Remarks by Carl Malamud, The Right to Information, The Right to Knowledge,
Channel: LawResourceOrg
Date: 28/10/2017

Sunday, 15 October 2017, Bangalore
Hosted by Hasgeek at the NUMA Bangalore Facility

HasGeek and NUMA Bangalore are excited and proud to welcome two eminent internet pioneers to speak on open data and knowledge in India.

Dr. Sam Pitroda was a senior advisor to Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh and is widely credited for having led India’s telecommunications and technology revolutions in the 1980s. Dr. Pitroda holds 20 honorary PhDs, close to 100 worldwide patents, and helped create the first digital PBXs in the 1960s.

Carl Malamud started the first radio station on the Internet and is considered one of the pioneers of the U.S. open government movement. Carl runs Public.Resource.Org, an NGO which has placed hundreds of millions of pages of government information online, including all 19,000 Indian Standards.