The Centre for Internet and Society
https://cis-india.org
These are the search results for the query, showing results 91 to 105.
Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0393.jpg
<b>Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0393.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0393.jpg</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-10-31T09:38:40ZImageDr. Andrew Lynn
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0384.jpg
<b>Dr. Andrew Lynn</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0384.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0384.jpg</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-10-31T09:36:55ZImageDr. Zakir Thomas
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0388.jpg
<b></b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0388.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0388.jpg</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-10-31T09:33:44ZImageProf. Subbiah Arunachalam
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0395.jpg
<b></b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0395.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0395.jpg</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-10-31T09:31:27ZImageOpen Access Day celebrated in India
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/open-access-day-celebrated-in-india
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance co-organised joint celebrations of Open Access Day in Jamia Millia Islamia campus on the 14th of October 2008. Around 50 people attended the event from different departments in Jamia there were also some participants from the Indian Linux Users Group. CIS also published an Open Access flyer on this day featuring quotations from Sam Pitroda, MS Swaminathan, Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Frederick Noronha, Barbara Kirsop and Samir Brahmachari.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0395.jpg/image_mini" alt="Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam" class="image-left" title="Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam" />Speaking at Tagore Hall at Jamia Millia
Islamia, Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, pointed out that “there are
over 25,000 scientific journals published in the world today but even
the richest university in India cannot afford to subscribe to more
than 1,200 journals. It is as though, Indian scientists and students
are competing in a race with their legs bound.” Prof. Arunachalam
called upon the student community to lobby for Open Access mandates
for research outputs funded by tax-payers.Open Access is the principle that
publicly funded research should be freely accessible online,
immediately after publication. October 14, 2008 was the world’s
first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this Day are SPARC
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for
FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science, USA. According to the
Directory of Open Access Journals – India publishes 105 Open Access
journals.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0388.jpg/image_mini" alt="Dr. Zakir Thomas" class="image-left" title="Dr. Zakir Thomas" />Speaking at the celebrations at Jamia, Dr. Zakir Thomas of
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) traced the
limited historical role that IPR has played in the development for
drugs for Tuberculosis. Dr. Thomas is the project director of Open
Source Drug Discovery (OSDD), a project of CSIR. The government of
India has already committed Rs. 150 crores to the OSDD project which
is targeting neglected diseases from developing countries. Dr. Thomas
also introduced the OSDD project and spoke about alternative systems
of incentives that are more appropriate in the academic community
such as attribution, citation and collaboration – all closely
linked career growth in an academic or university context.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0384.jpg/image_mini" alt="Dr. Andrew Lynn" class="image-left" title="Dr. Andrew Lynn" />Dr. Lynn, a professor at the Department
of Bio-informatics at JNU and Dr. Bhardwaj Scientist CSIR introduced
the OSDD web platform and pointed out to various improvements over
existing methods of research. While in peer-reviewed papers readers
are only provided with reference number when experiments are
discussed – on the OSDD platform readers can access the complete
experiment details, including data even for failed experiments. This
is critical in reducing wastage of valuable resources and efforts in
attempting to re-invent the wheel.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/uploads/dsc_0393.jpg/image_mini" alt="Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj" class="image-left" title="Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj" />Dr. Bhardwaj pointed out that she
was already collaborating with students from the Jamia Millia Islamia
campus on her projects hosted on OSDD. She said that the open access
and open source models gives rise to many new collaborations both at
the local and international level. Dr. Bhardwaj also announced that
two CSIR open access journals were being launched by Dr. Samir
