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India’s top science institution is trying hard to fix its “manel” problem
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/quartz-india-august-16-2019-india-s-top-science-institution-is-trying-hard-to-fix-its-manel-problem
<b>B Chagun Basha is a science, technology and innovation policy fellow at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Centre for Policy Research established by the department of science & technology (DST-CPR).</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://qz.com/india/1687242/no-manels-at-iisc-bengaluru-women-mandatory-in-panel-discussions/">Quartz India</a> on August 16, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted. <em>This piece was originally published on <a class="m_-1130724999584095261OWAAutoLink" href="https://connect.iisc.ac.in/2019/06/we-learned-the-hard-way-not-to-have-manels/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Connect</a> under the headline, “We Learned (The Hard Way) Not to Have Manels.”</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">While organising an event at IISc, he and his colleagues realised they hadn’t paid much thought to gender inclusivity until it was explicitly pointed out to them that there were no women in their event. That sparked some introspection, as well as actions to ensure that this wasn’t repeated. In this interview, he talks about the incident and important lessons from it.</p>
<h3 class="india a1dbe">How did you first hear of the term manel?</h3>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">It was when I was organising my first event of an academic nature. Every year, DST-CPR marks International Open Access Week by planning activities for the entire week, and having a panel discussion is a major part of it. We bring in experts to sensitise people about topics related to open access and how we can incorporate it in our institute through a bottom-up approach.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe">In October 2017, when International Open Access Week came round, we collaborated with six other groups to organise it. We had a poster competition, a panel discussion, and a few other activities like engaging with the student community about open access and how they could play a role in promoting it.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">A week before the panel discussion was scheduled, we had confirmed the participation of all our speakers—five male speakers and one female speaker. The female speaker had not been included out of a conscious effort to ensure gender diversity—she happened to be on the list of names we came up with, we had written to all of them, and they had agreed to come. But a few days before the panel discussion, we received an email from her saying that she would not be able to join us.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe">We didn’t think it was a big deal. Instead of six participants we would have five, one of whom would be the moderator. Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had already confirmed that he would be the moderator. He sent us an email asking for details of the panelists, so that he could communicate with them and plan and structure the discussion. But when we sent him the details, he immediately got back to us saying that he wouldn’t be able to participate in this panel discussion.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">I was a little shocked—you can replace a panelist at the last minute, but finding a new moderator to curate a discussion is harder as doing so requires in-depth knowledge of this space and familiarity with open access policies at different levels. I asked Sunil what had happened—why did he have to pull out? He said that CIS had a written policy that was followed strictly: members could not participate in “manels”—a word I was hearing for the very first time. I didn’t even catch it properly when we spoke on the phone. Then he explained to me that if there was a panel on which there were only men and no women panelists—which are called “manels”—then people from his organisation avoided them completely.</p>
<h3 class="india a1dbe">What happened next?</h3>
<blockquote class="pullquote">I realised that as an organiser of an event, I wasn’t even thinking about being inclusive.</blockquote>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">I realised that as an organiser of an event, I wasn’t even thinking about being inclusive. So we requested Sunil to suggest names of women speakers whom we could approach. I realise now that it was not a good thing to do—when somebody points out that there are no women on your panel, and for those reasons they are not going to participate, you should try harder to rectify this at your end, and not dump the responsibility for this on the person who pointed it out in the first place.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">We should have put in genuine effort from our end to learn more about other women in the field whom we could approach for the panel. But at the time Sunil generously agreed and gave us a list with 12 names. We contacted all of them: two people responded, one of whom—Padmini Ray Murray, who was a faculty member at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology—happened to be in Bengaluru and agreed to participate at short notice. We were really thankful for that.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">The panel discussion went off smoothly, and at the end we gave a vote of thanks, where we acknowledged our goof-up, thanked Sunil for bringing it to our notice, and we promised the audience sitting in Faculty Hall, which included the Director of NCBS and the Deputy Director of IISc, that we wouldn’t run any more manels. We said we would consciously include more women in all events we organised from then on—not just panel discussions but talks, workshops and so on. That’s more or less an official decision we took for CPR.</p>
<h3 class="india a1dbe">Did you feel like you were being put on the spot at the time?</h3>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">We would often ask our superiors to suggest names for events or scout for people on our own, but actively thinking about including people of all genders was something we never really did. Now it feels like something that is really important.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">And an interesting thing happened after the vote of thanks that year: other people who had been in the audience and worked in other institutes or other departments at IISc came up to talk to us during the tea break. Like us, previously they thought it wasn’t important to think about who was being invited as panelists, but they began to see it was important too.</p>
<h3 class="india a1dbe">Has that changed how you planned subsequent events?</h3>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">Two months after that panel discussion, we organised a workshop. On the final day of the workshop, we presented information on how many male and female participants applied, and how many of each we selected (women formed a little over 50% of those selected). That was our indirect way of letting people know that we took gender into consideration during our selection process.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">In October 2018, when International Open Access Week came around again, we organised a panel discussion as well as an event called the Global Equity Forum for librarians, because they play a key role in making open access a reality at the institutional level. We consciously included women for both events, and not just because they were women. We realised that if you put in a little effort, you can easily find competent people of all genders without having to select people only for representation’s sake.</p>
<h3 class="india a1dbe">What about the people you mentioned earlier, who came up after the panel to ask you about including more women—do you know if they ever followed up on it?</h3>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">Since the 2017 panel, others have made an effort to have equal numbers on men and women in panels too. It’s been like a chain reaction—some of those who attended our panel discussion took notice and kept it in mind when they organised events themselves. For now, though, ensuring gender diversity has depended on the efforts of the individual organisers. What happens when they leave and others take their place?</p>
<p class="india a1dbe">I think we need to put forth a policy at an IISc-wide level for events organised on campus so that we can ensure balanced representation of women—not just on stage, but among participants of events like seminars and workshops as well. Leaving it up to personal decisions means that it may not be a sustained process, and that’s why we need to work towards having it as a departmental policy or as an institutional policy. Of course we need to push for this as individuals, but we also need the leadership on board in order for this to materialise.</p>
<blockquote class="pullquote">Ensuring equal representation for men and women in public events may seem like a small issue, but it drives bigger issues.</blockquote>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">Ensuring equal representation for men and women in public events may seem like a small issue, but it drives bigger issues. Everybody is supportive of gender equality and inclusion of women at some abstract level, but if we really want that to happen, it has to start at small levels and at different stages. That’s a key thing we learned from organising the 2017 panel—that it had to start with us. Inclusion in panel discussions and events is just one of the stages at which it can happen.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">In an academic set-up, dialogue is one way of engaging with a larger audience. You also have events, exams, student participation, and many other such avenues at which it happens, right? We have to address inclusion at all levels. If we have a policy about gender inclusion in events on campus, it could pave the way for policies on gender inclusion in other areas like intake of students, picking members of faculty, picking members of decision-making committees, and so on.</p>
<p class="india a1dbe" style="text-align: justify; ">We have to start somewhere, and we can’t rely on easy excuses not to act. It’s a fundamental issue that really needs to be addressed—and maybe then it will become the norm, and open our eyes to the need for other kinds of inclusion as well.</p>
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No publisherAdminOpennessOpen Access2019-08-19T13:58:51ZNews ItemInaugural EPT Award for Open Access
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/ept-award-for-open-access
<b>The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access (OA) and the free exchange of research findings. </b>
<p>We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on four continents, naming individuals who have worked hard to promote OA and who have achieved substantial progress. The selection of a single winner was extremely difficult as we received nominations for so many individuals who have made impressive strides by any or all of the following means:</p>
<ul><li>establishing OA institutional repositories;</li></ul>
<ul><li>setting up or encouraging conversion to OA journals;</li><li>achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring research to be OA on publication, or other policy developments;</li><li>advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos;</li><li>training others in the technology of setting up IRs;</li><li>preparing and establishing e-learning projects;</li><li>working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing arrangements for research publications;</li><li>developing software for use in OA practices.<br /></li></ul>
<p>Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to name a single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals who were very close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and the winner will receive in addition an engraved plaque in the next few weeks.</p>
<p>We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is Dr Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Dr Jayakanth played a significant role in the establishment of India’s first institutional repository (IR) (<a class="external-link" href="http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/">http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in</a>). He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in India. He has been the key resource person at many events to train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, the benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely used.</p>
<p>The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute in India and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making the century-old institute's research far more globally visible than before. The University Grants Commission in India has been impressed by the IISC’s IR and has directed all universities in India to replicate this effort.</p>
<p>Dr Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA ‘renaissance man’, an advocate and technical expert in all aspect of Open Access development and an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level. <br />The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr Jayakanth as our first Award winner. We believe this Award and the example of our first winner will inspire many others and lead to similarly impressive nominations in 2012.</p>
<p>The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order): </p>
<ul><li>Ina Smith, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa;</li><li>Tatyan Zayseva, Khazar University, Azerbaijan; </li><li>Xiaolin Zhang, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences.</li></ul>
<p>The EPT wishes to congratulate them and all who have been proposed, since without exception they have made a significant personal contribution to the sharing of research findings across the world. We will be sharing some of their stories and successes on our blog over the next few weeks.</p>
<h3>Electronic Publishing Trust for Development</h3>
<p>Web site <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epublishingtrust.org">http://www.epublishingtrust.org</a><br />EPT Blog <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com">http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com<br /></a></p>
<h3>What is Open Access?</h3>
<p>Open Access provides the means to maximize the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate (upon or before publication), online, free availability of research outputs without any of the restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.</p>
<p>Not only scholars benefit from Open Access. They are the most obvious beneficiaries, perhaps, because their work gains instant worldwide visibility, and they also gain as readers if much more world research is available on an Open Access basis for them to access freely and read. But there are many other beneficiaries, too.</p>
<p>Research institutions benefit from having a management information tool that enables them to assess and monitor their research programmes, and they have a marketing tool that enables them to provide a shop window for their research efforts. The same advantages apply to external research funders who need to be able to access and keep track of outputs from their funding, and measure and assess how effectively their money has been spent. They also can ensure that the results of their spending have had the widest possible dissemination. </p>
<p>It is because Open Access is so much in the interest of research funders and employers that an increasing number of them around the world are introducing Open Access policies that require their funded researchers to provide Open Access to their work.</p>
<p>The advantages of Open Access for science and scholarship are, in brief:</p>
<ol><li>Open Access brings greater visibility and impact</li><li>Open Access moves research along faster</li><li>Open Access enables better management and assessment of research</li><li>Open Access provides the material on which the new semantic web tools for data-mining and text-mining can work, generating new knowledge from existing findings<br /></li></ol>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpen Access2011-12-31T10:46:47ZNews ItemInaugural EPT Award for Dr. Francis Jayakanth
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/inaugural-ept-award-for-dr.-francis-jayakanth
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<td>Welcome and introduction to the award<br /><strong>Subbiah Arunachalam</strong><br /></td>
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<td>Presenting the award and felicitation<br /> <strong>Prof. M S Swaminathan</strong><br /></td>
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<td>Acceptance speech<br /> <strong>Dr Francis Jayakanth</strong> <br /></td>
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<td>Felicitation by eminent scientists<br /><strong>Prof. G Baskaran</strong><br /><strong>Prof. K Mangala Sunder</strong><br /></td>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessOpen Access2012-02-27T12:24:25ZEventHow Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-october-24-2016-open-access-growth-indian-language-wikipedias
