The Advanced Centre on Research, Development and Training in Cyber Laws & Forensics, NLSIU Bengaluru, is conducting a webinar on ‘Children, Cyber Safety & National Security,’ exclusively for children on Children’s Day, November 14, 2020 from 11 am to 12 pm. Lt. General D S Hooda, Former Army Commander – Northern Command, will deliver a talk and interact with children on this occasion.
Welcome Address: Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy,
Vice Chancellor, NLSIU
Moderator: Dr. Nagarathna. A.,
Chief Co-ordinator, Advanced Centre on Research, Development and Training in Cyber Law & Forensics [ACRDTCLF], NLSIU.
Who may attend?
Children aged 10 to 17 years
How do I register?
Interested participants can confirm the participation of their child with the following details: Name, Age, Class and School name (in capital letters)
Details may be sent via WhatsApp on 9590007464 or by email to .
The recent debates around proposed policy frameworks on non-personal data have highlighted both the potential as well as the open concerns on viewing this kind of data as a “public good.” To further unpack these issues, IISc, Bengaluru, IIT-Bombay and NLSIU Bangalore are jointly hosting a series of Web Panels on ‘Non-Personal Data for Public Good – Issues of Technology, Economics, and Policy,’ where we aim to hear from policymakers, industry representatives, researchers and entrepreneurs.
The first panel discussion as part of this series is being held on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 4.30 pm, on the topic: Non-Personal Data – Scope and Challenges. To register for the event, click on this link.
This kick-off discussion will look at the potential for Non-Personal Data (NPD) to provide significant economic and social benefits, and the possible policy framework in which this can take place. The myriad considerations of a suitable policy-frameworkーprotecting individual and community privacy, providing mechanisms to actively share data in a safe and controlled manner, and protect the competitive interests of the economic agents, needs to be balanced. The report by the ‘Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework’ is a bold attempt in this direction. Some important, and possibly contentious, issues raised in this report, are the following:
The role and importance of community NPD
Obligations of private companies to share NPD
The role and risks of a National NPD regulatory authority
The new category of data businesses and the associated economic models
The economics of data sharing—how do data providers and application developers benefit from NPD
Technical requirements for a NPD data sharing platform
The panel will bring together a set of experts to discuss these main issues.
Experts Panel
Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change
Dr. Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton
Mr. Shantanu Bhattacharya, Chief Data Officer, Airtel
Dr. Vijay Chandru, Pioneer at AI Foundry and Professor, BSSE, IISc
Prof. D Manjunath, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Moderator: Dr. Inder Gopal (IISc)
About the Panel Series
Non-Personal Data for Public Good – Issues of Technology, Economics, and Policy
Many governments around the world have placed strict limits on what can be done with personal data that relates to individuals. This follows from the nearly universal recognition that the privacy rights of the individual must be protected. Thus, personal data must be protected from abuse in a manner that can cause harm to the individual or to the group. Non-personal data (NPD), loosely defined as data that does not identify specific individuals, is a more complex matter. While there are privacy and security issues, there is increasing recognition that there is a potential public good that can be achieved by making certain kinds of NPD available to the public and to industry. However, the devil is in the detail and myriad issues emerge that relate to public policy, economics, business models, technology, law, regulation, governance, etc. There have been several efforts around the world to explore these issues. Clearly, these issues depend on the history and culture, and also the state of technological development of each society, and hence require country-specific solutions. This is more so in a large and diverse country like India.
With this backdrop, IISc, IIT-B and NLSIU will jointly host a series of web panels over the rest of 2020 to explore issues related to NPD. Each panel will consist of short presentations by leading experts and practitioners in the field, followed by a moderated panel discussion. Two recent initiatives in India will provide some context for these panels – the recently released report on policy and governance models for NPD, sponsored by Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY); the various initiatives on data sharing and data exchange platforms India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) from Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, National Data Highway from MEITY, National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy from NITI Aayog, etc.
The panels will explore key issues related to NPD described above and also examine the use of NPD in various verticals such as health-care and mobility. Each moderated panel will be a 90-minute discussion among experts and stakeholders. Moderator-led set of questions to each panelist will serve as the opening remarks; a broader Q&A with the audience and a summary presentation by the moderators will follow.
We hope to make this a fortnightly event with future discussions on possible uses cases, the way forward for a legal framework, etc.
Organizing team
Dr. Inder Gopal, CEO of IUDX Program Unit, IISc, Bangalore
‘Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart’ – Join this virtual panel discussion as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month on Thursday, October 29, at 4.30 pm. NLSIU is partnering with the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), Social Media Matters, Delhi and AIESEC, Chennai to jointly organise the panel discussion. The engagement will build awareness on vulnerabilities, remedies, rights, and opportunities in the online world.