Brahmachari - Director General on the occasion of World Open Access
day.</p>
<p>Prof. Arif Ali, Head Dept. of
Bio-Technology, Jamia Milia Islamia who presided over the meeting
spoke of the challenges faced by faculty and students in the Indian
context. Some international journals demand Rs. 40,000 from the
authors in spite of assigning copyright. He predicted that the open
access movement will lead to more Indian authors being published and
cited. He also hoped that open access would become a norm instead of
a novelty.</p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/open-access-day/open%20access%20day%20flyer.pdf" class="internal-link" title="Open Access Day Flyer">Download Open Access Flyer</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/open-access-day-celebrated-in-india'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/open-access-day-celebrated-in-india</a>
</p>
No publishersunilOpen Access2011-08-18T05:06:01ZBlog EntryA2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a2k3-panel-xi-open-access-to-science-and-research
<b>Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.</b>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://a2k3.org/2008/09/panel-xi-open-access-to-science-and-research/#more-184">Original Article on A2K3 website</a></p>
<a href="https://cis-india.org/../../open-access/a2k3/Subbiah%20Arunachalam%20-%20Why%20Do%20We%20Need%20Open%20Access%20to%20Science" class="internal-link" title="Why Do We Need Open Access to Science?: A Developing Country Perspective">Download Subbiah Arunachalam's Paper</a>
<div> </div>
<div>Audio file of Session on Open Access to Science and Research (<a href="https://cis-india.org/../../open-access/a2k3/Open%20Access%20to%20Science%20and%20Research.ogg" class="external-link">Ogg</a>, MP3)<br />
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and
free of unnecessary copyright and licensing restrictions. Made possible
by the internet and author consent, OA supports wider and faster access
to knowledge. This panel featured <a href="http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/%7Echan/">Leslie Chan</a>, of the University of Toronto; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbiah_Arunachalam">Subbiah Arunachalam</a> of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and Global Knowledge Partnership; <a href="http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/EveGray">Eve Gray</a> of the Centre for Educational Technology, UCT; and <a href="http://wikis.bellanet.org/asia-commons/index.php/D._K._Sahu">DK Sahu</a> of Medknow Publications Pvt. Ltd. <a href="http://wikis.bellanet.org/asia-commons/index.php/D._K._Sahu">Peter Suber</a> from the Yale Information Society Project and SPARC moderated this panel.</p>
<p><span id="more-184"></span></p>
<p> It’s a distant dream for most kinds of literature, where authors
are unwilling to give up the revenue they currently earn from
publishers. But it’s growing quickly for scholarly journal articles,
where journals don’t pay for articles and authors write for impact, not
for money. The result is a revolutionary opportunity to accelerate
research and share knowledge. OA is especially important for
researchers and medical practitioners in developing countries, where
access to knowledge has been sharply reduced by four decades of
fast-rising journal prices.</p>
<p>This panel will examine what universities and governments can do to
promote OA, with a special focus on medical research and health
information. Among the models discussed will be peer-reviewed OA
journals, OA repositories, the WHO’s Health InterNetwork Access to
Research Initiative (HINARI), and the new policy from the U.S. National
Institutes of Health requiring NIH-funded researchers to deposit their
peer-reviewed manuscripts in an OA repository.</p>
<p>The questions to be addressed will include:</p>
<ol><li> How do access barriers slow research in developing countries? How does OA remove those barriers?</li><li>What can universities do to promote OA?</li><li>What can governments, and public funding agencies, do to promote OA?</li><li>What special challenges do developing countries face in providing OA?</li><li>What are some concrete examples of successful OA policies and projects in developing countries?</li><li>Why is OA a critical issue for policy-makers concerned with public health, scientific innovation, and higher education?</li><li>How does OA accelerate the advance and spread of knowledge in medicine as well as in other disciplines?</li><li>How can OA promote the work of researchers in developing and transitional countries, both as readers and as authors?</li></ol>
<h3>
<strong>PETER SUBER</strong><br /></h3>
<ol><li>
OA literature is digital, online, free of charge, free of needless copyright</li><li>
OA is compatible with peer review, copyright, revenue and profit, print, preservation, prestige</li><li>
3622 peer-reviewed OA journals, 1220 OA repositories, 22 university
OA mandates (15 countries), 27 funding agencies OA mandates (14
countries)</li><li>
Part of the problem: journal prices have risen 4 times faser than
inflation since mid-1980s. Indian institute of science is the best
funded research library in india providing access to 10600 serials.</li><li>
Harvard has 98990</li><li>
