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CIS

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Cijo

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CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge Sources

praskrishna — 2016-11-23T08:04:16Z

Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC), National Law university, Delhi as part of its Open Science Project, had organised WikiEdit2016 a two day workshop regarding orientation on editing Wikipedia and hands-on-training session. The event was organized on November 11 and 12, 2016 at National Law University in New Delhi.

Rohini Lakshané and Tanveer Hasan conducted and facilitated this workshop.

The purpose of this workshop was to introduce students to diverse aspects of open knowledge resources and to motivate them to move beyond passive consumption of knowledge and become active producers of knowledge. The participants were briefed about the editing activity earlier, because of which they had come prepared with references for the topic that they had earlier selected. We hope that this group (20 students with majority women editors) would continue to edit Wikipedia with thematic (law) focus and contribute further.

More details on the workshop can be accessed here.

Photo courtesy: Prof. Arul George Scaria, National Law University, Delhi.

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CIIPC Asia Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation IP and Competition

praskrishna — 2017-03-14T14:10:14Z

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CIIPC 4

praskrishna — 2016-11-23T02:02:15Z

CIIPC 4

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CIIPC 3

praskrishna — 2016-11-21T15:06:53Z

CIIPC 3

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CIIPC 2

praskrishna — 2016-11-21T15:05:34Z

CIIPC 2

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CIIPC 1

praskrishna — 2016-11-23T02:00:23Z

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CII Digital India Summit

praskrishna — 2015-05-02T03:56:58Z

The Digital India Summit was organized at the Taj Mahal Hotel and Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on April 21 and 24, 2015. Pranesh Prakash participated in it.

Day 1 - 21 April 2015: Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi

Programme

0900 - 1000 hrs	Registration
1000 - 1030 hrs	Inaugural Session
1000 - 1015 hrs	Opening Remarks	Mr Kiran Karnik Chairman CII National Mission on Digital India
1015 - 1030 hrs	Setting the Context, Goals	Mr Bhaskar Pramanik Chairman CII National Committee on IT & ITes & Chairman Microsoft India Private Limited
1030 - 1100 hrs	Tea Break
1100 - 1315 hrs	Breakout Sessions
Group 1 1100 - 1315 hrs	Tackling Structural Issues and Developing Business Models for Digital India
Moderated by	Mr Sanjeev Gupta, Joint Secretary - IT, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture Mr Kiran Karnik, Chairman, CII National Mission on Digital India
According to a DeitY estimate INR 100,000 cr. is needed just for funding the existing schemes. The achievement of the vision will need finance, expertise & intent from the private as well as the government. Given the different credo & objective for each sector, the need will be to build effective, collaborative & sustainable business models which provide a return on their investment while harnessing their strengths. Some of the key questions which will need to be answered are : · What is the role of public-private partnerships towards overcoming each of these five challenges? · How can we coordinate multi-stakeholder discussions and stimulate a collaborative approach towards shared goals of Digital India? · What are the sustainable business models that guarantee significant commercial (business feasibility) and social returns (such as inclusive growth, rural skill-building and employment generation)?
Group 2 1100 - 1315 hrs	Overcoming India's Last Mile Challenge-Creating Access through Network Reach, Innovative Business Models and Affordable Data-Enabled Devices/Internet plans
Moderated by	Ms Aruna Sundararajan, Additional Secretary & Administrator (USOF) and Chairman-cum- Managing Director, BBNL
Given India's size & demographics providing digital reach to the people at the right price is one of the most piquant issues that we face. Bringing every citizen on the digital backbone will increase empowerment & inclusion. Reaching out to the 2.5 lakh villages as envisaged in the plan will require intent, innovation & investment. Some of the questions that we need to discuss are: · What are the roadblocks in increasing internet penetration in India? · What are the alternate technologies that may be used to offer cost-effective internet in rural areas? · What are the regulatory changes that need to be in place? · What are the prerequisites for creating practical business models? · How do we stimulate internet usage through affordable service delivery in rural India? · What can the government do to encourage such business models?
Group 3 1100 - 1315 hrs	Developing a Digital Workforce - Empowering the Current and Future Workforce through Digital Literacy
Moderated by	Mr Pramod Bhasin, Non-Executive Vice Chairman and former President and CEO, Genpact Mr Atul Bhatnagar , Chief Operating officer, National Skill Development Corporation*
India's success in the technology sector has been based on our strength in skilled workforce. There are significant challenges in creating similar program to help build out the Made in India campaign in the manufacturing sector. The key questions are: · How should we define Digital Literacy? What does this mean and how much is still left to be done. What should we target to achieve over the next 3, 5 and 10 years? · What are the most effective measures Govt can take to enhance digital literacy and what kind of PPPs can we build to really take this to a completely different level? What are the biggest roadblocks to achieving digital literacy and how do we overcome these? · What is the role schools, colleges and vocational institutions, skills training providers can play in this area? How can that role be made much more effective and impact many more people? · How can digital literacy empower the unorganised sectors and entrepreneurship across India--in areas that are not touched by it normally--agriculture, farmers, construction, etc? How can this help bring a real revolution to these sectors which represent the majority of the work force? · How can digital literacy help create employability and access to jobs? How can it empower women and the hard to reach communities across India and bring them into the mainframe? · How can we use Digital literacy to substantially improve Governance and Transparency specially in public services and delivery of these across the population? · How can we use digital literacy to solve substantive problems such as Healthcare, Swatch Bharat, Build Smart Cities, increase Employability.
Group 4 1100 - 1315 hrs	Delivering Critical Services through a Universal, Verifiable Digital Identity
Moderated by	Mr Rajesh Bansal , Assistant Director General, UIDAI Mr Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, CII National Committee on IT and ITes and Chairman, Microsoft
The UID is already the largest program of its kind in the world. The real benefits will accrue when we build on this program to create add on programs which will harness what has been created and co-ordinate with financial, telecom & regulatory entities to create a collaborative model around direct benefit transfer and universal banking. Some of the key points that need to be discussed are: · What are the top 3 high-impact applications that would leverage the UID platform to offer critical services? · How can the govt. foster public and private sector innovation, and entrepreneurial creativity to foster UID-linked application to access services? · What is the potential for cross-sector collaboration and new business opportunities? For example, leveraging UID for enabling direct subsidies would require an effective partnership between financial services and energy sectors. What other avenues are worth exploring? · What is the action plan for different stakeholders and enablers? o Government and regulators o Corporates and institutions o Financial ecosystem partners o Telecom and IT companies o Individuals
1315 - 1415 hrs	Networking Lunch
1415 - 1435 hrs	Report back by Group 1
1435 - 1455 hrs	Report back by Group 2
1455 - 1515 hrs	Report back by Group 3
1515 - 1535 hrs	Report back by Group 4
1535 - 1550 hrs	Tea/ Coffee Break
1550 - 1700 hrs	Summing up and finalization of recommendation of each group by Mr Kiran Karnik

