Information Technology - Guidelines For Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code - Rules, 2021

This Call for Submissions is open to:

1. Organizations doing research and advocacy on the IT Rules and IL Guidelines.
2. Technologists, lawyers, computer scientists, journalists, researchers and the like who are investigating encryption, traceability and privacy.
3. Product managers - from media organizations and products - who will be tasked with content moderation and content filtering.
4. Hosting providers who may have operational and legal concerns with IL Guidelines.
5. Web developers building websites using Content Management Systems (CMS); CMS communities.

You can submit content on any of the following topics:

1. Primers and explainers about IT Rules and IL Guidelines.
2. Legal and tech-policy origins of IL Guidelines.
3. Laws and regulations, similar to the IL Guidelines, implemented in other parts of the world.
4. Operational issues in regulating content platforms and apps.
5. Litigation and advocacy, globally, in response to content censorship, internet censorship and platform censorship.
6. Operational challenges that product managers, in India and across the world, run into when complying with IT Rules-like regulations.
7. Case studies of using ML and AI filtering mechanisms for content moderation.
8. Exacerbating bias in content filtering.
9. Over-compliance and user/customer backlash at the product.
10. Alternatives to AI/ML - from point of view of costs (compute and processing costs), and resources (manpower, handling infrastructure, etc) for content scanning and complying with IL Guidelines.

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