%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Creative Commons, India Launch
Creative Commons, India [cc-india.org] will be launched on January 26th [4:00 pm to 6:00 pm] at F. C. Kohli Auditorium, KReSIT, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai. See map for directions to get to IIT Bombay, Powai: http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/howto/howtoget.html http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/howto/iitblayout.html [Building No. 37] Confirmed speakers at the launch event: Mr. Joichi Ito [Chairman, Creative Commons] Dr. Catharina Maracke [Creative Commons, Global Coordinator] Mr. Nandu Pradhan [President and Managing Director, Red Hat, India] Mr. Anurag Kashyap [Film Director, Script and Screenplay Writer] Prof. Deepak Phatak [KReSIT, IIT Bombay] Lawrence Liang [Legal Lead, Creative Commons, India] Workshops: Two parallel workshops on Creative Commons: January 26th & 27th 1. Do We Need Remix? [www.techfest.org/workshops/remix/]IDC Lab 2. Sharing Is Creating [www.techfest.org/workshops/sic/]C-DEEP Lab Joint CC Stall: A joint Creative Commons, Novell, Google, Creative.linux stall will be accessible on the ground floor of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management building, IIT Bombay. Please contact Shishir K. Jha, Project Lead, CC-India for further details [see cc-india.org]: Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai - 400 076 E-mail: skjha[at]iitb.ac.in Tel: 022-25767845, 9892490140 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Information on Mr. Joichi Ito [Main speaker on the theme event] Mr. Joichi Ito is a Japanese-born and American-educated businessman who has many areas of interest and expertise. He was recently appointed as the Chairman of Creative Commons. He is also the Chairman of iCommons [the international Creative Commons]. He runs the World of Warcraft guild, which is composed of several venture capitalists, CEOs and other influential members of the Internet economy. He also wears many other hats. He is, among other things, general manager of international operations for Technorati, chairman of Six Apart Japan, founder and chief executive of venture capital firm Neoteny, and a board member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN], Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. He is is also the founder of Digital Garage, PSINet, Japan and Infoseek, Japan. Mr. Ito will speak about the importance of Creative Commons for a growing global digital culture in light of the launch of the Indian creative commons jurisdiction on January 26th. The intimate interaction between technology, law and culture in digital products is creating new challenges for enterprises, individuals and other organizations. How is the digital landscape getting altered with the emergence of licenses such as creative commons? Can new models be envisaged which will seriously accommodate the sharing ethos of the common individual? These and many more issues will be addressed by Mr. Joi Ito. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
