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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
Pushing the Boundaries in Open Governance: Insights from OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Bali, Indonesia (Day 1)
by Prasad Krishna — published May 06, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2014 11:16 AM — filed under: , , ,
Sunil Abraham is quoted. He said that open governance is more about citizens checking on what government leaders are doing than on government coding its citizens to exercise surveillance.
Located in News & Media
Pushing women scientists
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 21, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Wikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Putting a Lid on Royalty Outflows — How the RBI can Help Reduce India's IP Costs
by Sanjana Govil — published Jun 17, 2011 — last modified Jan 26, 2012 05:11 PM — filed under: ,
While entrepreneurs, IP rights-holders and everyone else who has a stake continue to voice their opinions on the appropriate shape that the Indian IP regime ought to take, they tend to narrow their discussions to the language of substantive IP laws. However, there are regulations that cannot be found in the Patent Act, Copyright Act or Trademarks Act which nevertheless have an impact on how much one is paying for intellectual property. Paying attention to these external factors might just provide a simple solution to your IP woes.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Putting women human rights activists on the world map
by Admin — published May 20, 2018 — filed under: ,
Birubala Rabha may be a household name in Assam, but her crusade against the practice of witch-hunting in her State has not got the attention it deserves from the nation or the world. Barring a handful of articles in print and online publications, little has been written about her fight that spans over two decades. There is no mention of her on Wikipedia.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Querying Wikipedia Data
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 21, 2016 — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PM — filed under: , , ,
Recently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Rahul Cherian passes away
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 10, 2013 — filed under: ,
Rahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
Located in News & Media
Blog Entry RCEP IP Chapter: A Serious Threat to Access to Knowledge/ Cultural Goods?
by Arul George Scaria and Anubha Sinha — published Aug 01, 2017 — filed under: ,
Negotiators from sixteen countries are currently meeting in Hyderabad for discussing a free trade agreement titled Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Re-licensing Sessions with Authors and Organisations
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jul 31, 2019 — last modified Aug 05, 2019 04:12 PM — filed under: , , ,
In collaboration with Marathi community, CIS-A2K is getting connected with various authors and organisations willing to re-license their content under CC-By-SA. A2K is facilitating the OTRS process Commons for re-licensing as well as digitisation of the content. The team of trained Wikimedians at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, District Pune has taken the responsibility of digitising the books and further uploads in Wikimedia projects.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 04, 2013 12:14 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m., at the Goa University Conference Hall.
Located in Openness / Blog
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