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Civil Society Letter Against TRIPS-Plus IP Enforcement
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 18, 2009
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Access to Medicine,
Consumer Rights,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This open letter was sent to the president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and high-level government officials on the eve of the Third International Conference on Counterfeiting & Piracy organized by CII. This conference aims to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights and thus creating an imbalance in the protection that intellectual property offers to both those who own it as well as those who don't.
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Letter from Civil Society Organizations to CII
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 18, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:15 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights
A total of 29 groups and individuals expressed their concern about the drive by CII to introduce TRIPS-plus enforcement standards in India.
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Presentation at TIFR: 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons'
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
Jul 14, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:42 PM
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filed under:
Openness
CIS Distinguished Fellow Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons' at TIFR, Mumbai, on Friday, 24 July 2009.
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CPOV: Critical Point of View
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 10, 2009
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last modified
Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
art and intervention,
cybercultures,
digital subjectives,
Vandalism,
digital art,
digital pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
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Second Response to Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 07, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2009 04:49 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Public Accountability,
Software Patents
Another draft (labelled "version 2", dated May 26, 2009) of the draft national policy on open standards for e-governance was made available to Fosscomm, while many software companies were speaking out against NASSCOM's position on the policy. CIS drafted a second response addressing both the allegations against NASSCOM as well as the few shortcomings we perceive in the draft policy.
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Open Standards
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Open Access
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by
admin
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published
Jul 07, 2009
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Subject To Technology
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by
Nishant Shah
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last modified
Jul 06, 2009 12:06 PM
This paper is an attempt to examine the production of illegalities with reference to cyberspace, to make a symptomatic reading of new conditions within which citizenships are enacted, in the specific context of contemporary India. Looking at one incident each, of cyber-pornography and cyber-terrorism, the paper sets out to look at the State’s imagination of the digital domain, the positing of the ‘good’ cyber citizen, and the production of new relationships between the state and the subject. This essay explores the ambiguities, the dilemmas and the questions that arise when Citizens become Subjects, not only to the State but also to the technologies of the State. The paper first appeared in the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal.
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Nishant Shah
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Presentation at IDRC: ‘Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective’
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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Jul 03, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:59 PM
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Openness
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, CIS Distinguished Fellow, will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons -- A Southern Perspective' at IDRC, Ottawa, Canada, on 13 July 2009.
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Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A Report
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
Jun 24, 2009
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last modified
Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Digital Access,
Public Accountability,
Discussion,
Featured,
Transparency, Politics
Zainab Bawa reports on the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, on 17 June 2009, in collaboration with the Liberty Institute, New Delhi.
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Letter on South Africa's IPRs from Publicly Financed R&D Regulations
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 02, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:42 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Bayh-Dole,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Open Access,
Open Innovation
Being interested in legislations in developing nations styled after the United States' Bayh-Dole Act, CIS responded to the call issued by the South African Department of Science and Technology for comments to the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Regulations.
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