<b>Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was published by <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/life/16/10/open-access-growth-indian-language-wikipedias">Opensource.com</a> on October 24, 2016.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Indian-language Wikipedias and open access</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Most commonly spoken Indian languages have had Wikipedia projects for almost a decade. Languages like <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/15/konkani-wikipedia-goes-live/" target="_blank">Konkani</a> and <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/" target="_blank">Tulu</a> are new entrants in the Wikipedia family, and currently there are <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects" target="_blank">23 Indian language Wikipedias</a>. One example of high-quality open access content is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Open_Textbook_of_Medicine" target="_blank">Open Textbook of Medicine</a>, an offline encyclopedia consisting of Wikipedia articles related to medicine, which was created by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Members" target="_blank">group of dedicated volunteer</a> medical professionals that happen to be Wikipedia editors. There is enormous potential to grow Wikipedia in multiple languages with high-quality, open content like this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To help fuel the growth of Wikipedia and its various projects, such as the Indian-language Wikipedias, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community" target="_blank">Wikipedia community</a> has created an ecosystem with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedia_chapters" target="_blank">Wikimedia chapters</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates" target="_blank">other affiliates</a>, which are run by both volunteers and paid staff from the <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" target="_blank">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, an organization responsible for fundraising, technical, and community support. In India, <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/" target="_blank">Wikimedia India</a>, the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge program</a> (CIS-A2K), and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians" target="_blank">Punjabi Wikimedians</a> are three such official affiliates working on catalyzing the growth of the content and the communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Whereas Wikimedia India focuses on expanding all the Indian-languages content, Punjabi Wikimedians focus on Punjabi language content (in both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts), and CIS-A2K focuses on five languages: Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian-language Wikipedia projects can only grow with the help of volunteers editing their own language Wikipedias and adding missing information from a reliable sources, which is where open access content can help.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Open in action</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 2016 International Open Access Week will be held October 24-30, 2016. The theme this year is <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action" target="_blank">Open in Action</a>. The announcement explains, "International Open Access Week has always been about action, and this year's theme encourages all stakeholders to take concrete steps to make their own work more openly available and encourage others to do the same. From posting preprints in a repository to supporting colleagues in making their work more accessible, this year’s Open Access Week will focus on moving from discussion to action in opening up our system for communicating research."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian contributors show the spirit of Open in Action as they help add content to the various Indian-languages Wikipedias. They depend on open access to research and other publications to help millions of people, including those living in rural areas, who are joining us online.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-october-24-2016-open-access-growth-indian-language-wikipedias'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-october-24-2016-open-access-growth-indian-language-wikipedias</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpen Access2016-10-25T01:39:42ZBlog EntryHelping Institutions Embrace Open Access
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/manupriya-wire-november-17-2017-helping-institutions-embrace-open-access
<b>World over, a large number of universities and institutions are making way for open access repositories. Why have Indian researchers shied away from it?</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Manupriya was <a class="external-link" href="https://thewire.in/197872/helping-institutions-embrace-open-access/">published in the Wire</a> on November 17, 2017</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">On October 28, 2017, a group of panelists in the faculty hall at <a href="https://indiabioscience.org/orgs/iisc" target="_blank" title="Indian Institute of Science (IISc),">Indian Institute of Science (IISc),</a> discussed the framework of policies that can help academic institutions embrace open access in letter, spirit and action. The discussion was a part of week-long activities organised by <span class="caps">DST </span>Centre for Policy Research (<span class="caps">DST</span>–<span class="caps">CPR</span>) at IISc to increase awareness and acceptability for open access publishing in India.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The panel included Jayant Modak, deputy director, IISc, Satyajit Mayor, director of <a href="https://indiabioscience.org/orgs/ncbs" target="_blank" title="National Centre for Biological Sciences">National Centre for Biological Sciences</a> and <a href="https://indiabioscience.org/orgs/instem" target="_blank" title="inStem">inStem</a>, Padmini Ray Murray, vice-chair, <a href="http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/" target="_blank" title="Global Outlook: Digital Humanities">Global Outlook: Digital Humanities</a>, <span class="caps">N.V.</span> Sathyanarayana, chairman and managing director, <a href="http://www.informaticsglobal.com/" target="_blank" title="Informatics India Ltd">Informatics India Ltd</a> and Madan Muthu, visiting faculty at <a href="https://iiscdstcpr.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" title="DST-CPR at IISc."><span class="caps">DST</span>–<span class="caps">CPR</span> at IISc.</a> The discussion was anchored and moderated by Sunil Abraham, executive director, <a href="https://cis-india.org/" target="_blank" title="Centre for Internet and Society.">Centre for Internet and Society.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Open access is a form of publishing that makes the fruits of research, such as journal papers and other forms of data accessible to anyone interested in it, without a cost. World over, a large number of universities and institutions are beginning to give up the library subscription model of publishing to make way for open access, owing to the latter’s lower cost and higher visibility.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In India too, funding agencies like <span class="caps">DBT</span> and <span class="caps">DST</span> have laid out guidelines that require researchers to submit their research output in open access repositories. Ironically though, most researchers have shied away from submitting their work in the repositories. Which raises the question, why?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In fact, this was one of the first questions that the panelists debated upon. Abraham initiated the discussion by asking the panelists – What are the weaknesses of <span class="caps">DBT</span>–<span class="caps">DST</span> policy on open access? Why have a large number of scientists not followed the guidelines laid by the policy? Is it because the policy document does not talk about any punitive measures for scientists in the event of not depositing their work in the institutional repositories (IRs)? And, how can the policy be improved?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Modak opened the argument by saying that we as a nation are good at making provisions but bad with implementation. He agreed that scientists are yet to warm up to the idea of open access but was disinclined on using punitive measures to force scientists into submitting their work in IRs. Mayor, in agreement with Modak, said that the policy document is advisory in nature and sort of lacks ‘teeth’. However, he too was against the use of punitive measures.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Murray, the third academician on the panel said that though the policy talks about staying away from publisher-based metrics like impact factor to assess a scientist’s work, it does not provide any information about what alternative metrics can be used to measure it. She suggested that the accessibility of a scientist’s work and how much effort she has put in to make it easily available to non-scientists could be used as a metrics for measurement. She also drew attention to the fact that the policy completely bypasses the requirements of independent scholars and those working in languages other than English. “Which institutional repository should they deposit their work in?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sathyanarayana, the fourth panelist and a strong advocate of open access said, the policy document “lacks an aggressive strategy” to drive a disruptive and “fundamentally voluntary model” of adopting open access. He asked the other panelists and the audience, “why have repositories like ResearchGate become so successful and attractive for researchers? Why can’t open access IRs be modelled along the lines of such repositories? His argument was that the IRs can be fashioned in a way to make them a ‘convenient step in the process of research’”. One suggestion that he offered was that IRs can be structured as a paper submission platform. So that anybody who is interested in publishing their work first puts it up in the <span class="caps">IR</span> and only after that the process of going to a journal begins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Muthu, the fourth panelist and a long-time crusader for open access in India said that scientists in India have stayed away from the open access publishing because they don’t fully realise that in traditional models of publishing, you surrender all copyrights of your work to the publisher. He added that more scientists can be encouraged to adopt the open access model of publishing by making IRs institute-managed, easier to use and as a mandatory step in the process of publishing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mayor added to this argument by saying that the idea of submitting (unpublished) work in an <span class="caps">IR</span> is quite similar to the concept of pre-print archives which are fast becoming a powerful way of sharing work. Almost all top journals accept work that has been published in a pre-print archive. In fact, in the physical sciences, people have been using pre-print archives for a long time and now slowly, even the biology community is warming up to it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Murray emphasised on the need to talk to students about open access and making them aware of the ways to design their metadata so that it is amenable to open access repositories.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As the discussion inched closer to its final moments, it veered off towards the costs of open access publishing. Modak said that in the last year alone, the amount of money IISc has spent for publishing papers has doubled. If all researchers start opting for open access (<span class="caps">OA</span>) journals/hybrid-<span class="caps">OA</span> journals that charge the authors nearly double of what traditional journals do, then publishing papers will become unsustainable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To this, Sathyanarayana said, it may appear that the cost of publishing in <span class="caps">OA</span> journals is high, but on a macro-level, when you consider the cost of publishing and accessing all the papers published in a year, then the <span class="caps">OA</span> model costs much lesser. He added that scientific publishing is the only business in the world where authors (creators of proprietary material) give away all their rights to publishers.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Backing up the points made by Sathyanarayana, Murray said that in traditional models of publishing the publishers make close to 400% profits. We need to think about, “how much labour we as academics put in for publishers’ profits?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It is authors’ inertia that is stopping open access from becoming the obvious model of publishing, said, Muthu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In conclusion, Abraham summed up the arguments and acknowledged that there are many dimensions to open access and an institutional policy on <span class="caps">OA</span> cannot be framed in a vacuum. Common people need to participate in the debate to shape the direction the policy takes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Apart from the panel discussion a poster competition and a quiz competition were organised as part of the <span class="caps">OA</span>-week activities. <span class="caps">DST</span>–<span class="caps">CPR</span> was joined by the student’s council at IISc, Centre for Contemporary Studies, <span class="caps">JRD</span> Tata Library and IndiaBioscience in organising the activities.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>This article was originally published on </i><a href="https://indiabioscience.org/" target="_blank" title="IndiaBioscience">IndiaBioscience</a><i>. Read the original <a href="https://indiabioscience.org/news/2017/helping-institutions-embrace-open-access" target="_blank" title="here">here</a>. <br /></i></p>
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No publisherAdminOpennessOpen AccessAccess to Knowledge2017-11-27T15:11:34ZNews ItemHeads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Intransigenc of STM Publishers
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<b>A few commercial publishers dominate provision of access to scientific and technical information sought after by researchers around the world. Increasing subscription prices of journals at rates higher than general inflation caused librarians to think of forming consortia, but publishers started selling online journals as bundles, and libraries ended up with many journals their researchers have very little use for. Scientists and librarians adopted open access, but publishers came up with hybrid journals and article processing charges to beat any adverse effect on their profits caused by the fast-spreading open access movement. We compare the steps taken by scientists and librarians in the West to reclaim ease of access to research findings with what is happening in India. We end with a few suggestions. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Subbiah Arunachalam, Perumal Ramamoorthi and Subbiah Gunasekaran was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol80_2014_5_Art04.pdf">published in the Indian National Science Academy Journals</a>, <i>Proc Indian Natn SciAcad</i> 80 No. 5 December 2014 pp. 919-929.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Scientists in India, as elsewhere, will be happy if their libraries provide them access to thousands of journals. Librarians, even in the most affluent institutions, have only limited budgets and they have to balance between journals on the one hand and books, monographs and reference material on the other, and can subscribe to only a limited number of journals. In the past decade and a half, thanks to generous funding by several government agencies (e.g., UGC, CSIR), librarians formed consortia so they could access online journals at more attractive prices and in large numbers. Also, during the same period, many open access (OA) journals became available and some subscription journals came forward to make articles OA if the authors paid a fee. There also came up a large number of repositories, both institutional (such as the ones at Indian Institute of Science and Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute) and subject-based central repositories (such as PubMed Central). As a result, scientists now have much easier access to a much larger volume of current literature. But, it appears that publishers seem to profit far more than scientists. They keep increasing the subscription prices at a rate higher than general inflation. Even affluent institutions like Harvard University are forced to cut down the number of journals they subscribe. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), a group of about 125 research libraries in North America, is concerned about this crisis in scholarly communication (or ‘serials crisis’ as they call it) and is working to promote open access as one way to counter it. The publishers continue to make their unusually large profits unmindful of the hardship researchers are put to. In business circles, publishing scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals is considered to be one of the most profitable businesses. Efforts made by groups of researchers to make scholarly communication more cost effective have not met with expected success levels. For example, entire editorial boards of a few commercial journals resigned and started new journals in the same field. But this happened only in a handful of cases and not all of them succeeded. In this paper, we look at what is happening currently in India in the context of the unusually large influence wielded by journal publishers.</p>
