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‘Digitisation only way to preserve valuable literature for posterity’
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<b>Digitization is the only way to ensure preservation of valuable Odia books and old palm-leaf manuscripts for posterity, said eminent linguist Padmashri Dr Debiprasanna Pattanayak while inaugurating the two-day Odisha Day celebration organized by the Odia Wikimedia Community at Jayadev Bhawan here today.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://odishasuntimes.com/42293/digitisation-way-preserve-valuable-literature-posterity/">Odisha Sun Times</a> on March 29, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Collaborative effort and open access to knowledge repositories can help enrich our language and culture”, Dr. Pattanayak said while taking part in the deliberations. He lamented the fact that the majority of current Odia publications are not available on the net.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Among others, Prof Udayanath Sahu, the editor of Odisha Review Lenin Mohanty, editor, Odisha Bhaskar, Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher, Subrat Prusty from Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) and principal Dr Madan Mohan Sahu, Allhadmohini Mohanty, chairman, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa along with the Trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik, senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash took part in the deliberations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 volumes of eminent Odia writer Dr Jagannath Mohanty were released in free Creative Commons licenses. Besides, a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font designed by <a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/" target="_blank">www.OdiaLanguage.com</a> a new Odia input tool, free software and offline Wikipedia were also released on the occasion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">KISS will digitize these books by training its students, the organisers said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia admin Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech while Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read out the annual report and the vision of Odia Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was announced that the Odia WikiSource project will be activated soon.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-04-04T12:40:33ZNews Item‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಹಂಗಿಲ್ಲ
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-digitised
<b>ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ ಇದೇ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಮೂರು ದಶಕಗಳಷ್ಟು ಹಳೆಯ ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ದ ಮೊದಲ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ‘ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ಲೈಸನ್ಸ್’ನಡಿ (ಮುಕ್ತ ಪರವಾನಗಿ) ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಲಿದೆ</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the original published in Prajavani on July 14, 2014 <a class="external-link" href="http://www.prajavani.net/article/%E2%80%98%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%A1-%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%B6%E2%80%99%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%86-%E0%B2%87%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%81-%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%88%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D-%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಇದಕ್ಕೆಂದೇ ಕಳೆದ ಫೆಬ್ರುವರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯವು ಸಿಐಎಸ್ (ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಂಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ) ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪಂದ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟಗಳು ಇದೀಗ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ಓದುಗರಿಗೆ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತಿವೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಇದೇ ರೀತಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯವು ಕೂಡ ತನ್ನ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ ಸಮೂಹವು ಕೋರಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ, ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ವಿ.ವಿ ಇನ್ನೂ ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ಸೂಚಿಸಿಲ್ಲ. ಎಲ್ಲ ವಿ.ವಿ., ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ, ಪರಿಷತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತುಗಳು ತಯಾರಿಸಿದ ಮತ್ತು ಸರಕಾರದಿಂದ ಅನುದಾನ ಪಡೆದು ತಯಾರಾದ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ಪರವಾನಗಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂಬುದು ಬಹುತೇಕರ ಒತ್ತಾಯವಾಗಿದೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಜುಲೈ 15ರಂದು ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಕುವೆಂಪು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ‘ಮುಕ್ತ ಜ್ಞಾನ ದಿನಾಚರಣೆ’ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಲಪತಿ ಡಾ.ಕೆ.ಎಸ್. ರಂಗಪ್ಪ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶವನ್ನು ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಲೋಕಾರ್ಪಣೆ ಮಾಡುವರು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಏನಿದು ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್?: ಜ್ಞಾನ ಯಾರ ಸ್ವತ್ತೂ ಅಲ್ಲ. ಅದೊಂದು ಮುಕ್ತ ಹಾಗೂ ಸುಲಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ದಕ್ಕುವಂಥದ್ದಾಗಿರಬೇಕು. ಇದಕ್ಕೆಂದೇ ಅವತಾರವೆತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ‘ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್’ ಎಂಬ ಯಮಪಾಶಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿ ನರಳುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಎಬೆನ್ ಮೊಗ್ಲೆನ್ ಎಂಬುವರು ‘ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್’ ಎಂಬ ಹೊಸ ಚಳವಳಿಯನ್ನೇ ಜಾಗತಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹುಟ್ಟು ಹಾಕಿದ್ದು, ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಎಂಬ ಪರಿಕಲ್ಪನೆಯನ್ನೇ ತೊಡೆದುಹಾಕಲು ಶ್ರಮಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಇದರಡಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ ಇದೇ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ಜಾಗತಿಕ ಶಿಷ್ಟತೆಯಾದ ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಕ್ತಗೊಳಿಸಲಿದೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಏನಿದು ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ?: ದೃಶ್ಯ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳ ಹಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶಗಳು ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು ಎಂದು ಕೇಳುವ ಯುವಜನರೂ ನಮ್ಮ ನಡುವೆ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ. ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ದೂಳು ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾ ಎತ್ತರದ ಕಪಾಟುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂದಿಗೂ ಇವುಗಳನ್ನು ಕಾಣಬಹುದು. ಜ್ಞಾನದ ವಿವಿಧ ಶಾಖೆಗಳ ವಿವೇಚನೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಬಿಡಿ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಅಕರಾದಿಯಾಗಿ ಒಳಗೊಂಡ ಭಂಡಾರವೇ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಭರತನ ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ ಬಹುಶಃ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ ಮೊದಲ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ. ನಿಜಗುಣ ಶಿವಯೋಗಿಯ ವಿವೇಕ ಚಿಂತಾಮಣಿ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಮೊದಲ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಎನಿಸಿದೆ. ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ನ ಬ್ರಿಟಾನಿಕಾ ಎನ್ಸೈಕ್ಲೋಪೀಡಿಯಾ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಜಗತ್ತಿನಾದ್ಯಂತ ಹೆಸರುವಾಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. 1768–-1771ರ ನಡುವೆ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾದ ಅದು ವಿಶ್ವದ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಹಳೆಯ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಕೂಡ ಹೌದು. 1931ರಲ್ಲಿ ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತರು ‘ಬಾಲಪ್ರಪಂಚ’ ಕೋಶವನ್ನು ರಚಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಎನ್ಸೈಕ್ಲೋಪೀಡಿಯಾ ಬ್ರಿಟಾನಿಕ ಮಾದರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ರಚಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ1954ರಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಭವಾಯಿತು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರ ನೇತೃತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿವಿಯು ಯೋಜನೆ ಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಿ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿತು. 1954ರಿಂದ 1968ರವರೆಗೆ ಈ ಯೋಜನೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಇಲಾಖೆಯ ಅಧೀನದಲ್ಲಿತ್ತು. ದೇಜಗೌ ಅವರು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾಗ ಅಂದಿನ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ ವೀರೇಂದ್ರ ಪಾಟೀಲ, ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಸಚಿವ ಕೆ.ವಿ.ಶಂಕರಗೌಡ ಹಾಗೂ ಹಣಕಾಸು ಸಚಿವ ರಾಮಕೃಷ್ಣ ಹೆಗಡೆ ಅವರ ಮೂಲಕ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿವಿಯ ಶಾಶ್ವತ ಯೋಜನೆಯಾಗಿ ನೆಲೆಗೊಳ್ಳುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದರು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಪ್ರೊ.ದೇಜಗೌ ಅವರ ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶನ, ಪ್ರೊ.ಹಾ.ಮಾ. ನಾಯಕ ಅವರ ಸಾರಥ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಂಡಿತು. ಇದೀಗ ಇದನ್ನು ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಕ್ತವಾಗಿ ಹಂಚಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ.ಕೆಲವು ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳು ಹೀಗಿವೆ, ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿ.ವಿ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ ಯೋಜನೆ - <a href="http://bit.ly/mysoreunivwp%C2%A0">http://bit.ly/mysoreunivwp </a><br /> ವಿಕಿಸೋರ್ಸ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿ.ವಿ. ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ಲೇಖನಗಳು -<b> </b><a href="http://bit.ly/mysoreuniv">http://bit.ly/mysoreuniv</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-digitised'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-encyclopaedia-digitised</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-07-14T07:55:12ZNews Item2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") Colloquium