The Advanced Centre on Research, Development and Training in Cyber Laws & Forensics, National law School of India University, Bengaluru in collaboration with the Karnataka State Bar Council, Bengaluru, is organizing a special webinar on ‘Cyber Security, Cyber Laws & Legal Profession.’ This is the second in the series of special webinars being organized as part of the Cyber Security Awareness Month.
Introductory remarks: Anil Kumar J M, Chairman, Karnataka State Bar Council.
Speaker: Dr. Nagarathna. A., Associate Professor & Chief Coordinator, ACRDTCLF, NLSIU
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GOI along with the Chair on IPR and CIPRA, NLSIU is organising a Round Table on ‘Intellectual Property as a Security Asset for Credit: Issues and Prospects’ on October 28, 2020 from 5 pm.
Concept Note:
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has estimated that intellectual property will account for six trillion dollars in global trade by 2020. Any modern enterprise, from manufacturing to the service sector, holds significant IP assets in various forms from business software to license rights. IP assets are of significance to a knowledge-based firms like software and biotechnology. Such firms play an important role in today’s Indian economy. Many of Such firms may have only or substantially IP assets as their major asset. IP assets are growing in importance to other firms also. Possibility of using IP assets as security/collateral can open new avenues for firms to raise funds. This may have impact upon survival of many firms, especially during a pandemic period where the firms are funds starved.
It is well accepted that access to credit is crucial for economic growth. World Bank has found that Insufficient Collateral is among the top reasons for difficulty in accessing credit finance in the developing world. A common trend among the firms is that credit applications are rejected mostly due to insufficient collateral, i.e. unacceptable or unsuitable collateral. Secured credit is an efficient form of lending/borrowing. IP asset security-based credit which, when implemented in a proper legal and institutional framework, can thus stimulate economic activity.
The Roundtable:
IP has unique features. The roundtable would examine the present system of security creation and enforcement, to see whether the system is adequate to facilitate IP security-based financing in India. The focus of the roundtable is to examine the challenges and prospects for IP asset security-based financing. Experts from Academia and industry would address diverse dimensions.
Agenda:
Inaugural Session
5.00 pm IST – 5.10 pm IST -Welcome & Opening remarks: Prof. (Dr.) T. Ramakrishna, Chair Professor, IP-Chair, NLSIU
5.10 pm IST – 5.20 pm IST – Keynote Address: Prof. Dr. Raj S. Davé, President, Davé Law Group, LLC, Alexandria, VA, USA
5.20 pm IST – 5.30 pm IST – Presidential Address: Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU, Bengaluru.
Session: IP Asset security-based financing: Challenges and Prospects Chair: Prof. Dr. Raj S. Davé, President |Davé Law Group, LLC, Alexandria, VA, USA
Themes: 5.30 pm IST – 6.00 pm IST – IP Due diligence and valuation for Secured Transactions Speaker: Mr.Navarre Roy, Managing Associate Anand and Anand
6.00 pm IST – 6.30 pm IST – Creation of Security Interest in IP Asset Speaker: Mr. Anandaday Misshra, Advocate, Founder- AMLEGALS.
6.30 pm IST – 7.00 pm IST – Perfection/Registration of Security interest in IP Asset Speaker: Prof. Sudipta De Sarkar, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
7.00 pm IST – 7.30 pm IST – Enforcement of IP Asset Security interest:
7.30 pm IST – 8.00 pm IST – Special Guest Speaker | Philip S. Warden Partner | Pillsbury, San Francisco
(1) Security Interests in Intellectual Property
(2) Perfecting Security Interests in Ip: Avoiding the Traps
(3) Bankruptcy Remote Entity (BRE)
Registration Details:
Open to:
1. Bank and other financial institution officials
2. Industry Personnel – Stake Holders
3. Academicians & Researchers
4. Practicing advocates & Professionals.
5. Law Students
No Registration fee. Prior registration is mandatory
All participants will receive a link to the virtual round table on 27.10.2020. Participants are requested to join 10 minutes prior to the Inaugural session.
*All participants of the round table will receive an Electronic certificate (e-certificate)
In case of any queries, contact: ,
Advisory Committee
Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Vice-Chancellor, National law School of India University
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Prof. (Dr.) T. Ramakrishna,
Chair Professor of Law,
DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India
Head, Centre for IP Research and Advocacy (CIPRA)
National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Dr. Lawwellman,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Law
Govt. Law College, Kozhikode
Co-ordinator: Mr. Jnana Teja Bandi,
Patent Agent-IN/PA-3704,
Research Associate, DPIIT Chair on IPR
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The Advanced Centre on Research, Development and Training in Cyber Laws & Forensics, NLSIU, is organising a special webinar on Cyber Threat Intelligence as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month.
