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ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାର କୋକୁଆ ଆଣିବ ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ
- January 27, 2016
This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Your Story. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of Airtel Zero and Free Basics with the Grameenphone project by Mozilla in Bangladesh and the worldwide Wikipedia Zero projects.
Read more →Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
- January 26, 2016
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
Read more →Pervasive Technologies Project Presentations at the 4th Global Congress, 2015
- January 20, 2016
These are the presentations made by the members of the PT Project team at the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015 at National Law University, New Delhi.
Read more →Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
- January 03, 2016
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
Read more →30 Books of Odia Author and Historian Jagannath Prasad Das to Come Online on Odia Wikisource
- January 03, 2016
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର
- December 30, 2015
Odia newspaper Sambad carried this featured column of mine yesterday in their Sunday supplement "Sambada Rabibara" on December 6, 2015.
Read more →4th Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest: Statement of Conclusion for the IP and Development track
- December 25, 2015
The 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held from December 15 to 17, 2015 in New Delhi. This post provides a summary of the event.
Read more →Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions in abeyance
- December 21, 2015
The CRI Guidelines were heavily criticised for their failure to address the ambiguities created by Section 3(k) and for expanding the scope of software patent eligibile subject-matter, inter alia. Following several representations and submissions by interested stakeholders, the Controller General has moved the Guidelines into abeyance, until discussions with stakeholders are complete and contentious issues are resolved, and is a welcome step.
Read more →GCIP15 Day 2: Fixing the problems in Trade Negotiations
- December 17, 2015
This post documents the interesting discussions that took place in the Trade Negotiations Panel at day 2 of the GCIP 2015.
Read more →GCIP Day 1 Session 3: Challenges in Re-Articulating Public Interest
- December 17, 2015
At the third plenary session of GCIP15, the discussion revolved around challenges in re-articulating ‘public interest’ dimension in IP law and policy.
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