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/2016-works-in-progress-intellectual-property-wipip-colloquium
<b>Prof. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by School of Law, University of Washington. </b>
<p>For more details <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2016-WIPIP-Agenda.pdf" class="internal-link">click here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/2016-works-in-progress-intellectual-property-wipip-colloquium'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/2016-works-in-progress-intellectual-property-wipip-colloquium</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgePervasive Technologies2016-03-20T05:10:52ZNews Item2015 USTR Report: Old Wine in New Bottle
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2015-ustr-report-old-wine-in-new-bottle
<b>Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) undertakes an elaborate exercise to castigate countries' domestic intellectual property (IP) law and policy. The criticisms and recommendations are presented in a document called the Special 301 Report. This year's edition puts India on the Priority Watch List for the twenty-sixth time in a row. Below, I rebut the report's prejudicial claims and demands, and argue that the report puts free speech, innovation and public interest in jeopardy. </b>
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<a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2010-special-301">Keeping
in tradition </a>, the
2015 report yet again exposes US' hypocrisy by faithfully serving Hollywood and Big Pharma. In the past, countries
such as Israel and Canada have
publicly rejected the USTR's findings and derided the US for
unwarranted interference with domestic law and policy. Last year,
India too had refused to cooperate with a USTR initiated unilateral
investigation (Out of Cycle review) of its IP regime because the
investigation violated international law.
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<p align="JUSTIFY">The
Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a hard-hitting response
to the report. It draws <a href="https://www.eff.org/special-404">case
studies of countries</a>
where overbroad IP law has affected public interest, free speech and
innovation. For instance, it mentions how Colombia's 'reformed'
copyright law has become a travesty. Colombia introduced extreme
enforcement and harsh criminal sanctions for unauthorised sharing of
works at the behest of the US. Last year, news surfaced that a
Colombian biodiversity researcher faced upto eight years in prison
for sharing an academic article on Scribd. Any balanced IP regime
(including India) permits such use of copyrighted works under the
fair use principle, however, Colombia's narrow fair use provision has
led to a situation where citizens now face prison for ordinary use of
academic works.</p>
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<p>This
year the Special 301 Report in its section on India approves the
Prime Minister's statements to align IP law with international
standards, which is a cause for concern. Firstly, what are these
“international standards” that both US and India refer to
exactly? The most comprehensive international agreement on IP that
binds 160 member nations is the WTO Agreement on Trade related
aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS Agreement). Ergo, this
agreement would qualify as the most accepted “international
standard”, which India already complies with. Secondly, the TRIPS
Agreement sets down certain <em>global</em>
<em>minimum</em>
standards for protecting and enforcing IP, simultaneously providing
countries a certain degree of flexibility. However, the US has
consistently pushed India to enact tougher provisions known as TRIPS
Plus provisions. This is reflected in the report as well. Legally
speaking, under international law India is not obligated to accede to
such demands, and it should not if it wants a balanced IP regime to
protect and serve the interests both of rights holders and its
citizens.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">The
report shamelessly aligns its concerns with the financial interests
of foreign rights holders and American companies. It erroneously
projects IP as a tool to only maximise revenues, agnostic to public
interest. While
IP rights are temporary monopolies, they also are a tool to ensure
innovation, social, scientific and cultural progress and further
access to knowledge. It
is well established that flexible IP laws <a href="http://www.altlawforum.org/intellectual-property/publications/articles-on-the-social-life-of-media-piracy/reconsidering-the-pirate-nation">enable
access to knowledge and promote innovation</a>.
Such a flexible regime is critical to developing countries like
India. The USTR
conveniently forgets that lax
IP law and enforcement for a large part of the 19th century helped
the US to accelerate into an economic powerhouse and a front-runner
in innovation. It also
brazenly threatens to impose unilateral sanctions against a country
designated as a Priority Foreign Country on the list. This treatment
is usually reserved for the worst offender on the list. Such
unilateral threats and sanctions are again a direct violation of
international law.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">Unsurprisingly,
the report is critical of India's under-enforcement of copyright laws
and the impact of patent law on pharmaceuticals. It demands a
specific legislation to counter camcording and video piracy. The
prospective legislation is unnecessary because all movie theatres in
India prohibit camcorders and the prevailing Copyright Act, 1957
contains penalties to punish offenders. Instead of creating new
offences, we should re-evaluate the need of existing offences. <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2010-special-301">For
instance, copyright infringement on non-commercial scales should not
be a criminal offence at all</a><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2010-special-301">.</a>
Instead, the law should provide convenient and affordable access to
such works to counter petty infringement.</p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">India
is home to the world's largest apothecary. The Indian pharmaceutical
and medical device industry provides affordable healthcare to the
citizens, and also exports drugs to countries in need. In fact, the
compulsory licensing mechanism has ensured affordable access to life
saving liver and kidney drugs in India. The report comments on the
undesirability of section 3(d) and the compulsory licensing mechanism
in Indian patent law. With respect to section 3(d), the US wishes
India to to change its patent law to enable large pharma companies to
patent new forms of known substances that aren't even better. This
alarmist outlook smacks of hypocrisy because the US, in fact, has a
higher rate of patent invalidation and compulsory license grants! It
also demands data exclusivity – which would extend proprietary
rights to patentees over government mandated drug data, and would be
detrimental to the local pharma industry. Further, the report states
that the Indian system is biased against enforcement of foreign
patent rights holders - which is mere speculation. T<a href="http://spicyip.com/2015/04/modi-shames-india-calls-patent-laws-under-developed.html">here
is no evidence to draw such a conclusion.</a>
The claims relating to localisation trends in pharma are half- baked
and speculative again.</p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">The
report observes that at the UNFCCC negotiations, India recognised
patents as an obstacle to dissemination of climate change
technologies. It wishes India understood the critical role of patent
protection and competitiveness to ensure innovation, which is a
flawed co-relation. While strong IP rights may protect inventors
against infringement and provide return on investment, however,
<a href="https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/wgpark/upload/Intellectual-Property-Rights.pdf">stronger
IP rights also raise the cost of innovation by raising the price of
technological inputs into innovation and lower the frequency of
innovation.</a></p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">As
far as the issue of counterfeit medicines is concerned, a better
remedy lies in health safety laws and consumer laws, than the
trademark law. The report also approves of state legislatures'
version of the Goondas Act. These Acts <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/fallacies-lies-and-video-pirates">provide
for detainment of criminals and lumpen elements in society,</a>
and with recent amendments have expanded to include video pirates and
digital offenders. Karnataka's Goonda Act <a href="http://spicyip.com/2014/08/guest-post-karnatakas-goondas-act-an-examination.html">enabling
preventive detention violates </a><a href="http://spicyip.com/2014/08/guest-post-karnatakas-goondas-act-an-examination.html">constitutional rights</a>.
