DataLearn: Open Data - Ethics and Licensing

This session is part of the series of sessions titled DataLearn that will bring together some of the best names in the social good and tech space to introduce you to some of the interesting sub-domains that come under the umbrella of Data-for-Good. This is a sincere effort of ours to build a platform for learning, sharing and networking - in a strive to build a passionate community of data do-gooders who can think beyond data and push the horizons of doing data science for social good.

As part of this series, we are having our second session on Open Data - Ethics and Licensing. We'll have 2 well-known, eminent people from the data and policy-making world talking about their experience in this domain and giving you some very interesting insights.

Here are the speakers for the event:

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Pranesh Prakash is a Policy Director at — and was part of the founding team of — the Centre for Internet and Society, a Bangalore-based non-profit that engages in research and policy advocacy. He is also the Legal Lead at Creative Commons India and an Affiliated Fellow (formerly A2K Fellow) at the Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and has been on the Executive Committee of the NCUC at ICANN. In 2014 he was selected by Forbes India for its inaugural "30 under 30"​ list of young achievers, and in 2012 he was nominated as an Internet Freedom Fellow by the U.S. government.

His research interests converge at the intersections of technology, culture, economics and the law. His current work focusses on interrogating, promoting, and engaging with policymakers on the areas of access to knowledge (primarily copyright reform), 'openness' (including open government data, open standards, free/libre/open source software, and open access), freedom of expression, privacy and Internet governance. He is a prominent voice on these issues, with the newspaper Mint calling him “one of the clearest thinkers in this area”, and his research having been quoted in the Indian parliament. He regularly speaks at national and international conferences on these topics.

He has a degree in arts and law from the National Law School in Bangalore, and while there he helped found the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, and was part of its editorial board for two years.

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Thejesh GN is an Independent Technologist, developer, traveler, blogger, open data and open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He is the co-founder and chairman of DataMeet Trust. DataMeet is a community of Data Science and Open Data enthusiasts in India. DataMeet organizes meetups around the country and runs Open DataCamps (ODC).

He loves hacking Open Source software. Loves talking at events and hosting workshops. He is passionate about using technology in social sector. He was awarded Infosys Community Empathy Fellowship (2010) to work for a year at Janaagraha.

Presently along with technology consulting, he runs OpenBangalore, AskYourGovt and other personal projects

On behalf of the entire DataKind Bangalore community, we would like to extend a big thanks to Sahaj Software Solutions (http://sahajsoft.com/), who have been one of our key supporters and enablers in our endeavours!