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<b>Nishant Shah participated in a panel discussion with Wendy Chun, Tom Levine and Geert Lovink , around 'The End of Bibliographies: New Media and Research'. Nishant also participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on 'Open Up: Pragmatism and Politics of Open Access'. The programme was held at the University of Luneberg in Germany from October 3 to 5, 2013.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, ab 10:00 Uhr</b> - Registrierung im Hörsaalgang<br /> <br /> <b>Begrüßung | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 12:00 Uhr–13:30 Uhr in C HS1</b><br /> Grußworte und Eröffnungsvortrag von Hans Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin) Wissenschaftsgeschichte und das Wissen der Medien <br /> <br /> Mittagessen | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 13:30 Uhr–14:30 Uhr in der Mensa<br /> <br /> <b>Session 1 | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 14:30 Uhr–16:30 Uhr</b> <br /><i>Panel 1.1 | Maß und Medium – Medien der Messung in C HS3</i> <br /> Elektrisierte Zeit. Mediale Strategien in Helmholtz’ Messung der Nervenleitgeschwindigkeit von Henning Schmidgen (Regensburg)<br /> <br /> Nachhall: Schallmessung im elektroakustischen Zeitalter von Roland Wittje (Regensburg) <br /> <br /> Measuring with moving images in Albert Michotte’s perception experiments von Sigrid Leyssen (Paris | Regensburg) <br /> <br /> Understanding Television: TV – als Meßgerätegeschichte von Bernhard Dotzler (Regensburg)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Markus Krajewski (Lüneburg | Weimar)<br /> <br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 1.2 | Medienanthropologische Szenarien. Wie situieren sich die Medien der Psychophysik und Psychologie? in </i><i>C HS4</i><br /> <br /> Intensität und Infinitesimales. Grenzen der Messbarkeit bei Hermann Cohen und Gilles Deleuze von Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum)<br /> <br />Empfindung, Wahrnehmbarkeit, Medialität. Historische Psychologie und ihre Medien von Anna Tuschling (Bochum)<br /> <br />Was Zahlen in der sozialpsychologischen Medienwirkungsforschung erzählen. Das Problem der »Gewaltmedien« <br /> von Estrid Sørensen (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Christoph Engemann (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 1.3 | Mediale Bedingungen von Behinderung in C HS5</i> <br /><br />Die (Re-)Sozialisierung technischer Objekte in Patientennetzwerken. Ein Fallbeispiel zur Herstellung des Cochlea-Implantats von Markus Spöhrer (Konstanz)<br /> <br /> Netzhautimplantate und Eyeborgs. Visualisierungstechniken zwischen Prothese und Human Enhancement von Robert Stock (Konstanz)<br /> <br />Zur Produktion von Behinderung im Fotoarchiv von Anna Grebe (Konstanz) <br /> <br /> Zur Um/Bildung von Gemeinschaften. Das Cochlea-Implantat und die »Sourds en colère« von Beate Ochsner (Konstanz) <br /> <br />Moderation: Anne Ganzert (Konstanz) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 1.4 | (Film-)Wissen als Modus der Kinoerfahrung in </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> <br /> Transnationale Filmgeschichte(n) schreiben von Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Zürich)<br /> <br /> Filmwissenschaft und ihre Quellen. Historisches Wissen und digitale Repräsentationsformen von Film und Kino von Franziska Heller (Zürich) <br /> <br /> Filmwissen/Erfahrungswissen/Kinoerfahrung. Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Kinoerfahrung und Wissenserwerb von Florian Mundhenke (Leipzig)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Florian Mundhenke (Leipzig) <br /> <i><i> </i></i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i><i>Panel </i>1.5 | Was vom Leben bleibt in </i> <i>C 14.001</i> <br /> <br /> Vom täglichen Kampf gegen das ›Gestaltsehen‹ und der Hartnäckigkeit von Bildtraditionen. Biologisches Wissen auf der Schwelle eines Medienwandels von Nina Samuel (New York | Berlin)<br /> <br /> Über zwei Arten des Gebrauchs von Datenbanken in der Molekularbiologie von Robert Meunier (Berlin)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Moderation: Janina Wellmann (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><i><i></i></i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i><i>Workshop </i>1.6 | Fakturen in </i><i>C 14.006 </i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In der <a href="http://gfm2013.blogspot.de/p/ausstellung.html">Ausstellung </a>»Fakturen – Medien der Wissenschaften«, die anlässlich der GfM–Tagung an der Leuphana stattfindet, reflektieren Künstler_innen wie Martin John Callanan (UK), Driessens & Verstappen (NL), Sabrina Raaf (US), Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (D) und Herwig Turk (A|PT) über die Ästhetik wissenschaftlicher Instrumentarien, Modelle und Methoden.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In diesem Workshop stellen die Künstler_innen ihre Projekte vor und diskutieren mit den Teilnehmer_innen die spezifischen Erkenntnismöglichkeiten künstlerischer Forschung und Darstellung. <br /> <br /> Organisiert vom Leuphana Arts Program (Andreas Broeckmann, Alexandra Waligorski) mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. <i> </i><br /> <br /> <i>AG-Treffen 1.7 | Comicforschung</i> in <i>C 12.001</i><br /> <br /> <i><i>AG-Treffen</i> 1.8 | Auditive Kultur und Sound Studies in </i><i>C 12.006 </i> <br /> <br /> Kaffeepause | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 16:30 Uhr–17:00 Uhr im Hörsaalgang<br /> <br /> <b>Session 2 | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 17:00 Uhr–19:00 Uhr</b> <i> </i><br /> <i>Panel 2.1 | Medien der Philologie – Philologie der Medien in C HS3</i> <br /> <br /> Was ist eine medienphilologische Frage? von Rupert Gaderer (Bochum)<br /> <br /> Ist Medienphilologie reaktionär? von Friedrich Balke (Bochum)<br /> <br /> Medienphilologie als Verfahren von Natalie Binczek (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Braucht die Medienwissenschaft Philologie? von Harun Maye (Weimar) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Daniel Eschkötter (Weimar) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 2.2 | Kosmotechnologie in </i><i>C HS4</i> <br /> <br /> Freischwebende Sterne im Stereokomparator von Kohei Suzuki (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Nomos, Physis, Techné. Zum Konzept der Kosmotechnologie bei Walter Benjamin von Hans-Christian von Herrmann (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Vektorkosmologie. Buckminster Fullers Ausdehnungslehre von Christina Vagt (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Das Projektionsplanetarium als Medium kosmologischer Weltbilder von Julian Furrer (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Isabell Schrickel (Lüneburg)<br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 2.3 | Akustische Medien als Werkzeuge wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis in </i><i>C HS5</i><br /> <br /> Stimmgabeln. Vom Lernen über das Hören und der Verwissenschaftlichung des Gehörs am Beispiel der Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (1890–1915) von Heiner Stahl (Erfurt) <br /> <br /> Geschulte Ohren und akustische Repräsentation. Zur Geschichte der auditiven Kultur der Naturwissenschaften von Axel Volmar (Siegen) <br /><br />Tiere, Töne: Tatsachen? Zur Rolle von Medientechnologien in bioakustischer Feldforschung von Judith Willkomm (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuff. Zur Interferenz von Wissenschaft und Kunst im Feld der Radiophonie von Ania Mauruschat (Basel)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Ute Holl (Basel) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 2.4 | Wissenschaft und Audiovision. Vom Denken in und mit bewegten Bildern</i> in<i> </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> <br /> Filmmaterial, Fühlbarkeit und Diskurs von Naomi Rolef (Berlin) <br /> <br /> What you see is what you get. Zur Rhetorik wissenschaftlicher Vorträge von Christina Schmitt (Berlin) | Sarah Greifenstein (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Animierte Filmwissenschaft. Multimediale Publikation und analytische Zugänge zur Ästhetik audiovisueller Medien <br /> von Jan-Hendrik Bakels (Berlin) | Cilli Poggoda (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Das Gehirn als Kosmos. Neurowissenschaftliche Bilder und ihre Präsentation in populärwissenschaftlichen audiovisuellen Formaten von Regina Brückner (Berlin) | Sarah Greifenstein (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Andreas Kirchner (Lüneburg) <br /> <i> </i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 2.5 | Experimentelle Anordnungen zur Erforschung des Medialen in </i><i>C 14.001</i> <br /> <br /> Stil, Experiment und Medium – die epistemische Dimension des Stilbegriffs in Wissenschaft und Kunst von Veronika Pöhnl (Konstanz) <br /> <br /> Experimental Television: Versuchsanordnungen der Fernsehkunst von Samantha Schramm (Konstanz)<br /> <br /> Die Erkundung des »videospace« in der Arbeit des National Center for Experiments in Television (1967–1975) <br /> von Barbara Filser (Karlsruhe) <br /> <br /> Wenn das Wohnzimmer zum Labor wird von Matthias Wieser (Klagenfurt) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Isabell Otto (Konstanz) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 2.6 | Medien im Maßstab. Wie sich Feld- und Laborforschung als situierte Medienpraxis untersuchen lassen in </i><i>C 14.006</i> <br /> <br /> Sammeln, Ordnen, Vergleichen. Über die Domestizierung fremder Dinge von Anna Brus (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Andere Medien? Anderes Wissen? Anderes Streiten? Weblogs als Formen der internen Wissenschaftskommunikation von Matthias Meiler (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Wissenschaftsmedien in »freier Wildbahn«. Computersimulationen und gesellschaftliches Zukunftswissen in Wirtschaft und Politik von Cornelius Schubert (Siegen) <br /><br />Fliegen, Fotografieren und Wettermachen. Zur Relevanz fotografischer Praktiken im Cloud Seeding von Nadine Taha (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Gabriele Schabacher (Siegen) <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 2.7 | Medienkultur und Bildung</i> <i>in </i><i>C 12.001 </i><i><i>AG-Treffen</i> 2.8 | Medienwissenschaft und politische Theorie</i> in <i>C 12.006 </i><br /> <br /> Abendessen | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 19:00 Uhr–20:30 Uhr in der Mensa<br /> <br /> <b>Podiumsdiskussion | Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 20:30 Uhr–21:30 Uhr</b> <br /><i>Am Ende der Bibliographien. Vom neuen (medialen) Selbstverständnis wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens in C HS 1</i><br /> mit: Wendy Chun (Providence | Lüneburg), Ute Holl (Basel),<b> </b>Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton | Lüneburg), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam | Lüneburg), Nishant Shah (Bangalore | Lüneburg), Frank Schirrmacher (Frankfurt) <br /> <br />Moderation: Wolfgang Hagen (Lüneburg)<br /><b> </b><br /> <b>Session 3 | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 9:30 Uhr–11:30 Uhr</b> <br /><i> </i><i>Panel 3.1 | Dokumentarischer Film zwischen wissenschaftlicher Forschung und populärer Wissensvermittlung in </i><i>C HS 3</i> <br /> <br /> Die Welt mit dem Röntgenblick sehen von Kay Hoffmann (Stuttgart)<br /> <br /> Körperpolitik zwischen den Trümmern: Gesundheitsfilme aus der Besatzungszeit 1946 bis 1949 von Ursula von Keitz (Konstanz) <br /> <br /> Die Encyclopaedia Cinematographica – ein analoger Computer von Eva Knopf (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Dokumentarische Langzeitstudien als Gegenstand und Verfahren sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung von Britta Hartmann (Bonn)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Thomas Weber (Hamburg) <br /> <br /> <i>Panel 3.2 | Informationsumwelten in </i><i>C HS 4</i><br /> Record and Erase: Magnettonbandtechnik und die Historiographie des Kalten Kriegs von Monika Dommann (Zürich)<br /> <br /> What you see is what you get? Grafische Benutzeroberflächen als infrastrukturelle Bildsysteme von Margarete Pratschke (Zürich) <br /> <br /> Die Grenzen der Cyborgmetaphorik. Zur Rolle des fliegerischen Gefühls im Zeitalter der Flugautomation von Christian Kehrt (Hamburg)<br /> <br /> Psychologie und Schalttafel. Oder, Informationszeitalter »from below« von Max Stadler (Zürich) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Cornelius Borck (Lübeck) <br /> <br /> <i>Panel 3.3 | Aperture Sciences. Spielen im Labor des Spielens in </i><i>C HS 5</i> <br /> <br /> »The Cake is a Lie«. Das Portal-Labor als Verhaltensexperiment von Rolf F. Nohr (Braunschweig) <br /> <br /> Von sprechenden Kartoffeln und anderen (epistemischen) Dingen. Portal als Experimentalensemble von Markus Rautzenberg (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Laborgeschichten von Benjamin Beil (Köln) <br /> <br /> »Know your paradoxes!« Das Computerspiel als multistabiles Bild von Thomas Hensel (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Panelteilnehmer <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 3.4 | Szenariotechniken des Anthropozäns. Daten, Kosmogramme, Simulationen in </i><i>C 14.027</i><br /> Analoge Signale. Das Anthropozän im geohistorischen Rauschen von Christoph Rosol (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Welt – Bild – Technik. Zum Begriff des Visineerings von Isabell Schrickel (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Burning Planets – Kosmogramm des Anthropozäns? Eine Medienkritik der Klimavisualisierung von Birgit Schneider (Potsdam) <br /> <br /> Vernetzte Daten – Webbasierte Datenbanken in der Klimafolgenforschung von Christine Hanke (Potsdam) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Sebastian Vehlken (Lüneburg) <br /><br /><i>Panel 3.5 | Vor Augen führen in </i><i>C 14.001 </i> <br /> <br /> Von Bildern, die »freylich noch vollkommener seyn könnten«. Vetreter der frühen Hirnforschung als Bildkritiker von Wibke Larink (Hamburg)<br /> <br /> Orpheus im Atlas oder: Das epistemische Bild bei Aby Warburg von Eva Frey (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Aufzeichnen. Transformieren. Verzeichnen. Medien der Geschichtsschreibung ephemerer Kunstformen (Performance und Aufführungen) von Barbara Büscher (Leipzig | Köln)<br /> <br /> Medien der Medienwissenschaft. Zwischen Gebrauchs- und Diskursgeschichte von Martina Leeker (Lüneburg)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Wolfgang Hagen (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /><i>Workshop 3.6 | Das Wissen der Instrumente in </i><i>C 14.006</i><br /> <i> </i> <br />Der Workshop »Das Wissen der Instrumente« präsentiert konkrete (medien-)instrumentale Settings als Materialisierungen ästhetischen Wissens. Dabei wird sensorische Medienarbeit mit akademischen Diskursen kurzgeschlossen. Dafür werden die Settings nicht nur in theoretischen Statements vorgestellt, sondern auch von den Teilnehmenden praktisch erprobt. <br /> <br /> Organisiert vom Schwerpunktbereich
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Ästhetische Strategien des Instituts für Kultur und Ästhetik Digitaler Medien, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Rolf Großmann, Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo, Andreas Otto, Malte Pelleter) und der Forschungsstelle Musik und Medientechnologie der Universität Osnabrück (Arne Bense). <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 3.7 | </i><i>Medien und Kunst / Kunst und Medien in </i><i>C 12.001 </i> <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 3.8 | Daten und Netzwerke in </i><i>C 12.006 </i><br /> <br />Kaffeepause | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 11:30 Uhr–12:00 Uhr im Hörsaalgang<br /> <br /> <b> Session 4 | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 12:00 Uhr–13:30 Uhr</b><i> </i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 4.1 | Wissensmedium Patent – Kulturtechnik Patentieren in </i><i>C HS 3</i><br /> <br /> Patentstörungen. Sollbruchstörungen im Medium des Patents von Christian Kassung (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Be it known that I ... - Digitalisierte historische Patente als Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Forschung von Marius Hug (Berlin) <br /><br />Was erzählt ein Patent? Casellis bildtelegraphische Patente als Medien der Wissenschaften von Julia Zons (Konstanz)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Thomas Brandstetter (Basel) <br /> <br /><i>Panel 4.2 | Verhalten bilden in </i><i>C HS 4 </i> <br /> <br /> Wahnsinnige Bilder. Zu einer medialen Wissensgeschichte des Irrationalen um 1900 von Veronika Rall (Zürich)<br /> <br /> Familien-stellen. Zur Medialität der systemischen Therapie von Katja Rothe (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Fotografie, vergleichende Verhaltensforschung und Evolutionslehre am Moskauer Darwin Museum von Margarete Vöhringer (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Christoph Windgaetter (Berlin) <br /> <br /><i>Panel 4.3 |</i> <i>Programme verstehen - Verstehen programmieren in </i><i>C HS 5</i> <br /> <br /> Source Code als Quelle. Arbeiten mit Friedrich Kittlers Programmierwerk von Paul Feigelfeld (Berlin) | Peter Berz (Berlin) <br /> <br /> »Digital Humanities« und das neue Wissen der Bilder. Über Praxis, Theorie und Geschichte der apparativen Bildsortierung von Matthias Wannhoff (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Intermedialitätsbegriff und Sinnverstehen im Kontext alternativer Arbeitstechnik von Miklas Schulz (Lüneburg)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Martin Warnke (Lüneburg) <i> </i><br /> <br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 4.4 | Diagramme als Medien des Wissens in </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> <br /> Information als Konfiguration. Zum Verhältnis von Gestalt und Gehalt in Diagrammen von Matthias Bauer (Flensburg)<br /> <br /> Diagramme als Generatoren wissenschaftlicher Autorität von Christoph Ernst (Erlangen | Nürnberg) <br /> <br /> Konfiguration, Leib und Geometrie. Merleau-Pontys Philosophie der Mathematik von Jan Wöbking (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Gottfried Schnödl (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 4.5 | HIV|AIDS als visuelles Wissen in </i><i>C 14.001 </i> <br /> <br /> Der AIDS-Atlas. AIDS als klinisches Krankheitsbild von Lukas Engelmann (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Toxische Körper. Medien der Ansteckung und Affektpolitiken zur Zeit der frühen AIDS-Krise von Katrin Köppert (Berlin) <br /> <br /> »Art about AIDS«. Über die Konstruktion von Wissen über Menschen mit AIDS von Sophie Junge (Zürich)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Brigitte Weingart (Bonn) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 4.6 | Wissenschaft in Serie. Fernsehen als Versuchsanordnung in </i><i>C 14.006</i><br /> <br />Serielle Epidemiologie von Daniela Wentz (Weimar) <br /> <br /> Situationen, Labor, Experiment. Die Sitcom als Medium der Wissenschaft des Menschen von Herbert Schwaab (Regensburg) <br /> <br /> Die Physik der Serie. Modell und Motiv der Tafel in »The Big Bang Theory« von Dominik Maeder (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Thomas Waitz (Wien) <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 4.7 | Genre Studies</i> <i>in </i><i>C 12.001</i> <br /><br /><i>AG-Treffen 4.8 | Games</i> <i>in </i><i>C 12.006</i> <br /><br />Mittagessen | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 13:30 Uhr–14:30 Uhr in der Mensa<br /> <br /> <b>Session 5 | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 14:30 Uhr–16:30 Uhr</b> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 5.1 | Medien(Affekt)Wissen in </i><i>C HS 3</i><br /> <br /> »Von uns schweigen wir...