IIT Delhi & Red Hat detail ideas from Knowledge Symposium

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today shared the proceedings of their recently held Knowledge Symposium titled, "Owning the Future: Ideas and their role in the digital age". The event  organized by IIT Delhi and Red Hat was held in New Delhi on August 24-25, 2006 and was supported by the Software Freedom Law Center, CII and Creative Commons. Digital Learning, e-gov and i4d magazines were the media partners for this event.

A wide spectrum of policy makers called for the greater usage of open source to modernize India in the digital era and the re-evaluation of the laws pertaining to Intellectual Property. The event sought to examine the notion of intellectual "property," in the context of traditional knowledge,globalization and the growth of the open source movement worldwide.

The Indian policy makers and thought leaders who spoke at the event included, Mr. Prithviraj Chauhan, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office; Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission; Mr. HL Bharadwaj, Minister for Law and Justice; Prof. VS Ramamurthy, Chairman of Board of Governors, IIT Delhi and former secretary, Department of Science and Technology; Prof. Debesh Das, Minister for IT, Government of West Bengal; Mr. V Ponraj, Director (Technology Initiatives), President's Office;Justice Yatindra Singh, Allahabad High Court; Mr. Madhukar Sinha, Registrar of Copyrights and Mr S. Chandrasekaran, Controller General of

Patents.

The event also brought together global leaders from the open source community, including Jim Wales founder of the phenomenally popular open source encyclopedia, Wikipedia; Prof. Paul Jones from the University of North Carolina & founder of Ibiblio and Dr. Vijay Kumar, Director of Academic Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and adviser to the National Knowledge Commission.

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