Access to knowledge in India: new research on intellectual property, innovation & development

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. Eac

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Access to Knowledge: From Development to Human Rights; The access to knowledge perspective; Pharmaceutical patents and the right to health; Education: from libraries to the Internet; Management of agricultural and traditional knowledge; The right to science and culture; Conclusion: a role for the courts; 2 Access to Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge Protection: The Indian Experience; The emergence of traditional knowledge policy; Proposals for a traditional knowledge legislation

Defensive approaches to traditional knowledge protection Offensive approaches to traditional knowledge protection; Conclusion; 3 Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (A2K): A History of Open Access (OA) and the Internet in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Introduction; History of the library movement in India; The Indian library goes digital: e-resources and digitizing collections; Conclusions: bibliomania in the margins - how Indians read; 4 Access to Medicines in India: A Review of Recent Concerns; Introduction and background - patents, medicines and access in India

The Indian generic pharmaceutical industry: 1947-2005Analysis of Indian Patents Act/TRIPS flexibilities: the 2005 Patent Act; Indian courts - recognizing the right to access to medicines and right to health; Future obstacles/opportunities; A few concluding thoughts; 5 ICTs and Access to Knowledge in Rural India: A Comparative Study of Two Models of Deployment; Introduction: India's disparate development; Information and communications technologies (ICT) for development: policies and projects take root; Objectives; Methodology; Prior work; Project 1: MSSRF'S VKCs

Project 2: The TeNeT group's projectsAnalysis; Conclusions; 6 Contemporary Information and Knowledge Management: Impact on Farming in India; Introduction; Farming, extension and Internet in India; Farming, agriculture and the web: a generic analysis; Digital information management and farming in India; The twain shall meet? ICT in rural development and ICT for agriculture; The other strand: ICT in agriculture; KISSAN-Kerala: exemplifying delivery of farm information services in multiple modes; Agropedia: multiple strands coming together