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5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted
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<b>More than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.</b>
<p>The story by David Branigan was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/10/03/5th-global-congress-ip-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted/">Intellectual Property Watch</a> on October 3, 2018.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the Congress, participants shared success stories, developed strategies, and engaged in critical dialogue to re-think and re-invent intellectual property systems that serve the public interest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/event-summary-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">5th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and The Public Interest</a> was hosted by American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC from 27-29 September. The core goal of the Congress, according to the website, is “to promote evidence-based policy-making by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates from around the world.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress featured three concurrent, but interconnected, tracks centred around copyright user rights, access to medicines, and trade. A list of the many panels, workshops and other events of the Congress can be found in the event <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/agenda-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">agenda</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Key themes that emerged from the plenary sessions of the Congress include the need to take a critical look at the association between intellectual property and development, the important roles that both IP activism and academic research play in shifting practice, and the complex tension between pursuing incremental IP reform in the short-term, while envisioning and building toward IP system change in the long-term.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants were asked by organisers to contribute statements and to vote in an online poll to chart and map participant perspectives at this year’s Congress. The interactive results of the poll can be viewed <a href="https://pol.is/report/r7k76vmnhmnann5npxdmk">here</a>.</p>
<p><b>Access to Medicines Track</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> followed the access to medicines track throughout the Congress, to develop a broad picture of the persistent challenges and new strategies in this field, and to identify key initiatives to feature in the coming months. Below are some of the themes that emerged over the course of the sessions, along with key highlights.</p>
<p><b>Compulsory Licensing</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some participants highlighted their countries’ use of compulsory licensing to reduce drug prices and to maximise health budget capacity, with notable examples from Ecuador, Chile and Malaysia. Participants identified that many other countries, however, are not taking full advantage of these flexibilities, which can be partly attributable to a lack of awareness regarding these flexibilities, and a lack of systems to employ them. They noted that this is often compounded by IP-centric technical assistance that frames strong IP systems as necessary for development. Many participants argued that compulsory licensing, along with other intellectual property flexibilities, should be fully normalised, and that IP law should be structured to maximize the use of these flexibilities, rather than treat them as exceptions. Some also argued for the institution of international or regional coordination mechanisms for compulsory licensing.</p>
<p><b>Competition Law</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants, representing activist organisations working for access to medicines, noted that their campaigns were largely focused on the price of a particular drug in a particular country. Pursuing access to medicines on such a piecemeal basis, they explained, does not produce sustainable change within the IP system itself. This, they noted, is a similar challenge faced when issuing compulsory licences. Participants explained that pursuing strategies based in competition law could perhaps offer a more sustainable solution to address excessive pricing across a range of drugs. This strategy, they explained, could move forward key legal reforms to systemically challenge pharmaceutical monopolies and bring about more competitive drug pricing.</p>
<p><b>Innovation</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to participants, the term innovation infers a particular narrative, similar to “intellectual property,” and has been used by industry to justify the pharmaceutical patent system. One participant explained that patents are currently being granted on the basis of utility, rather than real inventiveness. He explained that the term innovation has come to represent the industry-led process of shaping markets and cycles of consumption, and that therefore, we need to reconsider our use of the term.</p>
<p><b>Research and Development</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants highlighted the dysfunction of the current monopoly incentive system for pharmaceutical research and development, and advocated for other systems such as delinking the price of pharmaceuticals from the cost of research and development and the volume of sales. Others highlighted examples of how drugs for neglected diseases can be developed and manufactured without intellectual property incentives, and still others how drug licences can be efficiently pooled to facilitate widespread generic drug production. Another participant further illustrated the dysfunction of the current system, noting that much of the research and development of patented pharmaceuticals was publicly funded, and that there needs to be greater public accountability in drug pricing.</p>
<p><b>Medicines as Non-Patentable</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One important perspective, expressed by participants across tracks, is simply that medicines should be non-patentable and accessible to all people, without restriction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> will feature some of the key access to medicines initiatives highlighted at the Congress in greater depth and detail in the coming months.</p>
<p><b>Background of the Global Congress</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The First Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held in 2011 at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, and the specific policy goals of the Congress were summarized in the 2011 <a href="http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration-html">Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress was subsequently hosted in 2012 by Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade of FGV Direito, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013 by University of Cape Town IP Unit, in Cape Town, South Africa, and in 2015 by the Centre for Internet and Society, in New Delhi, India. Intellectual Property Watch has attended them all.</p>
