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25th Session of the WIPO SCP: Statement on Assessment of Inventive Step

Posted by Rohini Lakshané at Dec 15, 2016 02:45 PM |
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Statement emailed by Rohini Lakshané on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society to the Secretariat for the WIPO Standing Committee for the Law of Patents, Twenty Fifth Session, with reference to agenda item 7, "Sharing session on examples and cases relating to assessment of inventive step including, but not limited to, the topics suggested in document SCP/24/3, paragraph 8.

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Mini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India

Mini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India

Posted by dutta at Dec 15, 2016 05:30 AM |

Mini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a report.

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A Shortcut to Freedom

A Shortcut to Freedom

Posted by Tito Dutta at Dec 14, 2016 10:15 AM |

In our everyday life we need access to knowledge and information, we need books (and magazines, newspapers), movies (and documentaries, animations), music for education and entertainment purposes. Now, a delighting fact is almost everything we need, from a 1965 book to the latest Bollywood movie’s MP3 song, is available on the web. You knock the door, and it opens. Why should we care for free knowledge then? We have a got “a shortcut to freedom”.

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The Digital Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Questions Raised by the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in India

Posted by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda at Dec 09, 2016 03:50 PM |

This is an edited version of part three of a study that considers the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) through aspects of intellectual property in India, namely, mobile patents, free and open source software, and India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. Through these, it demonstrates the potential of the internet in realising ESCRs.

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Freedom in Feb — an awareness increasing campaign

Freedom in Feb — an awareness increasing campaign

Posted by Tito Dutta at Dec 08, 2016 10:30 AM |

You have heard about the Ice bucket challenge (and the rice bucket challenge). You may have heard about the 100happinessdays challenge (and its Wikipedia version 100wikidayschallenge). You may have heard and participated in the November no shaving challenge. Some of these campaigns are organized to increase awareness about different social issues. Now here the Centre for Internet and Society, India brings to you a campaign called Freedom In Feb.

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Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop

Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop

Posted by Sailesh Patnaik at Nov 28, 2016 12:00 AM |

An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.

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Sambalpur University Workshop

Posted by Sailesh Patnaik at Nov 27, 2016 05:00 PM |

An Odia Wikipedia Orientation program cum workshop was organized by CIS-A2K team in Sambalpur University on November 27, 2016. Sailesh Patnaik attended the workshop.

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Free Knowledge and Indian Government Work

Posted by Tito Dutta at Nov 26, 2016 03:25 PM |

Indian Government works are not available under free and open licenses. On the other hand a large number countries such as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Israel, Macedonia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela etc. have adopted the Creative Commons and other free licenses. The works by the US Federal Government automatically go into public domain. This article promotes the idea that the Government works should be freely licensed, wherever possible and applicable.

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Improving Telugu Village Articles

Posted by Pavan Santhosh at Nov 26, 2016 01:50 AM |

Telugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.

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100wikidays: the journey so far

100wikidays: the journey so far

Posted by Tito Dutta at Nov 23, 2016 05:55 AM |

In this article we'll chat with Bulgarian Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova (User:Spiritia) on the journey of 100wikidays so far, initial difficulties, and participation of Indian Wikipedia communities in the challenge.

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33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment

Posted by Anubha Sinha at Nov 18, 2016 03:28 PM |
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Anubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the GRULAC Proposal for Analysis of Copyright in the Digital Environment on behalf of CIS on Day 5, 18 November, 2016.

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33rd SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations

Posted by Anubha Sinha at Nov 16, 2016 01:30 PM |
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Anubha Sinha, attending the 33rd Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 14 November, 2016 to 19 November, 2016, made this statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations on behalf of CIS on Day 3, 16 November, 2016.

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33rd SCCR: Opening Statement by India on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group

Posted by Anubha Sinha at Nov 14, 2016 11:05 AM |
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Dr. Sumit Seth(Economic Affairs) of the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva delivered the Opening Statement on behalf of the Asia and the Pacific Group at 33rd Session of the of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights on 14th November 2016.

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Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November

Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November

Posted by Tito Dutta at Oct 30, 2016 07:05 AM |

The second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of the event. We'll also talk to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation.

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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 25, 2016 01:39 AM |

Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.

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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 22, 2016 04:12 AM |

The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.

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Querying Wikipedia Data

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Oct 21, 2016 02:50 PM |

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.

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UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Oct 20, 2016 02:26 AM |

One of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about some award for highest contribution.

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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards

World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.

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Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media Extensions

Posted by Harsh Gupta at Oct 20, 2016 12:16 AM |

This post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along six dimensions are examined.

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