The Centre for Internet and Society http://editors.cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 111 to 125. Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018 <b>A group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>There was a long time required&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition">Optical Character Recognition (OCR)</a>&nbsp; for&nbsp;Indic language computing. There was not at per OCR available in Indic languages before 2015. Most of the Indic subdomain was created in 2007 to 2011, but due to not availability of OCR, the Indic Wikisource Community used to type the whole book or import the Unicoded text from other non-reliable sources.&nbsp; In 2015 the after Google&nbsp;Drive&nbsp;OCR released Indic community relief from the typing era.</p> <p>Later&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan">Shrinivasan T</a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>developed&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource">OCR4wikisource</a>&nbsp;script to use the&nbsp;Google Drive OCR as Bot.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since the implementation of the OCR, there has been a lot of progress in Indic Wikisource. But we have realized the there should be a common platform where we can share our knowledge. Then one-month planning we have organized&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</a>.&nbsp; in Kolkata.&nbsp;this is first such consultation at this scale, convened by the CIS A2K team.&nbsp;</p> <p>The meeting had a representation of one volunteer from the Assamese, Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sanskrit language Wikisource communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="User:Ananth subray" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ananth_subray">Ananth Subray</a>&nbsp;(Kannada )&nbsp;<a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa">Bodhisattwa</a>&nbsp;(Bengali)&nbsp;<a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Hrishikes</a>&nbsp;Sen (English )&nbsp;<a title="User:Gurlal Maan" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gurlal_Maan">Gurlal Maan</a>&nbsp;(Punjabi ) G<a title="User:Gitartha.bordoloi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gitartha.bordoloi">itartha Bordoloi</a>&nbsp;(Assamese )&nbsp;<a title="User:Pooja Jadhav" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_Jadhav">Pooja Jadhav</a>&nbsp;(Marathi )&nbsp;<a title="User:Pmsarangi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pmsarangi">Pankajmala Sarangi</a>&nbsp;(Oriya )&nbsp;<a title="User:Shubha" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shubha">Shubha</a>&nbsp;(Sanskrit )&nbsp;<a title="User:Sushant savla" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sushant_savla">Sushant Savla</a>&nbsp;(Gujurati ) R<a title="User:Ranjithsiji" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji">anjith&nbsp;siji</a>&nbsp;(Malayalam )&nbsp;<a title="User:अजीत कुमार तिवारी (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">A</a>jit Kumar Tiwari&nbsp;(Hindi )&nbsp;<a title="User:Ramesam54 (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ramesam54&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Ramesam54</a>&nbsp;(Telugu )&nbsp;<a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a>&nbsp;(Indic Tech team)&nbsp;<a title="User:Chinmayee Mishra" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayee_Mishra">Chinmayee Mishra</a>&nbsp;(Oriya )&nbsp;as well as Tito Dutta, Tanveer Hasan,&nbsp; Subodh Kulkarni and Jayanta Nath, four members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_%28India%29">Centre for Internet and Society</a>&nbsp;(CIS-A2K)&nbsp;.</p> <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018#Objectives">objectives</a>&nbsp;of the consultation are:</p> <ol><li>Share views and preferences on the most effective ways to pursue our shared vision of creating and sharing free knowledge in India and in the Indian languages (including English) around the world through the Indic Wikisource Project.</li><li>Attempt to come to an agreement on a roadmap for a future where our resources are better utilized, our volunteers are better served, and progress on our mission is more steadily attained.</li></ol> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p>We have started our discussion on day zero with the agenda of the main aims of this consultation and what all participants want from this program. The discussion was started at 6 PM and ended at 10 PM night.&nbsp; After discussion, we have summarized and set-up for two days agenda which was actually coming from the participants. The CIS-A2K team arranged for the travel and stay of all participants, as well as a night stay for all participants between the zero and second day, to ensure that the programme started on time on.</p> <p>Day one started with Introduction of Wikisource&nbsp;by me were&nbsp;introduce the workflow of Wikisource, adding text, finding the source, basic copyright checking, creating Index pages, OCRed the page, Proofreading, layout with typography, Validation, Transclusion and&nbsp; Finishing touch.&nbsp;Later on,&nbsp;<a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span id="gmail-1205" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1205 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Hrishikes</span></a>&nbsp;Sen demonstrated each segment&nbsp;broadly.&nbsp;<a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa"><span id="gmail-1204" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1204 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Bodhisattwa</span></a>&nbsp;(Bengali) demonstrated Wikisource Tool,&nbsp;like IA-UPLOAD, Vicuna Uploader, URL2COMMONS, Fill index Gadget etc. And all participants implement hands-on. &nbsp;Bodhisatta showed the <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC.webm">Bengali Wikisource promotional videos.</a></p> <p>Day two was started with Google&nbsp;<span id="gmail-94" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_94 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Punctuation gmail-only-ins gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Drive</span>&nbsp;OCR without using Bot solution developed by&nbsp;<a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a>&nbsp;(Indic Tech team). Later on OTRS process by Jayanta Nath,&nbsp;&nbsp;Wikisource Roadmap by Tanveer Hasan,&nbsp;Institutional&nbsp;Partnership&nbsp;- by Subodh Kulkarni and Transclusion in Wikisource by&nbsp;Susant&nbsp;Salva presented. The most achievements of this meeting were the second day,&nbsp;<a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a>&nbsp;leads the task myself to clear the&nbsp;<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Requests/IWCC2018">Wikisource technical backlog</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>There were also some ideas coming up by the session by Tanveer. This included awareness, outreach, followups, and evaluation. A report about this meeting was published at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily">Asomiya Pratidin</a>. Some feedback from the participants can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">here</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018'>http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018</a> </p> No publisher jayanta CIS-A2K Odia Wikisource Access to Knowledge Commons Indic Wikisource Automation Workshop archives Wikisource Kannada Wikisource Indic Scripts Mobile Apps Marathi Wikisource 2018-12-08T18:22:29Z Blog Entry Punjabi Wikisource Training Workshop, Patiala http://editors.cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala <b>A two-day long First Indic Wikisource Workshop training programme was organised by Punjabi Wikimedian during November 17-18th 2018 in Patiala, Punjab to better capacity of Wikisourcers both technically, and outreach and community building.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is the second time when I met Punjabi Community. They had organized a Wikisource Workshop at Patiala specific for Punjabi Wikisource.&nbsp; When I reached the workshop venue, I was showing that all fifteen participants were eager to learn. The workshop event page can be viewed <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians/Punjabi_Wikisource_Training_Workshop,_Patiala">here</a>.</p> <p>It was scheduled from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on November 17-18th 2018. The advantage of this present <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians">Punjabi Wikimedia Community</a>, most of the member is coming from Punjabi Literature students. And I was surprised that two of them are so little class, Eight Standard students. This was the first Workshop happening in India about Wikisource. Prior to the event, I had prepared with <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Shared_Scripts">all Gadgets</a>.</p> <p>The event started half an hour later than planned, as most of the participants took longer to make it to the venue. We found it difficult to demonstrate the examples. The biggest challenge was not a technical one, but connecting with the audience. We ended up lecturing less and demonstrating more. I started with a small introduction to Wikisource with details What is Wikisource &amp; What is the aim of the Wikisource and <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats">Indic Wikisource Stats</a> explanation.