MediaNama turns seven today, and our seventh year has possibly been the most important in our history: the work we have done over the six years that preceded our seventh, and our approach towards reportage - of linking stories together and identifying common themes, of building a "body of work" instead of just a story, has allowed us to inform and educate on issues that are of critical importance to the digital domain. We intend to continue to take stands we believe are correct, and benefits the domain in the longer term, while at the same time, always open to debate and being corrected. Over the past couple of years, particularly from a policy perspective, the issue has been one of ensuring that the Internet remains open, fair and competitive, and our work over the years has been an important resource on policy issues such as Intermediary Liability, Blocking, Net Neutrality, Surveillance, among several others, and we're now beginning to connect the dots on online versus offline. We intend to continue identifying issues of importance and focusing on them, to inform you, our readers, better. Our purpose remains the same as it was seven years ago: to help build an open, fair and competitive digital ecosystem in India. Not Internet or mobile or startups or telecom or ecommerce or digital media, but digital. All of these and more. Along with depth, breadth matters, and I'm painfully aware that we're not even covering half of what we'd like to. We intend to keep expanding our scope of coverage,…
