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App Developers Series: Products-Services Dichotomy & IP (Part I)
— by Samantha Cassar — last modified Jul 21, 2014 01:43 AMRecently, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) held a series of interviews in attempts to better understand the ecosystem in which India's mobile app industry is emerging, how it is governed by India's current laws, and how mobile app developers are affected as a result. The following written series maps out the given responses and presents our findings from these interviews and accompanying conversations.
India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
— by T. Vishnu Vardhan — last modified Apr 08, 2014 09:51 AMOne of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 08, 2014 01:48 AMThe blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
— by Syed Muzammiluddin — last modified Apr 07, 2014 01:06 AMDuring the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.
Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses Online
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 06, 2014 06:00 AMThe post was co-authored by Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash H L and Subhashish Panigrahi and published in the March issue of Foss Force.
11th Century Kannada Literature Now on Wikisource
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 06, 2014 05:01 AMThis blog post by Pavithra Hanchagaiah and Omshivaprakash HI was edited by Rohini Lakshane for DNA. It was first edited by Subhashish Panigrahi, CIS-A2K on the Wikimedia Foundation blog where it was first published.
Open Education Week: Interview with Subhashish Panigrahi
— by Noopur Raval — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:20 AMNoopur Raval interviewed Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team about sharing information resources and attribution in academia.
Digitize any Book in the Public Domain
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AMThe article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
Cultural Interests vs. Modernization: Robert Shapiro on IPR & Innovation in India
— by Samantha Cassar — last modified Apr 03, 2014 10:54 AMLast Friday March 28, 2014, prominent economist and chairman of Sonecon, llc, Dr. Robert Shapiro, lead a discussion on the roles of IPR and FDI in innovation. Within his research findings, Shapiro argues for India to adopt a stricter IP regime in order to attract higher rates of FDI in pharmaceuticals and other industries, and in turn, to spur a more successful economy.
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 26th Session- Consolidated Notes (Part 3 of 3)
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Apr 01, 2014 09:48 AMFrom December 16 to 20, 2013, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met for the 26th session. This blog post (Part 3 of 3) summarizes Day 4 of the proceedings of the 26th SCCR, based on my notes of the session and WIPO's transcripts.
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