Yale has 73900</li><li>
Average ARL library = 50,566</li><li>
U of Witwatersrand = 29,309</li><li>U of Malawi = 17000 ejournals, 95 print</li><li>
The case for OA is especially strong for publicly funded research, medical research, research from developing countries</li></ol>
<h3><strong>SUBBIAH ARUNACHALAM</strong></h3>
<ol><li>
Why do we needopen access to science?</li><li>
Science as Knowledge commons</li><li>
Created by researchers, a communal activity, science is about sharing, internet has opened new opportunities</li><li>
Primary goal of science is the creation of new knowledge for the benefit of humanity</li><li>
Emergence of open access – seeks to restore knowledge commons to creators. Movement, like everything else, is uneven</li><li>
Physicists vs. chemists</li><li>
UK, Netherlands and USA – have had many more successes</li><li>
Brazil – doing very well – but China and India are not doing so well with open access</li><li>
Restore the knowledge commons is to the community</li><li>
This movement is like any other movement which is uneven</li><li>Developments in India</li>
<ol><li>3.1% papers in chemical abstracts</li><li>30,000 papers a year indexed in SCI</li><li>Problems of Access and Visibility</li></ol>
<li>New Developments:</li>
<ol><li>Consortia – able to provide a lot of journals</li><li>open courseware</li><li>arXiv</li></ol>
<li>Problems: papers that are published are put in inaccessible journals,
and people in global South laboratories would be unable to access this
knowledge. The Government gives the money but the research then ends up
flying out</li><li>The policy front:</li>
<ol><li>Individual efforts</li><li>National Knowledge Commission has recommended OA</li><li>Number of institutional repositories</li><li>Need advocacy and training programmes</li><li>Action missing from key players</li></ol>
<li>Some individuals are doing a great job and putting all their materials online</li><li>Medical information and developing countries</li>
<ol><li>No nation can afford to be without access to S&T research capacity</li><li>Neglected diseases are not a priority for pharmaceutical companies</li><li>HINARI – any country that has per capita less than $1000 is eligible</li></ol>
</ol>
<h3><strong>DK SAHU</strong><br /></h3>
<ol><li>
Infectious diseases (chikungunya goes Italian)</li><li>
Non-infectious diseases (india becoming global hub for diabetes)</li><li>
Industry effects (how safe are clinical trials)</li><li>
Several examples (such as MedKnow, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine) of free access to no-fee journals.</li><li>
A journal from India has the most visits from London</li><li>
A journal called International Journal of Shoulder Surgery but visitors are from Melbourne</li><li>
More original research articles, 40+ articles in 2005 vs. 160+
articles in 2008 in IJU, more issues per year for journals, check on
scientific misconduct, international recognition (11 journals in SCI in
2 years)</li><li>
Going online increases citations – this is an open access advantage</li><li>
Scientific output of new economies: medicine</li><li>
Open access publishing is not alone sufficient – there are
disappearing journals. Commercial publishers are taking over, there is
a lack of continuity, non-interoperability/archiving</li><li>
20-80 phenomenon (majority of journals are not OA)</li><li>
Local journals are not preferred (high IF journals)</li></ol>
<h3><strong>LESLIE CHAN</strong></h3>
<ol><li>
Role of Universities and Researchers</li><li>
You need citations in order to advance in academia – if your papers
get picked up and ripple throughout the research arena. What about
policy impact?</li><li>
“Impact factor” is evil. Open access was meant to counter the tyranny
of impact factor, so OA journals should not try to battle it out in
this arena.</li><li>
Issues involve “big science” and “lost science”, research literature
as infrastructure, integrating the gold and green roads to open access.</li><li>
Institutional repositories and open access journals</li><li>
There’s a lot of Big Science that costs a lot of money (like LHC)</li><li>
But we have another big hole – the 10-90Gap. 10% of the global health
research spending is allocated to diseases affecting 90% of the
population</li><li>
The G8 countries account for 85% of most cited articles indexed in ISI</li><li>
The other 126 countries account for 2.5%</li><li>
How much of these journals are relevant in terms of content?</li><li>
We are operating with a dominant model of knowledge dissemination from the Center to the Periphery</li><li>
We end up having “lost science” in the developing world because of that knowledge</li><li>
Perpetuate the cycle of knowledge poverty in this way</li><li>
African countries need to have in place appropriate mechanisms and
infrastructure for training and exploitation of knowledge. This will
enable them to make meaningful evidence based policy that pertains to
local needs</li><li>
Researchers in developing countries ranked access to subscription-based journals as one of their most pressing problems</li><li>
HINARI: health sciences</li>
