Our efforts are directed at

Generating research that traces out citizens’ rights in the context of telecommunications and the Internet.

Helping policy-makers and judges understand how better to protect citizens’ rights in the new media.

Teaching, capacity-building, and supporting others who will be able to work with Internet and telecommunications law and policy in India. We hope to start filling the research vacuum and to create a pool of people with the capacity to contribute effectively to information technology policy.

CCG uses its research to engage meaningfully with policy-making in India by participating in public consultations, contributing to parliamentary sub-committees and other consultation groups, holding seminars and workshops for different stakeholders in communication policy and through strategic litigation that is likely to affect citizens’ digital and political rights.

The Centre routinely works with a range of international academic institutions and policy organizations, including the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University, the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford, the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, the Hans Bredow Institute at the University of Hamburg and the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centres. We also engage regularly with government institutions and ministries such as the Law Commission of India, Ministry of Electronics & IT, Ministry of External Affairs, the Ministry of Law & Justice and the International Telecommunications Union. We also work actively to provide the executive and judiciary with useful research in the course of their decision making on issues relating to civil liberties and technology.