Access To Knowledge In India

Author : Ramesh Subramanian,Lea Shaver
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849665575

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Access to Knowledge in India by Ramesh Subramanian,Lea Shaver Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.

Author : Nirmal Sengupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132239222

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Traditional Knowledge in Modern India by Nirmal Sengupta Pdf

This book demonstrates how traditional knowledge can be connected to the modern world. Human knowledge of housing, health and agriculture dates back thousands of years, with old wisdom developing and becoming modern. But in the past few decades, global communities have increasingly become aware that some of this valuable knowledge has fallen by the wayside. This has sparked systematic efforts at the local, national and global levels to connect this neglected knowledge to the modern world. It discusses the origin of the topic, its importance, recent developments in India and abroad, and what is being done and still needs to be done in order to preserve India’s traditional knowledge. The discussions address a broad range of fields and organizations: from Basmati rice to Ayurvedic cosmetics; from traditional irrigation and folk music to modern drug discovery and climate change adaptation; and from the Biodiversity Convention to the WHO, WTO and WIPO.

Author : Lea Bishop Shaver,Ramesh Subramanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Access to knowledge movement
ISBN : 1849665567

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Access to Knowledge in India by Lea Bishop Shaver,Ramesh Subramanian Pdf

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.

Author : Anup Kumar Das
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Digital libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112096222739

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Open Access to Knowledge and Information by Anup Kumar Das Pdf

Author : Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780821362082

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India and the Knowledge Economy by Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz Pdf

"In the global knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, India's development policy challenges will require it to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. India has made tremendous strides in its economic and social development in the past two decades. Its impressive growth in recent years-8.2 percent in 2003-can be attributed to the far-reaching reforms embarked on in 1991 and to opening the economy to global competition. In addition, India can count on a number of strengths as it strives to transform itself into a knowledge-based economy-availability of skilled human capital, a democratic system, widespread use of English, macroeconomic stability, a dynamic private sector, institutions of a free market economy; a local market that is one of the largest in the world; a well-developed financial sector; and a broad and diversified science and technology infrastructure, and global niches in IT. But India can do more-much more-to leverage its strengths and grasp today's opportunities. India and the Knowledge Economy assesses India's progress in becoming a knowledge economy and suggests actions to strengthen the economic and institutional regime, develop educated and skilled workers, create an efficient innovation system, and build a dynamic information infrastructure. It highlights that to get the greatest benefits from the knowledge revolution, India will need to press on with the economic reform agenda that it put into motion a decade ago and continue to implement the various policy and institutional changes needed to accelerate growth. In so doing, it will be able to improve its international competitivenessand join the ranks of countries that are making a successful transition to the knowledge economy."

Author : I. Sengupta,D. Ali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230119000

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Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India by I. Sengupta,D. Ali Pdf

This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.

Author : Ramesh Subramanian,Lea Shaver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849665265

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Access to Knowledge in India by Ramesh Subramanian,Lea Shaver Pdf

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; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.

Author : India. National Knowledge Commission
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Human services
ISBN : UCBK:C103687333

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Recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission by India. National Knowledge Commission Pdf

Detailed and informative, this original report outlines a list of recommendations presented by the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) of the Government of India. The advice focuses on five key areas of knowledge--including access, concepts, creation, applications, and services--and addresses topics such as education, languages, translation, libraries, health, intellectual property rights, public funded research, entrepreneurship, agriculture, and e-governance. Presenting the latest data on economic development, this account proves to be valuable for policymakers, developmental economists, social scientists, researchers, students, and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Andrew Flachs
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539635

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Cultivating Knowledge by Andrew Flachs Pdf

A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.

Author : Zazie Bowen,Jessica Hinchy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000740417

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Children and Knowledge by Zazie Bowen,Jessica Hinchy Pdf

Children and Knowledge sheds light on what it is to be a child in India in the contemporary moment and in history. While acknowledging the ways Indian children are situated within structures of power, this volume foregrounds innovative methodologies for conducting research into childhood and children’s lives that meaningfully engage with young people’s understandings, stories and agency. The chapters probe conceptualisations of Indian childhoods, and interrogate both singularising models of childhood and the idea of ‘multiple childhoods’. The contributors use the theme 'children and knowledge' to analyse young people’s interactions with institutions of modernity and social structures – including gender, family, class, community and caste, as well as media, markets and development – that often marginalise and frame children in multiple, cumulative ways. The chapters juxtapose and triangulate three approaches to knowledge: knowledge about children; knowledge for children; and children’s own knowledge. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how this juxtaposition is a useful framework for the analysis of historical and contemporary Indian social processes. Demonstrating that understanding Indian children’s experiences and knowledgeable perspectives is fundamental to any proper understanding of social complexity and change Children and Knowledge will be of great interest to scholars of childhoods studies, gender, education and South Asian studies. The book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Author : Anindya Bhukta
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800430655

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Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge by Anindya Bhukta Pdf

Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions that aboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal systems in place, particularly in India, must change to protect this knowledge.This book is a must-read for researchers in economics, development studies, and international law.

Author : Kung-Chung Liu,Uday S. Racherla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811381027

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Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China by Kung-Chung Liu,Uday S. Racherla Pdf

This open access book analyses intellectual property codification and innovation governance in the development of six key industries in India and China. These industries are reflective of the innovation and economic development of the two economies, or of vital importance to them: the IT Industry; the film industry; the pharmaceutical industry; plant varieties and food security; the automobile industry; and peer production and the sharing economy. The analysis extends beyond the domain of IP law, and includes economics and policy analysis. The overarching concern that cuts through all chapters is an inquiry into why certain industries have developed in one country and not in the other, including: the role that state innovation policy and/or IP policy played in such development; the nature of the state innovation policy/IP policy; and whether such policy has been causal, facilitating, crippling, co-relational, or simply irrelevant. The book asks what India and China can learn from each other, and whether there is any possibility of synergy. The book provides a real-life understanding of how IP laws interact with innovation and economic development in the six selected economic sectors in China and India. The reader can also draw lessons from the success or failure of these sectors.

Author : Francis Cody
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780801469015

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The Light of Knowledge by Francis Cody Pdf

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:B5011670

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The Journal of English Language Teaching (India). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Avtar Singh Bhasin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015070115483

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India's Foreign Relations by Avtar Singh Bhasin Pdf

Sources on foreign relations of India culled from speeches by government representatives heading the official delegations to various countries.