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How the father of Indian Economic reforms set the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy?
By Sanjana Rathi In the 1990s, India undertook fundamental reforms – structural, diplomatic, economic, and even technological, that set up the bedrock for Indian “Cyber Diplomacy.” The Information Technology revolution in India had begun, followed by the simultaneous development of the economy towards liberalization, globalization, and privatization. These economic reforms carved a way for corporate actors to play a salient role in Internet Policymaking. These structural changes were significant under the then Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao, also known as the father of Indian Economic reform. He was a true visionary and strategist who laid the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy. Before delving into how PM Rao laid…
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Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in shaping Cyber-norms
Cyberspace is presenting not only new challenges for states but also new opportunities for power projection. Thus, analyzing how non-Western perspectives have developed around this subject becomes relevant to understand some dynamics of contemporary international relations in cyberspace. In this way, to know how “the East” has been behaving in this area, the present article will briefly confuse a small part, an Eastern regional strategic thinking to cybersecurity, materialized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an international organization of eight member countries, namely – India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It was established in 2001 for political, military, and economic…
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Can the current state of national surveillance comply with the the International human rights law ?
By Sanjana Rathi Part I On the 25th of June 2019, David Kaye — United National Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression called for an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer, and use of surveillance technology. He called for a ban until “effective national/international controls are put in place to lessen the harmful impact”. He also asserted that the private companies appear to be operating without constraint, in a “free-for-all” private surveillance industry environment. According to the report and recommendations are given, the use of surveillance without control is a challenge to human rights such as — the right to privacy, freedom of expression, association & assembly, religious belief, non-discrimination, and public…