While the Sixth Amendment to the United States Bill of rights
protects offenders against preventive detention, the US has no qualms
about approving such unconstitutional procedures in India.</p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>
</strong></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">The
arguments above underscore the irrelevance of the report. The Prime
Minister may have made appeasing statements to the USA, however, in a
welcome development Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sithraman
in response to the report stated <em>“I</em><em>ndia
is fully aligned with international intellectual property rights
standards and "there is no need for anyone to question us."”
</em>Our
IP
regime with its inherent flexibilities should be preserved and not
sacrificed at the altar of US' business interests. Using
compulsory licensing across sectors would indeed accelerate
technology transfer and diminish initial capex for manufacturers, a
move promoted by the National Manufacturing Policy. The ambitious
Make in India and Digital India campaigns are set to suffer if India
incorporates TRIPS plus standards into its IP regime. The <a href="https://opensource.com/government/10/11/open-standards-policy-india-long-successful-journey">government
supports opennes</a><a href="https://opensource.com/government/10/11/open-standards-policy-india-long-successful-journey">s</a>
and has implemented policies mandating use of open standards and open
source software as a part of the Digital India campaign. India should
not let foreign hands dictate its IPR Policy, and proceed to develop
a policy
which is informed by broader principles of fairness and equity,
balancing intellectual property protections with limitations and
exceptions/user rights such as those for research, education and
access to medicines.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2015-ustr-report-old-wine-in-new-bottle'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/2015-ustr-report-old-wine-in-new-bottle</a>
</p>
No publishersinhaIntellectual Property RightsHomepageLimitations & ExceptionsAccess to Knowledge2015-06-16T10:24:49ZBlog Entry2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Call for Participation and Save the Date
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip-call-for-participation
<b>The Second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest will take place in FGV Law School, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from December 15 to 17, 2012. The theme for this year’s Congress will be “Setting the positive agenda in motion.” We invite applications to attend the Congress, including proposals to chair workshops or deliver a paper or presentation related to the Congress’s theme.</b>
<h2>Application and Cost <br /></h2>
<p>The application form is available <a class="external-link" href="http://jotformpro.com/form/21173970862962">online</a><a class="external-link" href="http://jotformpro.com/form/21173970862962"></a>. Due to generous support from our sponsors, the Congress will cover the registration fees and all on-site costs for all attendees, including lunches and dinner receptions. Limited travel grants to cover accommodation and/or travel to the Congress will be available, with priorities for those from developing countries.</p>
<h2>Deadlines</h2>
<ol><li>Priority applications for travel assistance and to present or chair a workshop at the Congress will be due by August 1, 2012.</li><li>Final applications for travel grants, subject to funding availability, as well as applications to present at the Congress, will be due by September 1, 2012.</li><li>Applicants not seeking travel assistance or presentation opportunities may apply to attend the Congress by November 1, 2012.</li></ol>
<h2>Background and Explanation of the Theme</h2>
<p>The first Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was convened in 2011 to define a positive agenda for policy reform, build a global network of scholars and advocates to promote the agenda and provide opportunities for the sharing of research and strategies. The nearly 200 inaugural participants from over 30 countries and 6 continents deliberated over three days through in-person meetings and web-based collaboration to produce the Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (<a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration">http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration</a>) -- an action agenda for promoting the public interest in intellectual property and information law reform around the world.</p>
<p>Sixteen months later, we come together to measure our progress and expand the positive agenda. To this end, we invite applications to attend the Congress and contribute to its deliberations identifying forums where policy is being developed, proposing policies or actions that promote public interest goals and principles, and identifying and planning to respond to research and analysis needs.</p>
<h2>Presentation Opportunities</h2>
<p>Because the primary purpose of the Congress is to promote deliberation and action planning, the opportunities for formal presentation will be somewhat limited. We will, however, have spaces for keynote presentations or panel discussions for each session (see below). In addition, as in the inaugural year, the Congress will host small works-in-progress workshops to allow participants to share their own work and solicit feedback from peers.</p>
<h2>Draft Workshop Sessions</h2>
<p>Six main tracks will include a half day workshop introduced by a
lecture or panel discussion on one or more of the themes noted below.
The keynote introduction will be followed by deliberation in which
participants will, first, review progress and opportunity in existing or
potential policy forums and, second, review the current state of
research and identify policy and empirical research needs and resources.
