You can read more about my efforts in India on the Public that challenged Resource Docket where I keep a listing of speeches, press, and other public information.
I close on a sad note. India lost a remarkable person this year and I lost a dear friend. Shamand Basheer passed away at the young age of 43 after a very long illness. In his short time on earth he touched so many lives, mine included.
A recent photograph of Shamnad that challenged
Shamnad had the finest legal mind of anybody I have buy sales lead ever met, and I have had the privilege of working with many of the best. Shamnad, though, was on a wholly different level. He was considered to be the leading intellectual property expert in India, but he also pursued justice in many other areas of the law. discrimination in law school admissions, he intervened in the landmark Novartis case, he this project was recently featured played an instrumental role in the Delhi University Photocopy case.
But he did so much more
His greatest accomplishment is IDIA, which he created and spent his greatest efforts with. IDIA’s mission is increasing diversity by increasing access to legal education. They find young students with great potential but living in business to consumer marketing impoverished circumstances, get them ready to take the exam to get into law school, then stick with them to get them through the program. These young lawyers then go back to their communities to provide justice.
It is an immensely inspirational program and you can do nothing better to honor Shamna. He has written code that pulls a document off the Internet Archive and bounces it off Google Vision for the OCR, then recreates the files that the Archive would expect to see if it had done the OCR in the Abby software it uses.