</p> <p>&nbsp;After introduction I explained and demonstrated the workflow of Wikisource, adding text, finding the source, basic copyright checking, creating Index pages, OCRed the page, Proofreading, layout with typography, Validation, Transclusion and&nbsp; Finishing touch. Then I was demonstrated <a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert">Character Insert Tool: with Gadget-charinsert</a>. After watching this all the participants were so happy because the proofreading will be reduced and make easy. Show the most used templates as best practice in Wikisource world.</p> <p>In the workflow, we had started with uploading a file in commons and local as per copyrights status, as tool <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Chunked_upload">Chunked_upload</a> and <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Vicu%C3%B1aUploader">Vicuna uploader</a>. The first day was ended with few edithon and interface change in Punjabi Wikisource.</p> <p>2nd day was started with On the brighter side, there were many interesting and engaging queries from few of the participants who had already proofread pages on Wikisource. Next workflow started with creating an Index file with <a class="external-link" href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:IndexForm.js">IndexForn.js&nbsp; Gadget</a> and fill with all meta from commons and remaining data was filled by participants. Then I explained the method of <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30061329">OCR4Wikisource</a> by python script and offline <a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr">Tesseract OCR</a>.</p> <p>Some of the namespace and extension needed on Punjabi Wikisource I explained about Author Namespace, Publisher Namespace, Short URL Extension ticket on phabricator,&nbsp; Book2scrol tool needed for better pagination and Transclusion, Install/Update the "tesseract-pan" package on Tool Forge for OCR</p> <p>One of the best lessons we learned from the event was that it is very important to know the audience well in advance and to structure the workshop accordingly. The participants seemed to prefer the visual editor over editing the wiki markup for proofreading.</p> <p>The final achievement was every participant understand the importance of Wikisource and the last one is the best for my motivation.</p> <p>"After this workshop by <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth">Jayanta Nath</a>, I understand the significance of Wikisource and also that it is not a project which is secondary to Wikipedia."</p> <p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charan_Gill">Charan Gill</a> (Highest contributor on Punjabi Wikipedia)</p> <p>The event was a success in that it introduced the Wikisource to various ways of getting involved with the Wikimedia movement, thereby changing the perception that the only way to get involved is by proofreading online.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala'>http://editors.cis-india.org/punjabi-wikisource-training-workshop-patiala</a> </p> No publisher jayanta Punjabi Wikisource Indic Wikisource Access to Knowledge Wikisource 2018-12-08T16:08:57Z Blog Entry Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily <b>Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily</b> <p><em>Volunteers from various Indic Wikisource projects took part in a discussion organized by Centre for Internet and society: access to knowledge (CIS:A2K) in Kolkata recently. Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi participated in this consultation on behalf of the Assamese Wikisource which included other Indic languages like Bengali, Odia, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu and Sanskrit. It is worth mentioning here that Wikisource is another important project like Wikipedia, Wiktionary etc operated by Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone can contribute to this wikisource project which stores copyright-free books, plays, lyrics, speeches, translated works etc. Such works are first scanned and digitalized and then converted to unicode so that everything becomes searchable. Assamese Wikisource (<a href="http://as.wikisource.org/" target="_blank">as.wikisource.org</a>), started in 2013, so far includes various literary works of Guru Sankardeva and Madhavdev, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Padmanath Gogain Baruah, Chandraprasad Agarwala, Amulya Barua, Dandinath Kalita etc. Measures to popularize Wikisource among masses, increasing numbers of readers and contributors, correct techniques to digitalize a book etc were discussed at the event in Kolkata.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Translated from Assamese by&nbsp;Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi&nbsp;</em></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily'>http://editors.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily</a> </p> No publisher jayanta CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Indic Wikisource Books Digitisation Wikisource Indic Computing Workshop Indic Scripts 2018-12-10T15:08:56Z News Item November 2018 Newsletter http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2018-newsletter <b>Our newsletter for the month of November.</b> <h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li>CIS has <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/about/statement-on-serious-allegations-on-social-media-24112018">published a statement</a> on its website in response to the serious allegations against CIS members and the CIS workplace on social media. CIS has taken note of the concern raised on a social platform, and its Internal Committee (IC), constituted as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, has taken some critical steps. CIS has engaged <a class="external-link" href="https://www.poshatwork.com/">POSH at Work</a> to review the case and make recommendations to the Executive Director of CIS.</li> <li>Anubha Sinha attended the 37th meeting of WIPO SCCR held in Geneva in the month of November 2018. During the week she made two statements on behalf of CIS and participated in a panel discussion and a closed door meeting to brief government delegates from the Asia pacific region on the WIPO limitations and exceptions agenda. CIS made statements on <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions">limitations and exceptions</a> and the <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">proposed treaty for the protection of broadcasting organizations</a>. Transcript of her talk can be <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">accessed here</a>.</li> <li>A <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-and-elonnai-hickok-november-30-2018-cyberspace-and-external-affairs">memorandum outlining India's strategy to global cyber norms formulation processes</a> authored by Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu and edited by Aayush Rathi and Shruti Trikanad. The memorandum seeks to summarise the state of the global debate in cyberspace; outline how India can craft it’s global strategic vision and finally, provides a set of recommendations for the Ministry of External Affairs as they craft their cyber diplomacy strategy. </li> <li>The institution of open standards is as a formidable regulatory regime governing the Internet while facilitating its growth as a network of networks. As a nation digitising rapidly and facing concerns in cybersecurity and Internet governance, there is a need for the Government of India to meaningfully participate at standards development organisations to represent the interests of the Indian populace and become a voice for the global South. Authors Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulating-the-internet-the-government-of-india-standards-development-at-the-ietf">examine this in a policy brief</a>.</li> <li>The Convention on Cybercrime adopted in Budapest (“Convention”) is the first and one of the most important multilateral treaties addressing the issue of internet and computer crimes. Vipul Kharbanda has analyzed this in his research paper titled <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/budapest-convention-and-the-information-technology-act">Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act</a>.</li> <li>Amber Sinha was one of the stakeholders who provided inputs to the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics in June 2018 during their visit to New Delhi. The Expert Group has prepared and <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/danish-expert-group-on-data-ethics">submitted its final report</a>. </li> <li>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), CIS invited  sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*. The list of proposed sessions are finalized and <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-sessions">posted on this page</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Articles</h2> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindu-businessline-arindrajit-basu-october-30-2018-lessons-from-us-response-to-cyber-attacks">Lessons from US response to cyber attacks</a> (Arindrajit Basu; edited by Elonnai Hickok; Hindu Businessline; October 30, 2018). <i>Mirrored on CIS website on November 1</i>.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/nishant-shah-indian-express-november-11-2018-digital-native-one-selfie-does-a-tragedy-make">Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; November 11, 2018).