Tracks will also have opportunities to draft statements or action plans
for adoption at the closing plenary of the Congress or for discussion
and online after the Congress ends.</p>
<p>We encourage applicants to identify specific sessions in which they would like to contribute.</p>
<p><strong>Regulating Intellectual Property</strong>: This session will survey
recent developments and proposals to regulate uses of intellectual
property through other legal doctrines that express and safeguard human
values, including human rights, consumer protection, competition and
privacy laws.<br /><br /><strong>Valuing Openness and the Public Domain</strong>: This
session will survey recent developments and proposals to ensure that
creative and innovative works ultimately become free for all to use as
part of the public domain, including through open licensing, open
access, open educational resources, open data, open standards, open
government, and related open information policies.<br /><br /><strong>Strengthening Limitations and Exceptions as Enabling Tools for Innovation and Expression</strong>:
This session will survey recent developments and proposals to use
limitations and exceptions as positive enabling doctrines to ensure that
intellectual property law fulfills its ultimate purpose of promoting
essential aspects of the public interest.<br /><br /><strong>Setting Public Interest Priorities for Patent and Research and Development Reform</strong>:
This session will survey recent developments and proposals to ensure
that patent and other research and development policies serve all
segments of society, and particularly the most disadvantaged, and
accommodate the diverse needs of a complex world with a more diverse
structure of incentives for innovation.<br /><br />Supporting Cultural
Creativity: This session will survey recent developments and proposals
to maximize opportunities for creativity while increasing access to
creative works and helping to end disputes over practices like
non-commercial file-sharing.<br /><br /><strong>Checking Enforcement Excesses</strong>:
This session will survey recent developments and proposals to ensure
that intellectual property enforcement policies and practices respect
the human rights principle of proportionality and are not used as a
diversion from the difficult task of tailoring intellectual property
norms to their social contexts.<br /><br /><strong>Implementing Development Agendas</strong>:
This session will survey recent developments and proposals to fully
integrate the development dimension into intellectual property policy
and norm-setting at all levels of international and national
intellectual policy making. The session will have a special focus on
developments in the BRICS group of emerging economies.<br /><br /><strong>Targeted Research</strong>:
Given the spectrum of issues described above, what are the key research
needs? Given academic incentive structures, what kinds of research
fall through the cracks? Given the funding crisis in this field, how
can we meet research needs on the cheap? Given the international scope
of many policy issues, how can we work collaboratively and
comparatively? Given the Internet, how can we develop and leverage new
software tools for data collection?<br /><br />In addition to the above
sessions, we invite presentations on other topics relevant to the
positive agenda the Washington Declaration promotes, including:</p>
<ul><li>the role of mobilisation and activism.</li><li>collaboration between ISPs and governments in enforcement</li><li>the ecology of access to educational materials</li><li>designing copyright from scratch</li><li>updates and lessons from specific forms, e.g. WIPO, national legislatures, trade negotiations, etc.<br /></li></ul>
<p>The application form is available <a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/globalcongress2012/registration">here</a><a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/public-events/globalcongress2012/registration"></a>. Please forward this invitation to interested lists and individuals. For more information or questions, you may contact<a class="external-link" href="mailto:globalcongress2012@gmail.com"> globalcongress2012@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<h2>Global Congress Planning Committee</h2>
<ol><li>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade – CTS | FGV DIREITO RIO, 2012 Chair</li><li>American Assembly, Columbia University, New York</li><li>International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva</li><li>Centre for Internet and Society, India</li><li>Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open AIR) initiative</li><li>Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Wash. D.C.</li></ol>
<a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Call-for-Participation-and-Save-the-Date.pdf">Click </a>to read the original published in infojustice.org
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip-call-for-participation'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip-call-for-participation</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2012-05-02T05:05:57ZBlog Entry2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip
<b>We are pleased to announce the Second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. The theme for this year’s Congress will be “Setting the positive agenda in motion,” and will have a special focus on developments and opportunities in the so-called “BRICS” group of emerging economies. This note invites applications to attend the Congress, including proposals to chair workshops or deliver a paper or presentation related to the Congress’s theme.
</b>
<h2>Application and Cost Information</h2>
<p>The application form is available now at <a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/public-events/globalcongress2012/registration">http://infojustice.org/globalcongress2012/registration</a>. Due to generous support from our sponsors, the Congress will cover the registration fees and all on-site costs for all attendees, including lunches and dinner receptions. Limited travel grants to cover accommodation and/or travel to the Congress will be available, with priorities for those from developing countries.</p>
<h2>Deadline</h2>
<ul><li>Priority applications for travel assistance and to present or chair a workshop at the Congress will be due by August 1, 2012.</li><li>Final applications for travel grants, subject to funding availability, as well as applications to present at the Congress, will be due by September 1, 2012.</li><li>Applicants not seeking travel assistance or presentation opportunities may apply to attend the Congress by November 1, 2012.</li></ul>
<p>
Please forward this invitation to interested lists and individuals. For more information or questions, you may contact<a class="external-link" href="mailto:globalcongress2012@gmail.com"> globalcongress2012@gmail.com</a></p>
<hr />
<h2>Global Congress Planning Committee</h2>
<ol><li>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade – CTS | FGV DIREITO RIO, 2012 Chair</li><li>American Assembly, Columbia University, New York</li><li>International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva</li><li>Centre for Internet and Society, India</li><li>Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open AIR) initiative</li><li>Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Wash. D.C.</li></ol>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://infojustice.org/public-events/globalcongress2012">Read the original published on infojustice.org</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/global-congress-on-ip</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2012-05-02T05:04:57ZEvent“Made in India” Innovation Policy
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/spicy-ip-september-19-2016-prof-colleen-v-chien-and-prof-jorge-l-contreras-made-in-india-innovation-policy
<b>In this post they emphasize upon the need for data-driven IP policy making in India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This blog post written by Prof Collen Chien and Prof Contreras, and published this week (September 19, 2016) on <a class="external-link" href="http://spicyip.com/2016/09/made-in-india-innovation-policy.html">SpicyIP</a> mentions CIS' patent landscaping study.</p>
<hr style="text-align: justify; " />