<ol><li>108 countries, 1043 institutions, 5000 journals</li><li>Collaboration of >45 publishers: free or reduced-cost access to journals for developing countries</li><li>Others: eIFL.net, AGORA: agricultural sciences, OERE: environmental sciences, PERI</li><li>Dissemination through information philanthropy. http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcp/1001/lcp100109.html</li></ol>
<li>Open access: the solution to the “lost science”</li><li>Two routes to Open Access (OA) – open access journals and respositories</li><li>African health sciences: two years ago there was a n article
published in this journal and authors found that over 50% of these
drugs were substandard or fake. This got the local newspaper, and then
BBC, and then other researchers started looking at it</li><li>Open Access repositories:</li><li>Institutionally-based (universities, etc) or subject-based (e.g. PubMet Central, arXiv.org)</li><li>Collect copies of articles published by the institutions researchers</li><li>Researchers themselves deposit knowledge</li><li>Benefits for authors (research output instantly accessible for all (higher impact)</li><li>Research output of international research community accessible to author</li><li>Partnerships/collaborative projects develop as a result</li><li>Career prospects advanced – publications noted by authorities</li><li>Opportunities for new research discoveries, data mining etc</li><li>Alternative impact assessment</li><li>Benefits for funding bodies: what has been discovered with our financial support? Was it a good investment?</li><li>Researchers have a moral and intellectual obligation to ensure that their research is accessible</li><li>Universities share a common goal and public mission advancement of knowledge for the betterment of human kind</li><li>Open access is key to the MDG</li></ol>
<h3><strong>EVE GRAY</strong></h3>
<ol><li>
When we talk about open access, we talk about change and change delivery.</li><li>It’s not just intellectual property and copyright issues, but values,
cultures, systems, practices, everything that underlie the process
moving towards scientific research</li><li>We faced the biggest problem in facing change – we’ve seen a massive
overhaul, of transformative reports, of leveraging the country into a
different direction. Undoing the damage of apartheid and colonialism</li><li>What is meant by international? What is meant by local?</li><li>African knowledge for Africa: we need to rejuvenate, regenerate our own knowledge</li><li>SA: first heart transplant in the world. Have their own vaccines. Operate as a leading scientific country</li><li>Growing international competitiveness – publication is perceived as a
matter of journal articles in international journals. Little or no
support for publication in nationally-based publications</li><li>Much research output in grey literature, not easily findable or accessible</li><li>The Medicines and Related Substances Control Act, 2001</li><li>Research has to address the burning economic issues of a country</li><li>Things are changing…slowly</li><li>Support for open access publications</li><li>What needs to be done – open access journals are necessary.</li><li>Changing values and promotion systems – we have to somehow pick up on
the vision of that vibrant African dance movement, translate this
feeling</li><li>Providing support for publication efforts</li><li>Expand the range of publication outputs</li><li>Ensuring the social impact of research</li><li>There is a huge amount of research being pumped out and being printed out by NGOs</li><li>Great literature is almost inaccessible in universities</li><li>Could not access African journals – no access from their own countries or neighboring countries</li><li>Electric Book Works has manuals for health-care workers – manuals are very high-quality, out of University of Cape Town</li><li>Often forgotten that science information is necessary to trickle
down, if everything is online, we can get things to trickle down</li><li>Harvard said: it is our duty to disseminate our research. Stanford:
Caroline Handy – when you publish research, research for community use
is part of the duty</li></ol>
</div>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a2k3-panel-xi-open-access-to-science-and-research'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a2k3-panel-xi-open-access-to-science-and-research</a>
</p>
No publishersunilOpen Access2011-08-18T05:07:56ZBlog EntryEssay Competition for Software Freedom Day
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/essay-competition-for-software-freedom-day
<b>The Free Software Users Group of Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration organise an essay competition for schools and colleges in Bangalore on the topic of "Software Freedom"</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/essay-competition-for-software-freedom-day'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/essay-competition-for-software-freedom-day</a>
</p>
No publishersunilFLOSS2011-08-18T05:02:02ZBlog EntryAgenda
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/agenda
<b>The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, jointly organise the first Open Access Day on the 14th of October 2008 at Tagore Hall, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.</b>
<h3>Agenda</h3>
<table class="plain">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Time <br /></th>