«. Narrative Affektmodulationen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft von Bernd Bösel (Köln) <br /> <br /> Affektenlehre, Sonic Warfare und die Medienschriften der auditiven Affizierung von Rolf Großmann (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Verdrahtete und durchleuchtete Gehirne. Zur Verwendung von Videospielen in neurologischer und psychologischer Forschung von Serjoscha Wiemer (Paderborn) <br /> <br /> Affektmedialisierung im diskursiven und sozialen Bereich von Michaela Ott (Hamburg) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Marie-Luise Angerer (Köln) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 5.2 | Geteilte Bilder. Fotografieforschung im Internet in C HS 4</i><br /> <br />Digitale Bildbestände als Grundlage neuer Visualisierungskulturen von Winfried Gerling (Potsdam)<br /> <br /> Die Wiederkehr des Analogen. Rezeptionsweisen von Fundfotografien von Susanne Holschbach (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Collective Collections. Wissensordnung digitaler Bildersammlungen von Petra Löffler (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Neue Bilder, alte Orte. Räume der Bildberichterstattung von Kathrin Peters (Oldenburg) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Katja Müller-Helle (Berlin) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 5.3 | Das Wissen der Oberfläche in </i><i>C HS 5</i> <br /> Oberflächenmoderne von Stefan Rieger (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Das Display. Am Beispiel akustischer Texte von Natalie Binczek (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Oberflächen und Ränder des Urbanen. Photodokumentarische Forschungen um 1970 von Christoph Eggersglüß (Weimar) <br /><br />Vom Grund zur Oberfläche. Messung, Behandlung und Beschreibung von Oberflächen in volkssprachlichen Fachtexten der Frühen Neuzeit von Christina Lechtermann (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Claus Pias (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /><i>Panel 5.4 | Passt schon! </i><i>in </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> <br /> »Pi mal Daumen«. Medien der Ingenieurswissenschaft zwischen »Applied Sciences« und »reiner« Wissenschaft von Florian Hoof (Frankfurt) <br /> <br /> Siegesversuchskörper. Planen, Prüfen, Erinnern von Ingo Landwehr (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Bilder von antizipierten Ruinen als Orte der Identitätsformation von Sibylle Machat (Flensburg) <br /> <br /> Messen ohne Skalen. Warum der Geigerzähler kein Messgerät ist von Marc-Robin Wendt (Berlin)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Peter Berz (Berlin) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 5.5 | Weltfrieden. Medien und Methoden möglicher Zukünfte</i> <i>in </i><i>C 14.001</i> <br /> <br /> Nash Equilibrium von Ana Teixera Pinto (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Der globale Körper. Heinz von Foerster und Noa Eshkol am Biological Computer Laboratory von Eva Wilson (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Unzeitgenössische Welt von Ana Ofak (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Isabell Schrickel (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 5.6 | Mediamorphosen der Wissenschaft. Zwischen Unsinn und Eigensinn</i> <i>in </i><i>C 14.006 </i> <br /> <br /> »Wenn Sie mir dies einmal beschreiben würden…«. »Medien der Wissenschaften« in audiovisuellen Essays von Alexander Kluge von Florian Wobser (Rostock) <br /> <br /> Philosophie diesseits der Wende zur Bildlichkeit. Der Buch-Bausatz Kant für die Hand als mediale Herausforderung <br /> von Hanno Depner (Rostock) <br /> <br /> Paranoische Decodierung. Zur Intermedialität einer Pseudowissenschaft von John Seidler (Rostock) <br /> <br /> Die Quantifizierung von Reputation in den Sozialwissenschaften. Zitationsindizes und Zeitschriftenrankings – reflexive oder vorreflexive Beziehung zur eigenen Medialität? von Dennis Wutzke (Rostock) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Elizabeth Prommer (Rostock) <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 5.7 | Filmwissenschaft in </i><i>C 12.001</i> <br /><br /><i>AG-Treffen 5.8 | </i><i>Medienphilosophie in </i><i>C 12.006 </i><br /> <br /> Kaffeepause | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 16:30 Uhr–17:00 Uhr im Hörsaalgang <br /> <br /> <b>Session 6 | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 17:00 Uhr–19:00 Uhr</b> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 6.1 | Medien der Universität in </i><i>C HS 3 </i><br /> <i> </i> <br />Die Medialität wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften von Martina Franzen (Bielefeld) <br /> <br /> Medienreflektionen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: »Massenmedien im gelehrten Diskurs« von Kai Lohsträter (Hamburg) <br /> <br /> Entwürfe der Grenzüberschreitung. Interdisziplinarität und die mediale Konstitution von Epistemologien (1960 – 1980) von Susanne Schregel (Weimar) <br /> <br /> Das technische und das ökonomische Regime der Universität. Effekte der Ökonomisierung und des Internets auf Wissen und Lehre von Stefan Heidenreich (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Claus Pias (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 6.2 | Mit/in/durch Medien? Praktiken der Medientheorie in C HS 4</i><br /> <br /> Trennen und Verbinden von Peter Bexte (Köln) <br /> <br /> Revidieren von Manuela Klaut (Weimar)<br /> <br /> Reflektieren von Katerina Krtilova (Weimar) <br /> <br /> Re-make von Katharina Wloszczynska (Weimar)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Lorenz Engell (Weimar) <br /> <br /><i>Workshop 6.3 | Open Up! The Politics and Pragmatics of Open Access in </i><i>C HS 5</i> <br /> Our academic landscape adapted fast to the disruption of Open Access: commercial publishers have started several successful Open Access platforms, and Open Access is by now the EU's official funding guideline. But there remain open questions. What modes of openness are called for in knowledge production and dissemination? Does the take-up of Open Access fully satisfy the drive towards openness stirred up by digital media? How is Open Access challenging academic research practices or even our understanding of knowledge? What are the limits to openness? The Hybrid Publishing Lab and its international guests will present their research. <br /> <br /> The workshop is also open to short example-oriented presentations of participants who want to engage in the discussion. Please email us beforehand at <a class="_mail" href="mailto:hybridpublishing@inkubator.leuphana">hybridpublishing@inkubator.leuphana</a>.de <br /> <br /> Organisiert vom Hybrid Publishing Lab der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg mit Janneke Adema (Coventry University) und Nishant Shah (Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore). <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 6.4 | Wissenschaftsdiskursivierung im Medium Comic in </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> Comic als Medium der Wissenschaft von Jens Meinrenken (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Selbstreflexive Wissensvermittlungen im Comic. Wenn Comics Comics erklären von Simon Klingler (Hamburg) | Andreas Veits (Hamburg) <br /> <br /> Die Szenographie der Alltagsnavigation: Manga-Grafiken zur Darstellung von Wirkungszusammenhängen im öffentlichen Raum von Lukas Wilde (Tübingen) <br /> <br /> Ikonizität und Zeugenschaft. Dokumentarische Comics über den israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt von Roman Mauer (Mainz) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Véronique Sina (Bochum) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 6.5 | Modelle als Medien in </i><i>C 14.001</i> <br /> <br /> Fragile Netzwerke, zerbrechliche Schönheiten. Die Harvard Glass Flowers als Medien zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst von Florian Huber (Wien) <br /> <br /> Von Modell zu Modell von Jan Müggenburg (Lüneburg) <br /><br />Modell-Licht-Bild. Medien im Mathematikunterricht 1910 bis 1920 von Anja Sattelmacher (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Drogulus. Ein mechanisches Modell maschinischen Lebens um 1960 von Thomas Brandstetter (Basel)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Stefan Rieger (Bochum) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 6.6 | Wissenschaftskulturen der Bio- und Öko-Medialität in </i><i>C 14.006</i> <br /> Conways »Game of Life« zwischen Unterhaltungsspiel und epistemischem Werkzeug von Serjoscha Wiemer (Paderborn) <br /> <br /> »What I cannot create, I do not understand«. Synthetische Biologie, Biopolitik, Biomedialität von Martin Müller (Paderborn) <br /> <br /> Für eine kleine Ökologie von Maren Schwieger (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Leben im Kreis. Uexkülls Medien von Christoph Neubert (Paderborn) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Marie-Luise Angerer (Köln) <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 6.7 | Treffen in </i><i>C 12.001</i><br /> <br /> 17:00 Uhr–18:00 Uhr: AG »Medienindustrien« <br />18:00 Uhr–19:00 Uhr: AG »Fotografieforschung« <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 6.8 | Gender Studies und Medienwissenschaft in </i><i>C 12.006</i> <br /> <br /><b>Abendessen | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 19:00 Uhr–20:30 Uhr</b> <br /> <br /> Buffet mit Weinempfang im Hörsaalgang <br /> <br /><b> </b><b>Keynote | Freitag, 04. Oktober 2013, 20:30 Uhr–21:30 Uhr</b> in C HS 1</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Feierliche Eröffnung des Digital Cultures Research Lab der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Festvortrag von Bernard Stiegler (London)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital studies as an organology of mind<br /> anschließend Party im Salon Hansen <br /> <br /><b> </b><b>Session 7 | Samstag, 05. Oktober 2013, 9:30 Uhr–11:30 Uhr</b> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 7.1 | KonferenzWissen in </i><i>C HS 3</i> <br /> <br /> Do’s and Don’ts and How to Break Them: Conferences and the Mediated Performance of Knowledge von Kristoffer Gansing (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Das Wissen der Versammlung. Vorschlag zur Einrichtung eines experimentellen Lecture Theatre von Sybille Peters (Gießen) <br /> <br /> Stammbücher als Medien der methodischen Orientierung von Anna Echterhölter (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Ethos, Pathos, Logos – Über Digitales Präsentieren von Wolfgang Hagen (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Oliver Lerone-Schultz (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 7.2 | Medienbildung und Digital Humanities. </i><i>Die Medienvergessenheit technisierter Geisteswissenschaften in </i><i>C HS 4 </i> <br /> <br /> Die Digitalisierung der Medienwissenschaft? Computergestützte audiovisuelle Analyse und Software Studies – Methoden zur rechnergestützten medienwissenschaftlichen Forschung und Lehre von Petra Missomelius (Innsbruck) <br /> <br /> Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten und die Grenzen der Möglichkeiten. Das Web 2.0 und seine Erkenntnispotentiale von Katja Grashöfer (Bochum) <br /> <br /> Digital (Media) Studies zwischen Datenbank und Narration von Roberto Simanowski (Basel) <br /><br />Algorithmische Kritik oder Kritik der Algorithmen? von Till Andreas Heilmann (Basel) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Petra Missomelius (Innsbruck) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 7.3 | Aus dem Rahmen fallen in </i><i>C HS 5</i> <br /> <br /> Wuchernde Milieus. Meeresbiologische Medien um 1900 von Christina Wessely (Berlin)<br /> <br /> »The Breaking of the Second Frame«. Transgressive Denkfiguren der Avantgarde von Katja Müller-Helle (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Die Kinoleinwand als Ausstellungsobjekt von Dennis Göttel (Braunschweig) <br /> <br /> Touristische Selbst- und Fremdbeobachtung. Film, Reise und Reflexivität von Thomas Morsch (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Gloria Meynen (Friedrichshafen) <br /> <br /><i>Panel 7.4 | Spielend wissen in </i><i>C 14.027</i><br /> <br /> Robot Challenges. Zur Performanz künstlicher Intelligenz von Ulf Otto (Hildesheim) <br /> <br /> Welt spielen. Sim Earth als Grenzfall zwischen Spiel und wissenschaftlicher Simulation von Niklas Schrape (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Spielprototypen als Form spielanalytischer Wissensproduktion von Stefan Werning (Bayreuth) <br /> <br /> Potentiality and Actuality of Computer-based Simulation Environments von Sabine Thürmel (München)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Jan Müggenburg (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 7.5 | Medienwissenschaft ohne Gedächtnis? Hindernisse und Lösungswege beim Zugang zum audiovisuellen Medienerbe in </i><i>C 14.001</i> <br /> <br /> Sind Rundfunkarchive immer noch Geheimarchive? Oder bewegen Sie sich doch? <br /> von Michael Crone (Darmstadt) <br /> <br /> Vom Geheimschatz zum Allgemeingut? Strategien der audiovisuellen Medienerbe-Verwaltung im internationalen Vergleich <br /> von Leif Kramp (Bremen) <br /> <br /> Das Recht als Schranke. Juristische Perspektiven beim Umgang mit dem audiovisuellen Medienerbe in Deutschland <br /> von Paul Klimpel (Berlin) <br /><br />Digitale Archive der »zweiten Öffentlichkeit«. Forschungsmethoden und »participatory research« von Katalin Cseh (Wien) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Christoph Classen (Potsdam) <br /> <br /> <i>AG-Treffen 7.6 | Treffen in </i><i>C 12.001 </i><br /> <i> </i> 9:30 Uhr–10:30 Uhr: AG »Populärkultur und Medien« <br />10:30 Uhr–11:30 Uhr: AG »Animation«</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>AG-Treffen 7.7 | Medienwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung in </i><i>C 12.006</i> <br /><br />Kaffeepause | Samstag, 05. Oktober 2013, 11:30 Uhr–12:00 Uhr im Hörsaalgang<br /> <br /> <b>Session 8 | Samstag, 05. Oktober 2013, 12:00 Uhr–13:30 Uhr</b> <br /><i>Panel 8.1 |</i> <i>Eingeräumt: Darstellen in 3-D</i><i> in </i><i>C HS 3</i><br /> <br />Das Bild des Raumorgans. Zur historischen Epistemologie der Dreidimensionalität von Stephan Günzel (Berlin) <br /> <br /> Dreidimensionale Bilder als Medien der Teilchenphysik von Jens Schröter (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Vom Raum im Raum. Mutmassungen über die Anfänge menschlicher Raumbildungen im Tanz von Walter Siegfried (München)<br /> <br /> Moderation: Inge Hinterwaldner (Lüneburg | Basel) <br /> <br /><i>Panel 8.2 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in </i><i>C HS 4</i> <br />Netzkritik revisited! Eine Diskursgeschichte der Medienwissenschaft von Clemens Apprich (Lüneburg) <br /> <br /> Die Aporie des Neuen. Medienwissenschaftliche Deutungsmuster des Internets von Linda Groß (Hamburg) | Lisa Wiedemann (Hamburg) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Andreas Broeckmann (Lüneburg) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 8.3 | Licht – Glas – Kälte. Zum Tempus »wohltemperierter« Bilder der Wissenschaft in </i><i>C HS 5</i><br /> <i> </i> -273 °C – Eine Reise in die Tiefe der Temperaturskala. Die Exploration der Kälte im populären Wissenschaftsfilm von Claudia Pinkas–Thompson (Karlsruhe) <br /> <br /> Gläserne Gebilde. Zur Transparenz der Medien und Symbolik des Wissensdurstes von Szilvia Gellai (Karlsruhe) <br /> <br /> Spiegelplaneten und kosmische Archive. Eine medienarchäologische Perspektive auf die Popularisierung astronomischen Wissens im 19. Jahrhundert von Dominik Schrey (Karlsruhe) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Andreas Böhn (Karlsruhe) <br /> <i><i> </i></i><br /> <i><i>Panel</i> 8.4 | Populäre Wissenschaftskulissen. Wissen(schafts)formate in populären Medienkulturen in </i><i>C 14.027</i> <br /> Wissen(schaft) für die Masse. Die »Urania-gesellschaft« und die Popularisierung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse im 19. Jahrhundert von Thomas Wilke (Halle) <br /> <br /> Philosophie im/des Fernsehens. Metamorphosen philosophischen Wissens in den Fernsehformaten »Das philosophische Quartett« und »Precht« von Marcus S. Kleiner (Siegen) <br /> <br /> Folksonomies. Wissensaggregate im Social Web von Ramón Reichert (Wien) <br /> <br /> Moderation: Holger Schulze (Berlin) <br /> <br /><i> </i><i>Filmvorführung 8.5 | </i><i>»Odyssee und Nahverkehr« (2012) in </i><i>C 14.006</i> <br /> <br />Ein Film von Martin Schlesinger (Bochum) und Marius Boettcher (Weimar) <br /> <br /><i>AG-Treffen 8.6 | Fernsehgeschichte und Television Studies in </i><i>C 12.001</i> <br /><br /><i> </i><i>Kommissionstreffen 8.7 | Lehre in </i><i>C 12.006</i><br /> <br /> <i>Kommissionstreffen 8.8 | Medien/Recht in </i><i>C 12.006</i><br /> <i> </i><br /> Mittagessen | Samstag, 05. Oktober 2013, 13:30 Uhr–14:30 Uhr in der Mensa<br /> <br /> <b>Mitgliederversammlung | Samstag, 05. Oktober 2013, 14:30 Uhr–16:30 Uhr in HS 3</b> <br /> Verleihung des Best Publication Award der AG Gender Studies und Medienwissenschaft <br /> Verleihung des Karsten-Witte-Preis der AG Film <br />anschließend Mitgliederversammlung der GfM</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/gfm-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/gfm-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessOpen Access2013-10-06T07:58:06ZNews Item Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan Report
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/free-access-to-law-is-it-here-to-stay-environmental-scan
<b>The following is a preliminary project report collaboratively collated by the researchers of the "Free Access to Law" research study. This report aims to highlight the trends, as well as the risks and opportunities, for the sustainability of Free Access to Law initiatives in each of the country examined. </b>
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<p>The Environmental Scans are the first component of the “Free Access to Law – Is it Here to Stay” global study, examining the sustainability of Free Access to Law (FAL) initiatives. The overall goal of this research is to respond to a need to study what free access to law initiatives do and how they do it. This will lead to an understanding of the effects FAL initiatives have on society and to an exploration of the factors determining their sustainability.</p>
<p>For the Environmental Scans, Local Researchers were asked to collect data according to the Environmental Scan Matrix and draft a synopsis of the data, highlighting the trends, risks and opportunities for the field of online legal research publication in general and for the FAL initiative in particular. In sum, the researchers looked at how the individual indicators listed in the Environmental Scan Matrix work together to impact free access to law. The results of the Scans provided the local researchers and their audiences with a rich knowledge on the field of law and informatics in each respective country examined.</p>
<p>The project covers the following regions: (1) Southern and Eastern Africa, (2) Western Africa, (3) Asia and the Pacific and (4) Canada. In order to complete a cross-case comparative analysis, countries have been selected to represent multiple legal traditions with FAL initiatives at various stages of development.</p>
<div>The report can be accessed <a class="external-link" href="http://www.lexum.com/en/projects/fal-es.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/free-access-to-law-is-it-here-to-stay-environmental-scan'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/free-access-to-law-is-it-here-to-stay-environmental-scan</a>
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No publisherrebeccaOpen Access2012-03-20T18:36:08ZBlog EntryFrancis Bags EPT Award for Open Access in Developing World
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/francis-wins-ept-award
