Access to Knowledge in India New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development

by Subramanian, Ramesh; Shaver, Lea

• ISBN13: 9781849665261
• ISBN10: 1849665265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series.  India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas.This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective  Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge.  These include: *information and communications technology for development,*the Indian digital divide,*networking rural areas,*copyright and comparative business models in music,*free and open source software,*patent reform and access to medicines, and*the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically. 

Author Biography

Ramesh Subramanian, general editor of this multicontributed volume, is Professor of Information Systems at Quinnipiac University and Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Foreword by Madhavi Sunder	p. xiv
Preface by Subbiah Arunachalam	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Access to Knowledge: From Development to Human Rights	p. 1
The access to knowledge perspective	p. 2
Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health	p. 3
Education: from libraries to the Internet	p. 6
Management of agricultural and traditional knowledge	p. 8
The right to science and culture	p. 9
Conclusion: a role for the courts	p. 11
Access to Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge Protection: The Indian Experience	p. 14
The emergence of traditional knowledge policy	p. 17
Proposals for a traditional knowledge legislation	p. 19
Defensive approaches to traditional knowledge protection	p. 22
Offensive approaches to traditional knowledge protection	p. 29
Conclusion	p. 31
Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (A2K): A History of Open Access (OA) and the Internet in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 36
Introduction	p. 36
History of the library movement in India	p. 40
The Indian library goes digital: e-resources and digitizing collections	p. 55
Conclusions: bibliomania in the margins - how Indians read	p. 66
Access to Medicines in India: A Review of Recent Concerns	p. 78
Introduction and background - patents, medicines and access in India	p. 78
The Indian generic pharmaceutical industry: 1947-2005	p. 80
Analysis of Indian Patents Act/TRIPS flexibilities: the 2005 Patent Act	p. 86
Indian courts - recognizing the right to access to medicines and right to health	p. 90
Future obstacles/opportunities	p. 95
A few concluding thoughts	p. 104
ICTs and Access to Knowledge in Rural India: A Comparative Study of Two Models of Deployment	p. 109
Introduction: India's disparate development	p. 109
Information and communications technologies (ICT) for development: policies and projects take root	p. 111
Objectives	p. 112
Methodology	p. 113
Prior work	p. 113
Project 1: MSSRF'S VKCs	p. 116
Project 2: The TeNeT group's projects	p. 124
Analysis	p. 132
Conclusions	p. 142
Contemporary Information and Knowledge Management: Impact on Farming in India	p. 148
Introduction	p. 148
Farming, extension and Internet in India	p. 150
Farming, agriculture and the web: a generic analysis	p. 151
Digital information management and farming in India	p. 153
The twain shall meet? ICT in rural development and ICT for agriculture	p. 154
The other strand: ICT in agriculture	p. 157
KISSAN-Kerala: exemplifying delivery of farm information services in multiple modes	p. 160
Agropedia: multiple strands coming together	p. 162
ICT contributing to agrarian prosperity in India: the twain must meet	p. 164
Index	p. 168
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.