session paper on calling and messaging app regulation[Read]
- 7 Key Takeaways From The TRAI Open Home In Delhi On OTT Regulation: “Nationwide Safety Ought to Be Embedded In All the things.” [Read]
- Stay [Closed]: TRAI Open Home Dialogue on OTT Regulation – Delhi [Read]
- Assist for Web Neutrality in India’s Draft Nationwide Digital Communications Coverage [Read]
Session 1: Understanding Points with Banning OTT Communication Apps
- Manipur Excessive Courtroom recommends partial lifting of web ban and offering web providers by restricted channels and “whitelisted” numbers. [Read]
- MP Pradyut Bordoloi contemplates introducing a personal member’s invoice on Web shutdowns. [Read]
- A Parliamentary panel report on cybersecurity proposes a whitelisting framework for lending apps. [Read]
- In its 2021 Anuradha Bhasin verdict, the Supreme Courtroom guidelines that indefinite Web shutdowns are unlawful, whereas laying out transparency procedures for the federal government to observe throughout shutdowns. [Read]
- The Centre for Web and Society’s Co-Founder Pranesh Prakash explains the varied points with how Part 69A orders are being executed in India at present. [Read]
- India tops the checklist of most Web shutdowns for the fifth yr working, with 84 in 2022. [Read]
- Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Data Know-how criticises the Indian authorities for lack of knowledge on Web shutdowns, and for lack of assessment processes on shutdowns. [Read]
- The Web Freedom Basis and Human Rights Watch launch a report detailing the human influence of Web shutdowns in India, titled “No Web Means No Work, No Pay, No Meals”. [Read]
- Calcutta Excessive Courtroom guidelines that the West Bengal authorities didn’t observe the proper procedures whereas ordering shutdowns within the state final yr. [Read]
- Panelists at a MediaNama occasion query whether or not Indian courts are doing sufficient to query state intrusions on basic rights, like accessing the Web. [Read]
- Report: A better have a look at India’s web site blocking practices and the whole lot that’s incorrect with it. [Read]
- Airtel makes use of specifically configured routers to dam web sites: Why you need to care. [Read]
Session 2: Web Neutrality and Collaborative Frameworks between Telcos and OTT communication platforms
- European Union’s proposal to get Massive Tech to pay interconnection payment threatens web neutrality. [Read]
- How unhealthy coverage led South Korea right into a Web Neutrality nightmare [Read]
- The Worldwide Telecommunications Union’s suggestions for a collaborative OTT regulatory framework. [Read]
- Sri Lanka’s web is a sprawling violation of Web Neutrality [Read]
- TRAI’s session on differential pricing. [Read]
- TRAI’s session paper on licensing of web providers. [Read]
- Why TRAI needs to manage OTT platforms. [Read]
- Airtel introduces differential pricing for kind of cellular Web utilization. [Read]
- On the gamble of the “sending occasion community pays” precept in OTT regulation. [Read]
- Telecom firms are at present required to contribute to the common providers obligation fund (now referred to as the Telecommunication Improvement Fund). [Read]
- Points related to imposing community charges on OTT gamers. [Read]
- EU’s Exploratory Session On OTT Gamers Sharing Funding Prices With Telcos. [Read]
- MediaNama’s feedback to TRAI on visitors administration and an advisory physique for Web Neutrality. [Read]
- TRAI’s web neutrality open home dialogue on visitors administration practices in 2020. [Read]
Session 3: Regulation of on-line messaging and calling
- Reliance Jio Needs Regulation for All Web Co’s in India, Internet hosting in India – TRAI OTT Session. [Read]
- How will a licensing regime for on-line providers in convergence framework create boundaries to entry? [Read]
- Ashwini Vaishnaw On Draft Telecom Invoice Regulating WhatsApp, Mandating KYC And Revealing Caller Identification [Read]
- COAI Seeks Regulation Of ‘Communication OTTs’, Not All OTTs: S P Kochhar on the Draft Telecom Invoice [Read]
- The Web Freedom Basis’s issues with how the Telecom Invoice, 2022, approaches OTT regulation, by ‘straitjacketing’ various Web platforms. [Read]
- Ten suggestions on the draft Telecom Invoice, 2022: SFLC [Read]
- How The Telecom Invoice 2022 Undermines The Potential of Web: Web Society’s Report [Read]
- Need Telco-Like Regulation For OTTs: Jio’s Submission to DoT forward of draft telecom invoice [Read]
- Reliance Jio Shares Ideas On The Draft Telecom Invoice, And They’re Value Noting! [Read]
- Elevating surveillance issues, India’s draft Telecom Invoice 2022 proposes permitting the federal government to intercept messages or droop the Web throughout public emergencies, if “obligatory” or “expedient”. [Read]
- AIC Says No To ‘Similar Service, Similar Guidelines’ In Feedback On The Telecom Invoice 2022 [Read]
- Draft telecommunication invoice asks for KYC on platforms like Whatsapp and Zoom. [Read]
- Telecom Division has arrange a facial recognition system to deal with SIM card fraud. [Read]
- Mapping the influence of biometric surveillance and social media platforms on civic area. [Read]
- Varun Sen Bahl maps a framework for verification primarily based on rules of proportionality. [Read]
- TRAI Convergence Session: Is there a necessity for a separate convergence framework? [Read]
- Ten points raised by TRAI in its convergence session and what’s incorrect with them. [Read]
- Cloud Service Suppliers Write To DoT Opposing TRAI Suggestions. [Read]
- Registration doesn’t assure attendance. In case you match our mandate for the meant viewers, we’ll ship you a affirmation earlier than August 8, 2023.
- MediaNama’s subscribers, get assured entry to all our occasions. You may subscribe to MediaNama to assist our work.
- Your contact data won’t ever be shared with anybody exterior of MediaNama.
That is an commercial for MediaNama’s occasion. MediaNama’s Native Promoting coverage might be seen right here, and previous advertisements right here.