Day 2 - 24 April 2015: Hall No. 14, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

1100 hrs	Inauguration of Digital Pavilion by Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications & Information Technology.
1130 - 1300 hrs	Panel Discussion on "Accelerating the Digital transition"
The Panel Discussion will focus on the imperatives required to ensure digitization across the value chain and what stakeholders must do to ensure that digitization supports sustainable growth. Outcomes from the discussions on Day 1 will be presented by each of the Session Chair to Hon'ble Minister
*"Release of the CII Compendium on cross company best practices / success stories on Digital India by Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Minister of Communications and Information Technology"*

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CI Global Meeting on A2K

praskrishna — 2011-04-05T04:08:06Z

CIS is a co-sponsor of the Consumers International Meeting on A2K

The Consumers International Global Meeting on A2K 2010 is to be held at the Holiday Villa hotel in Subang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 and 22 April 2010.

The meeting will bring together CI members and other NGOs from around the world to discuss and collaborate on issues of access to knowledge (A2K) and communications rights. Highlights will include the launch of the Consumers International IP Watch List for 2010, the launch of CI's new film on A2K, and a preview of the results of our access barrier survey.

Don't miss the most important day on the A2K calendar for the global consumer movement!

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Christopher

praskrishna — 2013-09-27T14:20:28Z

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Chinmayi Arun

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Chinese state media says U.S. should take some blame for cyber attack

praskrishna — 2017-06-07T01:12:27Z

"WannaCry is far and away the most severe malware attack so far in 2017, and the spread of this troubling ransomware is far from over". Since the global attack was launched on Friday, several thousand more computers were discovered to be infected, particularly in Asia as the work day began on Monday. "We've seen that the slowdown of the infection rate over Friday night, after a temporary fix around it, has now been overcome by a second variation the criminals have released".

The article by Ellis Neal was published in the Villages Suntimes on May 21, 2017.

Microsoft called the incident a "wake-up" call for governments and customers to take security seriously, but in a letter to the Times Sir David Omand, GCHQ director from 1996 to 1997, pins the blame squarely on the technology firm for failing to maintain support for its ageing Windows XP platform. If they wanted their files decrypted, the program said all they had to do was pay $300 worth of Bitcoin to the specified address.

However, a cyber security expert working with the Centre for Internet and Society, Udbhav Tiwari working on vulnerabilities such as these, said as most ATMs in the country especially of the public-sector banks run on outdated operating systems, or are not updated regularly, they can be easily compromised.

When Microsoft sells its operating system software it does so through a licence agreement that states the company is not liable for any security breaches, thus shielding it from any legal complaints, points out Michael Scott, a professor at Southwestern Law School.

Microsoft has blamed the U.S. government for creating the software code that was used by hackers to launch the cyber-attacks. USA and European officials did not rule out North Korea as a possible suspect in the cyberattack.

In a blog post, Microsoft admonished governments around the world for keeping software vulnerabilities to themselves, instead of reporting them to the developers. EternalBlue and DoublePulsar, two tools the NSA used to infiltrate computer networks, were stolen from the agency and leaked online in April as part of a massive data dump by the Shadow Brokers hacker group. An investigation is on-going regarding how the codes got out.

The cyber experts have warned of a huge risk in near future as most institutions and individuals in Bangladesh use pirated software. We can not expect criminal hackers to be held accountable for their actions, but we should hold our government agencies accountable.

Since China and Russian Federation are two of the countries where a major share of computers are running pirated Windows, these are also the countries with the biggest rate of WannaCry infections, as stated by F-Secure.

Malware cases have been spreading in recent years as the malicious software trend has been gaining ground, with new forms of ransomware hitting the scene.

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