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Blog Entry IJLT-CIS Law Essay Competition
by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 01, 2009 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM — filed under: ,
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology and CIS are conducting a legal essay competition to encourage law students across India to think critically about the techno-legal issues facing us today. Students can write on any of the four themes, with the top prize being Rs. 7500 and an internship at CIS.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09
by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 30, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.
Located in Openness / Blog
Open Debate
by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 04, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:34 PM — filed under:
Deepa Kurup's article in Frontline on the battle over open standards in e-governance.
Located in News & Media
IPv6 in India: The promises and challenges
by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 04, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:16 AM — filed under: , ,
Newspapers have been reporting that IPv4 addresses will get over soon, and that we will have to shift to IPv6. In this short piece, Pranesh Prakash gives a layperson's introduction to the IPv6 Internet we will be entering into soon, and what that means for you.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
PUPFIP Bill
by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 04, 2009 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 03:15 PM — filed under:
A new bill which tries to promote innovation through privatization of public-funded research and is unnecessary, misguided, and will prove harmful to Indian research, innovation, and will harm the interests of taxpayers and consumers.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Publications
Arguments Against the PUPFIP Bill
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 20, 2009 — last modified Sep 12, 2011 11:03 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill (PUPFIP Bill) is a new legislation being considered by Parliament, which was introduced in the 2008 winter session of the Rajya Sabha. It is modelled on the American Bayh-Dole Act (University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act) of 1980. On this page, we explore some of the reasons that the bill is unnecessary, and how it will be harmful if passed.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Publications / PUPFIP Bill
Resources
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 20, 2009 — last modified Oct 20, 2009 03:29 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A collection of resources that will help one navigate through the arguments and evidence for and against the Indian "Bayh-Dole" bill.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Publications / PUPFIP Bill
Free and Open Source Software
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 10:59 AM
Free and open source software (FOSS) is a good thing from both the perspective of programmer and user freedoms as well as from the perspective of better and more efficient software production. Also, FOSS forms the backbone of the Internet (BIND/NSD for DNS servers, Apache for web servers, sendmail/postfix/qmail for mail servers, Asterisk for VoIP servers, etc.), and the Internet as we know it would not exist without FOSS.
Located in Openness / Publications
Software Patents Granted and Applied for in India
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009
This is a collection of pure software patents (i.e., a "computer programme per se") that have been granted and applied for in India.
Located in Openness / Publications / Software Patents
Control Shift?
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM — filed under: ,
The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
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