<th>Session</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1400 – 1415</td>
<td>Welcome and Introduction: Prof. Biswajit Das,
Director, Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia
Islamia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> 1415 – 1535</td>
<td>
<p align="left">Chair: Prof. Arif Ali,
Head Dept. of Bio-Technology, Jamia Milia Islamia</p>
<p align="left">Panelists:</p>
<ol><li>
<p align="left">Mr. Zakir Thomas,
Project Director - Open Source Drug Discovery, and Dr. Anshu
Bhardwaj, Scientist, CSIR, New Delhi.</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">Dr. Andrew Lynn,
Professor, Department of Bio-informatics, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">Prof. Subbiah
Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Internet and
Society</p>
</li></ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">1535 – 1600</p>
</td>
<td>
<p align="left">Question and Answer Session</p>
<p align="left">Open Discussion</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">1600 - 1615</p>
</td>
<td>
<p align="left">Vote of thanks and
closure by Sunil Abraham, Director – Policy, Centre for Internet
and Society.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
<td>
<p align="left">End with Tea/Coffee</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<h3 align="left"><strong>Contact Details</strong></h3>
<table><col width="327">
<col width="315">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left"><strong>New Delhi</strong></p>
</td>
<td>
<p align="left"><strong>Bangalore</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">Vibodh Parthasarathi<br />Reader/Associate Professor<br />Centre for Culture, Media and
Governance<br />Nelson Mandela House, Mujib Bagh<br />Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110 025<br />P.: +91 11 26933810/26933842<br />M: +91 9873458688<br />E: <u><a href="mailto:ccmgjmi@gmail.com">ccmgjmi AT gmail.com</a></u><br />W: <u><a href="http://jmi.nic.in/ccmg/index.html">http://jmi.nic.in/ccm</a></u></p>
</td>
<td>
<p align="left">Sunil Abraham<br />Director - Policy<br />Centre for Internet and Society<br />No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers<br />14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560
052<br />P: +91 80 4092 6283 F: +91 80 4114 8130<br />M: +91 9611100817<br />E: <u><a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil AT cis-india.org</a></u><br />W: <u><a href="https://cis-india.org/../">www.cis-india.org</a></u></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p align="left"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<h3 align="left"><strong>Map</strong></h3>
<p align="left"><img class="image-inline" src="CCMG%20Location.jpg/image_large" alt="Map to CCMG" /></p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<h1 class="western"></h1>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/agenda'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/agenda</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-10-13T12:25:59ZPageAbout Open Access Day
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/about-open-access-day
<b></b>
<p> </p>
October 14, 2008 will be
the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this
Day are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of
Science.
<p align="justify">Open Access Day will help
to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including
recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international
higher education community and the general public.</p>
<p align="justify">Open Access<sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"><sup>1</sup></a></sup>
is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw
open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the
unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere,
for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.</p>
<p align="justify">Open Access is the
principle that publicly funded research should be freely accessible
online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more
momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put
their weight behind it.</p>
<p align="justify">The Open Access
philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when the Budapest Open
Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly took root in the
scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative
route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind
costly subscription barriers.</p>
<p align="justify">Today, the OAIster search
engine provides access to 17,799,314 Open Access records from 1015
contributors. According to the Directory of Open Access Journals –
India publishes 105 Open Access journals. Both INSA and IASc have
made their journals open access journals. Indian Institute of Science
has an EPrints repository and it has over 11,000 papers and this
year, the Institute's centenary year, the number is expected to cross
23,000. NIT, Rourkela, has mandated open access to all faculty
research papers. There are about thirty OA institutional repositories
in India today. The IITs and IISc have formed a consortium and are
making their class lectures open access under a project called NPTEL.