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A few weeks ago we were honored to participate in <a href="http://www.jgu.edu.in/jirico/attachments/Agenda.pdf">Jindal Global Law School’s Conference on “Innovation for Shared Prosperity</a>”. Much of the conversation was centered on the important topic of how intellectual property (IP) policy can best support manufacturing and entrepreneurship initiatives like the “Startup India” and “Make in India”. In turn, we believe it’s also important to think about how best to foster IP policies that are truly “made in India”. In light of India’s history of implementing certain IP policies because it <i>had </i>to, not because it <i>wanted </i>to, for example recent <a href="http://gip-india.in/new-patents-amendment-rules-2016-india/">homegrown commitments</a> to strengthen the patent system by reducing the time to patent are notable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The record is already replete with examples of indigenous innovation by Indian policymakers. Whether <a href="http://www.managingip.com/Article/3261987/India-The-implications-for-patent-owners-of-section-3d.html">section 3(d)</a>, <a href="http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/manual/HTML%20AND%20PDF/Manual%20of%20Patent%20Office%20Practice%20and%20Procedure%20-%20html/Forms/Form-27.pdf">Form 27 patent working disclosures</a>, or the “Middle Path” approach to requiring deposits in standards essential patent disputes – agree or disagree with them, these Indian approaches to innovation policy are<b> <i>themselves</i> </b>innovative.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">But one problem that we have observed is that the data available to develop and evaluate Indian IP policies tends to be thin. With respect to patents, for example, it is hard to access patent records, as there are often long delays before patent applications, patent working disclosures and other documents are uploaded to the Indian Patent Office (IPO) web site, notwithstanding statutory requirements and IPO policies. While there have been some published reports of cases and published decisions (<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=995994">Mathur 2007</a>, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176263">Ghosh 2012</a>), it is generally hard, as it is in other jurisdictions, to match patent filings to them to court filings, assignment records, citations, prior art and other metrics of interest. This isn’t true just of India but many other countries. But to support world class, data-driven policy making, support for analytical work, combined with data access, is needed. This is particularly important given the demonstrated gap between <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2745435">rules on the books, which may appear harmonized, and rules in practic</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">e</span>, which are not.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In developing policy, it is often useful to start with the ultimate policy goal – whether it be <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/a-look-at-indias-15-place-jump-in-global-innovation-index/articleshow/53852329.cms">further improving the country’s ranking on the Innovation Index </a>or taking a place at the international standard setting table – and then developing data-based metrics to demonstrate progress toward that goal. The assumptions behind conflicting policy positions can then be tested and vetted against actual experience within the Indian setting. It is through these processes that a “made in India” innovation policy will be truly indigenous, reflecting not only political mandates and theories, but the demonstrated experience of India’s technical, business, and legal communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Historically, there have been relatively few empirical studies to support data-based policy making. In the non-exhaustive list below, we highlight several studies and reports (some our own) that demonstrate the usefulness and power of empirical data:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>One topic about which there have been an exceptional number of empirical studies is the Indian pharmaceutical sector. Duggan and collaborators (<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2054361">2012</a>, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2505854">2014</a>) studied the relationship between drug prices and pharmaceutical patent issuances in India, and <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=214635">Lanjouw and Cockburn (2000)</a> and <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=1885246">Nandkumar and Srikanth (2011)</a> explored the relationship between Indian patent issuance and strength and R&D spending. Recently <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12116-015-9181-7">Sampat and Shadlen</a> have found that policies to discourage so-called “secondary” drug patents in India and Brazil have had little direct effect.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>With the initiation by foreign patent holders a few years ago of infringement suits against a variety of domestic Indian and Chinese smartphone manufacturers, many wondered how much of the Indian mobile device patent landscape was already in the hands of foreign companies. <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0989706-JORGE_L_CONTRERAS/biography/index.hml">Contreras</a>, together with <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team#rohini">Rohini Lakshané</a> of the <a href="http://cis-india.org">Centre for Internet and Society</a>, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2756486">conducted a study</a> to find out. Their results were telling: of approximately 23,500 total Indian patents and published patent applications in the mobile device sector, only 50, about 0.00% were owned by Indian companies. It is hoped that this eye-opening result will help mobilize Indian firms and policy makers to address the lack of Indian participation in international technology standardization efforts.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>WIPO publishes statistics yearly about India’s relative rank with respect to a number of innovation metrics. While many are aware that India ranked 66th in this year’s <a href="http://www.wipo.int/econ_stat/en/economics/gii/">Global Innovation Index</a>, up 15 places from 2015 (Switzerland ranked 1st), WIPO’s <a href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2015.pdf">2015 IP indicators report </a>contains other findings: that India ranks in the top 15 globally in terms of patent filing activity, that non-residents are using the Indian Patent Office more heavily than are residents (Fig. 2, p. 23) and that recent filings have been dominated by computer technology, organic fine chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Others have relied on WIPO statistics <a href="https://factly.in/india-way-behind-china-in-international-patents/">to compare </a>India’s performance with that of China and other BRIC countries.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India is by nature an innovative nation. Its innovative spirit manifests itself both in terms of technology creation as well as policy development. Nevertheless, without robust, reproducible and broadly accessible data, policy decisions will continue to be based on intuition, guesswork and partisan advocacy by those having the most to gain from the system. We encourage the Indian government and academy to continue to devote resources to develop a robust data culture within the Indian intellectual property community and to make the underlying data as widely available as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/spicy-ip-september-19-2016-prof-colleen-v-chien-and-prof-jorge-l-contreras-made-in-india-innovation-policy'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/spicy-ip-september-19-2016-prof-colleen-v-chien-and-prof-jorge-l-contreras-made-in-india-innovation-policy</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaPatentsAccess to Knowledge2016-09-22T01:15:40ZNews Item“Copyright Management in the Age of Mobile Music” - Living Methodology Document
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/copyright-management-in-age-of-mobile-music
<b>This blog post outlines the research methodology for a chapter in the Pervasive Technologies: Access to the Marketplace project, in which access to the mobile phone hardware, software, and content is assessed within the intellectual property framework in India and China. This chapter focuses on copyright and access to music content in India. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Problem: </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In light of new music distribution business models accessible via the mobile phone, there has been increasing complexity in music copyright licensing, revenue, and royalty distribution. Despite the intent of the 2012 Copyright Amendment to resolve stakeholder grievances, the copyright institutions in India continue to lack legitimacy amongst relevant stakeholders for the management of music copyright.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Objective: </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Provide evidence-based policy proposals which may aid industry leaders and policy makers to more effectively manage music copyright in India</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Questions </b></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>How have evolving music distribution technologies accessible via the mobile in India impacted business models and licensing practices amongst stakeholders in the digital music industry?</li>
