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The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop
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Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 27, 2012
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Oct 04, 2012 12:16 PM
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Openness,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
For those who might not be aware, Punjabi Wikipedia is one of the first Indic Wikipedias where community started editing way back in 2002. However, after the initial few edits all activities got stopped and it was inactive over the last decade. Recently we conducted a few workshops that led to the revival of Punjabi Wikipedia. This post is about the first Punjabi Wikipedia workshop held in Ludhiana, Punjab on July 28, 2012.
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The Game of IPR: Insights from the 6th Global Intellectual Property Convention in Hyderabad
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by
Samantha Cassar
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Jan 31, 2014
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Jan 31, 2014 09:56 AM
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Patents,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
IP practitioners and IP creators were among the 1700 participants to gather at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre earlier this month. Here, CIS had the opportunity of listening in on perspectives around the “Optimization of economic value of innovation & IPR in the global market” while attending numerous talks and sessions that were held over the course of the convention’s three days.
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Blogs
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The Hathitrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPO
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by
Rahul Cherian
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Oct 30, 2012
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Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
Those of you who have been following my earlier posts on the WIPO negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired will remember that one of the biggest concerns of the World Blind Union on the draft wording of the Treaty was with the definition of an “authorized entity” that can undertake conversion and distribution of accessible format copies.
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Blog
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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 26, 2016
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last modified
Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
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News & Media
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The International Copyright System and Access to Education: Challenges, New Access Models and Prospects for New Principles
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jun 01, 2012
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Jun 01, 2012 04:29 AM
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Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
This event organised by Max Planck Institute was held in Munich, Germany on May 14 and 15, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated in this event.
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The joys of being a Wikipedian
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 30, 2014
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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The Knowledge Base is Liberated
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Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil
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Aug 05, 2019
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CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 05, 2016
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last modified
Aug 06, 2016 05:11 PM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Wikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
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The Law and Economics of Copyright Users Rights
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Sep 06, 2013
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law is organizing a conference on law and economics of copyright users at Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC, on September 26, 2013. Sunil Abraham will present an update on the Pervasive Technologies project as keynote at this meeting.
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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
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by
Anubha Sinha
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Feb 23, 2016
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last modified
Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM
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Featured,
Patents,
Access to Knowledge,
Software Patents
India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
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