Speaker: Mr Deepak Kumar,
Digital Threat Intelligence & Digital Forensic Consultant
Secularism in India has been a terrain of intense contestation in the last few years and is perhaps an idea in need for further and newer conceptualisations. Critiquing earlier formulations of democracy and secularism, Prof. Ajay Gudavarathy spoke about his new edited volume Sectarian Secularism: Limits of Subaltern Politics. The book argues that secular politics in India has not been able to challenge sectarianism in India because it lacks a political imagination that resonates on the ground. His talk therefore, provoked the audience to think about challenging the rise of the Right, not through current articulations of secularism, minority-ism and Left politics but instead to reinvent the language and practice of an alternate politics of fraternity.
Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy, is Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining JNU, he held teaching positions in NLSIU, NUJS and ISEC. He writes extensively on Indian politics, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Movements, Postcolonial Theory, and Civil Society. His books include Politics of Post Civil-Society (2013), Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation (2014) and his latest and much acclaimed book, India and Modi: Populism and the Right (2018).
The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, National Law School of India University, Bangalore is organising a National Webinar Series on the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 Rules and Regulations.
THE WEBINAR
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019, came into force on 20th & 24th July, 2020 (two different dates for different sets of provisions of the Act) replacing the 33 year old Consumer Protection Act. 1986. The new Act strengthened the legal and policy framework towards achieving the avowed object of better protection of Consumer in India.
This webinar series will address analysis of CPA, 2019, Rules and Regulations specifically concentrating on New Chapters like Central Consumer Protection Authority, Mediation, Product Liability & provision relating to E-commerce and Misleading Advertisements. The webinar series will also analyse comparison between CPA 2019 and CPA 1986 Act.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The webinar series is open to Consumer Activists, NGOs, Academicians, Practitioners, Researchers, Government officials, Members of Regulatory Authorities, Students and all those who are interested in consumer welfare.
E-Certificate will be awarded to the registered participants who attend all the sessions of the 6 Days National Webinar through zoom platform and submit feedback form provided on the concluding day of the programme.
Platform: ZOOM (Register to receive meeting Details)
Last date of Registration: 20th August, 2020 before 5 p.m.
Registration Fee: Free
Note: The non-registered participants may also view through Facebook Page & Youtube. Registration Link: https://forms.gle/X4ax5pbTsAdufjk8A
Brochure
ABOUT THE CHAIR ON CONSUMER LAW AND PRACTICE (CLAP):
In the Indian history for the first time the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice (CLAP) has been established in August 2008, by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi at National Law School of India University, Bangalore to promote research, teaching and training in Consumer Law and Practice. The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice is acting as a “Think Thank” for the Research and Policy related issues on Consumer Law and Practice. The Chair has also developed curriculum on Consumer Welfare Laws as a distinct subject of study both at Under Graduate & Post Graduate levels and is imparting to the students in law at NLSIU. The Chair has organised various seminars, workshops and training programs to Advocates, NGO’s, Government officers, Academicians etc., to bring awareness on consumer protection laws. This webinar series is a step towards accomplishing the aim of this initiative.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Prof. Dr. Ashok R Patil
Chair Professor
Chair on Consumer Law and Practice,
National law School of India University, Bangalore
Mr. Akshay Baburao Yadav
Teaching Associate
National Law School of India University, Bangalore
CONTACT DETAILS:
Contact Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, National Law School of India University Bangalore via email: or mob: +918722522886
The MPP Student Council is organising a webinar on ‘Effectively using Public Data to strengthen governance – Experience of Factly and the growing fact-checking phenomena.’
Speaker – Rakesh Dubbudu
Rakesh Dubbudu is an experienced RTI campaigner and founder of Factly a platform that strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using high-value government records at the center, state, and local body levels.
Themes to be discussed in webinar:
The speaker’s insights on the utility of data as a public good, and the ways in which better public engagement can be achieved with the government data.
Skills required to see through data and decide fact from fiction
Career opportunities in the fact-checking space
The speaker’s experiences regarding Factly and the fact-checking phenomenon.
Many governments around the world have placed strict limits on what can be done with personal data that relates to individuals. This follows from the nearly universal recognition that the privacy rights of the individual must be protected. Thus, personal data must be protected from abuse in a manner that can cause harm to the individual or to the group. Non-personal data (NPD), loosely defined as data that does not identify specific individuals, is a more complex matter. While there are privacy and security issues, there is increasing recognition that there is a potential public good that can be achieved by making certain kinds of NPD available to the public and to industry. However, the devil is in the detail and myriad issues emerge that relate to public policy, economics, business models, technology, law, regulation, governance, etc. There have been several efforts around the world to explore these issues. Clearly, these issues depend on the history and culture, and also the state of technological development of each society, and hence require country-specific solutions. This is more so in a large and diverse country like India.