<p>More background information on the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest can be found at <a href="http://infojustice.org/">infojustice.org</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted</a>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2018-10-31T01:57:59ZNews ItemKEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture"
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<b>Anubha Sinha participated in a seminar organized by KEI on October 3 and 4, 2018 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Anubha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the Treaty)".</b>
<p>Links to the webcast can be found here:</p>
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<li>October 3: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcvaeyS04k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcvaeyS04k</a> </li>
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<li>October 4: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5AdokTF2o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5AdokTF2o</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture</a>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2018-10-31T01:53:27ZNews ItemCommunity Toolkit for Greater Diversity
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<b>P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community. </b>
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<li>Click to see the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity">agenda of the event</a></li>
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<li>More info of the programme can be <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity/Modules">accessed here</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-10-30T02:08:31ZNews ItemOdia Virtual Academy launched
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<b>Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2018/oct/27/odia-virtual-academy-launched-1890628.html">published in the New Indian Express</a> on October 27, 2018.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Launching the web portal, the Chief Minister said, “It is a matter of pleasure that the new web portal of the ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ is being dedicated today. Odia language has received the classical status.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A lot of literature has also been created in Odia language. The Academy has taken the responsibility for promotion, preservation and digitisation of the Odia language and literature.” Naveen said the new website will be helpful in the promotion of Odia language at the international level, especially for the Non Resident Odias (NROs). He said youths will also benefit from the Academy.<br /><br />Three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed by the State Government with the University of Chicago library, CDAC and Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru to expedite digitisation of Odia literature and development of Odia software. “This will go a long way in enhancing the visibility of Odia language and literature in the digital space,” he said.<br /><br />So far, as many as 170 books of Odia literature have been placed in the Academy website. The prime objective of the Academy is digitisation of about 2000 rare and copyright free Odia books and establishment of a free digital library, digitisation of various Odia dictionaries available presently for free access, promotion of Odia unicode font faces through standardisation of typing keyboards and making those affordable for public in coming six months and development of primers and uploading those for easy learning.<br /><br />Besides, the Academy’s purpose is to digitise and preserve Odia lexicon, ancient magazines and journals, traditional music, ancient documents, literature on science and history, folk culture, tribal language and literature, history-oriented essays, speech of great personalities, Sri Jagannath culture, temple and its architecture.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-10-29T02:27:23ZNews ItemHistory of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University)
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<b>This article gives the insight of Christ Wikipedia Education Program, how students are involved in different capacities in the program and shares the best practices of the Education Program. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was originally published in <a class="external-link" href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/September_2018/History_of_Wikipedia_Education_programme_at_Christ_(Deemed_to_be_University)">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Education programme at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) started as a pilot project in 2013 with a goal of using Wikipedia as a pedagogic tool for the undergraduate students. Both the educators of the WEP and of the university were new to one such approach. Students of five Indian languages--Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu--were chosen were enrolled for the program as students opt for these languages as their second language. During the first and second year, almost all the students created new Wikipedia articles where the majority of the articles were below accepted standard. The difficulty in making students learn about input tools in their languages, Wikipedia basics, and wiki markup pushed for creating "how-to" video tutorials in Hindi and Kannada. Working with Urdu was discontinued after the second year because of program staff exit. Slowly, the program was reoriented in a manner that new students learned native language input and markup for the first two semesters by digitizing books on Wikisource and later by editing Wikipedia articles during the next two semesters. This helped better the output by increasing the quality of articles by nearly 30%. From 2015 the program was further improved by helping students get more hands-on training of input, wiki markup by intensive typing during the first semester, a few advanced options like interacting with each other on user talk page during the second semester, moving to Wikipedia editing and developing articles on Wikipedia sandbox during third semester, and finally moving the articles by peer-review from fellow batchmates, faculty and the larger Wikipedia community. The faculty is involved in the development and on-wiki review process ensuring quality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The program so far has gone to the level of producing about 70% very good quality articles where nearly 0.6% of the articles are of really poor quality. The female to male ratio is surprisingly equal and at times, there are more female students as compared to the male ones. However, there is little concern in integrating the student-Wikimedians to the larger Wikimedia community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also, there is little exchange of learning and best practices between cross-language outreach programs across India across several different languages. One of the ways to better this process is making program leaders talk to each other.<br /><br />To know more about us follow on</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/history-of-wikipedia-education-programme-at-christ-deemed-to-be-university'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/history-of-wikipedia-education-programme-at-christ-deemed-to-be-university</a>
