Industry

Report by the Telangana SPCB on the maintenance of the Online Continuous Emission Monitoring System (OCEMS) for the state, 16/06/2021

Report filed by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board with the National Green Tribunal regarding state pollution control boards in south of India not complying with the direction given by the Supreme Court (Parayavaran Suraksha Samithi Vs Union of India) - wherein the states where directed to make provision for online, real time, continuous monitoring system to display emission levels in public domain on the public portal of the concerned SPCB.

Judgement Date: 
16/06/2021
Tags:
State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Telangana, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Industry, Information, Web, Industrial Pollution
Agriculture

Using web and mobile phone technologies to collect food market prices in Africa

Large agricultural commodity price swings observed in recent years have made the importance of accessible, timely, accurate and frequently updated price data more obvious.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2017
Ayca Donmez, Gloria Solano-Hermosilla, Vladimir Bougay, & et al
Publications Office of the European Union
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Food Prices, Agriculture, Mobile Phone, Web, Africa
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding advertisement in any manner including internet providing information on pre-natal determination, India, 13/04/2017

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sabu Mathew George Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/04/2017 regarding advertisement in any manner including internet providing information on pre-natal determination or preconception selection of sex.

Judgement Date: 
13/04/2017
Tags:
Women, Advertising, Internet, Information, Web, Supreme Court, Legislation
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding advertisements in websites which are in violation of Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, 16/02/2017

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sabu Mathew George Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/02/2017 regarding advertisements in websites of Google India, Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd. and Yahoo India which are in violation of Section 22 of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994. Mr.

Judgement Date: 
16/02/2017
Tags:
Web, Advertising, Women, Supreme Court
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding search engines advertising/hosting pre-natal sex determination ads, 16/11/2016

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sabu Mathew George Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/11/2016 regarding search engines advertising/hosting pre-natal sex determination ads.

Judgement Date: 
16/11/2016
Tags:
Children, Women, Diagnostic Methods, Supreme Court, India, Internet, Web
Governance And Institutions

Global Internet Report 2016

Today we are at a defining moment in the evolution and growth of the Internet. Large-scale data breaches, uncertainties about the use of our data, cybercrime, surveillance and other online threats are eroding users’ trust and affecting how they use the Internet.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2016
Internet Society
Tags:
Internet, Information, Communication, Web, Environment, Governance, India, Global
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding information on sex determination online in India, 19/09/2016

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sabu Mathew George Vs Union of India & Others dated 19/09/2016 regarding information on pre-conception and/or pre-natal determination of sex or sex selection online in India. Ranjit Kumar Solicitor General submitted before the Apex Court he has been apprised about the “proposed list of words” in respect of which when commands are given, there will be “auto block” with a warning and nothing would be reflected in the internet, as it is prohibited in India.

Judgement Date: 
19/09/2016
Tags:
Women, Supreme Court, Web, Information, India, Human Rights
Health

Talking health with a machine: How does message interactivity affect attitudes and cognitions?

By affording interactive communication and natural, human-like conversations, can media tools affect the way we engage with content in human–machine interactions and influence our attitudes toward that content? A between-subjects experiment (N = 172) examined the effects of two communication variables: (a) message-interactivity and (b) conversational tone, in an online health information (Q&A) tool. Findings suggest that informal conversational tone lowers perceptions of relative susceptibility to health risks.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2016
Saraswathi Bellur, S. Shyam Sundar
Human Communication Research
25-53
Tags:
Health, Communication, Information, Web, United States Of America (US)
Economy

Cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin: Charting the research landscape

This systematic literature review examines cryptocurrencies (CCs) and Bitcoin. Because cryptocurrency research has not gained much attention from Information Systems (IS) researchers and needs a more vivid discussion, this review summarizes the main concepts of 42 papers and aligns them to IS Research. Although, cryptocurrency research has not reached IS mainstream yet, there is massive potential for multifaceted research ranging from protocol development to designing alternative digital currency schemes.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2015
Marcel Morisse
Twenty-first Americas Conference on Information Systems Puerto Rico - 2015
1-16
Tags:
Finance, Services, Information, Internet, Web, Illegal Trade
Science And Technology

Net neutrality - DoT Committee Report

The Internet has transformed the world and society like never before. It has provided a platform for new opportunities through innovation. Internet has fostered the supremacy of ideas rather than capital.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2015
Department of Telecommunications
Tags:
Web, Internet, Telecommunication, India, Legislation, Information

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