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sas-dot writes:
India today launched a unique collaborative programme to discover drugs for infectious diseases common to the developing countries. The 'Open Source Drug Discovery' (OSDD) programme, launched by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), aims to build a consortium of global researchers and bypass the patent regime, which makes drugs expensive.
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sas-dot writes:
The most sought after Indian institutions like IIT and IISc have put their course lectures on youtube. The site is up from last December and is slowly gaining momentum in terms of lectures available online. This is India's own program similar to MIT opencourseware. Good to see the competition, students have many sources of knowledge for free.
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sas-dot writes:
We all know Nicholas Negroponte's $100 OLPC, India which was a potential market rejected it. Having rejected Nicholas Negroponte's offer of $100 laptops for schoolchildren, India's Human Resources Development ministry's idea to make laptops at $10 is firmly taking shape with two designs already in and public sector undertaking Semiconductor Complex evincing interest to be a part of the project. So far, the cost of one laptop, after factoring in labour charges, is coming to $47 but the ministry feels the price will come down dramatically considering the fact that the demand would be for one million laptops. "The cost is encouraging and we are hopeful it would come down to $10. We would also look into the possibility of some Indian company manufacturing the parts," an official said.
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UK's newspaper Independent headlines the brewing consumer revolt 'Consumer militancy' as individuals join forces on the internet to fight back against the state and big business. Citing from banks to football how the revolts happened, it has to say about banks "A mass revolt has left the high street banks facing thousands of claims from customers seeking to claw back some of the £4.75bn levied annually on charges for overdrafts and bounced cheques. More than one million forms demanding refunds have been downloaded from a number of consumer websites. The banks are settling out of court, often paying £1,000 a time." Is this going to be the future internet activism?