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No publisherAnanthWikipedia Education ProgramWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-10-29T02:20:14ZBlog EntryDigital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study
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<b>We have published an article in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The article is titled "Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study". The authors of the article are Hindi faculty members of Christ University and Ananth Subray from the Centre for Internet & Society provided research assistance.</b>
<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi Edition of Wikipedia) in the undergraduate language classroom. Wikipedia or Open Source Learning is a powerful tool in the acquisition of knowledge especiallyin today’s digital context.While many of the European languages have already established afoothold in the digital space, the Indian languages are yet to create a niche for themselves. Even after a decade of its launch,the Hindi Wikipediacould not attire the enabled richness of the English Wikipedia.While there are about fifty lakh articles in English, Hindi Wikipedia has only about a lakh.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This paper is an attempt to show how a whole new concept of productive activity for faculty andstudents can be opened through a study of basics in Indian language computing typing and editing Wikipedia articles.It explains the value of Wikis for teaching and learning as compared to traditional teaching and physical paper assignment model, showing the power of Open Source Learning and Wikipedia.Most importantly, it shows how Wikipedia and Global Peer Review can directly and immediately influence the quality and relevance of Teaching and Learning in classrooms and learning spaces today.This pilot study ofstudents’ use of sources in authoring Wikipedia articles shows, how students processed texts from sources to compose their own texts transforming classrooms from a place of knowledge deliveryto a place of creativity and research.Through Wikipedia, students are being empowered tobecome creative writers, efficient editors and successful researchers. Article creation and editingof articles in Hindi for Wikipedia is bound to transform the students’ ability to interpret, analyze,create new knowledge and develop their Research Aptitude. This article addresses the importance of Digital Learning through Wikipedia as Pedagogy in Christ University’s UG language classrooms and discusses the prospects and possibilities of using Wikipedia as a learning tool through a case study.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/4594/4026">Read the peer reviewed article published by the International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, Volume 6, Issue 8, August 2018</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study</a>
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No publisherDr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha AAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessHindi Wikipedia2018-10-28T05:56:25ZBlog EntryStakeholders Consultation on draft WIPO Treaty to Protect Broadcasting Organization
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<b>Anubha Sinha participated in a stakeholder consultation organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India to discuss the various aspects of draft WIPO Treaty to Protect Broadcasting Organization, which is under discussion in Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at Copyright Office in New Delhi on October 23, 2018.</b>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/notice-for-stakeholders-meeting">Notice for the Stakeholders Consultation Meeting</a></li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/standing-committee-on-copyright-and-related-rights-thirty-sixth-session/">SCCR 36th Session</a></li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/standing-committee-on-copyright-and-related-rights-thirty-seventh-session">SCCR 37th Session</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/stakeholders-consultation-on-draft-wipo-treaty-to-protect-broadcasting-organization'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/stakeholders-consultation-on-draft-wipo-treaty-to-protect-broadcasting-organization</a>
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No publisherAdminCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2018-11-14T02:26:56ZNews ItemSouth India Copyright Workshop
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<b>A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Before the event participants <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15AJZmenWY-dOFNhKrvpvFTOLUZ0Sblukl39Sefj9RDo/edit">listed their questions</a>. The workshop participants’ queries covered all aspects of copyright on Commons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event began with ‘Lightning talk About Copyrights’ by master trainer Yann. He spoke about copyright, what works be copyrighted, and why doesn’t one gets copyright. The session covered important issues like originality, creativity, Default copyrights of Collective works, Compilation works, newspapers and magazines. Case studies of 2D & 3D works of art (paintings, sculptures), Texts, Pictures & videos were elaborated. Yann also elaborated on some critical cases like recordings of musical concerts, complex geometric figures, dictionary content, mathematical theorems and algorithms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop also threw light on what is free license, acceptable licenses, CC-BY-SA with attribution and ‘share alike’ license, etc. Various license tags and templates, non-copyright restrictions, etc. were also deliberated upon during the workshop. A hands-on session on translation of important templates in local languages and verifying files on Commons for description, source, categories, license and other details was also done. Participants were also introduced to uploading YouTube videos on Commons. Websites having copyright free content were also discussed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Yann also discussed various aspects of GODL India license policies. A brief session on process of deletion, un-deletion and OTRS volunteers’ structure was also conducted. On Day 2, an exhaustive session on copyright of pictures from sources such as <a href="https://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://pixabay.com/">Pixabay</a>, <a href="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/">Bollywood Hungama</a>, <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/">Newspaperarchive</a>, <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a>, Government websites etc. was conducted. Participants explored specific categories and found out treasures of free images on web. Important templates like <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art">PD-Art</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-India">PD-India</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-1996">PD-1996</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Not-PD-US-URAA">Not-PD-US-URAA</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-UK-unknown">PD-UK unknown</a> were explained with proper examples.