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Transparency and MDGs: the Role of the Media and Technology
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 30, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Key quotes from sixth panel
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News & Media
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Copyright bill restricts Net access
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 30, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:21 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights
Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity
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News & Media
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2010
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last modified
Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Copyright
India's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Privacy
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Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:28 AM
A summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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No UID Campaign in New Delhi - A Report
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2010
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last modified
Jun 20, 2012 03:51 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Unique Identification (UID) Bill is not pro-citizen. The scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforseen consequences. A public meeting on UID was held at the Constitution Club, Rafi Marg in New Delhi on 25 August, 2010. The said Bill came under scrutiny at the meeting which was organised by civil society groups from Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi campaigning under the banner of "No UID". The speakers brought to light many concerns, unanswered questions and problems of the UID scheme.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
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Gaming,
Gaming Economy,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work
This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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RAW
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Gaming and Gold
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August 2010 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 10:40 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW,
Openness
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society. We bring you news and media coverage, research and event updates for the month of August 2010
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About Us
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Newsletters
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First Post-Bilski Decision - Software Patent Rejected
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 24, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
In the first decision post-Bilski, the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) rejected a software patent claimed by Hewlett-Packard. The ruling in this case has buttressed the fact that the Bilski decision furthered the cause of narrowing the patentability of software even though the Supreme Court of the United States totally avoided mentioning software patents or the applicability of the machine or transformation test for software patents in its decision.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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The Bilski Case - Impact on Software Patents
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 24, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Supreme Court of the United States gave its decision in Bilski v Kappos on 28 June, 2010. In this case the petitioners’ patent application sought protection for a claimed invention that explains how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes. The Court in affirming the rejection by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also held that the machine- or-transformation test is not necessarily the sole test of patentability. The Court’s ruling of abstract ideas as unpatentable and its admission that patents do not necessarily promote innovation and may sometimes limit competition and stifle innovation have provided a ray of hope. In the light of the developments, the Bilski decision as far as patentability of software is concerned may not be totally insignificant, says Krithika Dutta Narayana.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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科技改變社會 數位原生代計畫
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 24, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:22 AM
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filed under:
Digital Natives
The Chinese language press covered the Digital Natives workshop in Taipei.
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News & Media