<li>What are the specific copyright challenges for each relevant stakeholder, and how can the copyright institutions provide for more effective management in the industry? </li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Objects</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Copyright institutions:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span>Copyright Act (and 2012 Amendment)</span></li>
<li><span>Copyright Board</span></li>
<li><span>Copyright societies</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Modes of mobile music access</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><span>Value-added-services</span></li>
<li><span>Device- bundled music</span></li>
<li><span>Online download stores</span></li>
<li><span>Online streaming (primary focus due to increasing popularity)</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Methodology</b></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>How have evolving music distribution platforms impacted business models and licensing practices amongst stakeholders in the digital music industry?</b>
<ul>
<li>Map out digital platforms' business models</li>
<li>Identify stakeholders within these ecosystems, and their copyright licensing negotiation process, terms, and revenue distribution </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>What are the specific challenges pertaining to copyright and licensing for each relevant stakeholder? How can the copyright institutions provide for more effective management? </b>
<ul>
<li>Identify and evaluate grievances pre- and post-2012 Copyright Amendment</li>
<li>Identify proposals for improvement of copyright institutions: Copyright Act, Copyright Board, copyright societies. </li>
<li>Compare music copyright institutional structure and process in other jurisdictions </li>
<li>Gather list of policy proposals and evaluate </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Methods:
<ul>
<li>Literature review – industry reports, media reports, industry blog posts, academic research, </li>
<li>Expert interviews of stakeholders – handset manufacturers, copyright societies, government, lobby groups, content aggregators, music labels, music publishers, online streaming platforms, online music retailers, venture capital investors, telecom operators, musicians, multi-channel networks, legal practitioners </li>
<li>Stakeholder analysis of policy proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify; "> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/copyright-management-in-age-of-mobile-music'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/copyright-management-in-age-of-mobile-music</a>
</p>
No publishermaggieAccess to KnowledgePervasive Technologies2014-12-26T13:44:25ZBlog Entry150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-rare-books-get-new-lease-of-life-online-courtesy-students
<b>You might have heard about Samkshepa Vedartham by Clement Pianius, the first book printed in Malayalam but might not have got a chance to read it.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Anila Backer was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/150-Rare-Books-Get-New-Lease-of-Life-Online-Courtesy-Students/2014/07/15/article2331073.ece">published in the New Indian Express</a> on July 15, 2014. The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) supported this Malayalam community event.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now, you can read the book published in 1772 online through the Malayalam Wiki library (Wiki grandhasala). More than 150 such rare books have been digitised and uploaded by the school students across the state and a few members of the public as part of the digitisation contest jointly hosted by Malayalam Wikipedia community, IT@School, Kerala Sahitya Akademi , Centre for Internet and Society and Swathanthra Malayalam computing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More than 1,000 students from 137 schools and 234 participants from the public uploaded more than 13,000 pages of rare books such as Hasthalakshana Deepika (1892) by Kadathanattu Udayavarma Thampuran, Madamahee Shashathakam Manipravalam (1908) by Kottaratil Shankunni, Malayazhmayude Vyakaranam (1863) by Rev George Mathan and Divan Shankunni Menon (1922) by C Achutha Menon as part of the competition held during January and February.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Besides, you can also acquire information on the social scenario during different time periods, like the matrilineal system of inheritance, ‘Marumakkathayam’ through the various volumes of old magazines digitised by the students. Magazines such as Mangalodayam and Rasikaranjini are also available in the wiki library. “Books that were not available in Malayalam and those existed only in the German and French libraries were digitised with the contest. The contest was organised to provide the public access to these rare collections,” says IT@School Wayanad district coordinator V J Thomas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“It also allows one to search for a particular word or topic as well as to copy the content of the book for a research work or other purposes that cannot be done with a scanned copy of a book,” he adds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Moreover, it also aims at developing an interest among the students towards Malayalam computing and to make them effectively utilise the scope of Internet, besides improving their reading habit,” he added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“It has also improved the typing speed of the students and they get familiar with the old fonts in the language also,” he added.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-rare-books-get-new-lease-of-life-online-courtesy-students'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-rare-books-get-new-lease-of-life-online-courtesy-students</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMalayalam WikipediaOpenness2014-07-18T06:12:31ZNews Item100wikidays: the journey so far
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100wikidays
<b>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.</b>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays">100wikidays</a> is a personal Wiki challenge, in which a participant attempts to create at least one new article on Wikipedia, for 100 days in a row. This initiative is a brainchild of Bulgarian Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova (<a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spiritia">User:Spiritia</a>) and it started on 16 January 2015. As of 22 November 2016, 194 Wikipedians have taken this challenge and 63 of them have successfully completed it. A delighting fact is a large number of Indian Wikipedians have participated in this initiative and successfully completed this challenge. In this blog post we’ll try to focus on the project and its influence on Indian Wikimedians.</p>
<p>Let’s start the conversation with Vassia Atanassova, (User:Spiritia), the editor who started this initiative.</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> First, we congratulate you for the success of 100wikidays. When you started this challenge in January 2015, did you think that one day it would become so big?</p>
<p><strong>Vassia:</strong> No, actually I wasn’t completely sure that I myself will be able to complete it. :) The story behind the 100wikidays is that earlier in 2014 I had already tried the so called “100happydays” challenge, in which you prove that 100 days in a row you have found happiness, even in the smallest things, by posting a photo of what made you happy. Needless to say, I failed it, around the 11-th day, which according to statistics happens with 7 out of 10 people. :) So, when in the end of 2014 I got the idea of retrying the challenge, already only knew that happiness was obviously not “my cup of tea” :) so I had to try something I am good in and have more chances for success, like writing in Wikipedia. :) But back then, I didn’t believe that I will be able to finish it myself – it was such a crazy idea – and no, I had never planned it as anything bigger than my own personal challenge. :)</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> Let’s talk about the initial days. What were the difficulties you faced? <br /><strong>Vassia:</strong> As I had already failed the happy photography challenge before, I was really nervous in the beginning. The challenge – as the rules of the #100happydays postulate – requires you to make a public commitment and announce your daily progress, and this is very demanding. You commit in front of a community you care for and don’t want to lose your face, or disappoint them. For me, this is half of the difficulty – and half of the magic.</p>
