Centre for Internet and Society

ORF India-UK Technology Partnership Conference

Karan Tripathi — 2015-12-01T02:27:51Z

As the consequence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much anticipated visit to the United Kingdom, representatives from stakeholder groups such as government and industry came together at Observers Research Foundation, Delhi, to deliberate upon various facets of India-UK Technology Partnership.

The spectrum of gathering had representation from companies such as Rolce Royce and ADS as well as from British High Commission and Indian Administration. The meeting was preceded by an informal tea session where all the dignitaries had one-to-one conversations on topics like Digital India, Make in India and investment in defence sector.

Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

The conference was commenced by the opening address of Amitabh Kant, a man who’s associated with the Central Government on the Make in India project. The entire address of Mr Kant was centred on the scheme of Make in India and by presenting a series of facts he also highlighted the areas on which both India and UK have to work upon. Following are the certain takeaways from his illustrious address:

When the world has become a barren economic landscape, India is riding on a growth rate of 7.5%. The government, however, wishes for a higher rate of 9%.
In order to make the Make in India scheme a success, the government of India is taking various steps such as making India a simpler place to do business by removing archaic and restricting laws, digitization of governance, rigorous opening up of the economy, integrating itself with the global market supply chain and clearance of 15 sectors where conditions were involved.
The government is also pushing for almost 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in sectors such as construction and infrastructure and increasing the bar for Railways as well. There’s also a rise in number of young and upcoming entrepreneurs in India who are attracting investments from foreign players such as Softbank.
India is becoming a hub for global Research & Development (R&D) as many companies are setting up their R&D headquarters at Hyderabad and Bangalore.
The total amount of FDI inflow from UK is $22.56 billion. The major contributors to this figure are HSBC, Standard Chartered, Vodafone, Barclays, Uniliver, etc. This amount accounts to 8.5% of total inflows to India.
The most concerning figure is the share of India in the total outflows of the UK to the world which stands at a meagre rate of 1.19%. On the other hand 74% of FDI projects in UK are by Indian companies such as Tata, Ranbaxy, etc. These companies have also contributed a lot in improving the employment rate of UK. Moreover, India’s exports to UK are higher than its imports.
PM Modi’s visit to the United Kingdom led to the meeting of CEOs from both sides. The issues raised by CEOs from UK included consistency and predictability of India’s tax regime (with reference to Vodafone case) while Indian CEO’s highlighted problems in UK’s visa regime.
London should play a pivotal role in providing investment in infrastructure. In addition to this, long term lending is required railways and roadways. In pursuing the given policy, more awards are rolled out by the railways then the last several years. Indian banks have raised their resources through Rupee bonds.
Both countries are working towards realising National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF) which will be a joint partnership between NIIF and UK government. India, on the other hand, shall create fastrack mechanism to expedite the clearances of UK projects.
New involvements in the field of design, patents and innovations are also desired. India is looking forward to have a technological collaboration with London which is the finance sector of the world.

After his address, a question was extended to him by one of the panellists which queried about UK investment in defense sector. Mr Kant replied to this question by saying that India is increasingly trying to ease out routes to defence FDI. He said that 16 articles from licensing route have been taken out and the government of India is working on defense procurement policy. He concluded his answer by quoting various defense collaborations between Indian companies with foreign players such as that of Tata and Boeing.

Glenn Kelly, Department of Security, British High Commission

Mr. Kelly continued the proceedings with an address which was focussed on government’s approach towards India-UK Technological Partnership. He highlighted British departments such as UK Trade, Investment, Defense and Security Organisation which is a joint venture between Foreign and Commonwealth office and Department for Business. He talked about certain figures which explained UK’s defense export policy. According to his address, UK’s share in defense exports is 10 billion pounds which is 2nd largest in the world and its security exports stand at 6 billion which is 6th largest in the world.

Mr. Kelly saw PM Modi’s visit to UK as a good move towards defense diplomacy and bilateral defense relations. He talked about UK defense and technology R&D departments such as DSTL and Qinet which handle research on defense matters too sensitive to do in private sector. He also mentioned that UK defense and security industry is a home to world’s largest aerospace sector. There are more UK defense SMEs than France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway combined. He also highlighted that India is not an easy place to attract defense SMEs.

