March 2009
3 posts
IP recommendations
I blogged about the joint seminar for capacity development on Intellectual property hosted by DST, WIPO and JICA earlier. We had the some of the top experts in the country as well as some international guests, and even an IP lawyer or two. Well what came out of the conference are the following recommendations and conclusions which have been sent on to the powers that be.
The Participants...
free filesystems?
Picked up on the article http://tinyurl.com/ajh32f by Brain Kahin thanks to simon, Brian is a Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington
It does raise the question for me about what we should be doing about propreitary file formats. After spending some time ensuring open standards for our documents, do we need to start paying attention to filesystems....
wolf in sheep's clothing
Busy preparing for Friday’s meeting on procurement. There are lots of good documents to refer to, so putting together a procurement guideline should not be too difficult. One challenge that we will not overcome through this process is Procurement dressed up as a partnership. We have seen many state agencies enter into deals where they initially receive software at no charge for a year or two...