<b>The Electronic Publishing Trust recently announced a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developed countries who have made significant contribution for the cause of open access and free exchange of research findings. There were 30 nominations from 17 countries around the world and Dr. Francis Jayakanth from the National Centre of Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was selected for the inaugural EPT Award for Open Access in the Developing World by a committee that went through all the nominations. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The award function organised by the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore was held at the Sambasivan Auditorium, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai on 14 February 2012. Leading luminaries such as Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Prof. G Baskaran and Prof. K Mangala Sunder participated in the award felicitation ceremony.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Giving the welcome speech, Prof. Arunachalam, distinguished fellow at CIS said that Dr. Jayakanth works for the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has trained many students and helped a number of institutes to set up open access repositories. Prof. Arunachalam added that the event is being celebrated in India as the winner is from India and specified that it is being held at the MS Swaminathan Foundation as this was the institution that hosted the first workshop to promote open access. Prof. Swaminathan had a vital role in arranging funds for the workshop. About 50 people had learnt what open access was, how to set up open access repositories, how to use the EPrints software, etc. For this very reason it was decided to hold the event in Chennai and not Bangalore where Dr. Jayakanth is based.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Francis7.jpg/image_preview" alt="Participants in the Award Function" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Participants in the Award Function" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Felicitating Dr. Jayakanth, Prof. Swaminathan who presented the award added that it is important to highlight the contributions of those who really convert the concept of social inclusion to reality. He said that today every politician talks about inclusive growth. What is this inclusive growth, how do you convert exclusion to inclusion? Exclusion creates large problems, social problems, economic problems, etc. On a concluding note, Prof. Swaminathan said that the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has declared 2012-13 as the year of science and he hopes that there will be a new science policy and technology policy and that he hopes that a very important component of that should be methods of ensuring open access including open access to knowledge and open access to literature.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">In his award acceptance speech, Dr. Jayakanth said that the atmosphere was very overwhelming and never in his two-and-a-half decade old career he had the opportunity to speak amidst such luminaries and added that it was a privilege and prestige to have received the award from Prof. Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution in India. He also added that no event in India or elsewhere is complete without the active participation and mentioning of the name of Prof. Arunachalam, the greatest advocate of open access that India has seen so far, and that he wouldn’t have been here at the award ceremony but for the timely intervention of Prof. Arunachalam. <br /></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Jayakanth concluded by saying that he would like to thank Prof. NV Joshi, Prof. Derek Law, Prof. Alma Swan, Prof. Balaram, Prof. N Balakrishnan, Prof. Giridhar, and Prof. TB Rajashekar, and particularly the students of the information and knowledge management programme at the National Centre of Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, who were responsible for the growth of a repository granting more visibility to the 32,000 publications that are part of the repository.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Prof. Mangala Sunder of IIT Madras and Prof. G Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, also participated in the event. Prof. Sunder said that it is for the kind of information that we talk about, which we want to make public for which champions like Dr. Jayakanth have been working on the sidelines but working so efficiently to get institution after institution to convert what is known as a rigid framework into a flexible more open policy of bringing their scientific content to their intellectual information content. He said that he works in the area of content development from the point of view of education and he understands the difficulty of bringing material to the public. <br /></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are many issues, such as issues about copyright, issues about people owning the information, issues about people feeling very rigid on what they want to say in the public, etc. Dr. Jayakanth has gone through all these exercises for the last 30 years in slowly creating the “little after little” what are called the waterways to finally see that everyone benefits. The linking of science, knowledge and sustainable development to open access to information, open access to research and open access to content completes the whole cycle of knowledge.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Prof. Baskaran said that it is a very well deserved award and Dr. Jayakanth has definitely raised the bar for future awardees. Prof. Baskaran stressed upon the aspects of open access. He said that as a theoretical physicist he understands the need for open access very well. Physicists, when they have new research results place them in arXiv, the open access repository for preprints in physics. Some people wonder what if some physicists deposit all kinds of articles in the arXiv. Experience has shown that 99 per cent of the articles appear in good journals later. He added that once it is put in the arXiv, the whole world gets access and a bad paper will be noticed and commented upon by many. No one likes to be the author of such a paper! He urged that other sciences, especially the life sciences should have a repository similar to arXiv and requested Prof. Swaminathan to take the intiative at MSSRF. <br /></td>
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<h2>Dr. Francis Jayakanth</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Francis Jayakanth is a library-trained scientific assistant based at the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), the information centre of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. He has played a significant role in the establishment of India’s first institutional repository (IR) (<a class="external-link" href="http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in">http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in</a>). He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in India. He has been the key resource person at many events to train people in setting up IRs and open access journals. He has delivered presentations on IRs, open access journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, and the benefits of open access to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely used. Dr. Jayakanth can indeed be considered an open access ‘renaissance man’, an advocate and technical expert in all aspect of open access development and an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level.</p>
<p><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/francis-jayakanth-presentation" class="internal-link" title="Francis Jayakanth's Presentation">See Francis's presentation on Who Benefits from Open Access to Scholarly Literature?</a> [Powerpoint, 1523 KB]</p>
<p><b>See the video of the award function below:</b><b> </b></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/francis-wins-ept-award'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/francis-wins-ept-award</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAwardOpen ContentVideoOpen AccessOpenness2013-08-03T05:36:54ZBlog EntryDesign!publiC
http://editors.cis-india.org/events/design-public
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with Centre for Knowledge Societies, Venkataramanan Associates, Centre for Law and Policy Research and LiveMint is organising Design!publiC on March 18, 2011. Design Public is a conversation about whether and how to bring design thinking to bear upon the challenges of government so as to promote governance innovation. </b>
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<h3><span class="Apple-style-span">Background</span></h3>
<p>The problem of governance is perhaps as old as society, as old as the rule of law. But it is only more recently -- perhaps the last five hundred years of modernity -- that human societies have been able to conceive of different models of government, different modalities of public administration, all having different effects on the configuration of society. The problem of governments, of governmentality, and of governance is always also the problem of how to change the very processes and procedures of government, so as to enhance the ends of the state and to promote the collective good. </p>
<p>Since the establishment of India’s republic, many kinds of changes have been made to the policies and practices of its state. We may think of, for instance, successive stages of land reforms, the privatization of large-scale and extractive industries, the subsequent abolition of the License Raj and so and so forth. We may also consider the computerization of state documents beginning in the 1980s, and more recently, the Right To Information Act (RTI). More recently there have been activist campaigns to reduce the discretionary powers of government and to thereby reduce the scope of corruption in public life. </p>
<p>While all these cases represent the continuous process of modification, reform, and change to government policy and even to its modes of functioning, this is not what we have in mind when we speak of ‘governance innovation.’ Rather, intend a specific process of ethnographic inquiry into the real needs of citizens, followed by an inclusive approach to reorganizing and representing that information in such a way that it may promote collaborative problem-solving and solutioneering through the application of design thinking. </p>
<p>The concept of design thinking has emerged only recently, and it has been used to describe approaches to problem solving that include: (i) redefining the fundamental challenges at hand, (ii) evaluating multiple possible options and solutions in parallel, and (iii) prioritizing and selecting those which are likely to achieve the greatest benefits for further consideration. This approach may also be iterative, allowing decisions to be made in general and specific ways as an organization gets closer and closer to the solution. Design thinking turns out to be not an individual but collective and social process, requiring small and large groups to be able to work together in relation to the available information about the task or challenge at hand. Design thinking can lead to innovative ideas, to new insights, and to new actionable directions for organizations. </p>
<p>This general approach to innovation -- and the central role of design thinking -- has emerged from the private sector over the last quarter century, and has enjoyed particular success in regards to the development of new technology products, services and experience. The question we would like to address in this conference is whether and how this approach can be employed for the transformation public and governmental systems.</p>
<h3>What is the Evidence that Design Thinking Positively Impacts Governments?</h3>
<p>Many European countries have government-supported design conglomerations for the purposes of enhancing business and the government’s interface with the public. Design Council in the UK not only works to create public identities but also helps formulate national design strategies that help the United Kingdom to differentiate its national brand and achieve broad national benefits. Elsewhere in the UK, a private organization, Think Public, and various governmental agencies, are working through a consultative approach with citizens to better target governmental services so as to maximize citizen benefits.</p>
<p>In the context of public health, the first major public health information system has been built in Canada, and in many ways it may serve as a reference and benchmark for other countries around the world. The first deployment of a public health information system in developing country contexts is in Ghana, where a specialized Resource Center is even now being conceived to enable the support and further development of this new system.</p>
<p>In India, early innovation research and concept development activities by the Center for Knowledge Societies for the Gates Foundation has shown promising results in terms of new opportunities to enhance the quality of health care delivery through the Bihar pilot itself, using the tools and techniques of ethnography, design, and user experience enhancement. In its studios in New Delhi and Bangalore, it has hosted innovation workshops with international health experts, public officials and other stakeholders to envision new kinds of technologies and solutions for improving public health delivery. In future, it may be possible to organize these kinds of efforts in the form of an Innovation Lab or Innovation Center. </p>
<p>Whereas, in the past, diverse attempts have been made to reform government, to make it more efficient, to reduce corruption and the arbitrariness of decisioning authority. Beneficial as these approaches may have been, they have not always been successful in fundamentally transforming the ways in which bureaucracies think about their mission, objectives and goals. They have not resulted in greater consumer orientation of these cadres, or greater public participation in the decision-making of these bureaucracies. These are the kinds of benefits that design thinking can bring to governmental and quasi-governmental bureaucracies. </p>
<p>In this conclave, our interest is to explore how design thinking and user-centered innovation might help such organizations better accomplish their mission and better serve their beneficiaries. We also seek to explore and establish particular modalities through which governance innovation can be achieved, as well as to identify key stakeholders and personalities gripped of the challenge of governance innovation. Our larger goal is to craft a path forward for integrating design thinking and innovation methodologies in the further re-envisioning, refashioning and improvement of public services in India and elsewhere in the world.</p>
<p>Specific Expected Outcomes</p>
<ul><li>A shared understanding and common vocabulary around design thinking and innovation</li><li>A review of insights and outcomes from the event by members of government with a view to routinizing and institutionalizing innovation in government</li><li>A documentation of case-studies, concepts and perspectives from different participants emerging from the conclave</li><li>An emerging community of thinkers and practitioners interested in working together to share information and insights to accelerate governance innovation</li><li>A consensus on the modalities and occasion for the conduct of a follow-up conclave, possibly in Bangalore as soon as September 2011</li></ul>
<h3>An Invitation to Dialogue </h3>
<p>Design Public is a conversation among a select group of high level thinkers and actors who care about public services design. No more than 50 persons will be in attendance. Presentations will be brief. Panel discussants will intersperse with the other participants for greater involvement and equal opportunity for dialogue and response. All attendees will be asked to participate in the emerging dialogue through the day. </p>
<h3>Draft Schedule</h3>
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<p>10.00 am<br /><em>What do Designers do? </em><em>How can Physical, Informational and Interaction Design Impact the Everyday Life of Citizens?</em></p>
<ul><li>Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society (Moderator)</li><li>Aditya Dev Sood, CEO, Center for Knowledge Socities</li><li>Abhimanyu Kulkarni, Design Director, Philips Design</li><li>Younghee Jung, Senior Designer, Nokia Corporation</li><li>Daniela Sangiorgi, Lecturer, Lancaster University </li><li>Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Founder, Centre for Law and Policy Research</li><li>Naresh Narasimhan, Principal Architect, VA Group<br /></li></ul>
<p>11.00 am</p>
<p><em>How Can the Government Best Use Designers and Design Thinking?</em></p>
<ul><li>Aditya Dev Sood, CEO, Center for Knowledge Societies (Moderator)</li><li>Niels Hansen, Project Manager, MindLab</li><li>Aparna Piramal Raje, Design Thinker, Mint</li><li>Anant Shah, Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</li><li>Harsh Shrivastava, Consultant (Planning), Planning Commission of India</li><li>Kiran Dhingra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation</li><li>Shubhagato Dasgupta, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research</li><li>Steven Solnik, Member-Government Performance and Accountability, Ford Foundation </li></ul>
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12.00 pm</p>
<p><em>How can Social / Media Promote Design and Governance Innovation? </em></p>
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Suresh Venkat, Executive Producer, CNBC TV18 (Moderator)</li><li>Vibodh Parthasarthy, Associate Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia</li><li>Yatish Rajawat, Editor-in-Chief, Business Bhaskar</li><li>R. Sukumar, Editor, Mint</li><li>Sashwati Banerjee, Executive Director, Sesame Workshop India</li><li>Aditya Mishra, Founder, Headstart Foundation</li></ul>
<p>1.00 pm </p>
<p>Working and Networking Lunch</p>
<p>2.00 pm</p>
<p>Innovation Workshopping Breakout Sessions</p>
<p>Track One: </p>
<ol><li><em>Conducting Ethnography to Inform the Innovation Process<br /></em>
<p>The group is responsible for coming up with an innovative approach
to curbing power theft in peri-urban locations in India. Many factors
are responsible for this phenomenon. What questions will you ask and how
will you collect information on the ground to inform any future
innovations you might come up with? (Case Study subject to change)</p>
</li><li><em>Brainstorming and Concepting in Response to Ethnographic Data<br /></em>
<p>The
group is responsible for conceptualizing a new ways to promote maternal
and child health using mobile devices. Data on this question has
already been collected and will be shown to you in the form of a brief
presentation. You must come up with as many different ideas or concepts
as possible using post-its. Then you must prioritize these concepts and
vote on the ones you would like to see implemented. (Case Study subject
to change)</p>
</li><li><em>Approaches to Institutionalizing Innovation in Government<br /></em>
<p>This
group will consider ways and means for accelerating and
institutionalizing innovation in governance, through for example, the
provision of knowledge, best practices, support, training, and
organizational change. Ideas may include, but not be restricted to new
kinds of handbooks, online sources, academic and applied training and
other ideas. Approaches should be evaluated and prioritized prior to
presentation back to the group.</p>
</li></ol>
<p>4.30 pm <br />Team Presentations (over tea served at tables) </p>
<p>5.00 pm<br /><em>What institutional and organizational models can best foster Governance Innovation?</em></p>