</li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in the Media</h2> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-chronicle-november-21-2018-open-street-maps-help-tackle-disaster-experts">Open Street Maps help tackle disasters: Experts</a> (Deccan Chronicle; November 21, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-november-22-2018-abhijit-ahaskar-are-connected-tech-toys-too-smart-for-their-own-good">Are connected tech toys too smart for their own good?</a> (Abhijit Ahaskar; Livemint; November 22, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/girls-schools-womens-pgs-the-shocking-results-when-you-google-bitches-near-me">Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'</a> (News Minute; November 26, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-november-28-2018-kul-bhushan-amazon-launches-machine-learning-based-platform-for-healthcare-space">Amazon launches Machine Learning-based platform for healthcare space</a> (Kul Bhushan; Hindustan Times; November 28, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/report-from-oppression-to-liberation-reclaiming-the-right-to-privacy">Report: From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy</a> (Privacy International; November 28, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-nilesh-christopher-november-30-2018-are-chinese-video-apps-violating-the-indian-law">Are Chinese video apps violating the Indian law?</a> (Nilesh Christopher; Economic Times; November 30, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Copyright and Patent</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations">37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions">37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Agenda on Limitations and Exceptions</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international">Views on on the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at side-event organised by Knowledge Ecology International</a> (Anubha Sinha; November 29, 2018).<br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Wikipedia</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a> we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English).</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/aditya-365">Aditya 365</a> (Pavan Santhosh; November 7, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Our work in the Openness programme focuses on open data, especially open government data, open access, open education resources, open knowledge in Indic languages, open media, and open technologies and standards - hardware and software. We approach openness as a cross-cutting principle for knowledge production and distribution, and not as a thing-in-itself. <b><br /> Teaching</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course">Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR</a> (short course) (ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research; Bangalore; November 13 - 22, 2018). Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /> <b> -----------------------------------</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Cyber Security</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Papers<br /> </b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/budapest-convention-and-the-information-technology-act">Budapest Convention and the Information Technology Act</a> (Vipul Kharbanda; November 20, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/arindrajit-basu-and-elonnai-hickok-november-30-2018-cyberspace-and-external-affairs">Cyberspace and External Affairs:A Memorandum for India Summary </a>(Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok; edited by Aayush Rathi and Shruti Trikanad; November 30, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulating-the-internet-the-government-of-india-standards-development-at-the-ietf">Regulating the Internet: The Government of India &amp; Standards Development at the IETF</a> (Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham; November 30, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Co-organized</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/workshop-on-cybersecurity-illustrations">Workshop on Cybersecurity Illustrations</a> (CIS, Bangalore; November 15, 2018).</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <br /> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/connections-2018">Connections 2018</a> (Organized by Internet Engineering Task Force; Bangalore; October 31 - November 1, 2018). Gurshabad Grover attended the event.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ietf-103">IETF103</a> (Organized by Internet Engineering Task Force; Bangkok; November 3 - 9, 2018). Gurshabad Grover attended the event.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><br />►Free Speech and Expression</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Paper<br /> </b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/icann-work-stream-2-recommendations-on-accountability">ICANN Workstream 2 Recommendations on Accountability</a> (Akriti Bopanna; November 23, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-31-on-icanns-fellowship-program">DIDP #32 On ICANN's Fellowship Program</a> (Akriti Bopanna; November 12, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/internet-freedom-at-crossroads-common-paths-towards-strengthening-human-rights-online">Internet Freedom at Crossroads - Common Paths towards Strengthening Human Rights Online</a> (Organized by Freedom Online; Berlin; November 28 - 30, 2018). Elonnai Hickok was a speaker.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry<br /> </b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/clarification-on-the-information-security-practices-of-aadhaar-report">Clarification on the Information Security Practices of Aadhaar Report</a> (Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali; November 5, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/building-a-community-of-practice-reflections-from-2nd-all-partners">Building a Community of Practice: Reflections from 2nd All Partners</a> (Organized by Partnership on AI; San Francisco, California; November 14 - 15, 2018). Elonnai Hickok spoke on the panel on the PAI working groups and co-lead the AI Labor and Economy working group meeting as co-chair of the group.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/briefing-on-bbc-news-pan-india-research-on-how-fake-news-digital-misinformation-spreads">Briefing on BBC News pan-India research on how 'fake news' / digital misinformation spreads</a> (Organized by BBC; New Delhi; November 16, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/dsci-bangalore-chapter-meet">DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet</a> (Organized by Data Security Council of India; 10K NASSCOM Startup Warehouse; Bangalore; November 22, 2018). Gurshabad Grover and Karan Saini attended the DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/informational-privacy-in-india-an-emerging-discourse">Informational Privacy in India: An Emerging Discourse</a> (Organized by Centre for Policy Research and supported by Omidyar Network; New Delhi; November 29, 2018). Amber Sinha was a speaker on the first panel on privacy and its tradeoffs.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/facebook-privacy-design-sprint">Facebook Privacy Design Sprint</a> (Organized by Facebook and Quicksand; WeWork, Bangalore; November 30, 2018). Pranav Bidare and Saumyaa Naidu participated in the event.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Miscellaneous <b></b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Co-organized</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/sotm-asia-2018"><span class="external-link">SOTM Asia 2018</span></a> (Co-organized by CIS and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; November 17-18, 2018). Saumyaa Naidu, Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/speculative-futures-lab-on-artificial-intelligence-in-media-entertainment-and-gaming">Speculative Futures Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Media, Entertainment, and Gaming</a> (Organized by Quicksand; Bangalore; November 16 - 18, 2018). Pranav Bidare was a panelist.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/future-tech-and-future-law">Future Tech and Future Law</a> (Organized by Dept. of IT &amp; BT, Government of Karnataka as part of Bengaluru Tech Summit; November 29 - December 1, 2018). Aayush Rathi was a speaker.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Gender <b></b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Statement</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/about/statement-on-serious-allegations-on-social-media-24112018">Statement on Serious Allegations against CIS Members and the CIS Workplace on Social Media</a> (Sunil Abraham; November 24, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/roundtable-on-intermediary-liability-and-gender-based-violence-at-the-digital-citizen-summit-2018">Roundtable on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2018</a> (Organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation; India International Centre, New Delhi; November 1, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/international-network-on-feminist-approaches-to-bioethics-2018">International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018</a> (Co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health; St. John's Medical College; Bangalore; December 3 - 5, 2018). Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event as speakers. Aayush presented a paper 'Sexual Surveillance and Data Regimes: Development in the Data Economy' co-authored by himself and Ambika.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /> ----------------------------------- <b><b><br /> </b></b>CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources, and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Article</b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-november-1-2018-shyam-ponappa-a-great-start-on-wifi-reforms">A great start on Wi-Fi reform</a>s (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; November 1, 2018 and Organizing India Blogspot; November 1, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>-----------------------------------</b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>IRC19</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">List of proposed sessions:<br /> <b> </b></p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-ayushmanbhavah" target="_blank">#AyushmanBhavah</a> - Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-butitisnotfunny" target="_blank">#ButItIsNotFunny</a> - Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-callingoutandin" target="_blank">#CallingOutAndIn</a> - Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-digitalplatformattributes" target="_blank">#DigitalPlatformAttributes</a> - Nandakishore K N and Dr. V. Sridhar</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-enlistingprivacy" target="_blank">#EnlistingPrivacy</a> - Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-fomo" target="_blank">#FOMO</a> - Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-legitlists" target="_blank">#LegitLists - Form follows function: List by design</a> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listinterface" target="_blank">#ListInterface</a> - Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listsasdatabase" target="_blank">#ListsAsDatabase</a> - Ria De and Samata Biswas</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-loshaandwhatfollowed" target="_blank">#LoSHAandWhatFollowed</a> - Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-powerlisting" target="_blank">#PowerListing</a> - Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-socialmediationasgenderedjustice" target="_blank">#SocialMediationAsGenderedJustice</a> - Esther Anne Victoria Moraes and Manasa Priya Vasudevan</li> <li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-storiesrecordslegendsrituals" target="_blank">#StoriesRecordsLegendsRituals</a> - Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> <b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Follow us elsewhere</p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li> Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/cis_india"> http://twitter.com/cis_india</a> </li> <li> Twitter - Access to Knowledge: <a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a> </li> <li> Twitter - Information Policy: <a href="https://twitter.com/CIS_InfoPolicy">https://twitter.com/CIS_InfoPolicy</a></li> <li> Facebook - Access to Knowledge:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k"> https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k</a> </li> <li> E-Mail - Access to Knowledge: a2k@cis-india.org </li> <li> E-Mail - Researchers at Work: raw@cis-india.org </li> <li> List - Researchers at Work: <a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers">https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers</a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Support Us</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer and citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of 'The Centre for Internet and Society' and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru - 5600 71.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Request for Collaboration</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sumandro@cis-india.org">sumandro@cis-india.org</a> (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at tanveer@cis-india.org.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects</i>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2018-newsletter'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/november-2018-newsletter</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Telecom Researchers at Work Internet Governance Access to Knowledge 2018-12-19T02:41:01Z Page Views on on the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at side-event organised by Knowledge Ecology International http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international <b>On November 27, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) organised a side event during deliberations of the 37th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Electronic Information for Libraries (eiFL.net), Corporacion Innovarte, Creative Commons, and Knowledge Ecology International appraised the current text for the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Revised Consolidated Text on Definitions, Object of Protection, Rights to be Granted and Other Issues, SCCR/36/6). Speakers provided an overview of the treaty, explained the potential risks and problems caused, and proposed solutions to narrow the Treaty’s scope and limit the damage. Below is a transcript of the remarks made by Anubha Sinha who represented CIS at this event.</b> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p></p> <p>Good afternoon, everyone.</p> <p>My presentation will be in reference to the revised consolidated text <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_36/sccr_36_6.pdf">SCCR 36/6</a> and the US proposal <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_37/sccr_37_7.pdf">SCCR 37/7</a>.</p> <p>In essence, this treaty is trying to create a new set of rights for broadcasters operating in both mediums (first, traditional – satellite, airwaves, cables, and second, the internet), ostensibly to counter signal piracy. We are looking at updating a neighbouring rights or related rights regime to protect signals across both mediums.</p> <p>The intent of treaty is to exclude entities exclusively delivering their programmes over the internet. I fear that the results would create an unequal playing field between broadcasters and internet streaming entities. This would be the first, immediate impact. To then catch up, perhaps, internet streaming services would look to satisfy the treaty requirements to avail protection. This would involve satisfying the definition of a broadcasting organisation (as in SCCR 36/6), and for their country to have ratified the treaty. The characteristics of a broadcasting organisation can be satisfied by acquiring any traditional broadcasting service, for such an entity, as per the current text of the treaty. This would require serious capital, and most start up innovations in the area would not be in a position to undertake such a step. And then there is the question of asserting the rights and enforcing them in other countries – this will be an extremely expensive affair. The point I’m trying to make is that this treaty seems to be set to protect a narrow slice of broadcasters, with significant market power in their home markets.</p> <p>My co-panelists will discuss specific harms that this will have on the building of commons, and other damaging effects on global efforts to build an affordable and accessible knowledge system. This is unfortunate, and hence we urgently need text that provides for a mandatory list of limitations and exceptions, and not work with the soft language that is present right now. We have to accept that multilateral norm-setting at the international level sets the tone for countries to enact their own national legislations – indeed, before the Marakkesh treaty there were hardly any developing countries which had an expansive beneficial copyright exception for the visually impaired (except India - that I'm aware of), and look who the first few countries to ratify the treaty were – India, Argentina, El Salvador, Paraguay, Uruguay, etc – all developing countries leading to adopt this international standard.</p> <p>The <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_37/sccr_37_7.pdf">US delegation’s proposal</a>, introduced yesterday, pushes the idea of limiting exclusive rights granted under this treaty to broadcasting organisations, so long as the countries provide adequate protection against piracy in other bodies of law. This seems like a promising idea – one that does not upend the legal theories of neighbouring rights and also shrinks the proposed model in the treaty that seeks to grant monopolistic property rights for a long and unclear period of time to powerful organisations – organisations that by their very nature and functions are chroniclers of our times and keepers of valuable cultural heritage.