Mr. Kelly also talked about various government initiatives that deal with security exports to India. UK government has created a Triple Ministerial Lock on refusal especially for India. Till now, only 0.5% of export license requests have been refused. He also mentioned the TEPIDOIL model of security exports which deals with bilateral military collaboration for training equipment, personnel, information, doctrine, organisation, infrastructure and logistics. Mr Kelly constantly emphasised on military to military links and enabling genuine strategic engagement between two countries.

Mr. Kelly concluded his address by highlighting certain Technical/Commercial issues related to India-UK partnership:

FDI cap: Management of technology is too expensive to develop.
Protection of Intellectual Property: Indigenisation of reverse engineering.
No Cost No Commitment (NCNC) Trials – risk of developing technology for a trial that could be cancelled.

L1: Not conducive to developing latest technology

Mr. Kelly’s address posed a very significant question to the panel: Is there a need for a new Government to Government (G2G) partnership on defense technology or is it the responsibility of UK and Indian industries?

Steven Gillard, Vice President, Defence Customer Business - India at Rolls-Royce

Mr Gillard, who was earlier a bureaucrat at UK Ministry of Defense, started his address by highlighting uniqueness in India-UK defense security relationship. He said that Indian culture is engrained in British conscience so much so that it helps businessmen to go an extra mile for India. By citing the example of Rolce Royce, he mentioned that the company’s engines have been made in India for past 16 years which empowers the engineers from places like Bangalore. According to Mr Gillard, the uniqueness of India-UK defense security relationship lies in our willingness and ability to participate in Make in India campaign.

Mr Gillard asked everyone on the panel to share their “breakfast table” thoughts on this issue. He assured that UK entrepreneurs are willing to invest in India. He also deliberated the idea of not only technology transfer but also capability transfer. Capability transfer is related with the notion of self reliance.

Panel Discussion

After the address of three keynote speakers, the agenda was opened up for a general panel discussion. This discussion went for almost 40 minutes where all the dignitaries contributed their perspectives, questioned the points laid down by keynote speakers and tried to come up with an alternative mechanism.

The discussion started with the ORF representative highlighting the presence of rampant corruption in defense and security deals for the support of which he quoted the example of Bofors. This led to many panellists believe that Government to Government deals should be encouraged as they work really well, there’s more transparency and there aren’t many blockades.

One of the panellists questions the address of Mr Kelly by saying that NCNC trials are not a technological issue but a procurement issue. There are so many capabilities but facts on grounds are miserable (quoting the figure indicating India’s share in total UK outflows from Mr Kant’s speech). Mr Kelly’s approach was also questioned on the fact that UK defense industry has been very aerospace centric. Mr Kelly replied to this question by saying that UK doesn’t own the portions of its own defence industry.

The representative from ADS put forward a caveat saying 1980s was the era of doing business with the Soviets, and then came the Americans and Israelis. UK has been neglected by India’s bilateral defense trade priorities. Other panellists questioned UK’s willingness to be co-dependent and not just co-development in defense R&D sector. The current frustration would be solved only with reforms in our civil and procurement mechanism.

While replying to Mr Gillard, one of the panellists said that co-transferability of technology and capability has to be both ways due to existing geo-strategic relationship. It would be very arrogant for UK to say that it’s a one way street.

The representative from the Indian Navy started his argument by mentioning that in 1960s, 80% of ships in Indian Navy were from UK. He further said that UK has to leave the mercantile approach at work with India through Make in India mechanism. Mr Gillard replied to this argument by saying that due to Section 17 of Defense Procurement Policy of India, UK SMEs are struggling to enter Indian markets. He said that UK entrepreneurs need to be told that India is a long term market and there’s a lack of government support.

In the end, Mr Kelly and Mr Gillard assured Indian representatives that UK defense sector is very much willing to collaborate with India and investment in Indian defense and security sector will not only be pushed through DRDO but also through SMEs on both sides.

On this note, the meeting was concluded and all the dignitaries proceeded for lunch and continued their personal interactions and clarifications.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orf-india-uk-technology-partnership-conference

Odia Wikimedia community meetup at Cuttack

Sailesh Patnaik — 2015-12-29T12:07:56Z

Odia Wikimedians are planning to gather in Cuttack and discuss about future project ideas for the community.