<p>The other half, of course, is to really find the time to create a decent encyclopedic article every day. We are definitely not talking about long featured articles, of course, but decent articles, giving the basic necessary information about a topic, referenced with reliable sources. I am not really eager about the idea of #100stubdays, although, of course, I have also had extremely busy days when I am not able to produce anything longer than a stub. <br /><br />Thus, one of the first lessons I had to learn from the challenge was how to find the right balance between the inborn perfectionism and the unavoidable time limitations. I think that everyone who commits to the challenge and doesn’t quit it immediately, has such a period of adapting one’s style of contributing, of rearranging life priorities, and stealing from oneself precious time that would otherwise spend with the family, with friends, for other hobbies, or simply for sleeping. Oh, sleeping, how much I started appreciate sleep after the beginning of the challenge! #100wikidays is famous for jokes related with sleep deprivation. :)</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> How did you promote this initiative among the Wikipedia communities around the world?<br /><strong>Vassia:</strong> Hmm… I didn’t! It all happened naturally, by word of mouth. It is editors who are promoting it by getting involved in the challenge, I am not doing anything special. 100wikidays is living its own life. :)<br /><br />In the beginning friends of mine who followed my Facebook wall liked and sometimes commented on the posts with the new articles. It took about one month before the first follower appeared, one of the ex-students in my university course “Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies”, Vladislav Nedelev. About that time I <a class="external-link" href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/100wikidays">decided to propose</a> the idea of the #100wikidays as a topic for talk at <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania">Wikimania</a>. Funny detail is that initially this talk proposal got rejected, and it took weeks before it was reevaluated and approved :) <br /><br />In the meanwhile, in early March, the next follower, or “victim”, joined, and happily that one was <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon">Asaf Bartov</a>, Wikimedia Foundation’s senior officer in emergent Wikimedia communities. He didn’t want to be alone in the trouble :))) so one day he posted on his wall the question “Who will be the first Indian Wikipedian to commit to #100wikidays?” And by the end of the day there were four people (you, Tito, included)!!! And it was amazing, absolutely mindblowing!</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100wikidaysFBscreenshot.png/image_preview" alt="100wikidays FB post" class="image-inline image-inline" title="100wikidays FB post" /></p>
<p>Asaf also proposed the idea of <a class="external-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1426807560950747/">the Facebook group</a> and the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays">Meta coordination page</a>, where people report their daily progress. In my opinion, he is the most efficient victims recruiter in the #100wikidays :)<br /><br />As of today (22 November 2016) we have 194 “victims” from 54 language versions of Wikipedia – and several sister projects like Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary and Commons and about 1/3 of all who have started it, have also completed it successfully. So, yeah, somehow it really became a global thing :) And real life meetings very much helped for that. Nikola Kalchev’s lightning talk at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, my talks at Wikimania in Mexico, at the Central and Eastern European Meetup in Voore, and at WikiLive conference in Belgrade, Alex Stinson’s speech at WikiConference USA 2015, Asaf also. Everyone who has taken the challenge can become its ambassador.</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> Tell us about a few participants who performed really well in this challenge? <br /><strong>Vassia:</strong> Oh, there are so many wonderful editors in #100wikidays, so many examples to be followed, people who are trendsetters on their own! Of course, Antanana and Lord Bumbury, who couldn’t stop themselves after the 100-th day, and made more than 220 wikidays in a row, each of them! Armine, who is now doing her 5th run of #100wikidays. Adam Cuerden with his runs of #10commonsdays of restoring old photographs, pixel by pixel! Asaf, Rosiestep, Penny Richards, Patricio, Maor X, and others whose focus is solely on biographies of notable women. Mervat Salman who introduced the #WikiWomenWeeks driving even more attention to this topic. Everyone in the challenge has brought to it something new and unique. And the most beautiful of it all is when ideas spread virally among the #100wikidays community, and people inspire each other with their choice of articles, and the way they communicate them.</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> 100wikidays is a difficult challenge. If someone writes articles for 60 or 70 days in a row, and then for some reason fails to continue, would you call it a failure, or what would be your suggestions?<br /><strong>Vassia:</strong> Heh, my favourite question. :) The word “failure” does not exist in my #100wikidays vocabulary. If you quit before the end of the 100 days, or if it takes you more than 100 days to finish, you have still made contributions to Wikipedia and has allowed someone to learn from the free knowledge that you have shared with the world. :) I know, the challenge has rules that really seem to be discouragingly severe. And it is normal that not everybody opts for it. But once you dare to opt, in the FB group you receive enormous support and appreciation – every day, for every new article. Also, among the challenge rules, the last one is “Ignore All Rules”. So, it is only up to you to decide whether a missed day is really a failure or not. My advice to everyone in this situation is: continue as if nothing has happened and no one has noticed :)</p>
<p><strong>CIS-A2K: </strong>Several Indian Wikipedia communities participated in 100wikidays. Tell us about the participation of Indian Wikipedians in this challenge.<br /><strong>Vassia:</strong> So far, there have been contributors in 9 Indian languages: Punjabi (17), Oriya/Odia (3), Telugu (4), Bengali (3), Tamil (5), Hindi (4), Kannada (1), Malayalam (8). Correct me if I am missing anything. :) The total figure makes Indians the most active participants in the challenge, globally, with Armenia scoring second with 27 editors by now. No less than 13 are the Indian alumni, so far, which is quite of a big percentage of all. And the projects covered are different, not just Wikipedia in all those different languages, but also Wikisource, Wiktionary. This is truly impressive because some of the sister projects, like Wikisource, are really very demanding in terms of human resources and time, and usually not so populated with editors, which makes it even a greater challenge to undertake #100wikidays there. And I can’t but mention the recent notable interest in the challenge, registered in Malayalam Wikipedia. I’d be really very happy to know that the challenge has helped for the substantial growth of their, and generally, to any language version of Wikipedia. :)</p>
<h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/06/100wikidays-challenge/"><em>The #100wikidays challenge</em></a> at Wikimedia Foundation Blog<br /></li></ul>
<h2>Credits<strong><br /></strong></h2>
<ul><li><strong>Image source:</strong> <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania2016_100wikidays_meetup_3.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>, license: CC-BY-SA 4.0, author: Kacie Harold</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100wikidays'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100wikidays</a>
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No publishertito100wikidaysWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-06-28T10:04:33ZBlog Entry100 Konkani Articles Added to Wikipedia in One Day
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/100-konkani-articles-added-to-wikipedia-in-one-day
