Red Hat has shared the proceedings of their recently held Knowledge Symposium titled, Owning the Future: Ideas and their role in the digital age. The event organized jointly by IIT Delhi and Red Hat was held in New Delhi and was supported by the Software Freedom Law Center, CII and Creative Commons.
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 event also brought together global leaders from the open source community. The international speakers highlighted how the open source model, based on collaboration and sharing of knowledge leading to a tremendous knowledge generation. Also Wikipedia, a freely available online encyclopedia that anyone can edit is now available in 200 languages has attracted one million entries in the English language and has emerged as one of the top 20 web sites within a short span of five years. Major initiatives in areas like open source for e-governance, open knowledge resources for education, Wikipedia in Indian languages etc were announced and discussed at the symposium which attracted more than 100 attendees from government, the legal fraternity and the Indian open source community.
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