</p> <p>At a <a class="external-link" href="https://www.keionline.org/29025">seminar</a> on this very treaty organised last month by KEI, Proffessor Bernt Hugenholtz flagged off the problematic justifications provided for increasing the strength of this neighbouring right. He said that the justifications should indicate a corresponding increase in cost of disseminating content. Should new exclusive rights be created for gradation-like increase in investment? He was not convinced that the costs had gone up significantly, and he also pointed out that this cost should not account for money spent on acquiring the rights to broadcast the content. &nbsp;Further, going back to the US proposal, the proposal recognises the persistent conceptual difficulties of distinguishing between signal protection and content protection. This very difficulty has been raised by many civil society organisations in the past, and more recently it cropped up at a discussion on the treaty in New Delhi, where both civil society organisations and representatives of broadcasters were present. Another practical challenge (that remains) will be to separate the computer network based operations from the non-computer network based operation; however, in this age, is it technically possible to do that?</p> <p>To conclude, I think that fundamental concepts and terms need to be properly clarified to arrive at an understanding that is shared across all stakeholders; and a corresponding strengthening of limitations and exceptions is urgently needed.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p><strong>For a complete list of speakers at the event, please click <a class="external-link" href="https://www.keionline.org/29234">here</a>. </strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-views-on-on-the-proposed-wipo-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations-at-side-event-organised-by-knowledge-ecology-international</a> </p> No publisher sinha Limitations & Exceptions Access to Knowledge Broadcast Treaty Broadcasting WIPO 2018-11-29T10:48:40Z Blog Entry 37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Agenda on Limitations and Exceptions http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions <b>Anubha Sinha, attending the 37th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from November 26, 2018 to November 30, 2018, made this statement on the agenda on limitations and exceptions on behalf of CIS on Day 3, November 28. </b> <p>Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p> <p>The Centre for Internet and Society is a civil society organisation based in India working on issues of openness and access to knowledge, amongst others.</p> <p>India is a diverse country with thriving communities working on and promoting access to research, data, archival material, educational material, and developing material to benefit persons with other disabilities. As such, the regional seminars will be an excellent opportunity for such communities to interact with various stakeholders and government delegates; and help formulate concrete principles that should inform the international legal instrument that we hope is developed and discussed soon.</p> <p>To enable comprehensive and substantive participation and discussions, I urge member states and WIPO to undertake steps to make the regional seminars as inclusive as possible. I request the secretariat and member states to actively work with civil society to identify and invite such community leaders.</p> <p>Thank you very much.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-the-agenda-on-limitations-and-exceptions</a> </p> No publisher sinha Limitations & Exceptions Access to Knowledge WIPO 2018-11-29T10:20:13Z Blog Entry 37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations <b>Anubha Sinha, attending the 37th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from November 26, 2018 to November 30, 2018, made this statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations on behalf of CIS on Day 1, November 26. </b> <div>Thank you, Mr. Chair.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>There still remain concerns about the weak language on limitations and exceptions in the proposed treaty.</div> <div>The proposed treaty is bound to have adverse effects on legally accepted existing practices of sharing and using online works. Libraries, archives, museums, educational and research institutions, public interest organisations such as Creative Commons, organisations and efforts directed at making orphan works available online - all perform critical roles to advance the progress of society. There is a looming threat on the continuation of their ability to access and to provide the public subsequent access to their collections. Thus, there is a dire need to incorporate robust solutions into the treaty text to not have unintended consequences on the society.</div> <div>We must also make note of developments such as Facebook acquiring rights to stream La Liga matches in the Indian subcontinent and acquisition of Pandora by a broadcaster (Sirius XM). In such an environment, it is becoming impossible to technically eliminate the role of computer networks insofar as creating the signal and transmitting it is concerned. The treaty still envisages to not benefit those transmissions that occur exclusively on computer networks. In light of new business and technological realities, the deficiencies in the Committee's discussions are already apparent. We urge the committee to work to ensure that the resultant treaty is balanced in letter and spirit, both.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thank you.</div> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/37th-sccr-cis-statement-on-cis-statement-on-the-proposed-treaty-for-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organizations</a> </p> No publisher sinha Access to Knowledge WIPO 2018-11-29T10:08:46Z Blog Entry Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course) http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course <b>The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) organised a short course on 'ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES' during November 13-22, 2018 in Bangalore. Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture to the participants.</b> <p>Read for <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/files/invitation-for-delivering-lecture-in-icar/view">more information about the programme</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/lecture-on-open-access-and-open-content-licensing-at-icar-short-course</a> </p> No publisher Admin Openness Open Access Access to Knowledge 2018-12-05T16:19:56Z News Item Aditya 365 http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/aditya-365 <b>Telugu Wikimedian Aditya Pakide successfully completed 365 Wiki Commons Days. Aditya started contributing to project after a Facebook comment by A2K community advocate suggesting that the same picture would get more utilization in Commons and a brief training followed.</b> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Aditya365.jpg/@@images/3076bc5e-519f-4bf3-868f-c782088da581.jpeg" alt="Aditya 365" class="image-inline" title="Aditya 365" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/aditya-365'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/aditya-365</a> </p> No publisher pavan CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Telugu Wikipedia 2018-11-07T02:32:27Z Blog Entry Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli <b>CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Bombay University has formulated and going to start a "Diploma course in Community Resource Management " with the support of TRTI, Pune from 2nd of oct 2018. This is a historic attempt to impart education of the level of a diploma to rural, especially tribal youth without any condition of academic qualification. The course was conducted at Mendha(Lekha) an hamlet in Dhanora taluk of Gadchiroli District. CIS-A2K has collaborated with TRTI to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli</a> </p> No publisher Admin CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Event 2018-11-06T01:36:39Z Event October 2018 Newsletter http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/october-2018-newsletter <b></b> <h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Published an article titled <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study">"Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study"</a> in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The authors of the article were Hindi faculty members of Christ University. Ananth Subray from Centre for Internet &amp; Society provided research assistance. </li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Ananth Subray wrote an article <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/history-of-wikipedia-education-programme-at-christ-deemed-to-be-university">"History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ University"</a> which has given an insight of Christ Wikipedia Education Program, how students are involved in different capacities in the program and shares the best practices of the Education Program.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli">has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects</a> with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository". </li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/conceptualizing-an-international-security-regime-for-cyberspace">co-authored a research paper</a> that was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Arindrajit Basu in an <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/oxford-human-rights-hub-arindrajit-basu-october-23-2018-discrimination-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence">article published by Oxford Human Rights Hub</a> has argued that artificial Intelligence offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance with principles of the rule of law and international human rights norms.