Prominent Participants
Participants who took part included Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission (who made a video presentation); Dr. Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center; Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia; Dr. MS Vijay Kumar, Academic Director and Assistant Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. D. B. Phatak of IIT Bombay; among others.
Other prominent participants included Indian Institute of Technology Delhi deputy director (faculty) Prof B.N.Jain, Red Hat Inc. executive vice president for corporate affairs Tom Rabon, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Board of Governors chairman Dr. V.S. Ramamurthy, Indian Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chauhan, Red Hat India president and managing director Nandu Pradhan, IIT Delhi IPR Cell's Prof S.K.Jain, Supreme Court of India's e-committee's Justice G.C. Bharuka, the Alternative Law Forum's Lawrence Liang, Indian Department of IT's IPR Cell's Dr. Ajai Garg and Intel's Danese Cooper.
Speakers also included Justice Yatindra Singh of the Allahabad High Court, IIT Bombay's Prof. D.B. Phatak, India's Director General of Patents S. Chandrashekar, lawyer Nishith Dessai of Nishith Desai Associates, Delhi Science Forum's Prabir Purkayastha, Sri Lanka's ICTA's Jayanta Fernando, and the Indian National Association for Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).
V. Ponraj, the director for technology initiatives from the Office of the President of India spoke on the relevance of Open Source to India. Speakers also included Open Access campaigner Subbaiah Arunachalam, India's Registrar of Copyrights Madhukar Sinha, ibiblio founder Paul Jones (computer technologist) of the University of North Carolina, techie-turned-minister for information technology in the Government of West Bengal Dr. Debesh Das, campaigner for traditional knowledge rights Dr. Vandana Shiva, Technetra's Alolita Sharma, Ayurveda practitioner Dr Raju J, India's director of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Dr. V.K. Gupta, and India's Committee on Infrastructure of the Planning Commission Sudhir Krishnaswamy.
Presentations also were made by Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic director and assistant provost M.S. Vijay Kumar, Open Source Initiative president Michael Tiemann, and India's National Informatics Centre deputy director general Dr. B.K. Gairola.
Venkatesh »Venky« Hariharan, Head - Open Source Affairs, Red Hat India argued that the intellectual traditions of India placed »great value on the sharing of knowledge«, a view that was contested by others.
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