Access to Knowledge in India

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.

Auteur

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

Lea Shaver is an Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School

Contenu

Table of Contents

Introduction and Foreword
Ramesh Subramanian

Chapters:

1. Regulating Access to Knowledge: A Review of Traditional Knowledge Policy in India
   Sudhir Krishnaswamy

2. Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (A2K): A History of Open Access (OA) and the Internet in India in the 19th and 20th Century
   Prashant Iyengar

3. Access to Medicines in India: A Review of Recent Concerns
   Chan Park & Arjun Jayadev

4. ICT for development in rural India: A Report
   Ramesh Subramanian

5. Access to Knowledge in Farming: The Internet and its Impacts
   Venkatraman Balaji