These lectures are available in web, video and YouTube formats.</p>
<h1 class="western">About CCMG-JMI</h1>
<p>The Centre seeks to enhance the integration and development of
interdisciplinary research into the media in India and South Asia. To
this end, various programmes envisaged at CCMG will contribute in the
following manner:</p>
<ol><li>
<p>Methodologically, work at the Centre will examine and seek to
develop new approaches both, quantitative and qualitative. This
being a recurrent motif across all thematic rubrics pursued.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Archiving the measurement and analysis of media production,
content and reception takes place in many organisations, but very
little of such data is available to researchers, or is analysed
comparatively. To address this void, the Centre aims to create an
archive of media research data of value to researchers across South
Asia.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Comparative perspectives across disciplines, mediascapes and
regions are of utmost importance to the centre’s body of
objectives. Comparative analyses will require reconciling data based
on differing calibration approaches rooted in, often, contesting
intellectual traditions and policy foundations.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Networking will be structured to aid the regular association
of media scholars and policy analysts from varied, contiguous
disciplines. Equally, the Centre will act as a focal point for
dialogues between social scientists, civil society actors and media
professionals who rarely are able to share a platform.</p>
</li></ol>
<div id="sdfootnote1">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc">1</a>This
section and the next is adapted from the content available at <a class="external-link" href="http://www.openaccessday.org">http://www.openaccessday.org</a></p>
</div>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/about-open-access-day'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/about-open-access-day</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2008-09-21T14:43:16ZPageResponse to the Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/the-response
<b>Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, authored a response to the draft Open Standards Policy document published by the National Informatics Centre,
Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.</b>
<p><span id="parent-fieldname-description" class="kssattr-atfieldname-description kssattr-templateId-widgets/textarea kssattr-macro-textarea-field-view inlineEditable">The National Informatics Centre (NIC),
Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has recently published a <a class="external-link" href="http://egovstandards.gov.in/Policy_Open_Std_review">Draft Policy on Open Standards for eGovernance</a>. Members of the public have been invited to provide feedback to the document. The last date for feedback is 21st November 2008.</span></p>
<p>The Centre for Internet and Society has prepared a draft response to the draft policy. This response letter only deals
with the policy document from the perspective of the global FLOSS
movement. This is not meant to be comprehensive feedback to the
document itself.</p>
<h3><br /></h3>
<h3>Institutional Co-signatories</h3>
<ol><li>Richard Stallman, Founder, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>, USA</li><li>Mishi Choudhary, Partner, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.sflc.org">Software Freedom Law Centre</a>, USA <br /></li><li>Dr. Alvin Marcelo, Director for Southeast Asia, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iosn.net">International Open Source Network</a>, the Philippines <br /></li><li>Lawrence Liang, Founder, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.altlawforum.org">Alternative Law Forum</a>, Bangalore, India<br /></li><li>Dr. G. Nagarjuna, Chaiman, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.gnu.org.in">Free Software Foundation of India</a>, Mumbai, India<br /></li><li>Vinay Sreenivasa, Member, <a class="external-link" href="http://itforchange.net">IT for Change</a>, Bangalore, India <br /></li></ol>
<h3><br /></h3>
<h3>Individual Co-signatories<strong> </strong></h3>
<ol><li>Shahid Akhtar, Founder, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iosn.net">International Open Source Network</a>, Canada</li><li>Denis Jaromil Rojo, Developer, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dyne.org">Dyne</a>, Netherlands<br /></li><li>Raj Mathur, Consultant, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.kandalaya.org">Kandalaya</a>, New Delhi, India<br /></li><li>Marek Tuszynski, Founder, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.tacticaltech.org">Tactical Technology Collective</a>, United Kingdom</li></ol>
<h3><br /></h3>
<h3>Text <br /></h3>
<p>Dear Sir or Madam,</p>
