[Commons-Law] Creative Commons India

[Lawrence Liang]

Hi all

We had a meeting at IIT Mumbai a few days ago, since IIT was interested in
taking the initiatives with regard to CC India. This is just a small account
of the meeting, and also about taking things forward.

The IIT's or Indian Institute of technology (for those not brought up on
Nehruvian modernity) are amongst the leading scientific and educaional
institutions in India.

The great thing is that there are a number of people who are very
enthusiastic about the  project here, and I think there can be no better
Host institution than the IIT's. We had a meeting which involved
Prof.Phatak, HOD of the Management school, Prof. Shiv Kumar HOD of Computer
science etc and they really want to push the CC initiatives in India. Prof.
Phatak in fact has suggested that they begin with a large number of multi
media course content "E Guru series" being brought under the CC license, and
they will leverage with the other IITs and other institutions across  India
on this matter.


The idea is to have IIT Bombay as the Host Institution, and it was also felt
that if IIT B was taking the responsibility then it also made sense for the
Project lead to be someone form there, and Prof. Shishir Jha has agreed to
take on the responsibility of being the Project lead. Many on the mailing
list have been in touch with me about the CC Commons India, and you may feel
free to contact Shishir (skjha at iitb.ac.in) for further details on issues of
co ordination etc


lawrence