<div dir="ltr">We at ISOC India Trivandrum have been tracking developments on this matter for the last several months, and are co-organizing a  consultation on 22 April 2015 on the theme "Net Neutrality: Bottom-up Perspectives". Details are available below:<br><div><br><a href="http://icfoss.org/Net_Neutrality/" target="_blank">http://icfoss.org/Net_Neutrality/</a><br><br></div><div>The Indian telecom regulator (TRAI) has called for inputs to their draft policy document by the deadline of 24 April, and the Chapter will be responding to the call based on the outcome of the consultation.<br><br><br><br><br><br></div><div>satish<br><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Joly MacFie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Have any of our India Chapters taken a position on this? Or any elsewhere?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8423075/indian-startups-leave-facebook-internet-org-net-neutrality" target="_blank">http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8423075/indian-startups-leave-facebook-internet-org-net-neutrality</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:28.0499992370605px">This morning Cleartrip, an Indian startup focused on travel, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html?utm_hp_ref=india" style="color:rgb(250,75,42);text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:28.0499992370605px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">pulled out of Internet.org</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:28.0499992370605px">, the charity spearheaded by Facebook to help spread internet access to parts of the world where many people lack connectivity. Three other members of the original coalition — NDTV, Newshunt, and the Times Group — also declared that they were pulling some or all of their services from </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:28.0499992370605px">Internet.org</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:28.0499992370605px"> due to concerns over net neutrality.</span><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>WWWhatsup NYC - <a href="http://wwwhatsup.com" target="_blank">http://wwwhatsup.com</a><br> <a href="http://pinstand.com" target="_blank">http://pinstand.com</a> - <a href="http://punkcast.com" target="_blank">http://punkcast.com</a><br> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div>
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