Agenda:

Discussion about existing projects and planning for future
Implementing the community's plans
Responsibilities of CIS-A2K's new program Associate Sailesh Patnaik
Restarting monthly meetup plans in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar

शंभर वर्षांपूर्वीच्या पुस्तकांचे होणार डिजिटायझेशन

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:47:20Z

Lokmat (newspaper) covered Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha's Project news.

Read the original article in Lokmat here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/93690292d930-93593094d93793e90292a94293094d93594091a94d92f93e-92a94193894d92491593e90291a947-93994b92393e930-92193f91c93f91f93e92f91d947936928

Talk on bringing 1000 books about the culture of Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia

subha — 2020-05-02T16:39:00Z

Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, a Pune based non-profit that was founded in Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and colleagues in 1894, has recently announced to digitise their 1000 volumes of books centred around Peshwa culture. A discussion about digitising these books and making them available online on Marathi Wikisource is being organised on December 1 at the Energy Resources Institute(TERI), Bengaluru. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of MGS will be addressing this talk.

Books published by Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) vastly cover the Peshwa culture of Maharashtra apart from many other significant aspects of the history of Maharashtra. The books will be digitised on the Marathi-language Wikisource (mr.wikisource.org) by the Marathi Wikimedia community. Marathi Wikisource is a sister project of Marathi Wikipedia and is a free online Marathi-language library. Started in 2012, it currently houses about 800 volumes of Marathi books.

MGS was founded in Pune by Justice M. G. Ranade, Dr. Ramkrishna Bhandarkar and Lokamanya Tilak in 1894. Earlier known Deccan Vernacular Translation Society, it was renamed as Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha in 1948. The Society has a collection of invaluable literary treasure like 100 yrs old rare literary work and manuscripts, Peshwa diaries and records, Justice Ranade's correspondence, 30 thesis on various subjects and many different domains. These collections make the institution a great place for study and research. Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently at Pune, MGS donated 1000 books for Marathi Wikisource so that the books could be digitised and be made available for millions of Marathi readers. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of the organisation who will be addressing the talk that is being organised by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia

Open Source India 2015

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:46:46Z

The twelfth Open Source India event organized by EFY Group was held at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore on November 19 and 20, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the event for the first day.

Open Source India (OSI) is the premierconference in Asia targeted at nurturing and promoting the Open Source ecosystem in the subcontinent. Started as LinuxAsia in 2004, OSI has been at the helm of bringing together the Open Source industry and the community in the last 11 years. The 12th edition of OSI this year aimed to take this event a notch higher by focusing on the Open Source ecosystem in Asia, and more specifically, in India.

For more information see the brochure of the event. Schedule of the event on Day 1 here and Schedule of the event on Day 2 here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-source-india-2015

Community Discussion for Making Tulu Wikipedia Live

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:45:54Z

CIS-A2K Programme Officer Rahmanuddin Shaik visited Mangalore on October 28 and 29 and again on November 5 and 6, 2015. During his visit he interacted with Wikipedians for making the Tulu Wikipedia live.

There were discussions on translations of system messages that appear on Wikipedia interface, creating templates pages and adding images. Around 79 strings were translated on Translatewiki.net, the community project for MediaWiki localization, and about 500 strings were approved. This event was organised at Tulu Bhavana, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Akademy. The director of the institution was part of the meeting who agreed for the following:

To relicense a lower resolution cover pages, and metadata of their 157 volumes of books under Creative Commons licenses. This will bring in those many articles on Tulu Wikipedia.
To give detailed information of winners of Tulu Sahitya Akademy award winners (this was being given away across 6 disciplines from 1993 onwards), which would add close to 100 biography articles on Tulu Wikipedia.

A possibility of CIS-A2K and Tulu Sahitya Akademy collaboration was also discussed briefly. Vishwanatha Badikana was there throughout these talks and he would be the contact person for further work.

Rahmanuddin was also invited to be a part of the World Konkani Literature festival where he spoke briefly about Konkani Wikipedia to the gathering.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live

Second Meeting of the Expert Committee on WIPO

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T08:27:54Z

The second meeting of the Expert Committee on WIPO was held in the Committee Room (6th floor) of Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi on November 2, 2015. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Special Secretary (I&B). Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha attended the meeting.