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The final session was dedicated to Books on Commons. All participating communities were actively involved in digitization and uploading free content on Commons and Wikisource. Nationalization of books by Tamil Nadu state government was taken up for discussion. Tamil Wikipedians spoke about the licensing procedures and problems being faced by community on Commons. Yann stressed on importance of creating Wikidata items for files and categories in Commons with examples.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the concluding session a follow-up plan was framed with active contribution of all members. The major tasks include - Creating a list of authors with death year details in the respective language to decide public domain/copyright free status in India (Works of Indian authors who died 60 years ago), Translation of important 10 policy pages, 8 templates and 2 category pages in local languages and Preparation of check list for users before uploading any content to Commons. Yann Forget played crucial role in developing clear understanding on important issues. The workshop has definitely created cohesive group of Indic Wikimedians striving to build free content on Commons.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/south-india-copyright-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/south-india-copyright-workshop</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-11-06T01:25:49ZBlog EntrySting job by Hyderabad scientist exposes fake journals
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<b>Scientists have at last found a cure for Schlodomoniasis -- a deadly brain infection caused by the "inter-galactic parasite Klaousmodium cruzi" -- they claim to have identified for the first time.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/sting-job-by-hyderabad-scientist-exposes-fake-journals-118101100439_1.html">Business Standard</a> on October 11, 2018. Subbiah Arunachalam was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=beth+smith" target="_blank">Beth Smith </a>and co-workers at "<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=sanchez+institute" target="_blank">Sanchez Institute </a>for Biomedical Sciences for Doopidoo Research" in <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=morocco" target="_blank">Morocco </a>have published their discovery in three science journals and also reported a novel method called "Magnetic Oddities <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=radiation" target="_blank">Radiation </a>Therapy (MORTY)" to treat the <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=infection" target="_blank">infection.</a> The study was carried out in "Wakandan population".</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If readers are breaking their heads to understand the startling findings and decipher the strange words like "Wakandan" and "Doopidoo", Farooq Ali Khan, a <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=college+professor" target="_blank">college professor </a>and PhD student in <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=hyderabad" target="_blank">Hyderabad </a>and a co-<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=author" target="_blank">author </a>of the paper, had the last laugh.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"It was not intended to be a scientific paper," he told this <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=correspondent" target="_blank">correspondent </a>in an email. "It was my sting operation to expose publishers of predatory journals who are churning out fake science for profit."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Open access journals are supposed to provide an <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=online+platform" target="_blank">online platform </a>for rapid dissemination of latest updates in science and technology. Their publishers don't charge the readers as access to these journals is free, but they charge the authors wanting to have their research papers published in these journals.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Inspired by previous publishing "stings", Khan wanted to test whether open access journals would publish an obviously absurd paper liberally salted with nonsense for the sake of money from gullible authors anxious to publish.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He created a spoof manuscript titled "Newer Tools to Fight Inter-Galactic Parasites and their Transmissibility in Zygirion Simulation", and submitted it to several suspect journals from the list kept online by <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=jeffrey+beall" target="_blank">Jeffrey Beall </a>-- an <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=associate+professor+and+librarian" target="_blank">associate professor and librarian </a>at the <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=university+of+colorado" target="_blank">University of </a><a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=colorado" target="_blank">Colorado </a>who coined the term "predatory journal" -- as a public service to his colleagues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">All the hilarious fake names like "schleem", "dinglebop" and "schwitinization", that do not make any sense, as well as images and graphs published in the paper, were fabricated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The "Zyrgion simulation", and "intergalactic parasites" are all references to "Rick and Morty" -- a US Cartoon Network's animated science <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=fiction" target="_blank">fiction </a>programme about the misadventures of mad <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=scientist" target="_blank">scientist </a><a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=rick+sanchez" target="_blank">Rick Sanchez </a>and his grandson <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=morty+smith" target="_blank">Morty Smith.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Khan, a great fan of "Rick and Morty", submitted the paper with <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=beth+smith" target="_blank">Beth Smith </a>(Rick's granddaughter in the cartoon show) as the corresponding <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=author" target="_blank">author </a>and himself as co-<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=author" target="_blank">author.</a> Two other authors' names were made-up, and Sukant Khurana -- a <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=scientist" target="_blank">scientist </a>at <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=central+drug+research+institute" target="_blank">Central Drug Research Institute </a>in Lucknow, who offered to help Khan in this sting, was another author -- all affiliated to an institution in <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=morocco" target="_blank">Morocco </a>that does not exist.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The so-called "Magnetic Oddities <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=radiation" target="_blank">Radiation </a>Therapy" developed by the authors to treat the brain <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=infection" target="_blank">infection </a>is again nothing but an expansion of "MORTY", a character in the cartoon show.