Sunil Abraham Explained

Sunil Abraham
Birth Date:1973 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Bangalore, Karnataka India
Alma Mater:Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Occupation:Director of Public Policy, Facebook India[1]
Endowed Professor, ArtEZ University of Arts,
Former Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society

Sunil Abraham is an Indian technology policy analyst and free software advocate, and the director of public policy at Facebook India.[1] He was formerly an endowed professor at ArtEZ University of Arts[2] and the co-founder and executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society. He is a board member of Open Society Foundations.[3] and an honorary steward at Shuttleworth Foundation.[4] He joined Facebook in October 2020 to lead their Public Policy division in India.[5]

Career

In 1998, Abraham founded Mahiti, a company providing low-cost software services to the voluntary sector, where he continues to serve as a board member.[6] Abraham was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 1999,[7] and received the Sarai FLOSS Fellowship in 2003.

He managed the United Nations' International Open Source Network from 2004 to 2007.[8] [9] In 2008, he co-founded the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit research organisation based in India.

Views

Abraham has spoken in favour of greater online free speech,[10] [11] digital privacy, and net neutrality.,[12] He has criticized some of the aspects of Aadhaar,[13] the biometric-based unique identity system of India. He was an early proponent for a data protection law for India.[14]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: Saroha. Aditya. 2020-10-12. Facebook India appoints Sunil Abraham as Public Policy Director. en-IN. The Hindu. 2020-10-12. 0971-751X.
  2. Web site: CyberPeace Institute - Sunil Abraham . CyberPeace Institute . 9 July 2020.
  3. Web site: Sunil Abraham . Open Society Foundations . 10 July 2018 . en.
  4. Web site: Sunil Abraham: Honorary steward September 2017 . shuttleworthfoundation.org.
  5. News: Abrar. Peerzada. 2020-10-12. FB appoints Sunil Abraham to shape its stance on tech policy in India. Business Standard India. 2020-10-12.
  6. Web site: CIS Team - The Centre for Internet and Society .
  7. Web site: Sunil Abraham . Ashoka Everyone a Changemaker . el.
  8. Web site: Congreso Mundial 2015 De Consumers International . congressprogramme.consumersinternational.org . 10 July 2018 . es.
  9. News: Sen . Anirban . Sunil Abraham The online warrior . 10 July 2018 . Mint . 9 August 2014.
  10. News: Bajaj . Vikas . India Puts a Tight Leash on Internet Free Speech . 11 July 2018 . 27 April 2011 . en.
  11. News: India and Pakistan in cyber war . 11 July 2018 . Al Jazeera . 4 December 2010.
  12. Web site: Mishra . Pankaj . Outliers 62: "CIS is like the Kamasutra... a collection of many positions," says Sunil Abraham FactorDaily . FactorDaily . 11 July 2018 . 6 July 2018.
  13. News: Abraham . Sunil . Fixing Aadhaar: Security developers' task is to trim chances of data breach . 11 July 2018 . Business Standard India . 9 January 2018.
  14. News: Thakur . Arnika . The law tries to catch up with tech . 11 July 2018 . 22 May 2018 . en.
  15. Book: Nishant Shah. Sunil Abraham. Digital Natives with a Cause?: A Knowledge Survey and Framework. 2009. Humanist institute for cooperation with developing countries (Hivos).
  16. Wright . Glover . Abraham . Sunil . Shah . Nishant . Open Government Data Study: India . 1 June 2012 . Social Science Research Network . en. 2071605 .
  17. Abraham . Sunil . Hickok . Elonnai . Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in India . Oxford Scholarship Online . 19 October 2017 . 10.1093/oso/9780190685515.003.0012 .
  18. Web site: Abraham . Sunil . Open standards Global Information Society Watch . www.giswatch.org . 11 July 2018 . en.

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