Vivek Vaidyanathan's blog
How to make the Right to Information more meaningful
The other day, a leading NGO – Public Affairs Centre which works on issues of governance reform. organised a workshop on the Right to Information. The workshop which was aimed at analysing the implementation of the Right to Information in Bangalore, saw a group of young students present the findings of their study which analysed the working of the Right to Information Act across forty one government agencies. The meet also had a second part to it, where the Chief Information Commissioner of Karnataka state – Mr. K.K. Mishra gave a talk on where the implementation Right to Information Act should be headed.
The case of IT policy and civil society non-engagement
This musing is in response to an article on Internet censorship which I read today morning. ( The article is posted below ). The article talks about the fact that a man who was arrested for allegedly tainting the image of 'Shivaji' - a prominent Maratha(Hindu) ruler, over Orkut was finally released after 50 days because they had got the wrong guy and he in fact was innocent.
What is disturbing is the fact that this person was behind bars for 50 days. I mean we know that there are probably hundreds of thousands of people in India and all over the world even who are behind bars for donkeys years without facing any kind of trail/not knowing why there are in there in the first place, however there are 2 aspects to this story which appals me