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Anyone with commonsense would have noticed all the nonsense and consigned the paper to trash, but Khan surprisingly found it was accepted for publication by 10 journals for fees ranging from $75 to $650.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After some bargaining over fees, three scientific journals -- ARC Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences, and Clinical <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=biotechnology" target="_blank">Biotechnology </a>and <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=microbiology" target="_blank">Microbiology </a>-- published the paper without a second glance.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Khan says his "scientific prank" was intended to expose the seriousness of predatory journal industry and to create awareness among people who are beginning their careers in science. "These predatory journals are polluting the scientific record with junk science and are also resulting in fake news."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"When the Open Access Declaration was drafted in 2002, no one would have imagined that many unscrupulous individuals would pollute the entire system of scholarly communication with predatory journals solely with the idea of making money," Subbiah Arunachalam, <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=renowned+information+scientist" target="_blank">renowned information </a><a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=scientist" target="_blank">scientist </a>and Distinguished Fellow of the <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=centre+for+internet" target="_blank">Centre for Internet </a>and Society in Bengaluru, told this <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=correspondent" target="_blank">correspondent </a>in an email.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"Unfortunately, many Indians -- both individuals and companies -- are in this business," he said. "Predatory journals pose a big threat to the integrity of research."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"These are shameful acts by greedy publishers," Subhash Lakhotia, a <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=professor+of+zoology" target="_blank">professor of zoology </a>at the Benaras Hindu University, told this <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=correspondent" target="_blank">correspondent </a>in an email. "Until we stop payments of all kinds of open access charges and modify the present faulty <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=assessment+system" target="_blank">assessment system </a>that relies on numbers of publications, predation in one or the other form would continue."</p>
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No publisherAdminOpennessOpen AccessAccess to Knowledge2018-10-17T02:06:21ZNews ItemBroadcasters Eager For Global Signal Protection; Others Warn Of Major Players Sneaking In
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<b>Anubha Sinha was recently part of a panel discussion on broadcast treaty. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Catherine Saez was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/10/09/broadcasters-eager-global-signal-protection-others-warn-major-players-sneaking/">published in Intellectual Property Watch</a> on October 9, 2018.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The so-called broadcasting treaty being negotiated at the World Intellectual Property Organization is supported by broadcasters’ organisations in the hope that it will stanch signal piracy. Some voices however, warn about creating a right that might be captured by large internet corporations such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, which can be a stone’s throw away from acquiring radio or television channels to qualify for the protection of the potential treaty. They also challenge the duration and scope of the protection. A seminar gathering stakeholders last week looked at implications of the treaty.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Knowledge Ecology International organised <a href="https://www.keionline.org/29025">a seminar</a> on 3-4 October gathering civil society speakers, international organisation representatives, and a representative of the broadcaster community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Discussions were based on a <a href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_27/sccr_27_2_rev.pdf">working document</a> [pdf] for a treaty on the protection of broadcasting organisations, and a <a href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_36/sccr_36_6.pdf">revised consolidated text</a> [pdf] on definitions, object of protection, rights to be granted and other issues, prepared by the SCCR Chair Daren Tang of Singapore, to be discussed at the <a href="http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=46444">next session</a> of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, from 26-30 November.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Broadcasters: Current Protection not Sufficient</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Heijo Ruijsenaars, head of intellectual property law at the European Broadcasting Union, explained the need for broadcasters to have additional rights going beyond the 1961 <a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/treaties/text.jsp?file_id=289795">Rome Convention</a> for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Key reasons for a treaty include the need for broadcasting to protect their investment in programming and dissemination, he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The current protection in view of the technology is not sufficient in a time where viewers want to access content whenever and wherever they want, which means it has to be delivered in a different way than traditional broadcasting, according to Ruijsenaars. This shift in technology also gave way to increasing piracy, he said, adding that signal piracy is a global issue and it is important to have a treaty covering everybody on the planet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ruijsenaars said there is evidence of ever-growing piracy and WIPO does not discuss enough the reasons underlining broadcasters’ neighbouring rights. For broadcasters it is not the delivery of signal that matters, he said, but that the public is provided with programmes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Benefits for the public of those programmes include the provision of diversified information on national and local matters; educational content; special programming for niche or minority audiences; enhancement of public awareness and media literacy; supporting of independent audiovisual production; promotion of local authors, actors and artists; and the creation of new services on multiple platforms, his presentation listed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If the focus of the discussion remains merely about the signal, he said, then it misses the broadcasters’ activity. Broadcasters make a programme, then embed it in a signal, which is then broadcast. The broadcast is the tool by which programmes are delivered to the public but producing the signal is just a necessary technical activity, he added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The most important element of broadcasting is its independence from the audience, according to Ruijsenaars, it does not matter how many people are watching. It is also independent from the content since the content is covered by copyright, and independent from transmission, since each signal has its own protection.