<b>This was published in the Times of India.</b>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Konkani.png/@@images/9d691e8f-f4cd-4885-ab2c-e22545dc7876.png" alt="Konkani Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Konkani Wikipedia" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/100-konkani-articles-added-to-wikipedia-in-one-day'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/100-konkani-articles-added-to-wikipedia-in-one-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to Knowledge2016-02-12T15:17:02ZNews Itemमहाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक संस्थेमधील एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाईन
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93890293894d92594792e927940932-90f915-93991c93e930-91794d930902925-91192893293e908928
<b>Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Saamna.</b>
<p>A scanned version of the article published in Saamna on October 30 is below:</p>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Marathi_Wikipedia_News_from_Saamna_newspaper.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Marathi Wikipedia Saamna" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93890293894d92594792e927940932-90f915-93991c93e930-91794d930902925-91192893293e908928'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93890293894d92594792e927940932-90f915-93991c93e930-91794d930902925-91192893293e908928</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaMarathi WikipediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T07:57:00ZNews Itemमराठी पुस्तके 'विकिस्रोत' ला, सकाळ
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1
<b>Marathi Wikipedia media coverage in Sakaal newspaper.</b>
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<p>Scanned version of the article published in Sakaal on October 28, 2015:</p>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Sakaal_Coverage.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Sakaal" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaMarathi WikipediaCIS-A2KAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T07:44:52ZNews Itemभाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के मानक बनाने के लिए चेन्नई में हुआ तीसरा फ्यूल जिल्ट
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/92d93e93793e908-91590292a94d92f94291f93f902917-915947-92e93e928915-92c92893e928947-915947-93293f90f-91a94792894d928908-92e947902-939941906-92494093893093e-92b94d92f942932-91c93f93294d200d91f
<b>“मूसलाधार बारिश से जूझ रही चेन्नई में तीसरा फ़्यूल ज़िल्ट कॉन्फरेंस 2015 सफलतापूर्वक रविवार 22 नवंबर को संपन्न हुआ। भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के लिए मानक भाषाई संसाधन और औज़ार बनाने में पिछले सात सालों से जुटी फ़्यूल परियोजना के द्वारा 2013 में आरंभ किए गए इस सम्मेलन के प्रायोजक और आयोजक दुनिया की जानी-मानी कंपनियां मोज़िला, सी-डैक और रेड हैट हैं। इसके पहले के दोनों सम्मेलन पुणे में आयोजित किए गए थे। यह सम्मेलन लोकलाइजेशन क्षेत्र का ओपन सोर्स का सबसे बड़ा सम्मेलन है।”</b>
<p>The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.outlookhindi.com/media/social-media/third-fuel-jilt-in-chennai-to-make-the-standard-for-linguistic-computing-5210#undefined">Outlook</a> on November 26, 2015.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="normal">तीन दिवसीय यह सम्मेलन 20 नवंबर को चेन्नई के अन्ना विश्वविद्यालय के टैग ऑडिटोरियम में आरंभ हुआ। इसके उद्घाटन सत्र को मोज़िला के लोकलाइजेशन ड्राइवर एक्सेल हेच्ट, आईआईटी मद्रास की प्रोफ़ेसर हेमा मूर्ति, आईआईटी मद्रास के ही हेमचंद्रण कराह और सीडैक के सहायक निदेशक जसजीत सिंह ने संबोधित किया। पहले दिन के शाम के पैनल डिसक्शन में मोज़िला की पेइंग मो और आर्की तथा अवाया के जी. करूणाकर और फ्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के संस्थापक राजेश रंजन के मॉडरेशन में खुली परिचर्चा हुई। पहले दिन के कार्यक्रम में भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग पर काम करने वाले कई जाने-माने विद्वानों ने हिस्सा लिया।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="normal">तमिलनाडु के स्थानीय भाषाई तकनीक विशेषज्ञों के अलावा इस सम्मेलन में भारत और नेपाल के विभिन्न भाषा-भाषाई करीब पचास से अधिक लोग उपस्थित हुए। तीन दिवसीय इस सम्मेलन का पहला दिन सभी लोगों के लिए खुला था जबकि अगला दो दिन मोज़िला लोकलाइजेशन हैकाथन का कार्यक्रम चला जिसके लिए सहभागी ख़ास तौर पर आमंत्रित किए गए थे। लोकलाइजेशन स्रोत भाषा से स्थानीय भाषा में किसी उत्पाद को बदलने की पूरी तकनीकी प्रक्रिया को कहा जाता है। इसके अंतर्गत मोज़िला के विभिन्न उत्पादों के लोकलाइजेशन यानी स्थानीयकरण की प्रक्रिया, उसमें सुधार और भविष्य की कार्ययोजना पर विस्तार से चर्चा हुई। पूरे कार्यक्रम का संचालन सी-डैक के तकनीकी अधिकारी चंद्रकांत धूताडमल ने किया।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="normal">उद्घाटन सत्र का आरंभ करते हुए फ़्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के संस्थापक राजेश रंजन ने फ़्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के बारे में उपस्थित श्रोताओं को बताया। उन्होंने बताया कि महज सामुदायिक योगदान और कुछ संगठनों की मदद के बदौलत भाषाई संसाधन का यह प्रोजेक्ट दुनिया की भाषाई संसाधन जैसे तकनीकी शब्दावली, स्टाइल गाइड आदि की सबसे बड़ी खुली परियोजना बन गई है। मानक तकनीकी शब्दावली, स्टाइल गाइड, ट्रांसलेशन एसेसमेंट मैट्रिक्स सहित कई महत्वपूर्ण संसाधनों से लैस यह प्रोजेक्ट विश्वव्यापी भाषाई संदर्भ का बड़ा अभिलेख बन गया है। गौरतलब है कि दुनिया की क़रीब 60 भाषाओं के भाषा समुदाय अभी इस परिजोयना से जुड़ी हुई है। मोज़िला के एक्सेल हेच्ट ने भारत में बढ़ रहे इंटरनेट उपयोगकर्ताओं के महत्व को रेखांकित करते हुए बताया कि मोज़िला और इसके खुले मूल्यों की उपस्थिति कितनी इनके लिए कितनी महत्वपूर्ण है। हेमा मूर्ति ने कहा कि अभी भी भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग की स्थिति काफी अच्छी नहीं हुई है और इस क्षेत्र में काफी काम होना बाकी हैं। जसजीत सिंह ने कहा कि कुछ और बड़ी कंपनियों के साथ फ़्यूल का जुड़ाव होना जरूरी है और उन कंपनियों को सामुदायिक रूप से तैयार किए गए संसाधन के महत्व को समझना चाहिए। ‘समानता के चिह्न और डिजिटल मानविकी का विकास’ विषय पर हेमचंद्रण का वक्तव्य बेहद उम्दा रहा। उन्होंने कहा कि डिजिटल मानविकी ने पारंपरिक मानविकी को हैक कर लिया है। उन्होंने कहा कि हमें महज इंटरफेस स्तरीय लोकलाइजेशन से ऊपर उठना चाहिए।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="normal">कार्यक्रम में लिब्रेऑफिस के इटालो विग्नोली, हमारा लिनक्स के विकास तारा, इतिहासकार रविकांत और जाने-माने ब्लॉगर रवि रतलामी और कनाडा के अमनदीप सिंह सैनी ने भी अपना वक्तव्य दिया। जहाँ रविकांत ने भाषाई शुद्धतावाद की आलोचना करते हुए सामुदायिक और खुल प्रयासों की उपयोगिता को रेखांकित किया वहीं रतलामी ने आईफोन, एंड्रायड और विंडोज फोन से उदाहरण देते हुए फ़्यूल की अनिवार्यता बताई। अमनदीप ने कनाडा में विभिन्न भाषा-भाषी लोगों के लिए किए गए सरकारी उपायों को बताया और कहा कि कैसे भारत भाषाई एक्सेसिबिलीटी के मामले में पीछे है और इसके कारण यहाँ के लोगों को कितनी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ता है। इटली निवासी इटालो ने ओपन डॉक्यूमेंट फॉर्मेट पर चर्चा की और विकास ने हमारा लिनक्स की गतिविधि पर प्रकाश डाला। भाषाई तकनीक विशेषज्ञ बिराज कर्माकर, प्रवीण ए, शुभाशीष पाणिग्रही, वीथिका मिश्रा, प्रवीण सतपुते, चंदन कुमार, राजू विंदाने सहित कई लोगों ने अपना वक्तव्य दिया।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">मोज़िला के एक्सेल हेच्ट, पेइंग मो और आर्की के दिशा-निर्देश में अंतिम दो दिन विभिन्न भाषाओं में काम करने वाले लोगों ने व्यापक परिचर्चा के दौरान कई विषयों पर बातें की और उपस्थित लोगों ने मोज़िला की स्वयंसेवी गतिविधियों के भविष्य की कार्ययोजना बनाई।</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T07:53:31ZNews Itemपीजी जूलॉजी विभाग में एक दिवसीय समागम का आयोजन
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<b>रांची विश्वविद्यालय के पीजी जूलॉजी विभाग में शनिवार को इंटरनेट एक्सेस पर आधारित संगोष्ठी ‘ओपनकॉन हुई। कुलपति डॉ रमेश कुमार पांडेय ने इसकी अध्यक्षता की। कार्यक्रम में डीएसडब्ल्यू डॉ सतीश चंद्र गुप्ता, प्रो संजय मिश्रा, प्रो अभिजीत दत्ता और डॉ बीके सिन्हा मौजूद थे। इसका आयोजन ओपन एक्ससेस इंडिया के सहयोग से किया गया। संगोष्ठी में लगभग 60 प्रतिभागियों ने हिस्सा लिया। कुलपति डॉ रमेश कुमार पांडेय समेत कई प्रतिभागियों ने अपना विकीपीडिया अकाउंट पेज भी खोला।</b>
<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.livehindustan.com/news/ranchi/article1-OpenCon-Conference-Held-At-RU-598888.html">published in the Hindustan</a> on November 12, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">संगोष्ठी में बतौर रिसोर्स पर्सन सेंटर फॉर फ्यूचर एंड सोसायटी, बंगलुरू के टीटो दत्ता, विकीपीडिया से गंगाधर बधानी मौजूद थे। साथ ही, ऑनलाइन विशेषज्ञों के तौर पर इस्लामिक यूनिवर्सिटी लेबनान की जमीला जाबेर व बंगलुरू की लीना और वृषाली प्रतिभागियों से रू-ब-रू हुईं। इंटनेटर एक्सेस से जुड़ी नवीनतम जानकारियों को पाकर प्रतिभागी खासे उत्साहित थे। उन्होंने शोधकार्य और अध्ययन के लिए इसे बहुत उपयोगी बताया। साथ ही, यह मांग भी की इस तरह के आयोजन नियमित अंतराल पर होते रहने चाहिए। संगोष्ठी में ओपन एक्सेस, ओपन एजुकेशन और ओपन डाटा के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर चर्चा हुई। इसमें विद्यार्थियों, शोधार्थियों और शिक्षाविदों को शोध व प्रोजेक्ट के लिए बेहतर स्रोत विकसित करने के तरीके बताए गए।</p>
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