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Strategies to counter Piracy |
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"India has ensured the establishment
of an intellectual property enforcement regime in consonance
with its international obligations. While provisions exist in
law, we are equally conscious of the need to improve its effective
implementation in both letter and spirit", said Dr. Ashwani
Kumar, Minister of State for Industry, said while inaugurating
a Seminar on "Fighting Counterfeiting and Piracy.
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Quoting a recent study by the International
Data Corporation, he said that a mere 10 per cent reduction in piracy
in India could translate into 115,000 new IT jobs, pump in $ 5 billion
a additional revenue and $ 386 million as additional tax revenue for
the economy.
Outlining the series of steps taken to address the issue in India,
Dr. Kumar said: "In India, enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
is regulated through different agencies including the Customs, Police
and Judiciary. The Copyright Enforcement Advisory Council headed by
the Education Secretary has as its members, police chiefs of 21 States,
besides other stakeholders. This is a national level body, recently
reconstituted with a view to evolve effective strategies for enforcement
of Intellectual Property Rights. Several State Governments have also
created special IPR cells as well as appointed nodal officers. Efforts
by the Government have also been complemented by strong initiatives
from the private sector. A noteworthy campaign has been launched by
NASSCOM against software piracy. Innovative measures like the setting
up of toll-free lines to speed up the process of detection have also
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Bangalore Cyber
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NASSCOM,
inaugurated Karnataka's first state-of-the-art Cyber lab at Bangalore.
The Bangalore cyber lab is the third facility of its kind in the country.
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It is expected to train more than 1000 law enforcement
officials' annually on cyber crime investigation techniques
and provide ongoing technical support for investigations
as well.
Set-up and managed on a public-private partnership model,
the lab will function as a regional hub and undertake
training and support in Bangalore and other cities in
Karnataka, in addition to the neighbouring districts
of Karnataka.
Details
about Bangalore Cyber lab
The cyber lab will have a full time project manager
from the police, twoinstructors and part time volunteers
from the student
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community. The training will include familiarization on
areas such as internet, browsing, email and online transactions
among others and education on what constitutes cyber crime.
Once trained these law enforcement officials will be able
carry out various activities like analysing and scrutinising
data on hard disks, email tracking, extracting evidence
using Internet and mobile phones and on cyber crime-related
legislation.
Criticality of cyber security
in India
In the age of digitization and automation of information,
security issues such as data theft, piracy, |
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hacking, identity theft and violation of IPR among others have
witnessed a significant rise globally. While India follows world
class security standards and practices, it is important to keep
evolving and extending security initiatives through proactive
efforts, if it wants to continue to be the preferred global
outsourcing destination.
Currently India has 3 such labs, but this will need to be significantly
ramped up to meet the requirements of the IT sector. Over time,
we see this resulting in better quality of service for citizens
and also provide a comfort factor for the IT industry in Bangalore.
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NASSCOM's ongoing focus
on cyber security initiatives
NASSCOM has been working closely with both the
IT and ITES-BPO industry to create an Information Security
culture, commensurate with world standards. One of the
important aspects of NASSCOM's information security
strategy is to strengthen the capacity of the Indian
criminal justice system, including the police, prosecutors
and judicial officers. The objective is to set up a
robust framework to effectively investigate and prosecute
cyber crime cases. The Bangalore lab will act as the
focal point and a resource centre for training and technical
support for both Bangalore and other Police officers
in the skills of cyber crime investigation.
TCS unveils 'science-to-software' transformation programme
In order to enlarge and develop the suitable talent
pool available to the IT industry Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS) has unveiled its latest initiative.
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The TCS Talent Transformation (TCS T2) aims to transform
science graduates into global software professionals
and is the first scalable programme undertaken to draw
graduates from disciplines other than engineering into
the global technology services industry. With lack of
suitable, trained talent identified as a key potential
barrier to growth, the TCS science-to-software programme
is designed to be a hi-tech, hi-touch learning module
that aims to transform B Sc./ BCA degree holders into
best-in-class IT professionals. The TCS Talent Transformation
program is designed to spread the economic benefits
of employment in the IT industry to wider base of science
graduates across India. This will be done through a
fast, scaleable model that has been designed to reach
out to the large mass of science graduates in the country,
irrespective of location. Five hundred science graduates
are currently undergoing the pilot program at TCS' Chennai
facilities. The on-going pilot is currently underway
at Chennai with 500 graduates selected from across the
country. TCS plans to scale up
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make offers to 2,000 science graduates during this academic
year as a part of this initiative.
VSNL, Australian firm in pact for undersea cable
According to News Reports Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL)
has tied up with Australia-based telecommunications
carrier Pipe Networks to lay a new submarine cable linking
Australia to Guam. VSNL-Tyco Global Networks already
has a presence in Guam - a country near Australia. In
August, VSNL also announced plan to build two new submarine
cable systems, in partnership with leading carriers
- one in between India and Europe and the other in intra-Asia.
These multiterabit capacity systems would interconnect
with VSNL's existing global network that has over 20
terabits of capacity. VSNL International owns the world's
largest designed global backbone capacity network, spanning
four continents and comprising of major ownership in
206,356km of terrestrial network fibre optic networks
and sub-sea cables.
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