Download the minutes of the first meeting here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/second-meeting-of-the-expert-committee-on-wipo

International Conference on Evolving Regime in Intellectual Property Protection

praskrishna — 2015-11-29T08:11:52Z

Jawaharlal Nehru University organized a conference from 2 to 4 November 2015 at its campus in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash was a speaker in the session "IP Enforcement".

Agenda

Time	Session	Theme	Speaker
Day 1: 2nd November, 2015
8:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-11:00	Inaugural session		Praveen Jha
			MR Murthy
			Sakthivel Selvaraj
			K.M. Gopakumar
11:00-11:15	Tea
11:15-13:00	Plenary 1	Twenty Years of TRIPS Implementation	Chair: D G Shah
			OPPI
			Amit Sengupta
			Biswajit Dhar
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:45	Parallel session 1a	TRIPS flexibilities	Chair: Mira Shiva
			Leena Menghaney
			Aditi Kahtri
			Shivani
			Prabhat Kuamr Saha
			Priyanka Kumari
			Krutika Gaur
			Chandan Wadhwa
	Parallel session 1b	Multinational Enterprises and Access to Medicines	Chair: Bruno Woeren
			Reji Joseph
			Suraksha Gupta
			Swadhin Mondal
			Dr. Jafar K
			Dr KD Raju
			Apurva Agarwal
			Aman Shukla
	Parallel session 1C	Lightening presentations 1	Chairs: Muraleedhran VR & Arun Nair
			T.M.Vasuprada
			Aakriti Jain
			Uttam Bhattacharya
			Soumya Sinha
			Azamat Ali
			Nidhi Saxena
			Aishwarya Khanna
			Mayank Kapila
			Krishna Kumar Verma
			Nidhi Nair
			Ravindra Chingale
			Smita Sahu
15:45-16:00	Tea
16:00-17:30	Plenary 2	TRIPS Plus	Chair: Chandani Raina
			Kajal Bhardwaj
			Nirmalya Syam
			D.G. Shah
			Alka Mehta
			Pranesh Prakash

Day 2: 3rd November, 2015
10:00-11:30	Plenary 3	IP and Access to Medicines	Chair: Manisha Shridhar
			Sakthivel Selvaraj
			Amit Sengupta
			Leena Menghaney

11:30-11:45	Tea
11:45-13:15	Parallel session 2a	Patent Pools and Voluntary Licensing	Chair: Ravi Duggal
			Shailey Gupta
			Kajal Bhardwaj
			Abhishek Tripathi
			Garima Singh
			Achyut Shankar Shukla
			Renuka PP
	Parallel session 2b	IP and Access to knowledge	Chair: T.C. James
			Zakir Thomas
			Saradindu Bhaduri
			Jayanta Ghosh
			Dr Kavitha Chalakkal
			Harilal Madhavan
			Amiya Kumar Pati
	Parallel Session 2c	Lightening presentations 2	Chair: Preeti Kumar and Dinesh Abrol
			Amritha Gunasekaran
			Aishwarya Dhancholia
			Deepesh Raj
			Aqa Raza
			Nikhil Kashyap
			Swapan Manna
			Veer Mayank
			Ganesh Mishra
			Harsh Kankane
			Rakhee Gupta
			Ashit Kumar Srivastava
			Yashwant Kumar Yash
			C.Prashanthi
13:25-14:15	Lunch			Presenter 3
14:15-16:00	Parallel session 3a	TRIPS and Agriculture	Chair: R.C. Aggarwal
			Shalini Bhutani
			Kumar Ankit
			Krishna Ravi Srinivas
			Dr.S.Elumalai
			Amit Singh
			Nidhi singh
			Anna David Thottappilly
			Rohit Moonka
	Parallel session 3b	IP enforcement	Chair: Madhukar Sinha
			Yogesh Pai
			Prashant Sugthan
			Pranesh Prakash
			Amjad Ali
			Abhilosh Chaturvedi
			Shirin Syed
			Indrani Barpujari
	Parallel session 3c	Lightening presentations 3	Chair: K.M. Gopakumar and Kajal Bhardwaj
			Nalini Kaushik
			Gouri Saxena
			Deepali Vashist
			Satatya Anand
			Kunjal Arora
			Aditya Mishra
			Aditya Amar
			Shivam Kumar
			Nidhi Singh
			Shova Devi
			Rashmi Kumari /Subir Kumar
16:00-16:15	Tea
16:15-17:30	Plenary 4	India's IP Policy	Chair: Rajeev Kher
			Carlos Correa
			Manisha Shridhar
			Dinesh Abrol
			Anand Grover
Day 3: 4th November, 2015
9:00-10:15		Lightening presentations 4	Chair: V.G. Hegre and Keerti Pradhan
			Alok Ranjan
			Jupi Gogoi
			Ruchika Sharma
			Divya Monga
			Atul Sharma
			Charu Srivastava
			Ravi Parupalli
			Prabhakar Maurya
10:15-11:30	Plenary 5	TRIPS and Sustainable Development Goals	Chair: Biswajit Dhar
			T.C. James
			K.M. Gopakumar
			Ranja Sengupta
11:30-11:45	Tea
11:24-12:30	Plenary 6	The way forward…	Chair: Muchkund Dubey
			B.S. Chimni (tbc)
			Jayant Dasgupta
			Carlos M. Correa
12:30-13:00	Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks
13:00 onwards	Lunch

