Knowledge Commons
presents
Collaborative Innovation for Development: Enlarging the Global Commons
6th December 2008, India Habitat Center, Magnolia, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003
With 1.4 billion people connected, the Internet is the greatest
collaborative network that humankind has
experienced. One of the consequences of the growth of this network is
a shift in the way knowledge is
being created and distributed. As we move to an interconnected world,
the balance of power is shifting
from old, proprietary models of knowledge creation to the Free and
Open Source (FOSS) models that
emphasize collaboration and sharing. From management gurus to
consulting firms to leading business
schools, everyone is taking note of this new phenomenon that goes by
various names like Collaborative
Innovation, Open Innovation, Distributed Co-creation, User-Driven
Innovation, Creative Commons etc.
The FOSS movement has pioneered the Collaborative Innovation trend,
and it is no surprise that the
rapid growth of the Internet and the equally rapid growth of the open
source community has mirrored
each other. Gnu/Linux and Wikipedia are examples of free and open
source projects that embody the
ideals of Collaborative Innovation, which is now spreading to
scientific publishing (Public Library of
Science), flexible copyrights (Creative Commons), medicine (Open
Source Drug Discovery),
biotechnology (Bioforge) and others.
The "Collaborative Innovation for Development" workshop will explore
how this powerful new trend
can be harnessed for socio-economic development to address challenges
in the areas of education,
health, literacy, science and others. It will also take stock of Bayh
Dole Act and its possible impact on
countries like India. Some of the questions that this conference will
address are:
1. What is the potential economic impact of the FOSS,
collaborative innovation model on the
Indian economy?
2. How should India look at Patents and Copyright Laws in view of
emerging open and
collaborative models?
3. How should India look at university and public science
institutions and their research? Should a
Bayh Dole like Act help or harm India's interests?Can a
freely distributable Wikipedia like
framework be used for creating tools for the education
sector?How can flexible copyright
models like Creative Commons encourage creativity and empower
the artistic/ creative
community? How can projects like Open Source Drug Discovery
and others help combat
diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and others that affect
Indians? How can Collaborative
Innovation be leveraged to improve the speed and efficiency
of e-government deployments?
3. What are the appropriate policy changes that need to be made to
enable India to harness the
benefits of Collaborative Innovation?
The focus of this one day workshop will be on the practical
applications of Collaborative
Innovation for India's development. This workshop is open to
practitioners and policy makers
who are interested in leveraging the power of Collaborative Innovation.
About Knowledge Commons: Knowledge Commons is a not-for-profit
organization that aims to
increase public access to knowledge through free and open source
software, open standards for data
and open access to content.
Programme:
Collaborative Innovation for Development: Enlarging the
Global Commons
India Habitat Centre, Magnolia, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003
on 6th December 2008
Time Session Speakers
9.30 AM – Inaugural Session Chairperson: Prof. Abhijit
Sen, Member, Planning
11.15AM Commission
Welcome Address: Nandu
Pradhan, President and Managing
Director, Red Hat
Keynote Address: Prof. Eben
Moglen, Professor of Law and
Legal history at Columbia
University, and founder, Director-
Counsel and Chairman of
Software Freedom Law Centre
Special Address: N.N.
Prasad, Jt. Sec., Ministry of
Commerce*
11.15AM – 11.30 Tea Break
AM
11.30 AM - 1PM Collaborative Chairperson: Professor
K.Srinath Reddy, President Public
Innovation Health Foundation of India
and former Head, Department of
Cardiology, AIIMS
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Samir
Bramhachari, Director-General,
CSIR* "Open Source Drug
Discovery: A new model for
medical research and drug production"
Other Speakers: Shri Zakir
Thomas, OSDD, CSIR, "Policy
Implications for India" &
Shri Venkatesh Hariharan, Red Hat,
1PM - 2PM Lunch
2PM - 3PM Traditional Knowledge Chairperson: Shri TC James,
DIPP, Ministry of Commerce*
and Innovation Speaker: Prof. Prabhat
Patnaik, Vice-Chairman, Kerala State
Planning Board
3 PM – 3.15PM Tea Break
3.15PM – 5.00 PM Patents, Open Source, Speakers: Prof. Shamnad Bashir,
National University of
Open Standards and Juridical Sciences, Kolkata,
Open Content Shri Ashish Gautam, IBM
Ms. Kajal Bharadhwaj,
Medicine San Frontiere (MSF)
Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, IIT Delhi
Prof. Ram Ramaswamy,
Scholars Without Borders & JNU
5.00 – 6.00 PM A Collaborative Chairperson: Shri S.P.
Shukla, Former Amb. GATT, &
Innovation Roadmap Chairperson, National
Working Group on Patent Law &WTO
for India: Open House
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best
A. Mani
--
A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc
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