<p>The government had done a commendable job of releasing a progressive and forward-looking policy on the usage of open standards in e-governance. Globally the European Union's Electronic Interoperability Framework (EIF) guidelines (version 2 of which is currently in the draft stage) is considered to be the gold standard as far as open standard policy is concerned. The draft National Policy on Open Standards meets all of the EIF's four open standard requirements. However, there is still some room for improvement as discussed below.</p>
<p>While the document talks of the standard being royalty free (4.1 and 5.1.1) and without any patent-related encumbrance (4.1), it limits those requirements "for the life time of the standard" (5.1.1), which seems a bit ambiguous and is not defined in the appendix either. It would be preferable to make it royalty-free for the lifetime of the patents (if any) as open archival material shouldn't one day (after the end of "life time of the standard", and before the expiry of the patents) suddenly be forced to become paid archives. It would be desirable to make declarations of patent non-enforcement irrevocable (as the EU EIF does), by incorporating a wording such as: "irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis, without any patent-related encumbrance". </p>
<p>There should also be a separate provision in the "policy statement on open standards adoption in e-governance" section of the document making explicit that there can be no restraint on use or implementation of the standard (as has been stated in the "guiding principles" section). </p>
<p>Perhaps when talking of specification documents (5.1.5) the words "any restrictions" could be amended to include a few examples of what the term "any restrictions" would include. The document could make explicit that it must be permissible for all to copy, distribute and use the specifications freely, without any cost or legal barriers. </p>
<p>Sometimes private companies can interfere with the standardisation process, the document could perhaps be more explicit regarding remedial measures that could be undertaken in the event – for example use of competition law, as in the case of the EU EIF which states: "Practices distorting the definition and evolution of open standards must be addressed immediately to protect the integrity of the standardisation process." </p>
<p>As it stands, the draft document addresses many notions of openness (freely accessible, at zero cost, non-discriminatory, extensible, and without any legal hindrances, thus preventing vendor lock-in), and there is much to applaud in it. It has a clear implementation mechanism, with a laudable aim of establishing a monitoring agency and an Open Source Solutions Laboratory. It is applicable not only to future e-governance initiatives, but to existing ones as well. Furthermore, it also has an in-built review mechanism, which is crucial given the rate of change of technologies and consequently of the requirements of the government. Thus, the draft policy document very clearly encourages competition and innovation in the software industry and promotes the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement and industry. As researchers from UNU MERIT have pointed out, even a nominal fee for usage of a standard can lead to exclusion of open source software implementations, leading to less competition in the software industry. Thus, all in all this draft document represents a commendable effort by the Indian government towards a sustainable and robust e-governance structure based on open standards. However, a few small amendments as suggested in this letter would make it an even greater guarantor of openness.</p>
<p><br />Yours sincerely,<br />Sunil Abraham<br />Director (Policy)<br />Centre for Internet and Society<br /><br /></p>
<p>Please download the draft response in the format you prefer.</p>
<ol><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/response-to-indian-open-standards-policy-10-sept-2008.odt" class="internal-link" title="Oo.org Format">Open Office </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/response-to-indian-open-standards-policy-10-sept-2008.doc" class="internal-link" title="MS Format">MS Office</a></li><li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/response-to-indian-open-standards-policy-09-sept-2008.pdf" class="internal-link" title="PDF Format">PDF</a><br /></li></ol>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/the-response'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards/the-response</a>
</p>
No publishersunilOpen StandardsPublications2011-08-23T03:05:56ZPageAnonymity and Privacy
https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas/new-pedagogies/anonymity-and-privacy
<b></b>
<h3>Context</h3>
<p align="justify">The
first two waves of cyberculture celebrated the anonymous conditions
within which the different actors in interaction were introjected in
different practices online. There was a significant attention given
to the nature of presence, absence, being, and the schism between the
corporeal and the digital bodies and reality.</p>
<p align="justify">However,
with an increased amount of State regulation, governance and
attention to the nature of life on the screen, the condition of
anonymity has quickly been replaced by a condition of pseudonymity.