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/international-conference-on-evolving-regime-in-intellectual-property-protection

मराठी पुस्तके 'विकिस्रोत' ला, सकाळ

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:44:52Z

Marathi Wikipedia media coverage in Sakaal newspaper.

Scanned version of the article published in Sakaal on October 28, 2015:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93093e920940-92a94193894d924915947-93593f91593f93894d93094b924-93293e-93891593e933-1

महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक संस्थेमधील एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाईन

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:57:00Z

Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Saamna.

A scanned version of the article published in Saamna on October 30 is below:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93890293894d92594792e927940932-90f915-93991c93e930-91794d930902925-91192893293e908928

'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:55:38Z

Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Maharashtra Times.

Scanned version of the media coverage below:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91794d93090292594b92494d92494791c915-93994b92393e930-93294b91593e92d93f92e941916-92e93993e93093e93794d91f94d930-91f93e90892e94d938

भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के मानक बनाने के लिए चेन्नई में हुआ तीसरा फ्यूल जिल्‍ट

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:53:31Z

“मूसलाधार बारिश से जूझ रही चेन्नई में तीसरा फ़्यूल ज़िल्ट कॉन्फरेंस 2015 सफलतापूर्वक रविवार 22 नवंबर को संपन्न हुआ। भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के लिए मानक भाषाई संसाधन और औज़ार बनाने में पिछले सात सालों से जुटी फ़्यूल परियोजना के द्वारा 2013 में आरंभ किए गए इस सम्मेलन के प्रायोजक और आयोजक दुनिया की जानी-मानी कंपनियां मोज़िला, सी-डैक और रेड हैट हैं। इसके पहले के दोनों सम्मेलन पुणे में आयोजित किए गए थे। यह सम्मेलन लोकलाइजेशन क्षेत्र का ओपन सोर्स का सबसे बड़ा सम्मेलन है।”

The article was published in Outlook on November 26, 2015.

तीन दिवसीय यह सम्मेलन 20 नवंबर को चेन्नई के अन्ना विश्वविद्यालय के टैग ऑडिटोरियम में आरंभ हुआ। इसके उद्घाटन सत्र को मोज़िला के लोकलाइजेशन ड्राइवर एक्सेल हेच्ट, आईआईटी मद्रास की प्रोफ़ेसर हेमा मूर्ति, आईआईटी मद्रास के ही हेमचंद्रण कराह और सीडैक के सहायक निदेशक जसजीत सिंह ने संबोधित किया। पहले दिन के शाम के पैनल डिसक्शन में मोज़िला की पेइंग मो और आर्की तथा अवाया के जी. करूणाकर और फ्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के संस्थापक राजेश रंजन के मॉडरेशन में खुली परिचर्चा हुई। पहले दिन के कार्यक्रम में भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग पर काम करने वाले कई जाने-माने विद्वानों ने हिस्सा लिया।

