This document summarizes an advocacy training session held by BRAC. It includes presentations on advocacy and behavior, Windows tips, online leave and visit forms, blogging tips, and discussions on ICT laws and liberty. The agenda covers speakers on various advocacy topics, office IT tips, new media strategies, and an open question session. The document provides an overview and recap of the different sections and presentations within the advocacy training session.

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Welcome to Advocacy360°
Session – 3
February 12, 2014

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Disclaimer
[[This presentation is for BRAC Advocacy
staff to be presented on Advocacy360°
forum and non-commercial use only.]]

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Rewind
S M Mamunur Rasid

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Previous Episode‘s Agenda
• Public speaker – Afsan Chowdhury
– How does BRAC work – (10mins)
• Office tips and tricks - (15 mins)
a.Tarek Aziz
– Exclusive Windows tips
b. Hamim Rahman
– Ms Office tips – Page and Lay out
• New media and out of the box - 10 mins
a. Nadia Afrin Shams
– A tribute to Madiba
b. Abdullah Al Shariatullah Kajal
– ICT forum message
• Gaan and Fun -
a. Naseef Faruque Amin
- Singer of the month
• Open session for audience - 10 mins

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Today’s Agenda
• Recap – 3 mins
• Public speaker – Snigdha Ali on Advocacy and Behavior
• Office tips and tricks - (12 mins)
a.Tarek Aziz - Windows tips to smooth office work.
b. Mohammad Shamim – Online Leave and visit form.
• New media and Out of the box – (10 mins)
a. Naseef Faruque Amin – Out of the box – ICT law vs
liberty risk
b. Mohd. Abdullah Al Shariatullah Kajal – 12 steps to be
a blogger.
• Open session for audience - 10 mins

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Public Speaking …
Advocacy and Behavior
Snigdha Ali

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Windows Tips
Tarek Aziz

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If computer freeze or hang
Press
Ctrl + Alt + Delete

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If computer freeze or hang
Windows Task Manager
Application
Select/Click the task
End Task
Close Windows Task Manager

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To change folder Icon
Right click on folder
Properties
Click on Customize

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To change folder Icon
Click change Icon Select Icon Click ok

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Out of the box

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Amending ICT Law VS Liberty Risk
Commentary on ‘Information and Communication
Technology Act (Amended), 2013’
Naseef Faruque Amin

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“The aspirations of free peoples are seldom
harmful to liberty, because they result
either from oppression or from fear that
there is going to be oppression.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses I.4

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Name of the Law and its
amendment
• ‘Information and Communication Technology
Act, 2006.’
• On September 20, 2013 the treasury bench
placed a bill in parliament purporting to further
amend the current law of the land on information
and communication technology.
• Amendment: ‘Information and Communication
Technology Act, (Amended) 2013.’

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Why this law? What threats?
• Threats of Cyber-crime
• Biggest privacy problem - data breaches
• Cracking (hacking)
• Copyright Infringements
• Child Pornography
• Child Grooming

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Crimes that primarily target computer networks or
devices include:
• Computer viruses
• Denial-of-service attacks
• Malware (malicious code)
Crimes that use computer networks or devices to
advance other ends include:
• Cyberstalking
• Fraud & identity theft
• Information warfare
• Phishing scams

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Defining crime: everything is put
on the same dish!
• Lengthy portion of Chapter VIII (namely ss. 54-67) of ICT Act, 2006
provides for identification of cyber offences.
• Section 57(2), for instance, provides for punishment for ‘publishing
fake, obscene or defaming information in electronic form’.
• Now you should ask: How to determine an electronic offence?
• The law replies: ‘If any person,’ as s.57(1) provides, ‘deliberately publishes or
transmits or causes to be published or transmitted in the website or in electronic form
any material which is fake or obscene or its effect is such as to tend to deprave and
corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read,
see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, or causes to deteriorate or creates
possibility to deteriorate law and order, prejudice the image of the State or person or
causes to hurt or may hurt religious belief or instigate against any person or
organisation, then this activity of his will be regarded as an offence.’
• This is quite a tall order and needless to say,
everything is put on the same dish!

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When we don’t get a clear explanation about
the crime what should we call it? :
Unclear? Confusing? Vague?
There are at least three orders of confusion:
• scope of offences
• the process of bringing in charges
• the enforcement procedure.

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Increasing the duration of
imprisonment
• ICT Act, 2006 provides for a maximum punishment of 10
years where the proposed amendment increase it to 14
years maximum and 7 years minimum.
• Betrays faith in retribution.
• Retributive crime – Let the punishment fit the crime.
• Retribution is not vengeance. Rather it is directed only at
wrongs, has inherent limits, is not personal, involves no
pleasure at the suffering of others, and employs
procedural standards.

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Some criticisms: Unjustly
empowering law officers
• An ominous aspect is the proposed provision for
empowering the law officers to arrest a suspect without
judicial warrant.
• As the corresponding provision of the extant law has it,
in order to file a case against someone and issue an
order of arrest the police are under the obligation to
obtain prior permission of authorities concerned.
• The proposed amendment wants to do away with it.
It looks ominously like some pious follower
of deterrence at work here !

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Some criticisms: Issue of bail
• ICT Act, 2006 offences were considered
as bailable.
• In the proposed amendment they have,
however, been made non-bailable, leaving
it at the mercy of the judge.

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Some criticisms: Freedom of
expression Vs Cyber Crime
• Involved here is no less than that fundamental question,
namely the right of the citizen to freedom of speech and
freedom of expression and freedom of the press, the
violation of which is considered to be a cardinal sin.
• Article 57 of the draft, “any willful release on websites or
any other electronic platform of any material which is
false, vulgar, defamatory, liable to cause deterioration of
law and order, or tarnishes the image of the state or
individual, or hurts religious sentiments is treated as a
cyber crime.”
• There is no clear line of demarcation between the limit of
freedom of expression and defamation or cyber-crime.

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Some criticisms: Lack of sufficient
stakeholder consultation
• Technical experts argue that the government would not
be able to tackle cyber-crimes with this kind of inefficient
law.
• The proposed law, for instance, does not cover a
majority of crimes committed through mobiles.
• It considered emails as evidence, which conflicts with
the country’s law of evidence.
• To tackle the growing number of cyber-crimes, the
government should have consulted with all the
stakeholders.

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What is to be done!
• Government should consult these issues
with relevant stakeholders and come clean
by drafting rules so that they do not hinder
fundamental rights like freedom of speech
and expression.
• And there is a scope for policy advocacy
to offset the criticisms of this law; which is
already asserted as ‘Black Law’.

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ICT forum message

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Online leave and visit form:
New ICT products from BRAC
Mohammad Shamim

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Online Leave Form

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Online Leave Form Home page

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Start online leave

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Fill up online leave Form

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Online Visit Form

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New Media

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12 Steps to become a blogger
Mohd. Abdullah Al Shariatullah

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Let’s start blogging

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Step-1: go to blogger.com

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Step-2: Continue to blogger

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Step-3: new blog

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Step-4: Title, Address, Template

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Step-5: correct url

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Step-6: you are ready to start

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Step-7: Write your first blog

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Step-8: Add Link on your post

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Step-9: Add photo on your post

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Step-10: Publish your blog

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Step-11: Let’s taste it

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Congratulations! You are a blogger now

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We commemorate language martyrs
on this month
Photo: Mithun Das

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Valentine Day campaign of shobujpata, a
green forum
Day based program: effective tool for advocacy
Source: www.shobujpata.com & www.fb.com/shobujpata.bd

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Any Questions???

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Advocacy Retreat: Akul appeal !!!

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