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the digital age, most people have hybrid television which can receive both online and traditional signal from broadcasters at the same time, without them being aware of, or caring about, the difference, he said. In Europe, some 60 million households own an internet-connected TV set, he added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The treaty would not impede but foster freedom of expression, it would stimulate innovation in consumer devices. would have no impact on the public domain or on internet service providers’ liability, he argued, adding, “If there is no treaty, everybody loses out.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Beware of Large Internet Corporations Morphing </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Anubha Sinha of the Center for Internet and Society, said the issue of signal piracy affects mostly sports broadcasters, and a potential narrow treaty could address this particular problem. A treaty as the one considered at the moment could have unintended adverse effects, she said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The beneficiaries of the treaty appear to be only broadcasting organisations, but today it is impossible to distinguish between computer networks and wired or wireless means, she noted, asking about the risk of accidentally creating rights that could be misused “by the likes of Google, Facebook, Netflix…”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook recently acquired the rights to broadcast La Liga games in the Indian sub-continent, she noted, warning about the “weak treatment” given to exceptions and limitations in the current treaty draft. She added that the treaty would affect the existing commons and the methods by which commons are being made accessible today.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 1961 Rome Convention is narrow and broadcasters are facing competition from internet-based services that operate with fewer rights, but provide services that the public wants, which is part of the problem, according to James Love from Knowledge Ecology International.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Citing SCCR Chair Tang’s current proposed language, Love said that the definition of a broadcaster stating that “entities that deliver their programme-carrying signal exclusively by means of a computer network do not fall under the definition of a ‘broadcasting organization'” intends to exclude companies such as YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix, but would include other companies being broadcasters and also having internet platforms at the same time, such as the BBC.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">That is creating a special right. which might be challenged by other companies arguing that those rights are contrary to a level playing field, he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It is also very easy for companies such as Facebook and Amazon to buy a radio station somewhere on the planet, thinking otherwise is naive, he said. This point was also made by Ryan Merkley of Creative Commons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Love produced a <a href="http://media.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Selected-developments-in-technologies-KEI-Oct-2018.pdf?e4fccf">colour-coded document</a> [pdf] showing developments in technologies to distribute, broadcast or stream audio and audiovisual content from 1887 to 2018.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In white, the document lists what concerns traditional broadcasting, in yellow internet technologies, in blue technologies to make physical copies of audio and audiovisual recordings, and in green norm-setting activities. The vast majority of items listed belong to the yellow sections.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Players in the yellow fields will be the beneficiaries, he said. “You will be transferring money” to large platforms, the biggest of which are in the United States, he said, adding that the concentration will be much larger than in the radio and television arena.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To remedy those potential dangers, Love’s presentation suggested to eliminate post-fixation rights, and install mandatory exceptions including news of the day, public affairs, documentary films, education, and quotations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ruijsenaars argued that the European Union has legislation protecting post-fixation rights, and that did not bring any issues either with rights holders or the public interest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>50 Years Protection ‘Outrageous’</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Love also challenged the proposed 50 years of protection. “If you were to keep a copy of something for 50 years,” the chances are that no technology would still be able to read it, he said, adding that if the treaty protects post-fixation rights, it is no longer protecting a signal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Cristiana Gonzalez of the Centro: Tecnologia, Espaços, políticas públicas, Brazil, also said the treaty should be confined to immediate transmission without post-fixation rights. In Brazil, she said, organisations may not acquire protection for any deferred transmission.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The proposed term of protection should be no more than a few seconds, 24 hours if one wants to be generous, she said. Extending it further could have consequences for the public domain, impact cultural diversity and democracy, by for example preventing access to historical information, she said, adding that giving a monopoly over content could be dangerous.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Merkley said the current draft of the treaty could have a number of negative impacts. The world has and is changing, he said, and it is no longer a matter of creating rules for industry alone. “Every one of you is a copyright holder,” he said, adding that the draft treaty forgets about the public.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There have been many poor choices for the web, he argued, and the treaty would yet be another wrong choice. Negotiators have to be careful not to disturb the whole ecosystem to support an industry threatened by improvements in technology, he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He also called 50 years of protection “unreasonable” and said in the most compelling case of protection for sports event broadcasting, should be termed in hours. The most alarming in the proposed text, according to Merkley is that it would give post-fixation rights for public domain works. “This is outrageous,” he said, as broadcasters do not own this content and did not create it so they should have no rights over it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ruijsenaars commented that if the content is in the public domain, like a film, it can be found somewhere else than in the broadcast, which is protected.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Amalia Toledo of the Karisma Foundation said the rights awarded by the treaty to broadcasters could impede or restrict the flow of information that may not be protected by copyright, such as news of the day, and speeches from public officials. In Latin America, she said, there are various examples of how the political power has used copyright protection to silence voices.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This new right would be a direct attack on creators’ possibility to share their works as they see fit, she said. It would also ignore the public interest in having access to information, knowledge and culture, she added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If a treaty is agreed against signal piracy, the protection should be for hours after the transmission, not 20 or 50 years, she said.</p>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2018-10-16T13:55:10ZNews Item5th Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest
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<b>Sunil Abraham, Anubha Sinha and Swaraj Paul Barooah attended the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, in Washington DC, from September 24 - 29, 2018. The event was co-organized by PublicCitizen, Washington College of Law, American University, O'Neill Institute and the American Assembly, Columbia University.</b>
<p>CIS participated in several of the sessions spread over the 5 days:</p>
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<li>Anubha Sinha attended the pre-Congress trainings on Users' Rights, and Internet and Trade on September 24 and 25, 2018.</li>
<li>Sunil Abraham and Anubha Sinha attended a WIPO SCCR Strategy meeting organised by Knowledge Ecology International, DC.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Swaraj Paul Barooah made a presentation at the Microsoft Panel Event titled "Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence" held at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Centre. His co-panelists were Pam Samuelson (Berkeley Law), Niva Elkin-Koren (Uni of Haifa) and Pedro Mizukami (Founder of Centro, Brazil). The session was moderated by Mike Carroll and Christine Farley (both of American University).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Anubha Sinha and Sunil Abraham along with Jorge Contreras (University of Utah), spoke on the panel titled "Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India" where they presented work on the PT project.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS signed on as supporting members to the Civil Society Proposal for a Treaty on Education and Research Activities (TERA) which was formally finalized and made ready for organizational and individual endorsements. The treaty can be <a class="external-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/TERA-GCV">viewed here</a>.</li>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2018-10-02T03:01:50ZNews ItemChrist (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course
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<b>Students of Christ (Deemed to be University) enrolled themselves for the third Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19, to understand the usage of Wikimedia projects. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A group of 37 students from Christ University in Bengaluru (Bangalore) India have enrolled themselves for a Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19. As an active step towards enabling the awareness on content editing and contributing skills on Wikipedia in vernacular languages, Christ (Deemed to be University), in collaboration with the CIS-A2K started the certificate this course for students in 2016. The Wikipedia certificate course is conducted after normal working hours for a total of 45 hours and carries 2 credits for the academic records of the University.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The objective of this certificate course is to enable students to acquire skills working along with Wikimedia projects which involve both technically equipping and holistic through its instruction. The course consists of three major components, the first step is an introduction to the concept of Wikipedia, which incorporates the history of online encyclopedias and the evolution of Wikipedia as one of the largest online encyclopedias available on the Internet. It also involves looking for resources for drafting articles on User sandbox and moving articles to the main space. The second step teaches students on how to edit and publish articles on Wikimedia projects, also adding tables and references, and also includes introduction to common templates, wikification of articles, legal aspects, policies, and guidelines, and how to identify vandalism and tackle it. The third step discusses Wikipedia’s notability and social significance, which lets the students understand Wikipedia in a critical and evaluative manner, where topics such as its ethics, existence as a social community, existence as a democratic project, How Wikipedia is used by students, teachers librarians and journalists.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Learning outcomes of the course: Create and edit wiki articles of good quality, with references, illustrations and templates etc, Capacity to teach Wikipedia with peer groups, without any fear. Discuss what is a reasonable source critical approach for using Wikipedia as a reference. Outline the common criticism of Wikipedia's reliability and discuss how the reliability problems can be tackled.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikipedia Certificate Course syllabus can be accessed <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qbh8c032B6qWYY1u5a0iSXUka9ZJGRcKI6EmI7F828A/edit" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-09-23T04:04:48ZBlog EntryWikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
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<b>Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource. </b>
<h2>Preface</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Currently, CIS-A2K is working with five Indian-languages Wikimedia communities (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu) and one focus project area (Wikisource with punjabi community). While working with the above mentioned Indic Wikimedia communities, we noticed that there are many similarities between the issues and challenges faced by these communities. So, we decided to create this “Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At first, we went through the Wikisource of each language and noted the status. Then we talked to Indic Wikipedians to know more about the Wikisource related issues that they are facing. We also asked for the feedback on the first draft of this handbook. Our actual work will start after the release of this book, when we’ll work with the communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to download the <b><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/wikisource-handbook-for-indian-communities">Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities</a></b> co-authored by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P V. with graphics support from Saumya Naidu.</p>