तमिलनाडु के स्थानीय भाषाई तकनीक विशेषज्ञों के अलावा इस सम्मेलन में भारत और नेपाल के विभिन्न भाषा-भाषाई करीब पचास से अधिक लोग उपस्थित हुए। तीन दिवसीय इस सम्मेलन का पहला दिन सभी लोगों के लिए खुला था जबकि अगला दो दिन मोज़िला लोकलाइजेशन हैकाथन का कार्यक्रम चला जिसके लिए सहभागी ख़ास तौर पर आमंत्रित किए गए थे। लोकलाइजेशन स्रोत भाषा से स्थानीय भाषा में किसी उत्पाद को बदलने की पूरी तकनीकी प्रक्रिया को कहा जाता है। इसके अंतर्गत मोज़िला के विभिन्न उत्पादों के लोकलाइजेशन यानी स्थानीयकरण की प्रक्रिया, उसमें सुधार और भविष्य की कार्ययोजना पर विस्तार से चर्चा हुई। पूरे कार्यक्रम का संचालन सी-डैक के तकनीकी अधिकारी चंद्रकांत धूताडमल ने किया।

उद्घाटन सत्र का आरंभ करते हुए फ़्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के संस्थापक राजेश रंजन ने फ़्यूल प्रोजेक्ट के बारे में उपस्थित श्रोताओं को बताया। उन्होंने बताया कि महज सामुदायिक योगदान और कुछ संगठनों की मदद के बदौलत भाषाई संसाधन का यह प्रोजेक्ट दुनिया की भाषाई संसाधन जैसे तकनीकी शब्दावली, स्टाइल गाइड आदि की सबसे बड़ी खुली परियोजना बन गई है। मानक तकनीकी शब्दावली, स्टाइल गाइड, ट्रांसलेशन एसेसमेंट मैट्रिक्स सहित कई महत्वपूर्ण संसाधनों से लैस यह प्रोजेक्ट विश्वव्यापी भाषाई संदर्भ का बड़ा अभिलेख बन गया है। गौरतलब है कि दुनिया की क़रीब 60 भाषाओं के भाषा समुदाय अभी इस परिजोयना से जुड़ी हुई है। मोज़िला के एक्सेल हेच्ट ने भारत में बढ़ रहे इंटरनेट उपयोगकर्ताओं के महत्व को रेखांकित करते हुए बताया कि मोज़िला और इसके खुले मूल्यों की उपस्थिति कितनी इनके लिए कितनी महत्वपूर्ण है। हेमा मूर्ति ने कहा कि अभी भी भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग की स्थिति काफी अच्छी नहीं हुई है और इस क्षेत्र में काफी काम होना बाकी हैं। जसजीत सिंह ने कहा कि कुछ और बड़ी कंपनियों के साथ फ़्यूल का जुड़ाव होना जरूरी है और उन कंपनियों को सामुदायिक रूप से तैयार किए गए संसाधन के महत्व को समझना चाहिए। ‘समानता के चिह्न और डिजिटल मानविकी का विकास’ विषय पर हेमचंद्रण का वक्तव्य बेहद उम्दा रहा। उन्होंने कहा कि डिजिटल मानविकी ने पारंपरिक मानविकी को हैक कर लिया है। उन्होंने कहा कि हमें महज इंटरफेस स्तरीय लोकलाइजेशन से ऊपर उठना चाहिए।

कार्यक्रम में लिब्रेऑफिस के इटालो विग्नोली, हमारा लिनक्स के विकास तारा, इतिहासकार रविकांत और जाने-माने ब्लॉगर रवि रतलामी और कनाडा के अमनदीप सिंह सैनी ने भी अपना वक्तव्य दिया। जहाँ रविकांत ने भाषाई शुद्धतावाद की आलोचना करते हुए सामुदायिक और खुल प्रयासों की उपयोगिता को रेखांकित किया वहीं रतलामी ने आईफोन, एंड्रायड और विंडोज फोन से उदाहरण देते हुए फ़्यूल की अनिवार्यता बताई। अमनदीप ने कनाडा में विभिन्न भाषा-भाषी लोगों के लिए किए गए सरकारी उपायों को बताया और कहा कि कैसे भारत भाषाई एक्सेसिबिलीटी के मामले में पीछे है और इसके कारण यहाँ के लोगों को कितनी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ता है। इटली निवासी इटालो ने ओपन डॉक्यूमेंट फॉर्मेट पर चर्चा की और विकास ने हमारा लिनक्स की गतिविधि पर प्रकाश डाला। भाषाई तकनीक विशेषज्ञ बिराज कर्माकर, प्रवीण ए, शुभाशीष पाणिग्रही, वीथिका मिश्रा, प्रवीण सतपुते, चंदन कुमार, राजू विंदाने सहित कई लोगों ने अपना वक्तव्य दिया।