<ul><li>Amit Garg, Director, MXV Consulting (Moderator)<br /></li><li>Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission & Member, National Innovation Council</li><li>R. Gopalakrishnan, Member Secretary, National Innovation Council</li><li>Mohammad Haleem Khan, Director, CAPART</li><li>D S Ravindran, CEO, Center of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka<br /></li><li>Aditya Dev Sood, CEO, Center for Knowledge Societies</li></ul>
<p>Other Notable Discussants and Interactants</p>
<ul><li>Anil Khachi, Deputy Director General, UIDAI</li><li>Narahari Mahato, Member of Parliament, AIFB</li><li>N. Cheluvaraya Swamy, Member of Parliament, JD(S)</li><li>Syed Azeez Pasha, Member of Parliament, CPI</li><li>Moinul Hassan, Member of Parliament, CPM</li><li>Amit Garg, Director, MXV Consulting</li><li>William Bissell, Managing Director, FabIndia</li><li>Kalpana Awasthi, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Sam Pitroda</li><li>Abhimanyu Kulkarni, Design Director, Philips Design</li><li>D. Raja, Member of Parliament, CPI</li><li>Josh Glazeroff, Visa Chief, US Embassy</li><li>Pooja Sood, Curator and Director, Khoj Foundation</li><li>Ravina Agarwal, Program Officer, Ford Foundation</li><li>Nita Soans, Advisor, Center for Knowledge Societies</li><li>Ekta Ohri, Head of Project Operations, Center for Knowledge Societies</li></ul>
<h3>Individual Participation</h3>
<p>In order to make each voice count, entry to the conclave will be by arrangement only. Others who are truly interested, should please drop us a few lines on how they would like to contribute and we will be glad to get back in touch. </p>
<p>There are no registration fees. However, we would like to see participants take their own initiative in covering their own travel costs and making their own arrangements for stay so far as possible. If specific needs are perceived, please communicate them to the organizers. </p>
<h3>Institutional Participation</h3>
<p>Confederations of industry, associations of management, departments of government and diverse development sector and civil society organizations are invited to express their interest in supporting this event. </p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>Organizers</strong></span></p>
<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS)</span></li><li>Center for Internet and Society (CIS)</li></ul>
<p><strong>Sponsors<br /></strong></p>
<ul><li>Venkatramanan Associates (VA)</li><li>Center for Law and Policy (CLP)</li></ul>
<p><strong>Date and Venue</strong><br />The date for the event has been decided for Friday, the 18th of March, 2011. It will be held at the Taj Vivanta in Central Delhi.</p>
<p><strong>Thought Leadership and Dialogue<br /></strong>Dr. Aditya Dev Sood, CEO, Center for Knowledge Societies<br />aditya@cks.in</p>
<p>Naresh Narasimhan, Principal, VA Associates <br />naresh@vagroup.com</p>
<p>Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Founder, Center for Law and Policy <br />sudhir.krishnaswamy@ashiralaw.co.in</p>
<h3><span class="Apple-style-span">Participation Enquiries</span></h3>
<p>Sumeet Malhotra, Business Development Manager<br />sumeet@cks.in</p>
<ul><li>Download the book <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/design-public.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Design! Public">here</a> [PDF, 2.8 MB]</li><li>Download the case studies <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/case-studies.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Case Studies">here</a> [PDF, 641 KB]</li><li>Download the glossary <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/glossary.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Glossary">here</a><br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/events/design-public'>http://editors.cis-india.org/events/design-public</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpen Access2011-06-03T13:27:22ZEventDepartment of Biotechnology and Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, release first draft of Open Access Policy
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/department-of-biotechnology-and-department-of-science-ministry-of-science-and-technology-government-of-india-release-open-access-policy
<b>The Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, recently published a draft Open Access Policy in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. This post discusses open access and the exercise undertaken to draft this policy.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Department of Biotechnology (<strong>“DBT”</strong>) and the Department of Science (<strong>“DST”</strong>), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, released their draft Open Access Policy (<strong>“the Policy)</strong> on July 5, 2014 (the Policy may be accessed <a href="http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf">here</a>and comments may be sent to <a href="mailto:madhan@dbt.nic.in">madhan@dbt.nic.in</a> by July 25, 2014). This step by the Ministry of Science and Technology is laudable, especially from the view of increasing access to research undertaken at these institutions. DBT/DST’s endeavour to provide open access applies to scientific research directly (including ad-hoc) or indirectly funded by them. It also applies to scientific research which has received benefits, infrastructure or other support from the DBT/DST. Providing open access may also ensure percolation of cutting edge research at a rapid pace into higher education curriculum, thereby raising the standard of technical and scientific education.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (<strong>“CSIR”</strong>), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (<strong>“ICAR”</strong>) and Institute of Mathematical Sciences (<strong>“IMSc”</strong>) are the few Indian government institutions to have implemented open access policies applicable to the research undertaken at their respective institutions. While the <a href="http://oasis.csir.res.in/utube/CSIR_OPEN_ACCESS_MANDATE.pdf">CSIR</a> and <a href="http://icar.org.in/en/node/6609">ICAR</a> present outlines of their open access policies, the <a href="http://www.imsc.res.in/e_resources_alpha">IMSc</a> provides access to a <a href="http://www.imsc.res.in/xmlui">digital repository</a> containing digital theses/dissertations, matscience reports and other publications of institute members. CIS had sent <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/comments-on-draft-icar-open-access-policy">comments</a> to the ICAR upon <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/icar-adopts-open-access-policy">release</a> of ICAR’s draft policy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Open Access in Scientific Research</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Presently two models of scientific research publications exist, namely, the commercial model and the open access model. The scientific research ecosystem traditionally functioned on the commercial model, until open access was embraced by a part of the scientific community. It is <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/publications/open-access-scholarly-literature.pdf">reported</a> that presently, there exist approximately 25,000 journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine. The conventional model of communicating research is by publishing it in printed journals. These journals are usually subscription based, and demand <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/11/1403006111.abstract"> hefty amounts from interested authors for publication</a>. Further, research was only accessible to that select <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/11/1403006111.abstract">group of persons willing to pay a high monetary sum</a> for the same. These industry practices led to restrictions on access to scholarly research, <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/11/1403006111.abstract">including restrictions on sharing and building further</a> on work already created. . Over the past few years, this trend has witnessed a change, with research being increasingly published in online, open access journals.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Open Access is free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, web-wide, without severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. Open access was first defined in 2002 at the Budapest Initiative. The Bethesda Statement (2003) provided:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship[2], as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://openaccess.mpg.de/286432/Berlin-Declaration">Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities</a> is another significant milestone of the Open Access movement. Globally, USA and Europe have been instrumental in adopting open access policies across a wide range of institutions. Illustratively, the US’ <a href="file:///E:/CIS/publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm">National Institute of Health open access policy</a> is a comprehensive document detailing every aspect of the policy and its implications. Several premier academic institutions (<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/hoap">Harvard</a>) under experts (<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm">Peter Suber)</a> have drafted documents containing <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8603">guidelines on drafting a suitable open access policy.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> The advantages of adopting an open access policy are manifold- free access to scientific research irrespective of subscription affiliation, decrease in publishing and research costs for industry and academia; It has also been argued that <a href="http://eprints.rclis.org/5463/1/do_open_access_CRL.pdf">restricting access to government funded research is unethical</a>, since scientific research conducted by government agencies is partly, if not entirely, funded by the taxpayers’ money. Further, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/publications/open-access-scholarly-literature.pdf">adoption of open access alone could improve visibility and impact of Indian science</a>,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Open Access and Intellectual Property</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Intellectual property is the essential instrument used to effect principles of open access. The extent of rights under copyright which the owner chooses to exercise over scholarly publication in question<a id="_GoBack" name="_GoBack"></a> determines whether a publication may be openly accessed or not. Traditionally, journal publishers ran an inequitable policy which required all publication and reproduction rights (copyright) to be exclusively transferred by the author or institution to the publishers in consideration of publication in reputed journals. This practice created artificial and expensive barriers to scholarly research. Contrast this with open access principles wherein to provide open access- Generally, the author or the institution (depending on the jurisdictional copyright laws) retain certain rights in the publication, whilst permitting zero-barrier access to their research. This requires careful balancing and distribution of rights between three stakeholders- author, institution and the publisher.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About the DST/DBT’s Open Access Policy</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Open Access Policy Document for DBT/ DST was drafted by the Open Access Policy Committee on a specific request from Dr. VijayRaghavan, Secretary, DBT. The Policy was drafted after multiple rounds of consultation with Ministry officials, eminent academics and experts on open access, government officials with prior experience of set-up of institutional repositories and CIS. Prof Subbiah Arunachalam led the discussions along with the Open Access Policy Committee and brought different perspectives to the fore. The Policy may be accessed <a href="http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf">here</a>. The Policy will be applicable to publications in peer reviewed journals, and aims to maximise the distribution of these publications by providing free online access by depositing them in a gratis open access repository (deemed mandatory). Authors can make their publications open access by publishing in an open access journal, or if they choose to publish in a subscription journal, by posting the final accepted manuscript to an online repository. The Policy suggests a maximum embargo period placed on authors by journals to not exceed one year. It also addresses the methodology of depositing in a repository and provides for a proposed copyright addendum between the author and publisher.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CIS’ Contribution</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS participated in discussions along with experts brought on board by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam to develop and review an open access policy for the purposes of DST and DBT. CIS, <em>inter alia,</em> commented on the legality of clauses in the policy pertaining to Indian copyright law and supplied a note on utilisation of ‘public domain’ in open access policies. Legally, a work is said to have entered the public domain when it is free from copyright protection. The note recommended usage of the phrase “made available to public” as opposed to “public domain” since the said policy permitted the institution and/or author to retain rights in the scientific paper. You may access the note <a href="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=6a817f82b1&view=att&th=1468bf26575deb58&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-PBLwn5kd8ui-u7aB5Qa9u&sadet=1405338416902&sads=yB4NV3RRIEXQyLVsYEewjYZfm4I">here</a>.</p>
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No publishersinhaOpen Access2014-12-26T11:20:59ZBlog EntryDelhi Declaration on Open Access
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access
<b>Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Published by Open Access India on February 14, 2018. Read the original <a class="external-link" href="http://openaccessindia.org/delhi-declaration-on-open-access/">post here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India. The declaration is aimed at scientific communities, scholarly societies, publishers, funders, universities and research institutions to promote openness in science and research communications.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Preamble</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The South Asian region, home to 24% of the world’s population faces major challenges such as hunger, poverty and inequality. These challenges become the collective responsibility of scholars and experts in research universities across the country. Consequently, it becomes imperative that research institutes share scientific research outputs and accelerate scientific research. The Open Access movement which aims for making all ‘publicly funded research outcomes publicly available for the public good’ is gaining momentum.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>“</i><i>Open</i><i> means </i><i>anyone</i><i> can </i><i>freely access, use, modify, and share</i><i> for </i><i>any purpose</i><i>(subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness)” –</i><a href="http://opendefinition.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Open Definition</i></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As per the Budapest Open Access Initiative (<a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BOAI</a>), ‘Open Access’ (to scholarly literature) is “<i>free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself</i>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since the launch of the BOAI on 14th Feb. 2002, efforts are being made by various scholarly societies, academic communities and governments to make scholarly content Open. However, due to various reasons, the full potential of Open Access is not realised by the producers (scholars), publishers and readers (scholars and society at large) of this knowledge and the world is still disconnected in terms of sharing the scholarly content openly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As per the Scimago Journal & Country Rank<a href="http://www.scimagojr.com/countrysearch.php?country=in" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> (SJR</a>), India ranks 9th in the year 2016 producing about 13 lakhs articles. However, 82% of them are not Open Access and the Institutional Repositories in India are sparsely populated in spite of having Open Access mandates in place. The Directory of Open Access Journals (<a href="https://doaj.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DOAJ</a>) lists only 200 out of the 20,000+ journals being published from India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The historical BOAI is now 16 years old, but still there is a need for all of us to be educated and empowered to realize the power of Open Access to scholarly content and harness it for public good in India. With burgeoning commercial scholarly publications and increasing diversity in terms of availability of & accessibility to the information, we need to create a necessary framework for making Open Access the default by 2025 in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To ensure the wide availability and encourage the use of of research data and information for the purpose of addressing multifaceted challenges, Open Access to publicly funded research and scholarly outputs are to be made available under Open Licenses (e.g. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Commons</a>) while duly acknowledging the intellectual property (work/rights of the creators/producers/authors).</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://openaccessindia.org/delhi-declaration-on-open-access-brief/">Declaration</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>We, the contributors and signatories of this declaration, members of the Open Access India, Open Access communities of practice in India and the attendees of the <a href="http://www.opencon2017.org/opencon_2018_new_delhi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenCon 2018 New Delhi</a> held on 3rd Feb., 2018 at Acharya Narendra Dev College, Kalkaji, New Delhi (University of Delhi) agree to issue this declaration:</i></p>
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<li>We advocate for the practice of Open Science (sharing research methods and results openly which will avoid “reinventing the wheel”) and adoption of open technologies for the development of models for sharing science and scholarship (Open Scholarship) to accelerate the progress of research and to address the real societal challenges</li>
<li>We will strive to publish our interim research outputs as preprints or postprints (e.g. Institutional Repositories) and encourage our peers and supervisors to do the same to make our research open and actionable in a timely manner.</li>