The pseudonymous structures within cyberspace offer a world of
role-playing, fantasising and narrativisation that, while still
effective, are no longer merely in the domains of the aesthetic or
the performative but enter serious domains of legislation,
regulation, control, and politics.</p>
<p align="justify">New
modes of sanitising the behaviour of users online and the
construction of the ethical techno-social subject have led on one hand to some
very disturbing behaviour on the part of powerful agencies, and to strong political mobilisation and the advent of the public
sphere on the other. As the market, the State and the public all
inflect users to reiterate their physical boundaries and
geo-political status, it becomes interesting to see what role
anonymity still has to play online and what is the political
investment in being pseudonymous online.</p>
<h3>Research Agenda</h3>
<ol><li>
<p align="justify">With
the increasing regulation of cyberspaces, are anonymous spaces being
lost, and with them, the voices and the people that belonged to these
spaces?</p>
</li><li>
<p align="justify">How
do we sustain the paradox of safety in recognition on one hand and
the safety in being invisible on the other?</p>
</li><li>
<p align="justify">Is
the question of anonymity universal across different kinds of
cyberspaces? With occurrences like the ‘Orkut Deaths’ and the
‘National Emblems Defamation’ cases on the one hand and the
construction of cyber-terrorism on the other, do we need to delve deeper into what it means to be anonymous online and the negotiations
that one enters into when role-playing online?</p>
</li><li>
<p align="justify">The
debates around anonymity often create an artificial distinction
between the physical and the digital worlds, treating one as more
authentic than the other. This aesthetic paradigm further enters
debates around piracy, copying and the digital media. How do
questions of authenticity and the construction of an ethical subject
intersect with the debates around anonymity?</p>
</li><li>
<p align="justify">How
does anonymity enable the demonisation of various cyberspatial
practices? What are the kind of public education systems which
should be in place so that we can find safety and freedom (often
antithetical to each other) in cyberspaces without excessive control
and regulation?</p>
</li><li>
<p align="justify">If
anonymity is an inescapable condition of being online, how does it
affect new forms of behaviour and community formations that we see
in the contemporary urban?</p>
</li></ol>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas/new-pedagogies/anonymity-and-privacy'>https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas/new-pedagogies/anonymity-and-privacy</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2009-01-26T09:42:08ZPageSubstantive Areas
https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas
<b></b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas'>https://cis-india.org/about/substantive-areas</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2011-12-04T15:26:47ZFolderOpen Access Day
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/open-access-day
<b>October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this Day are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.
</b>
<p align="left"> The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and the Cente for Internet and
Society, Bangalore, request your presence at
the celebrations of the first Open
Access Day. Speaker include Prof. Andrew Lynn, Department of Bio-informatics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society.</p>
<p align="left">Venue: Tagore Hall, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/agenda" class="internal-link" title="Agenda">Agenda</a></p>
<p align="left"><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/about-open-access-day" class="internal-link" title="About Open Access Day">About Open Access Day</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/open-access-day'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access/open-access-day</a>
</p>
No publishersunilOpenness2011-04-05T04:45:17ZEventOpen Standards
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society promotes Open Standards, i.e., standards that are technically and legally free to study, free to use, developed and managed in an open manner, with a complete implementation available to all. Open standards help all -- government and citizens, industry and consumers -- by allowing greater interoperability and choice (since they are necessary for free and open source software), greater competition, reduction in costs, and greater long-term reliability.
As part of our work on Open Standards, we have been providing the comments to the Indian government's Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, and have been working as a member of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forums.</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/standards</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2010-01-11T10:52:24ZFolderOpen Content and Open Access
https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access
<b>Open Content (of which Open Access can be thought of as a subcategory) is that content which is freely available on the Internet with or without rights to modify or re-use it. Open content can take many manifestations from openly-licensed materials (Creative Commons, etc.), open access to scholarly literature (scientific, legal, etc.), open educational resources, to open access to the law (particularly legislations and judgments). We at CIS believe that sharing of knowledge and culture is only human.</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access'>https://cis-india.org/openness/publications/content-access</a>
</p>
No publishersunil2009-10-08T14:54:39ZFolder