मोज़िला के एक्सेल हेच्ट, पेइंग मो और आर्की के दिशा-निर्देश में अंतिम दो दिन विभिन्न भाषाओं में काम करने वाले लोगों ने व्यापक परिचर्चा के दौरान कई विषयों पर बातें की और उपस्थित लोगों ने मोज़िला की स्वयंसेवी गतिविधियों के भविष्य की कार्ययोजना बनाई।

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/92d93e93793e908-91590292a94d92f94291f93f902917-915947-92e93e928915-92c92893e928947-915947-93293f90f-91a94792894d928908-92e947902-939941906-92494093893093e-92b94d92f942932-91c93f93294d200d91f

Dr. Pavanaja Featured in Vijayavani

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:49:55Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was invited to the office of Vijayavani, Kannada daily. Vijayavani runs a programme in which a celebrity will be invited to their office and have informal discussions with them. Later a lead article based on that discussions will be generated. The article which featured Dr. Pavanaja was published on November 16, 2015.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani

Tulu Wikipedia Tutorial

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:50:52Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja trained the people involved in the creation of the videos.

Tutorial video on starting with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubation:

Tutorial video explaining how to start with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubator:

Tutorial video explaining how to add new article to Tulu Wikipedia:

Tutorial video explaining how to type in Tulu Wikipedia:

Tutorial video explaining how to format articles in Tulu Wikipedia:

The people behind these videos:

Prof. Vishwanatha Badikana for Script
Lasya Shetty for Voice
Abhishek Shetty, Saarang Community radio at St Aloysius College Mangaluru for Audio Recording
Soundarya Shetty for Mixing and Editing
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja for Conception, Direction, Mixing and Editing

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial

India - Europe Conference on Building a Sustainable IPR - ICT Ecosystem for Promoting Innovation

praskrishna — 2015-12-22T02:48:04Z

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune organized a one-day conference in Bangalore on November 20, 2015. Rohini Lakshané attended this event.

Intellectual property is at the core of business ventures and critical to successfully compete internationally. However, skills to commercialize technological innovations remain a crucial impediment to innovative entrepreneurs and innovators aspiring to become world leaders in global ICTE markets. A robust IPR-ICT ecosystem can help capitalize on the growth-enhancing effects of innovation vis-à-vis ICTE. In order to fulfill the aspiration of its stakeholders, the IPR-ICT ecosystem has to be global in geographic scope, spearhead shaping appropriate framework conditions for innovation and assist in charting out policy roadmaps for sustainable and inclusive growth.

With this in mind Deity and EPO is working together in developing a close cooperation to promote IPR in ICTE domain, especially with respect to sharing of best practices and procedures for filing and processing ICTE patents in India and Europe by Indian and European firms.

The one day conference on “India-Europe Conference on Building a Sustainable IPR-ICT Ecosystem for Promoting Innovation” organised by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier R&D organisation, aims to address the challenges in building a sustainable global IPR-ICT ecosystem, discuss IP policy issues relevant to Indian and European ICTE industries and concord on various nuances of patenting technology and activities with an ICTE perspective.

Sessions

Parallel 1

11.00 - 13.00: Challenges and Opportunities in Building a Sustainable Global IPR Ecosystem for Promotion of Innovation in ICTE Sector
14.00 - 15.30: IPR Policy Perspective for Promoting Innovation -India and Europe

Parallel 2

14.00 - 15.30: Standard Essential Patent Issues and Perspective with regard to ICTE
15.45 - 17.15: Patent Information and Analysis: A Tool for Building Business Strategies

For more information and brochure of the event, visit this website.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/india-europe-conference-on-building-a-sustainable-ipr-ict-ecosystem-for-promoting-innovation