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Agnidipto Tarafder and Arindrajit Basu in an <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/socio-legal-review-national-law-school-of-india-university-agnidipto-tarafder-and-arandrajit-basu-377-bites-the-dust">article published in Socio-Legal Review</a> has traced the journey of the recent 377 (Navtej Johar v Union of India) and assessed its societal implications.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS invites applications for <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-research-fellows-field-studies-of-platform-work">*three Research Fellow positions*</a> to undertake field studies of platform-work in two cities, including Bangalore and another city (to be decided). The project seeks to produce a comparative understanding of at least two different kinds of platform-work as unfolding across Indian cities. Each fellow will be responsible for one field study (one form of work in one city) based on their language fluency and research experience.</li> </ul> <h2>Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/socio-legal-review-national-law-school-of-india-university-agnidipto-tarafder-and-arandrajit-basu-377-bites-the-dust">377 Bites the Dust: Unpacking the long and winding road to the judicial decriminalization of homosexuality in India</a> (Agnidipto Tarafder and Arindrajit Basu; Socio Legal Review; October 11, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-october-14-2018-digital-native-time-to-walk-the-talk">Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk </a>(Nishant Shah; Indian Express; October 14, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bloomberg-quint-pranesh-prakash-october-15-2018-why-data-localisation-might-lead-to-unchecked-surveillance">Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance</a> (Pranesh Prakash; Bloomberg Quint; October 15, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/oxford-human-rights-hub-arindrajit-basu-october-23-2018-discrimination-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence">Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence</a> (Arindrajit Basu; Oxford Human Rights Hub; October 23, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/indian-express-nishant-shah-october-28-2018-digital-native-hashtag-fatigue">Digital Native: Hashtag Fatigue</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; October 28, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hindu-businessline-arindrajit-basu-october-30-2018-lessons-from-us-response-to-cyber-attacks">Lessons from US response to cyber attacks</a> (Arindrajit Basu; Hindu Businessline; October 30, 2018). The article was edited by Elonnai Hickok.</li> </ul> <h2>Media Coverage</h2> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-october-4-2018-surupasree-sarmmah-gmail-users-beware-while-giving-access">Gmail users beware while giving access</a> (Surupasree Sarmmah; Deccan Herald; October 4, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/deccan-herald-october-10-2018-anila-kurian-are-online-shows-obscene">Are online shows obscene?</a> (Anila Kurian; Deccan Herald; October 10, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-october-12-2018-internet-services-not-to-be-affected-as-dns-servers-undergo-update">Internet services not to be affected as DNS servers undergo update</a> (Hindustan Times; October 12, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-divya-shekhar-october-13-2018-spending-too-much-time-on-social-media">Spending too much time on social media? Tech abuse may lead to mental health issues</a> (Divya Shekhar; Economic Times; October 13, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-rahul-sachitanand-october-14-2018-sales-of-surveillance-cameras-are-soaring-raising-questions-about-privacy">Sales of surveillance cameras are soaring, raising questions about privacy</a> (Rahul Sachitanand; Economic Times; October 14, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/vccircle-october-17-2018-anand-j-not-surprised-by-indian-govt-data-localisation-directives">Not Surprised by Indian govt's data localisation directives: Michael Dell</a> (Anand J.; VC Circle; October 17, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-kanishk-karan-october-18-2018-factcheck-no-phones-of-users-who-provided-only-aadhaar-as-proof-of-identity-wont-be-disconnected">Factcheck: No, phones of users who provided only Aadhaar as proof of identity won’t be disconnected</a> (Kanishk Karan; Scroll.in; October 18, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-october-19-2018-vidhi-choudhary-rural-indians-don-t-trust-messages-on-whatsapp-blindly-survey">Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey</a> (Vidhi Choudhary; Hindustan Times; October 19, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-vidhi-choudhary-october-21-2018-brazil-s-experience-a-red-flag-for-whatsapp-in-indian-polls-say-experts">Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say experts</a> (Vidhi Choudhary; Hindustan Times; October 21, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-logical-indian-october-27-2018-reliance-jio-users-complain-of-porn-websites-being-blocked">Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official Statement</a> (Logical Indian; October 27, 2018).</li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /><b> ----------------------------------- </b><br />Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Wikipedia</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a> we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English).</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Peer Reviewed Article<br /></b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study">Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study</a> (Dr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha A with research assistance from Ananth Subray; International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, Volume 6, Issue 8, August 2018).<br />.</li> </ul> <p><b>Blog Entries<br /></b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/south-india-copyright-workshop">South India Copyright Workshop</a> (Subodh Kulkarni; October 21, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/history-of-wikipedia-education-programme-at-christ-deemed-to-be-university">History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ</a> (Deemed to be University) (Ananth Subray; Wikimedia Blog; October 29, 2018).</li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <ul> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b><br />Event Organized</b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli">Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli</a> (Co-organized by TRTI and CIS-A2K; <span class="kssattr-macro-string-field-view kssattr-templateId-widgets/string kssattr-atfieldname-location " id="parent-fieldname-location-da411fe9124e4c3bbca165d09e7c7d27">Gadchiroli;</span> October 2 - 5, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity">Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity</a> (Organized by Wikipedia Community; Mandrem, Goa; October 5 - 7, 2018). P.P. Sneha participated in the event.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Copyright and Patent</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage<br /></b></p> <ul> </ul> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted">5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted</a> (David Branigan; Intellectual Property Watch; October 3, 2018).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events<br /></b></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture">KEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture"</a> (Organized by KEI; Geneva; October 3 - 4, 2018). Anubha Sinha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the Treaty)".</li> <li style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/stakeholders-consultation-on-draft-wipo-treaty-to-protect-broadcasting-organization">Stakeholders Consultation on draft WIPO Treaty to Protect Broadcasting Organization</a> (Organized by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India; Copyright Office, New Delhi; October 23, 2018). Anubha Sinha participated in the meeting.<br /><br /></li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p> <div style="text-align: justify; ">Our work in the Openness programme focuses on open data, especially open government data, open access, open education resources, open knowledge in Indic languages, open media, and open technologies and standards - hardware and software. We approach openness as a cross-cutting principle for knowledge production and distribution, and not as a thing-in-itself.</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "><b><br />Participation in Event</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <ul> </ul> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/panel-discussion-on-equitable-access-to-knowledge">Panel Discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge</a> (Organized by DST Centre for Policy Research (IISc); Bangalore; October 23, 2018). Pranesh Prakash was a panelist and moderator at the event.