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Copyright Access for the Disabled and Collaborative IP Policy
A blog post on SPICY IP by Shamnad Basheer, November 18, 2009
Reading For All
Right To Read campaign has begun in India to voice the needs of the disabled to gain access to books - an article by Lubna Salim in Kolkata Mirror - Saturday, November 14, 2009
Imagining the Internet – A History and Forecast
Workshop: A Rights-Based Framework - Open Standards - A report on the workshop by Senior segment producer, Janna Anderson - IGF 2009 – Egypt – Sharm El Sheikh (Nov 15th, 2009)
UN Official pledges support to tackle Copyright Challenges for the Visually Impaired
Article on the UN News Centre - New York, Nov 11 2009 6:10PM
WIPO Director General Pledges Support for India’s Visually Impaired Community
An article in the WIPO website on the “Right to Read of persons with print disabilities and copyright challenges” organized by the VIP community in cooperation with the Government of India in New Delhi on November 11, 2009.
Control shift?
USA might have ceded the control of the Internet, but only partially - An article by Pranesh Prakash in Down to Earth (Issue: Nov 15th ,2009)
Copyright obstacle for Braille, audio books
An article by Arpit Basu, The Times of India (Kolkata) Nov 7th, 2009
Open Debate
Deepa Kurup's article in Frontline on the battle over open standards in e-governance.
IPv6: The promises and challenges
An article by Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, in the DNA Mumbai edition (4th Nov '09)
Open Source Peluang tidak Terbatas Industri TIK (GCOS 2009)
JAKARTA--MI: Perangkat lunak Open Source membuka peluang tak terbatas untuk mengembangkan industri di bidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) dalam negeri sekaligus sumber daya manusia di sektor TIK. GCOS '09 was organized by AOSI (Asosiasi open Source Indonesia) and was supported by the State Ministry of Research and Technology and the Ministry Communication Information Technology. The Global Conference on Open Source was held on 26th and 27th of October, 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia.
GCOS 2009
The Global Conference on Open Source, held on 26th and 27th of October, 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia was organized by AOSI (Asosiasi open Source Indonesia) and was supported by the State Ministry of Research and Technology and the Ministry Communication Information Technology.
Youth light up lives, one book at a time
Chennaiites join a campaign to aid the visually challenged in accessing popular works of English literature THERE ARE MILLIONS OF BOOKS THAT THE VISUALLY CHALLENGED CAN'T ACCESS - an article in the Deccan Chronicle - Chennai, dated 10th Oct 2009.
The Option To Read
A blog in ‘thinkopotamus’ by Mr. Shreekumar Varma, Chief Guest, Right to Read Campaign’s first road show in Loyola College, Chennai
Internet sceptic? Go get a life
Fifty years down the line, generations will laugh off the paranoia about the Internet - an article by Nishant Shah in the magazine Down To Earth
Print Impairment and Copyrights
An article by Swaraj Paul Barooah - SPICY IP (Google groups)
Reading a closed book
With the right combination of privacy tweaks and a little prudence, you can maintain privacy online - an article in Livemint by Krish Raghav (29th September, 2009)
Deccan Chronicle – 27th September, 2009
Nirmita Narasimhan, Programme Manager, CIS, speaks at the launch of ‘Right to Read’ campaign. Loyola College in the city on Saturday launched the campaign to amend the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, and give visually challenged and dyslexic people better access to printed books in the form of Braille copy and big prints.
Right to Read campaign - Chennai (NDTV, Hindu)
The first event was covered by NDTV Hindu and an interview with Rahul Cherian and Nirmita Narasimhan was telecast on 26th September.
Tara Textreader, a boon for the visually-challenged
An article by M Ramya – Times of India, 26th September, 2009
‘Right to read’ campaign launched (The Hindu)
An article in The Hindu, 29th September, on the 'Right to Read' campaign, launched on 26th Sept, in Loyola College, Chennai