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No publisherBodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V.CIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedHomepage2018-09-19T02:18:40ZBlog Entryమిసిమి పత్రిక గ్రంథాలయంలో తెలుగు వికీపీడియన్ల కార్యక్రమం
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<b>తెలుగు నాట లలిత కళలపై రసజ్ఞత పెంపొందించేందుకు దశాబ్దాలుగా పనిచేస్తున్న పత్రికల్లో మిసిమి విశిష్టమైనది. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ప్రపంచ ప్రఖ్యాతి చెందిన కళాకారుల గురించి కావచ్చు, తెలుగునాట మరుగునపడ్డ చిత్రకారుని గురించి కావచ్చు - తెలుగులో లోటుగా ఉన్న ఆసక్తిదాయకమైన. విజ్ఞానదాయకమైన అంశాలపై <a href="http://www.misimimonthly.com/">మిసిమి</a> వెలుగుపరచడం తెలిసిందే. అలాంటి మిసిమి పత్రిక తమ గ్రంథాలయంలో గత దశాబ్ది పాటు అంతర్జాలంలో తెలుగులో స్వేచ్ఛా విజ్ఞాన సృష్టి చేస్తున్న తెలుగు వికీపీడియా హైదరాబాద్ సమావేశానికి, వికీడేటా లేబుల్-అ-థాన్కి ఆతిథ్యమిచ్చారు. కార్యక్రమాన్ని తెలుగు వికీపీడియా, సీఐఎస్-ఎ2కెల తరఫు నుంచి పవన్ సంతోష్ నిర్వహించగా, మిసిమి వైపు నుంచి సంపాదక మండలి సభ్యుడు కాండ్రేగుల నాగేశ్వరరావు, ప్రధాన సంపాదకుడు వల్లభనేని అశ్వనీకుమార్ సమన్వయపరిచారు. నిర్వహించిన పవన్ సంతోష్తో పాటు తెలుగు వికీడియన్లు ప్రణయ్రాజ్, రహ్మానుద్దీన్, వీవెన్, అజయ్ పాల్గొన్నారు. మిసిమి సంపాదకులు వల్లభనేని అశ్వినీకుమార్, కాండ్రేగుల నాగేశ్వరరావు, మిసిమి రచయితల్లో ఒకరు, ప్రముఖ తెలుగు అనువాదకులు ముక్తవరం పార్థసారధి ఈ సమావేశంలో పాలుపంచుకున్నారు.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/HyderabadLabelathon1.jpg/@@images/9d0b9f20-4b3a-457b-b75b-e73ea043b3b2.jpeg" alt="Hyderabad Labelathon" class="image-inline" title="Hyderabad Labelathon" /><br />మాట్లాడుతున్న పవన్ సంతోష్, చిత్రంలో వీవెన్, వల్లభనేని అశ్వినీకుమార్, అజయ్ బండి, ముక్తవరం పార్ధసారధిలను చూడవచ్చు.<br /><br />భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య దినోత్సవానికి సంబంధించిన <a>వికీడేటా లేబుల్-అ-థాన్</a>లో (మారథాన్, ఎడిటథాన్లా లేబుల్స్ చేర్చుకుంటూ వెళ్ళడం లేబులథాన్) భాగంగా ఉదయం 10.30 నుంచి సాయంత్రం 5.30 వరకు పాల్గొన్న వికీపీడియన్లు ఐటంలకు లేబుల్స్ చేర్చారు. లేబులథాన్ థీమ్ ప్రకారం - పలు భాషల కేంద్ర సాహిత్య అకాడమీ పురస్కార గ్రహీతలు, భారత స్వాతంత్ర్యోద్యమం గురించి సంఘటనలు, పరిణామాలు, వ్యక్తులు, సంస్థలు, వగైరా ఐటంలకు తెలుగులో లేబుళ్ళు, వివరణలు చేర్చారు. స్వేచ్ఛగా ఉపయోగించుకుని, అభివృద్ధి చేయగల జ్ఞాన గని. వికీపీడియా వాక్యాలు మనుషులు చదవడానికి తేలికైతే వికీడేటా కంప్యూటర్లు చకచకా విశ్లేషించగల స్ట్రక్చర్డ్ డేటా ప్రాజెక్టు. దీనిలో ఒక్కో అంశానికి తెలుగులో పేరును, వివరణను చేరుస్తూ పోవడం అన్నది భావి తెలుగు భాషాభివృద్ధికి ఉపయోగకరం. సాయంత్రం అయ్యేసరికి <a href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CIS-A2K/Indian_Independece_Day_Label-a-thon_Hyderabad_Event/home">280 పైచిలుకు ఐటంలలో</a> వీవెన్, ప్రణయ్, అజయ్, పవన్ సంతోష్లు తెలుగు లేబుల్, వివరణలు అభివృద్ధి చేశారు.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/HyderabadLabelathon2.jpg/@@images/3f9d821c-14fe-4cc0-9c12-9485a23e5dcc.jpeg" alt="Hyderabad Labelathon" class="image-inline" title="Hyderabad Labelathon" /><br />వికీడేటా లేబులథాన్లో నిమగ్నమైన సభ్యులు<br /><br />కార్యక్రమంలో భాగంగా వికీపీడియన్లతో వల్లభనేని అశ్వినీ కుమార్, ముక్తవరం పార్థసారధి పలు అంశాలు చర్చించారు. పవన్ సంతోష్ ఈ సందర్భంగా వికీపీడియా నిర్మాణం వెనుక మూలస్తంభాలు, వాటి అమలు, తెలుగు వికీపీడియా స్థితిగతులు వగైరా వివరించారు. ప్రారంభంలో తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో నెలనెలా ఇరవై నుంచి ముప్పై మిలియన్ల వరకూ పేజీ వ్యూలు ఉంటున్నాయని పవన్, రహ్మాన్ వివరించారు. ప్రధానంగా మొబైల్ వేదికగా చదువుతున్న తెలుగువారు తెలుగులోనే సమాచారాన్ని ఆశిస్తున్నారని వివరించారు. (ఇతర బాధ్యతల కారణంగా ఆపైన సమావేశం నుంచి రహ్మాన్ నిష్క్రమించారు) తెలుగు రచయితలు ఎక్కువమంది వివరాలు తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో దొరకాలని, అందుకు అవసరమైతే డేటా స్థాయిలో తాము సహకరించగలమని వల్లభనేని అశ్వినీకుమార్ పేర్కొనగా తెలుగు వికీపీడియా విషయ ప్రాధాన్యత పరిధిలోని వారికి తెవికీలో వ్యాసాలు సృష్టించడం, మిగిలిన అందరి వివరాలను వేరే వేదికలో సమాచారం అందుబాటులోకి తేవడం చేయవచ్చని వీవెన్ సమాధానమిచ్చారు. ముక్తవరం పార్థసారధి ఉదాహరణ కోసం రచయిత త్రిపుర వ్యాసాన్ని తెరిచి అందులోని సమాచారాన్ని పరిశీలించి ప్రారంభ స్థాయిలో ఉన్నా ఇలా ఎందరో రచయితలు, ఇతర అంశాల గురించి విజ్ఞానాన్ని అందించడం చాలా కీలకమని పేర్కొన్నారు. పార్థసారధి మాట్లాడుతూ ఏ విషయంలోనైనా అత్యున్నత నాణ్యత కోసం అంటూ అసలు పనిచేయకపోవడం కన్నా సాధ్యమైనంత ఉత్తమ నాణ్యతతో పని జరుగుతూండడం మంచిదని తన దృక్పథాన్ని వెల్లడించారు. పవన్ సంతోష్ ఒక మంచి వ్యాసాన్ని చూపించి, ఈ స్థాయికి నాణ్యత అభివృద్ధి చేయాలన్న లక్ష్యంతో పనిచేస్తున్న వికీపీడియన్లూ ఉన్నారని తెలిపారు. పవన్ సంతోష్ మాట్లాడుతూ మిసిమి వారు నాణ్యమైన వనరులు రూపొందించినవైన చిత్రకళ, సాహిత్యం, సంగీతం, నాట్యం అన్న నాలుగు అంశాలు తీసుకుని, ఈ రంగాల్లో తెలుగువారి గురించి తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో నాణ్యమైన సమాచారం రూపొందించేందుకు ప్రామాణిక మూలాలను జాబితా వేయడం అందరికీ ఉపయుక్తమని సూచించారు. చర్చల్లో భాగంగా తెలుగు వికీపీడియా గురించి, తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో అసలు రాయవచ్చన్న సంగతినీ విస్తృతమైన తెలుగు సముదాయానికి ఎలాగోలా తెలియజేయడం వల్ల వాలంటీర్ల సమస్య తీరుతుందని అభిప్రాయాలు వెల్లడయ్యాయి. ప్రణయ్రాజ్ వికీపీడియాలో రాయడం వల్ల ఆత్మతృప్తి, నైపుణ్యం లభిస్తుందని అయితే ఇతర మాధ్యమాల్లా వెనువెంటనే పేరు ప్రఖ్యాతులు రావడం సాధ్యం కాదని, అయినా సిద్ధపడి సేవచేస్తున్న వికీపీడియా సముదాయ సభ్యుల సమున్నత వ్యక్తిత్వం కొనియాడారు. అందరికీ తెలుగులో విజ్ఞానం అన్న తెలుగు వికీపీడియా ఉద్దేశాన్ని ప్రతిధ్వనిస్తూ తమ గ్రంథాలయాన్ని వేదికగా ఇచ్చి, చర్చలో పాల్గొన్నందుకు నిర్వాహకుడు పవన్ సంతోష్, వికీపీడియా సభ్యులు కృతజ్ఞతలు తెలిపారు. మిసిమి తరఫున విచ్చేసిన సభ్యులు ప్రతిగా ఒకేలాంటి లక్ష్యాలు ఉన్నందున తెలుగు వికీపీడియన్లు చేసే కృషి పట్ల తమకున్న ఉన్నత భావాన్ని వెల్లడించారు.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/c2ec3fc38c3fc2ec3f-c2ac24c4dc30c3fc15-c17c4dc30c02c25c3ec32c2fc02c32c4b-c24c46c32c41c17c41-c35c3fc15c40c2ac40c21c3fc2fc28c4dc32-c15c3ec30c4dc2fc15c4dc30c2ec02'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/c2ec3fc38c3fc2ec3f-c2ac24c4dc30c3fc15-c17c4dc30c02c25c3ec32c2fc02c32c4b-c24c46c32c41c17c41-c35c3fc15c40c2ac40c21c3fc2fc28c4dc32-c15c3ec30c4dc2fc15c4dc30c2ec02</a>
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No publisherpavanWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-08-22T15:11:03ZBlog EntryWorkshop of Publishers and Writers on Unicode, Open Source and Wikimedia Projects
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects
<b>CIS-A2K team organized a workshop on unicode, open source and wikimedia projects at Pune on July 25, 2018.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has started dialogue with the publishers for the last 6 months regarding FOSS, Open knowledge and content donation to Wikimedia Projects. As a result, various publishers and writers associated with social sector have taken initiative to organise workshops. Parisar, NGO working on environmental issues organised this orientation session for 4 activists, 5 publishers and 6 writers.</p>
<p>The following issues were discussed with demonstrations -</p>
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<li>Adoption of Unicode and open source softwares</li>
<li>Make available old reference books, out of print books on web using new technology</li>
<li>Strengthening of Marathi Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary etc.</li>
<li>Social marketing of literary books</li>
<li>Explore the new medium of e books</li>
<li>To establish a company on lines of Amazon for e-selling of marathi books</li>
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<p>Read the event details on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_Publishers_and_Writers_on_Unicode,_Open_Source_and_Wikimedia_Projects">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects</a>
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