Blogs
Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
- June 29, 2015
This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
Read more →Comments on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO Secretariat
- June 28, 2015
Technical Background Paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat in relation to the Broadcast Treaty (“Technical Background Paper) provides information on new and emerging technologies and on legal developments in the broadcasting sector. This Technical Background Paper will be discussed at the upcoming 30th session of the SCCR in Geneva on 29th June- 3rd July 2015. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India had called for comments on the same. This is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society in this regard.
Read more →National IPR Policy Series : Follow-up RTI to DIPP on the IPR Think Tank
- June 25, 2015
This RTI was prepared by Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari as a follow-up, based on the responses of the DIPP to our earlier RTI requests (available at http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-rti-requests-by-cis-to-dipp-dipp-responses)
Read more →The US 301 Report – A Myopic View of IP Rights
- June 24, 2015
Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari discuss the 2015 US 301 Report, focussing on its narrow and convenient understanding of IP rights. A farrago of contradictions, it supports a rightsholder-centric view but not when the right, Geographical Indicator, is not to their liking. Similarly, the emphasis on the rights themselves gives short shrift to critical exceptions and limitations that also enhance and incentivize innovation, the ostensible purpose of IP.
Read more →Joining the Dots in India's Big-Ticket Mobile Phone Patent Litigation (Updated)
- June 21, 2015
An analysis of the significant commonalities and differences in various big-ticket lawsuits in India over the alleged infringement of mobile device patents.
Read more →National IPR Policy Series : India's National IPR Policy - What Would WIPO Think?
- June 20, 2015
As part of the National IPR Policy Series, CIS is evaluating how India's National IPR Policy framework and process holds up to WIPO's suggestions. In this note, Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari examine in particular, the functioning of the IPR Think Tank and the first draft of the National Policy in light of the WIPO framework and the principles it encapsulates.
Read more →ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ: ନୂତନ ଯୁଗର ଆରମ୍ଭ
- June 15, 2015
My op-ed on Odia Wikipedia and its journey of 13 years was published in Odia daily "The Samaja".
Read more →Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
- June 14, 2015
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
Read more →Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A Month
- June 14, 2015
Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary.
Read more →Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online
- June 01, 2015
Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
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