</li> </ul> <br /> <div><b>Media Coverage</b></div> <div> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/business-standard-ians-october-11-2018-sting-job-by-hyderabad-scientist-exposes-fake-journals">Sting job by Hyderabad scientist exposes fake journals</a> (Business Standard; October 11, 2018).</li> </ul> </div> <ul> </ul> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /><b> -----------------------------------</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p> <p>►Privacy</p> <b>Participation in Events</b> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/confidentiality-of-communications-and-privacy-of-data-in-the-digital-age">Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age</a> (Organized by INCLO and Privacy International; Human Rights Council 39th ordinary session; September 25, 2018). Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/participation-in-the-meetings-of-iso-iec-jtc-1-sc-27-it-security-techniques"><span class="external-link">Meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques'</span></a> (Organized by Standards Norway with support from NTNU, Microsoft, Telenor, et.al.; Gjøvik, Norway; September 30 - October 4, 2018). Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/state-of-work-in-india">State of Work in India</a> (Organized by Bangalore International Centre, TERI and Azim Premji University; Bangalore; October 3, 2018).</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/technology-foresight-group-tandem-researchs-ai-policy-lab-on-the-theme-ai-and-environment">Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and Environment</a> (Organized by Tandem Research; Goa; October 5, 2018). Shweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/indian-feminist-judgment-project-workshop">Indian Feminist Judgment Project Workshop</a> (Organized by Jindal Industries; New Delhi; October 6 - 7, 2018). Swaraj Paul Barooah participated in the discussions.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/community-standards-roundtable-conversations">Community Standards Roundtable Conversations</a> (Organized by Facebook, School of Media &amp; Cultural Studies, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences; Bangalore; October 7, 2018). Ambika Tandon participated in the roundtable discussions.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/surveillance-stories-optimizing-rights-and-governance">Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governance</a> (Organized by National Centre for Biological Sciences; Bangalore; October 16, 2018). Sunil Abraham gave a talk.</li> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/debating-ethics-dignity-and-respect-in-data-driven-life">Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven Life</a> (Organized by International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners; Brussels; October 24 - 25, 2018). Elonnai Hickok was a speaker in the panel "Move Slower and Fix Things".</li> </ul> <br />►Cyber Security <p><b>Research Paper<br /></b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/conceptualizing-an-international-security-regime-for-cyberspace">Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for Cyberspace</a> (Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu; October 26, 2018).</li> </ul> <br /> <ul> </ul> <b>Event Organized<br /></b> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/roundtable-on-cyber-security-and-the-private-sector">Roundtable on Cyber-security and the Private Sector</a> (Omidyar Network Office; Bangalore; October 17, 2018).</li> </ul> <br /> <div><b>Participation in Event</b></div> <div> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cyfy-2018">CyFy 2018</a> (Organized by Observer Research Foundation; New Delhi; October 3 - 5, 2018).</li> </ul> </div> <ul> </ul> ----------------------------------- <br /> <p><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /> ----------------------------------- <b><b><br /> </b></b>CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources, and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p> <p><b>Article</b></p> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-october-4-2018-shyam-ponappa-policies-and-the-public-interest">Policies &amp; the Public Interest</a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard; October 4, 2018 and Organizing India Blogspot; October 4, 2018).</li> </ul> <p><b>-----------------------------------</b><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /><b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p> <b>Job</b> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-research-fellows-field-studies-of-platform-work">Call for Research Fellows - Field Studies of Platform-Work</a>: The Research Fellows will be associated with CIS from December 2018 to June 2019, undertake fieldwork, participate in two research workshops, and prepare an Ethnographic Report based on the fieldwork. </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>----------------------------------- </b><br /><a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /><b> ----------------------------------- </b><br /> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Follow us elsewhere</p> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li> Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/cis_india"> http://twitter.com/cis_india</a> </li> <li> Twitter - Access to Knowledge: <a href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a> </li> <li> Twitter - Information Policy: <a href="https://twitter.com/CIS_InfoPolicy">https://twitter.com/CIS_InfoPolicy</a></li> <li> Facebook - Access to Knowledge:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k"> https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k</a> </li> <li> E-Mail - Access to Knowledge: <a>a2k@cis-india.org</a> </li> <li> E-Mail - Researchers at Work: <a>raw@cis-india.org</a> </li> <li> List - Researchers at Work: <a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers">https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers</a></li> </ul> </div> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Support Us</p> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <div style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer and citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of 'The Centre for Internet and Society' and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru - 5600 71.</div> </div> <p style="text-align: justify; ">► Request for Collaboration</p> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org (for policy research), or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org (for academic research), with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia projects, write to Tanveer Hasan, Programme Officer, at <a>tanveer@cis-india.org</a>.</p> <div style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects</i>.</div> </div> </div> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/october-2018-newsletter'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/october-2018-newsletter</a> </p> No publisher Admin Internet Governance Access to Knowledge 2018-11-15T02:44:58Z Page 5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted <b>More than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.</b> <p>The story by David Branigan was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/10/03/5th-global-congress-ip-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted/">Intellectual Property Watch</a> on October 3, 2018.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">At the Congress, participants shared success stories, developed strategies, and engaged in critical dialogue to re-think and re-invent intellectual property systems that serve the public interest.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/event-summary-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">5th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and The Public Interest</a> was hosted by American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC from 27-29 September. The core goal of the Congress, according to the website, is “to promote evidence-based policy-making by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates from around the world.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress featured three concurrent, but interconnected, tracks centred around copyright user rights, access to medicines, and trade. A list of the many panels, workshops and other events of the Congress can be found in the event <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/agenda-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">agenda</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Key themes that emerged from the plenary sessions of the Congress include the need to take a critical look at the association between intellectual property and development, the important roles that both IP activism and academic research play in shifting practice, and the complex tension between pursuing incremental IP reform in the short-term, while envisioning and building toward IP system change in the long-term.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants were asked by organisers to contribute statements and to vote in an online poll to chart and map participant perspectives at this year’s Congress. The interactive results of the poll can be viewed <a href="https://pol.is/report/r7k76vmnhmnann5npxdmk">here</a>.