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by Ben Bas last modified May 02, 2016 05:53 AM

ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାର କୋକୁଆ ଆଣିବ ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jan 28, 2016 07:24 AM

This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Your Story. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of Airtel Zero and Free Basics with the Grameenphone project by Mozilla in Bangladesh and the worldwide Wikipedia Zero projects.

ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାର କୋକୁଆ ଆଣିବ ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ - Read More…

Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias

Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified May 28, 2016 06:52 AM

On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.

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Pervasive Technologies Project Presentations at the 4th Global Congress, 2015

by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jan 21, 2016 04:33 PM

These are the presentations made by the members of the PT Project team at the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015 at National Law University, New Delhi.

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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books

Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books

by Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule — last modified Jan 03, 2016 11:26 AM

As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jan 05, 2016 06:30 AM

Odia newspaper Sambad carried this featured column of mine yesterday in their Sunday supplement "Sambada Rabibara" on December 6, 2015.

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4th Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest: Statement of Conclusion for the IP and Development track

by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 25, 2015 02:22 AM

The 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held from December 15 to 17, 2015 in New Delhi. This post provides a summary of the event.

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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions in abeyance

by Anubha Sinha — last modified Dec 23, 2015 10:06 AM

The CRI Guidelines were heavily criticised for their failure to address the ambiguities created by Section 3(k) and for expanding the scope of software patent eligibile subject-matter, inter alia. Following several representations and submissions by interested stakeholders, the Controller General has moved the Guidelines into abeyance, until discussions with stakeholders are complete and contentious issues are resolved, and is a welcome step.

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GCIP15 Day 2: Fixing the problems in Trade Negotiations

by Kartik Chawla — last modified Dec 17, 2015 04:37 PM
December 17, 2015

This post documents the interesting discussions that took place in the Trade Negotiations Panel at day 2 of the GCIP 2015.

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GCIP Day 1 Session 3: Challenges in Re-Articulating Public Interest

by Spadika Jayaraj — last modified Dec 17, 2015 04:13 PM
December 17, 2015

At the third plenary session of GCIP15, the discussion revolved around challenges in re-articulating ‘public interest’ dimension in IP law and policy.

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