<li>We will practice and encourage researchers and scientists to implement openness in peer-reviewing and other editorial services, influence the scholarly societies to flip their journals into Open Access and will contribute for the development of whitelist of Open Access journals in India adhering to the “<a href="https://publicationethics.org/news/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing-revised-and-updated" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing</a>”.</li>
<li>We will garner support of the relevant stakeholders (scholars, journal editorial teams, university libraries, research funders, authorities’ in-charge of dissemination of scholarship in higher education) for spearheading the Open Access movement.</li>
<li>We will take forward the concept of Open Access to further bring all the publicly funded research outputs (not limited to journal literature alone) to be freely available under open licenses to the public to use, reuse and share in any media in open formats.</li>
<li>We will impress upon policy makers to adopt an open evaluation system for research and an institutional reward system for practicing openness in science ,scientific communications and academic research across disciplines including Humanities and Social Sciences</li>
<li>We will support and work for an alternate reward system in recognition and promotion not in terms of the ‘Impact Factor’ of the journals, but the ‘Impact’ of the articles/scholarship in science and the society and impress upon all the scientists/scholars, research funders, research institutes, universities, academies and scholarly societies to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (<a href="http://www.ascb.org/dora/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DORA</a>).</li>
<li>We strongly agree with the Joint<a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/joint_coar_unesco_statement_on_open_access/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access</a> , <a href="http://jussieucall.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Jussieu Call</a> and <a href="http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2595&lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dakar Declaration</a>. And will also follow the international initiative<a href="https://oa2020.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Open Access 2020</a>, to develop roadmaps to support sustainable Open Access scholarly communication models which are free of charge for the authors and free of charge availability to the readers.</li>
<li>While learning from South South cooperation on Open Access, will work for developing a framework for Open Access in India and South Asia: National Policies for Open Access and country-specific action plans will be formulated aimed at making Open Access as the default in India and South Asia, by 2025.</li>
<li>For creating more awareness on Open Access, infrastructure, capacity building, funding and policy mechanisms, as well as incentivizing for the Open Access, we come forward to share success stories, studies and discussions during the Open Access Week.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Adopted on 14th February 2018</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Signatories (along with their affiliation):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Anasua Mukherjee, BRICSLICS</i><br /><i>Anubha Sinha, CIS India</i><br /><i>Anup Kumar Das, Open Access India; CSSP, JNU</i><br /><i>Arul George Scaria, NLU Delhi</i><br /><i>Barnali Roy Choudhury, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Bhakti R Gole, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Girija Goyal, ReFigure.org</i><br /><i>Javed Azmi, Jamia Hamdard</i><br /><i>Kavya Manohar, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Neha Sharma</i><br /><i>Nirmala Menon IIT Indore</i><br /><i>Sailesh Patnaik, Access to Knowledge, CIS</i><br /><i>Savithri Singh, Creative Commons India</i><br /><i>Sridhar Gutam, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Subhashish Panigrahi, Internet Society, O Foundation</i><br /><i>Vijay Bhasker Lode, Open Access India</i><br /><i>Virendra Kamalvanshi, Banaras Hindu University</i><br /><i>Tanveer Hasan A K, Access to Knowledge, Bangalore</i><br /><i>Waseem A Malla</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ahsan Ullah, Bangladesh<br />Anila Sulochana, Central University of Tamil Nadu<br />Anoh Kouao Antoine, Ecole Supérieure Africaine des TIC, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<br />Antonio Solís Lima,México<br />Atarino Helieisar, FSM Supreme Court Law Library, Federated States of Micronesia<br />Bidyarthi Dutta, Vidyasagar University<br />Binoy Mathew, INELI<br />Boye Komla Dogbe, Ministère De La Communication, De La Culture, Togo<br />Srikanth Reddy, CBIT<br />Cajetan Onyeneke, Imo State University, Nigeria<br />Chantal Moukoko Kamole, Universitty of Douala, Cameroun<br />D Puthira Prathap, Extension Education Society<br />Daniel Bossikponnon, Ministère du plan et du Développement, Bénin<br />Dare Adeleke, the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria<br />Dilip Man Sthapit, TU Central Library/LIMISEC, Nepal<br />Emmy Medard Muhumuza, Busitema University Library, Uganda<br />Fabian Yelsang, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Consultancy Services, Ghana<br />Fayaz Loan, University of Kashmir<br />GJP Dixit, Central Library, Central University of Karnataka<br />Gurpreet Singh Sohal, GGDSD College<br />Harinder Pal Singh Kalra, Punjabi University<br />Hue Bui, Thainguyen University of Sciences, Vietnam<br />Jacinto Dávila, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela<br />Jaishankar K, International Journal of Cyber Criminology<br />Jancy Gupta, National Dairy Research Institute<br />JK Vijayakumar<br />Jonathan Tennant, Open Science MOOC, Germany<br />Julián Vaquerizo-Madrid, Unidad de Neurología Clínica Evolutiva, Spain<br />Kamal Hossain, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Bangladesh<br />Kasongo Ilunga Felix, Democratic Republic of Congo<br />Kavita Chaddha<br />Kojo Ahiakpa, Research Desk Consulting Ltd., Ghana<br />Krishna Chaitanya, Velaga, the Wikipedia Library<br />Kumaresan Chidambaranathan, New Zealand<br />Kunwar Singh, Banaras Hindu University<br />Luis Saravia, PERU<br />Mahendra Sahu, Gandhi Institution of Engineering & Technology,Gunupur<br />Maidhili S., Meenakshi College for Women<br />Manika Lamba, University of Delhi<br />Md. Nasir Uddin, BRAC University, Bangladesh<br />Md. Nazim Uddin, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh<br />Md. Nurul Islam, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh<br />Md. Shahajada Masud Anowarul Haque, BRAC University, Bangladesh<br />Mir Sakhawat Hossain, Kabi Nazrul Government College, Bangladesh<br />Munusamy Natarajan, CSIR-NISCAIR<br />Murtoza Kh Ali, Bangladesh<br />Subash Pillai, ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research<br />Nasar Ahmed Shah, Aligarh Muslim University<br />Nimesh Oza, Sardar Patel University<br />Niraj Chaudhary, United States<br />Poonam Bharti<br />Prerna Singh, Central University of Jammu<br />Rabia Bashir, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Pakistan<br />Rajendran Murugan, Department of Education, University of Delhi<br />Rama Kant Shukla, Delhi Technological University<br />Raman Nair R, Centre for Informatics Research and Development<br />Rebat Kumar Dhakal, KUSOED Integrity Alliance, Nepal<br />Revocatus Kuluchumila, AMUCTA, Tanzania<br />M. Humayun Kabir, Tutul, National Health Library & Documentation Centre, Bangladesh<br />Sabuj Kumar, Chaudhuri, University of Calcutta<br />Sandipan Banerjee<br />Satwinder Bangar<br />Shahana Jahan, Bangladesh<br />Shamnad Basheer, SpicyIP<br />Shivendra Singh<br />Shreyashi Ray, NLU, Delhi<br />Sivakrishna Sivakoti<br />Soumen Kayal, Maharaja Manindra chandra College<br />Srinivasarao Muppidi, Sanketika Vidya Parishad Engineering College<br />Stephanie Gross, MSLIS from Pratt Institute, USA<br />Sujata Tetali, MACS-Agharkar Research Institute<br />Surjodeb Lulu Hono Basu<br />Susmita Das, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh<br />Susmita Chakraborty, University of Calcutta<br />Thilagavathi, Thillai Natarajan, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women<br />Umesh Kumar<br />Umme Habiba, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh<br />Vinita, Jain, M D College of Arts, Science and Commerce<br />Virginia Inés Simón, Red Iberoamericana de Expertos sobre la Convención de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad, Argentina<br />Vrushali Dandawate, AISSMS College of Engineering/DOAJ<br />Waqar Khan, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh<br />Wilbert Zvakafa, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe<br />Yasser Ahmed, South Valley University, Egypt<br />Yohann Thomas, Wikimedia India<br />Zakir Hossain, International Association of School Librarianship, International Schools Region, Switzerland<br />Dahmane Madjid, CERIST, Algeria<br />Nagarjuna G, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR<br />Sulyman Sodeeq Abdulakeem, Federal Polytechnic Offa, Nigeria<br />Leena Shah, DOAJ<br />Hamady Issaga Sy, Sénégal<br />Sanket Oswal, Wikimedia India<br />Chitralekha, University of Delhi<br />Chris Zielinski, University of Winchester, United Kingdom<br />Mourya Biswas, Prateek Media</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/delhi-declaration-on-open-access</a>
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No publisherAdminOpennessOpen Access2018-02-26T14:53:07ZNews ItemComments on the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (WSIS+10)
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-draft-outcome-document-of-the-un-general-assembly2019s-overall-review-of-the-implementation-of-wsis-outcomes-wsis-10
<b>Following the comment-period on the Zero Draft, the Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly's Overall Review of implementation of WSIS Outcomes was released on 4 November 2015. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document from diverse stakeholders. The Centre for Internet & Society's response to the call for comments is below.</b>
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<p class="Normal1" style="text-align: justify; ">The WSIS+10 Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes, scheduled for December 2015, comes as a review of the WSIS process initiated in 2003-05. At the December summit of the UN General Assembly, the WSIS vision and mandate of the IGF are to be discussed. The Draft Outcome Document, released on 4 November 2015, is towards an outcome document for the summit. Comments were sought on the Draft Outcome Document. Our comments are below.</p>
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<li>The Draft Outcome Document of the UN General Assembly’s Overall Review of the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (“<i>the current Draft</i>”) stands considerably altered from the Zero Draft. With references to development-related challenges, the Zero Draft covered areas of growth and challenges of the WSIS. It noted the persisting digital divide, the importance of innovation and investment, and of conducive legal and regulatory environments, and the inadequacy of financial mechanisms. Issues crucial to Internet governance such as net neutrality, privacy and the mandate of the IGF found mention in the Zero Draft.</li>
<li>The current Draft retains these, and adds to them. Some previously-omitted issues such as surveillance, the centrality of human rights and the intricate relationship of ICTs to the Sustainable Development Goals, now stand incorporated in the current Draft. This is most commendable. However, the current Draft still lacks teeth with regard to some of these issues, and fails to address several others. </li>
<li>In our comments to the Zero Draft, CIS had called for these issues to be addressed. We reiterate our call in the following paragraphs.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>(1) </strong><strong>ICT for Development</strong></h2>
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<li>In the current Draft, paragraphs 14-36 deal with ICTs for development. While the draft contains rubrics like ‘Bridging the digital divide’, ‘Enabling environment’, and ‘Financial mechanisms’, the following issues are unaddressed:</li>
<li>Equitable development for all;</li>
<li>Accessibility to ICTs for persons with disabilities;</li>
<li>Access to knowledge and open data.</li>
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<h3><i><span>Equitable development</span></i></h3>
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<li>In the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html">Geneva Declaration of Principles</a> (2003), two goals are set forth as the Declaration’s “ambitious goal”: (a) the bridging of the digital divide; and (b) equitable development for all (¶ 17). The current Draft speaks in detail about the bridging of the digital divide, but the goal of equitable development is conspicuously absent. At WSIS+10, when the WSIS vision evolves to the creation of inclusive ‘knowledge societies’, equitable development should be both a key principle and a goal to stand by.</li>
<li>Indeed, inequitable development underscores the persistence of the digital divide. The current Draft itself refers to several instances of inequitable development; for ex., the uneven production capabilities and deployment of ICT infrastructure and technology in developing countries, landlocked countries, small island developing states, countries under occupation or suffering natural disasters, and other vulnerable states; lack of adequate financial mechanisms in vulnerable parts of the world; variably affordable (or in many cases, unaffordable) spread of ICT devices, technology and connectivity, etc. </li>
<li>What underscores these challenges is the inequitable and uneven spread of ICTs across states and communities, including in their production, capacity-building, technology transfers, gender-concentrated adoption of technology, and inclusiveness. </li>
<li>As such, it is essential that the WSIS+10 Draft Outcome Document reaffirm our commitment to equitable development for all peoples, communities and states.</li>
<li>We suggest the following inclusion to <strong>paragraph 5 of the current Draft</strong>:</li>
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<th style="text-align: justify; "><span><span style="text-align: justify; ">“5. We reaffirm our common desire and commitment to the WSIS vision to build </span><i style="text-align: justify; "><span>an equitable,</span></i><span style="text-align: justify; "> people-centred, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society…”</span></span></th>
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<h3><i><span>Accessibility for persons with disabilities</span></i></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">10. Paragraph 13 of the Geneva Declaration of Principles (2003) pledges to “pay particular attention to the special needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups of society” in the forging of an Information Society. Particularly, ¶ 13 recognises the special needs of older persons and persons with disabilities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11. Moreover, ¶ 31 of the Geneva Declaration of Principles calls for the special needs of persons with disabilities, and also of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, to be taken into account while promoting the use of ICTs for capacity-building. Accessibility for persons with disabilities is thus core to bridging the digital divide – as important as bridging the gender divide in access to ICTs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">12. Not only this, but the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/implementation/2014/forum/inc/doc/outcome/362828V2E.pdf">WSIS+10 Statement on the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes</a> (June 2014) also reaffirms the commitment to “provide equitable access to information and knowledge for all… including… people with disabilities”, recognizing that it is “crucial to increase the participation of vulnerable people in the building process of Information Society…” (¶8).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">13. In our previous submission, CIS had suggested language drawing attention to this. Now, the current Draft only acknowledges that “particular attention should be paid to the specific ICT challenges facing… persons with disabilities…” (paragraph 11). It acknowledges also that now, accessibility for persons with disabilities constitutes one of the core elements of quality (paragraph 22). However, there is a glaring omission of a call to action, or a reaffirmation of our commitment to bridging the divide experienced by persons with disabilities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">14. We suggest, therefore, the addition of the following language the addition of <strong>paragraph 24A to the current Draft</strong>. Sections of this suggestion are drawn from ¶8, WSIS+10 Statement on the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes.</p>
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<th style="text-align: justify; "><span>"24A. <span style="text-align: justify; ">Recalling the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities, the Geneva principles paragraph 11, 13, 14 and 15, Tunis Commitment paras 20, 22 and 24, and reaffirming the commitment to providing equitable access to information and knowledge for all, building ICT capacity for all and confidence in the use of ICTs by all, including youth, older persons, women, indigenous and nomadic peoples, people with disabilities, the unemployed, the poor, migrants, refugees and internally displaced people and remote and rural communities, it is crucial to increase the participation of vulnerable people in the building process of information Society and to make their voice heard by stakeholders and policy-makers at different levels. It can allow the most fragile groups of citizens worldwide to become an integrated part of their economies and also raise awareness of the target actors on the existing ICTs solution (such as tolls as e- participation, e-government, e-learning applications, etc.) designed to make their everyday life better. We recognise need for continued extension of access for people with disabilities and vulnerable people to ICTs, especially in developing countries and among marginalized communities, and reaffirm our commitment to promoting and ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities. In particular, we call upon all stakeholders to honour and meet the targets set out in Target 2.5.B of the Connect 2020 Agenda that enabling environments ensuring accessible telecommunication/ICT for persons with disabilities should be established in all countries by 2020.”</span></span></th>
