Patents

Will Rohr’s secular writings about Government change in the present?

If Rohr would have written his book in the present year, it would have a clear shift from the focus on defining what a perfect public administrative function is (which focused on employees themselves) to defining how a public administration be made more fruitful in satisfying the original essence of Constitution to bring about effective administration through active citizen (not just the employees, but all common citizens) collaboration and involvement. There would be clear impact of current high tech and collaborative technology on his view points on how administrative functions may be shared and collaboratively functioned to bring about transparent governance.

Rather than concentrating on separation of powers or mingling of powers or executive leadership and its center of power, he would have focused on issues of how to link citizens more freely to government information sources and its functions to reduce federal bureaucracy and make governance more open, not vested within lobbyists or specific parties within government. He would thus have been able to more clearly expose what does ‘for the people’ actual means in this technology era.

Bibliography:

1. Rohr J. A. (1986). To Run a Constitution – The Legitimacy of the Administrative State. Chapters 1-4, 9-11. University Press of Kansas

2. Ed. By Lathrop D., Ruma L. (2010). Open Government – Collaboration, Transparency and Participation in Practice. Chapters 3-6. O’Reilly Media Inc.

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Is there a more effective strategy for helping developing countries increase the computer and information literacy of their children?

Intel’s Maloney’s words – “It’s about the Web more than anything. I have young kids …….. doesn’t have access to the Web is overwhelming” – is very striking. OLPC efforts might be an answer to this concern. Strategy and plan alone doesn’t work when we are talking about reforming developing nations, cost effective infrastructure is also important. I would suggest that manufacturing information processing devices such as the XO should be done to reduce the TCO as low as possible.

OLPC website at http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/ describes the OLPC efforts in detail, their mission, vision and even hardware, software specs. The cool part that I liked is that they are using Open source tools and solutions to build the system. This will open up new realms to introduce and support Linux based Open-source systems into schools and other educational institutions which are looking for cost effective methods of increasing the computer and information literacy of the students.

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What can be learned from educational experiences where all students in certain school districts have been given computers?

The lesson learned should be lack of effective direction and control in implementing the plan. I remember from IST 601 that we should control technology, reverse should not happen. As wise users of technology, we should devise clear plans as how technology will be used, especially when it is to be used by kids. If we would have done that, things would have been far better.

I would suggest XO model laptops which are tailor made with the specific usage in schools and by kids. There should be restriction on the kind of websites or URLs that could be visited using the limited web capability of the device (A firewall which allows only listed websites, is a good choice). I am not going into detail how we can secure the unintended usage of web and multimedia.

I was just hearing the news on TV which showed a school in US that encourages students to use drugs and do sex. If the standard in schools drop to this level, there is no surprise that there is no proper control over usage of laptops which were intended for academic purposes. What I mean here is that it is the facility or the management or the party who implement the technology program, should make sure that it is well utilized.

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What implementation plans should countries make before entering into contracts to purchase low-cost computers?

Here is a nice article on what determines the usage of XO type laptops in developing countries – http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/ . The article can be used as a base for understanding how various levels of developing economies see and plan the usage of low-cost computers such as the ones envisioned by OLPC.

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Modifying World Trade Organization’s TRIPS agreement?

Here is another analysis article on a widely asked question – “Should treaties like the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS agreement be modified so developing countries can ignore software patents without facing WTO retaliatory measures?” Read along..

In my opinion, IPR should be preserved anywhere in the world. Making strict TRIP regulations has its major advantage in reducing the level of piracy – means, the TRIPs agreement should not be modified. However, the monetary aspect of patented entity is the major aspect that is luring economies to push it forward globally. Economy with more IPRs wins. Imposing TRIPs on WTO members is a part of this strategy.

I think, after all, the TRIPS agreement is modified; it should be done with the motive of reducing the influencing power and interests of the more developed economies in imposing the rules and regulations. It should be done after studying the effects of TRIPS on various economic levels – for eg : Level 1 developing economies such as Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Israel etc to Level 3 developing economies such as India, Pakistan, Peru etc. As you said, there should be enough time gap given to them to establish their IPR schemes.

I would like to share this interesting and thought provoking paper – TRIPS and capability building in Developing Economies by Rasiah R., March 2002. It talks in detail about the effects of TRIPS on developing economies. The paper discusses in length about how TRIPS should be worked out for the betterment of developing economies and states that the TRIPS agreement will eventually help the developing economies to reap benefits in “protecting and evolving literary and other works of art and culture.”, provided, sufficient time and support is given.

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Should the US patent process be revised as suggested in S 1145 and HR 1908?

Here is an interesting analysis article (short and sweet as we say) on “Should the US patent process be revised as suggested in S 1145 and HR 1908?”. Read along ..

I think this move is a right one since it will help harmonizing with the method followed by European Union, where they follow first-to-file system. This will lead to reduced litigation/administration costs and makes things simpler when IPR regulations are unified globally. One major initiative to be taken will be to establish monitoring mechanisms to track the inception/progress of inventions to mitigate conflicts that arise from the race to file first.

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Should the Linux and Open Source communities be protected from software patent challenges?

Here is an short and to-the-point article on a most debated topic that I would want everyone to focus on now – “Should the Linux and Open Source communities be protected from software patent challenges?”.

What is the impact of software patents on innovation in the software industry?

This article is a good resource for those who want to know more about the most raised question – What is the impact of software patents on innovation in the software industry? Read along ..