IGI and BDB Unveil New Course Offerings International grading authority partners with the world’s largest diamond bourse to educate and prepare its members for industry growth By: Diamond World News Service
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The International Gemological Institute (IGI) and the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) recently partnered to provide exclusively created courses in grading and jewelry designing for members of the bourse. With the goal of enhancing and updating technical knowledge and skills, the courses will help the local region remain adept as the gem and jewelry industries in India face a futuristic transformation.
“India covers more than 70% of the world’s diamond and jewelry manufacturing, so educating our workforce is of paramount importance,” said IGI India President and Managing Director
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Amazon Web Services has responded to Elastic adopting more-restrictive software licenses by simply forking the latter s Elasticsearch and Kibana products with an open-source license.
This basically means developers have a choice: use software developed by Elastic that has a somewhat limited license, or an open-source offshoot developed by a gigantic technology company that also offers it as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service in the cloud.
Last week, Elastic announced it will drop the open-source Apache 2.0 licence for its ElasticSearch and Kibana projects, and instead use the non-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL) and Elastic licence in a dual-licensing approach. It said it may add provisions to have the code revert to the Apache 2.0 licence after a period of up to five years.
BDB Members Overturn Ban on Lab-Growns December 29, 20 by John Jeffay
(IDEX Online) - Members of the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB), in Mumbai, voted yesterday, as expected, to allow the trading of lab-growns.
The managing committee of the world s largest bourse will now draw up strict guidelines to keep natural a
nd lab-grown diamonds (LGD) separated and is likely to set aside a dedicated LGD office. No date has been set for the new policy to be implemented.
The sale of lab-growns was banned at BDB in 2015, amid concerns that unscrupulous merchants would threaten the trade of small and melee diamonds. Technology now allows much easier differentiation between lab-grown and natural gems.