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<h3><i><span>Access to knowledge and open data</span></i></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">15. The Geneva Declaration of Principles dedicates a section to access to information and knowledge (B.3). It notes, in ¶26, that a “rich public domain” is essential to the growth of Information Society. It urges that public institutions be strengthened to ensure free and equitable access to information (¶26), and also that assistive technologies and universal design can remove barriers to access to information and knowledge (¶25). Particularly, the Geneva Declaration advocates the use of free and open source software, in addition to proprietary software, to meet these ends (¶27).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">16. It was also recognized in the WSIS+10 Statement on the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes (‘Challenges-during implementation of Action Lines and new challenges that have emerged’) that there is a need to promote access to all information and knowledge, and to encourage open access to publications and information (C, ¶¶9 and 12).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">17. In our previous submission, CIS had highlighted the importance of open access to knowledge thus: “…the implications of open access to data and knowledge (including open government data), and responsible collection and dissemination of data are much larger in light of the importance of ICTs in today’s world. As Para 7 of the Zero Draft indicates, ICTs are now becoming an indicator of development itself, as well as being a key facilitator for achieving other developmental goals. As Para 56 of the Zero Draft recognizes, in order to measure the impact of ICTs on the ground – undoubtedly within the mandate of WSIS – it is necessary that there be an enabling environment to collect and analyse reliable data. Efforts towards the same have already been undertaken by the United Nations in the form of ‘Data Revolution for Sustainable Development’. In this light, the Zero Draft rightly calls for enhancement of regional, national and local capacity to collect and conduct analyses of development and ICT statistics (Para 56). Achieving the central goals of the WSIS process requires that such data is collected and disseminated under open standards and open licenses, leading to creation of global open data on the ICT indicators concerned.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">18. This crucial element is missing from the current Draft of the WSIS+10 Outcome Document. Of course, the current Draft notes the importance of access to information and free flow of data. But it stops short of endorsing and advocating the importance of access to knowledge and free and open source software, which are essential to fostering competition and innovation, diversity of consumer/ user choice and ensuring universal access.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">19. We suggest the following addition – of <strong>paragraph 23A to the current Draft</strong>:</p>
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<th style="text-align: justify; "><span>"23A. <span style="text-align: justify; ">We recognize the need to promote access for all to information and knowledge, open data, and open, affordable, and reliable technologies and services, while respecting individual privacy, and to encourage open access to publications and information, including scientific information and in the research sector, and particularly in developing and least developed countries.”</span></span></th>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>(2) </strong><strong>Human Rights in Information Society</strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">20. The current Draft recognizes that human rights have been central to the WSIS vision, and reaffirms that rights offline must be protected online as well. However, the current Draft omits to recognise the role played by corporations and intermediaries in facilitating access to and use of the Internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">21. In our previous submission, CIS had noted that “the Internet is led largely by the private sector in the development and distribution of devices, protocols and content-platforms, corporations play a major role in facilitating – and sometimes, in restricting – human rights online”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">22. We reiterate our suggestion for the inclusion of <strong>paragraph 43A to the current Draft</strong>:</p>
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<th style="text-align: justify; "><span>"43A. <span style="text-align: justify; ">We recognize the critical role played by corporations and the private sector in facilitating human rights online. We affirm, in this regard, the responsibilities of the private sector set out in the Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, A/HRC/17/31 (21 March 2011), and encourage policies and commitments towards respect and remedies for human rights.”</span></span></th>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><strong>(3) </strong><strong>Internet</strong> <strong>Governance</strong></h2>
<h3><i><span>The support for multilateral governance of the Internet</span></i></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">23. While the section on Internet governance is not considerably altered from the zero draft, there is a large substantive change in the current Draft. The current Draft states that the governance of the Internet should be “multilateral, transparent and democratic, with full involvement of all stakeholders” (¶50). Previously, the zero draft recognized the “the general agreement that the governance of the Internet should be open, inclusive, and transparent”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">24. A return to purely ‘multilateral’ Internet governance would be regressive. Governments are, without doubt, crucial in Internet governance. As scholarship and experience have both shown, governments have played a substantial role in shaping the Internet as it is today: whether this concerns the availability of content, spread of infrastructure, licensing and regulation, etc. However, these were and continue to remain contentious spaces.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">25. As such, it is essential to recognize that a plurality of governance models serve the Internet, in which the private sector, civil society, the technical community and academia play important roles. <strong>We recommend returning to the language of the zero draft in ¶32: “open, inclusive and transparent governance of the Internet”.</strong></p>
<h3><i><span>Governance of Critical Internet Resources</span></i></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">26. It is curious that the section on Internet governance<strong> </strong>in both the zero and the current Draft makes no reference to ICANN, and in particular, to the ongoing transition of IANA stewardship and the discussions surrounding the accountability of ICANN and the IANA operator. The stewardship of critical Internet resources, such as the root, is crucial to the evolution and functioning of the Internet. Today, ICANN and a few other institutions have a monopoly over the management and policy-formulation of several critical Internet resources.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">27. While the WSIS in 2003-05 considered this a troubling issue, this focus seems to have shifted entirely. Open, inclusive, transparent and <i>global</i> Internet are misnomer-principles when ICANN – and in effect, the United States – continues to have monopoly over critical Internet resources. The allocation and administration of these resources should be decentralized and distributed, and should not be within the disproportionate control of any one jurisdiction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">28. Therefore, we reiterate our suggestion to add <strong><span>paragraph 53A</span></strong> after Para 53:</p>
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<h3><i><span>Inclusiveness and Diversity in Internet Governance</span></i></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">29. The current Draft, in ¶52, recognizes that there is a need to “promote greater participation and engagement in Internet governance of all stakeholders…”, and calls for “stable, transparent and voluntary funding mechanisms to this end.” This is most commendable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">30. The issue of inclusiveness and diversity in Internet governance is crucial: today, Internet governance organisations and platforms suffer from a lack of inclusiveness and diversity, extending across representation, participation and operations of these organisations. As CIS submitted previously, the mention of inclusiveness and diversity becomes tokenism or formal (but not operational) principle in many cases.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">31. As we submitted before, the developing world is pitifully represented in standards organisations and in ICANN, and policy discussions in organisations like ISOC occur largely in cities like Geneva and New York. For ex., 307 out of 672 registries listed in ICANN’s registry directory are based in the United States, while 624 of the 1010 ICANN-accredited registrars are US-based.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">32. Not only this, but 80% of the responses received by ICANN during the ICG’s call for proposals were male. A truly global and open, inclusive and transparent governance of the Internet must not be so skewed. Representation must include not only those from developing countries, but must also extend across gender and communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">33. We propose, therefore, the addition of a <strong><span>paragraph 51A</span></strong> after Para 51:</p>
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<th style="text-align: justify; "><span>"51A. <span style="text-align: justify; ">We draw attention to the challenges surrounding diversity and inclusiveness in organisations involved in Internet governance, including in their representation, participation and operations. We note with concern that the representation of developing countries, of women, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, is far from equitable and adequate. We call upon organisations involved in Internet governance to take immediate measures to ensure diversity and inclusiveness in a substantive manner.”</span></span></th>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Prepared by Geetha Hariharan, with inputs from Sunil Abraham and Japreet Grewal. All comments submitted towards the Draft Outcome Document may be found <a class="external-link" href="http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/Preparatory-Process-Roadmap/Comments-on-Draft-Outcome-Document">at this link</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-draft-outcome-document-of-the-un-general-assembly2019s-overall-review-of-the-implementation-of-wsis-outcomes-wsis-10'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-draft-outcome-document-of-the-un-general-assembly2019s-overall-review-of-the-implementation-of-wsis-outcomes-wsis-10</a>
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No publishergeethaICT4DCall for CommentsWSIS+10Access to KnowledgeAccessibilityHuman Rights OnlineInternet GovernanceICANNIANA TransitionOpen SourceOpen Access2015-11-18T06:33:13ZBlog EntryCIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy
<b>On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The internet is increasingly significant as a knowledge repository today. Especially relevant in this context is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contains information on almost every topic under the sun, across many languages spoken globally, and is used extensively all people to seek information and produce knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">From past one year (since July 2017), The Government of Odisha has been actively participating in the open knowledge movement by publishing the content of their seven websites and eight social media accounts under Creative Commons 4.0 International license. This active collaboration with Government of Odisha and an active Odia Wikimedia community seeking to create and distribute knowledge in Odia language over the internet has resulted in improving 1,200 articles on different Wikimedia projects, and together has received a near about 16 Million page views. Further, the Government of Odisha adopting an open content policy will provide a significant boost in institutionalising creation, sharing, and re-use of open knowledge resources - including government documents, official statistics, open educational resources, and open cultural resources - in Odia language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://ova.gov.in/en/" target="_blank">Odia Virtual Academy (OVA)</a> is an organisation established by Government of Odisha for development, promotion and popularization of Odia language, literature, and lexicography for general use. It is an organised initiative to encourage expeditious evolution and popularisation of Odia books, magazines, journals, old songs, manuscripts, assembly speeches, and archival records by digitising and providing internet based resources and opportunities for all odia people living across the globe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a MoU with the Odia Virtual Academy to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and its activities are structured by the following objectives:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Open Content Policy for the Government of Odisha:</b> The open content policy will include guidelines for the use of open licenses and open standards to enable the resource (text, resources or otherwise) publishing entity to share resources in a manner that it can be easily and freely be accessed, shared, and re-used by entities, without asking for prior permission, while ensuring that full attribution to the creator/publisher is provided and the resources are not misused, or the creator/publisher is not misrepresented in the process.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Developing Digital and Open Knowledge Resources in Odia Language:</b> The CIS team will undertake awareness-building, training, and outreach activities to develop Odia language content on Wikimedia ecosystem, as well as to enable content creators from across institutions, with a focus on state government officials at district headquarters and college students. The broad mandate of the digital resource generation workshop is to introduce teachers, students, and interested citizens to tools of collaborative knowledge production on the internet and methods for generating new online content or reintroduce offline content in Odia language.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>‘Revive Odia’ Activities:</b> Odia as a language has a long tradition and has been medium of expression for the native speakers of Odisha. While Odia as a language of communication is not under any immediate threat, its role and responsibility as a language of Knowledge needs to be examined carefully. ‘Revive Odia’ activities have a simple objective: <i>To bring Odia under limelight in the digital domain</i>. Wikimedia projects in Odia language are working actively to increase the presence of Odia language on the Internet. If such projects can be supported new projects can be incubated, Odia will emerge as the language of knowledge production and distribution as well.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Partnerships:</b> Wikimedia ecosystem offer several platforms for using the power and opportunities of internet to (digitally) preserve, enable access to, and creative re-use of historical, cultural, and social artefacts, and channel the expertise of local populations to build narratives around these artefacts. The CIS team is particularly interested in initiating engagement with public GLAM institutions at various locations and levels, and work with academic and research community to build scientific metadata of these objects. The metadata will be used to represent the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Odisha in projects such as Wikidata.<br /><br /></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Building and Supporting FOSS for Odia Language:</b> To promote and enable usage of Odia language on the web, the CIS team will facilitate development of an Odia font, an input tool, and a spell-check dictionary - all of which will be released as FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) resources.</li>
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<p>To undertake these activities, CIS will receive a grant of Rs 20,00,000 (~$28,000) from OVA.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-signs-mou-with-odia-virtual-academy</a>
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No publishersaileshOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KOpen LicenseAccess to KnowledgeOpen DataWikipediaOpen ContentOdia WikipediaOpen AccessWikimedia2018-12-20T00:24:44ZBlog EntryCIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence
<b>As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K has received 74 issues as of now from the Telugu Jaati foundation. These issues shall be published by A2K on a blog site under CC BY SA licence to make it a reliable reference resource and adhere Wikipedia guidelines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nadustunna Charithra magazine has dealt extensively with Telugu semantics and Telugu Cultural history and we hope to upload all the issues to Telugu Wikisource. These magazines will also serve as handy reference guides for Telugu Wikipedians and shall act as a major referencing and citation resource.<br /><br />CIS-A2K has also been successful in acquiring 250 song books (booklets that have the lyrics of songs featured in a film) of Telugu movies for content donation. These song books serve as introduction to the film itself. They contain lyrics of the songs, poster of the movie, details of the cast and crew, a short synopsis both in Telugu and English along with photographs of the lead actors. As of now CIS-A2K has been able to locate song books for most of the films produced between 1930-1954.<br /><br />These resources shall also help the Telugu community in coming up with new/improved articles related to Telugu cinema. With most of the basic information regarding a film available in the song book, we expect that the Telugu community along with active cooperation from A2K shall create GA quality articles and this content donation will also help in improving stubs that were created earlier.<br /><br />CIS-A2K is extremely grateful for the support received by the Telugu community during this content donation initiative and would like to thank in person Mr. Bhaskarnaidu, Mr. Gullapalli Nageshwara Rao who have been part of these conversations and helped us identify the resources to be re-licensed.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence</a>
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