</p> <p><b>Access to Medicines Track</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> followed the access to medicines track throughout the Congress, to develop a broad picture of the persistent challenges and new strategies in this field, and to identify key initiatives to feature in the coming months. Below are some of the themes that emerged over the course of the sessions, along with key highlights.</p> <p><b>Compulsory Licensing</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Some participants highlighted their countries’ use of compulsory licensing to reduce drug prices and to maximise health budget capacity, with notable examples from Ecuador, Chile and Malaysia. Participants identified that many other countries, however, are not taking full advantage of these flexibilities, which can be partly attributable to a lack of awareness regarding these flexibilities, and a lack of systems to employ them. They noted that this is often compounded by IP-centric technical assistance that frames strong IP systems as necessary for development. Many participants argued that compulsory licensing, along with other intellectual property flexibilities, should be fully normalised, and that IP law should be structured to maximize the use of these flexibilities, rather than treat them as exceptions. Some also argued for the institution of international or regional coordination mechanisms for compulsory licensing.</p> <p><b>Competition Law</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants, representing activist organisations working for access to medicines, noted that their campaigns were largely focused on the price of a particular drug in a particular country. Pursuing access to medicines on such a piecemeal basis, they explained, does not produce sustainable change within the IP system itself. This, they noted, is a similar challenge faced when issuing compulsory licences. Participants explained that pursuing strategies based in competition law could perhaps offer a more sustainable solution to address excessive pricing across a range of drugs. This strategy, they explained, could move forward key legal reforms to systemically challenge pharmaceutical monopolies and bring about more competitive drug pricing.</p> <p><b>Innovation</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">According to participants, the term innovation infers a particular narrative, similar to “intellectual property,” and has been used by industry to justify the pharmaceutical patent system. One participant explained that patents are currently being granted on the basis of utility, rather than real inventiveness. He explained that the term innovation has come to represent the industry-led process of shaping markets and cycles of consumption, and that therefore, we need to reconsider our use of the term.</p> <p><b>Research and Development</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants highlighted the dysfunction of the current monopoly incentive system for pharmaceutical research and development, and advocated for other systems such as delinking the price of pharmaceuticals from the cost of research and development and the volume of sales. Others highlighted examples of how drugs for neglected diseases can be developed and manufactured without intellectual property incentives, and still others how drug licences can be efficiently pooled to facilitate widespread generic drug production. Another participant further illustrated the dysfunction of the current system, noting that much of the research and development of patented pharmaceuticals was publicly funded, and that there needs to be greater public accountability in drug pricing.</p> <p><b>Medicines as Non-Patentable</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">One important perspective, expressed by participants across tracks, is simply that medicines should be non-patentable and accessible to all people, without restriction.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> will feature some of the key access to medicines initiatives highlighted at the Congress in greater depth and detail in the coming months.</p> <p><b>Background of the Global Congress</b></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The First Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held in 2011 at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, and the specific policy goals of the Congress were summarized in the 2011 <a href="http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration-html">Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress was subsequently hosted in 2012 by Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade of FGV Direito, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013 by University of Cape Town IP Unit, in Cape Town, South Africa, and in 2015 by the Centre for Internet and Society, in New Delhi, India. Intellectual Property Watch has attended them all.</p> <p>More background information on the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest can be found at <a href="http://infojustice.org/">infojustice.org</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/5th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted</a> </p> No publisher Admin Intellectual Property Rights Copyright Access to Knowledge 2018-10-31T01:57:59Z News Item KEI Seminar on "Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture" http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture <b>Anubha Sinha participated in a seminar organized by KEI on October 3 and 4, 2018 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Anubha spoke on the panel titled "Rationale, Beneficiaries and Scope (of the Treaty)".</b> <p>Links to the webcast can be found here:</p> <ul> <li>October 3: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcvaeyS04k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcvaeyS04k</a> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>October 4: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5AdokTF2o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5AdokTF2o</a></li> </ul> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kei-seminar-on-appraising-the-wipo-broadcast-treaty-and-its-implications-on-access-to-culture</a> </p> No publisher Admin Intellectual Property Rights Access to Knowledge 2018-10-31T01:53:27Z News Item Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity <b>P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community. </b> <ul> <li>Click to see the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity">agenda of the event</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>More info of the programme can be <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity/Modules">accessed here</a></li> </ul> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/community-toolkit-for-greater-diversity</a> </p> No publisher Admin Wikimedia Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2018-10-30T02:08:31Z News Item Odia Virtual Academy launched http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched <b>Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2018/oct/27/odia-virtual-academy-launched-1890628.html">published in the New Indian Express</a> on October 27, 2018.</p> <hr style="text-align: justify; " /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Launching the web portal, the Chief Minister said, “It is a matter of pleasure that the new web portal of the ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ is being dedicated today. Odia language has received the classical status.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">A lot of literature has also been created in Odia language. The Academy has taken the responsibility for promotion, preservation and digitisation of the Odia language and literature.” Naveen said the new website will be helpful in the promotion of Odia language at the international level, especially for the Non Resident Odias (NROs). He said youths will also benefit from the Academy.<br /><br />Three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed by the State Government with the University of Chicago library, CDAC and Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru to expedite digitisation of Odia literature and development of Odia software. “This will go a long way in enhancing the visibility of Odia language and literature in the digital space,” he said.<br /><br />So far, as many as 170 books of Odia literature have been placed in the Academy website. The prime objective of the Academy is digitisation of about 2000 rare and copyright free Odia books and establishment of a free digital library, digitisation of various Odia dictionaries available presently for free access, promotion of Odia unicode font faces through standardisation of typing keyboards and making those affordable for public in coming six months and development of primers and uploading those for easy learning.<br /><br />Besides, the Academy’s purpose is to digitise and preserve Odia lexicon, ancient magazines and journals, traditional music, ancient documents, literature on science and history, folk culture, tribal language and literature, history-oriented essays, speech of great personalities, Sri Jagannath culture, temple and its architecture.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched</a> </p> No publisher Admin Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2018-10-29T02:27:23Z News Item
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