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- Innovate / Activate — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM
- The event will be held on 24 and 25 September 2010 at New York Law School.
- WEBINAR: Closed for Business — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:18 AM
- A Global Panel Discusses International Copyright Laws and Their Impact on the Open Internet
- Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A Report — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM
- On Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation explained the vision of the project and focused on the challenges involved in demographic and biometric identification, the technology adopted, and the enrolment process. Elonnai Hickok gives a report of his presentation in this blog post.
- The madness of software patents — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:17 AM
- India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted, writes Lata Jishnu in an article published in Down to Earth.
- Why piracy is tough to rein in — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM
- “Video market is being treated as a poor cousin of the film industry”
- Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan Report — by Rebecca Schild — last modified Mar 20, 2012 06:36 PM
- 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.
- Enabling Access to Education through ICT - A Conference in Delhi — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 04, 2013 09:24 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment and the Deafway Foundation is organizing an international conference "Enabling Access to Education through ICT" in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The event is sponsored by Hans Foundation.
- Seminar on Software Patent and the Commons — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 23, 2011 02:22 PM
- A pre-grant opposition has been filed against a software patent application filed in the patent office by Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturers of Blackberry. The opposition was filed on August 31, 2010 by the Software Freedom Law Centre which has recently expanded its operations to India. This exciting development was announced by Mishi Choudhary from SFLC on the lines of the seminar on “Software Patents and the Commons” organised on 1 September 2010 in Delhi jointly by SFLC, the Centre for Internet and Society, the Society for Knowledge Commons and Red Hat. Filing more such oppositions to software patents in India was in the pipeline and this is just the beginning of a movement to take on monopolisation of knowledge and ideas through patenting software, the organisers said.
- Beyond Access as Inclusion — by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM
- On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
- Cybercrime and Privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2010 01:21 PM
- Elonnai Hickok examines privacy in the context of India’s legal provisions on cybercrime. She picks up the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act as amended in 2008 dealing with cyber crimes and provides a fair analysis of the pros and cons of the amended Act.
- Transparency and MDGs: the Role of the Media and Technology — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:16 AM
- Key quotes from sixth panel
- Copyright bill restricts Net access — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:21 AM
- Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity
- Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PM
- India's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
- Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:28 AM
- A summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
- No UID Campaign in New Delhi - A Report — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 20, 2012 03:51 AM
- The Unique Identification (UID) Bill is not pro-citizen. The scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforseen consequences. A public meeting on UID was held at the Constitution Club, Rafi Marg in New Delhi on 25 August, 2010. The said Bill came under scrutiny at the meeting which was organised by civil society groups from Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi campaigning under the banner of "No UID". The speakers brought to light many concerns, unanswered questions and problems of the UID scheme.
- Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
- This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
- Wherever you are, whatever you do — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:12 AM
- Facebook recently launched a location-based service called Places. Privacy advocates are resenting to this new development. Sunil Abraham identifies the three prime reasons for this outcry against Facebook. The article was published in the Indian Express on 23 August, 2010.
- First Post-Bilski Decision - Software Patent Rejected — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
- In the first decision post-Bilski, the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) rejected a software patent claimed by Hewlett-Packard. The ruling in this case has buttressed the fact that the Bilski decision furthered the cause of narrowing the patentability of software even though the Supreme Court of the United States totally avoided mentioning software patents or the applicability of the machine or transformation test for software patents in its decision.
- The Bilski Case - Impact on Software Patents — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
- The Supreme Court of the United States gave its decision in Bilski v Kappos on 28 June, 2010. In this case the petitioners’ patent application sought protection for a claimed invention that explains how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes. The Court in affirming the rejection by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also held that the machine- or-transformation test is not necessarily the sole test of patentability. The Court’s ruling of abstract ideas as unpatentable and its admission that patents do not necessarily promote innovation and may sometimes limit competition and stifle innovation have provided a ray of hope. In the light of the developments, the Bilski decision as far as patentability of software is concerned may not be totally insignificant, says Krithika Dutta Narayana.
- 科技改變社會 數位原生代計畫 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:22 AM
- The Chinese language press covered the Digital Natives workshop in Taipei.
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