Dear Mary -
Thank you very much for your supportive message. We do
indeed have
high and optimistic hopes for the Access to Knowledge
movement and
network to affect change in information policy. We hope this
conference and our A2K initiative here at Yale Law School
will be
helpful.
We would greatly benefit from your and other members of the
IA
Academics list's participation in attending the conference
and hope
that you can find time in your undoubtedly busy schedules.
For those
who may not be able to make it, we intend to have video
streams and
transcripts of the conference proceedings available from our
website
as soon after the event as possible.
Thanks again for your kind words.
-Eddan
At 11:28 PM -0500 3/13/06, Mary MacDonald wrote:
>Eddan,
>
>Thank you for sharing the information about this
conference with us. What
>an important gathering to be having at this time. The
conference topics
>have many levels of meaning for the current and future
work environments of
>information architects. If we all could be free 4/21 -
23 to attend, take
>part, network with like minds, and bring new
knowledge-light back to our own
>communities we would be richer for it, I'm sure.
>
>-Mary
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ia-academic-bounces asis.org
[mailto:ia-academic-bouncesasis.org] On
>Behalf Of Yale Information Society Project
>Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:38 PM
>To: IA List for Academics
>Subject: [Ia-academic] Access to Knowledge conference,
April 21-23
>
>Access to Knowledge Conference
>Yale Information Society Project
>April 21-23, 2006
>Yale Law School
>htt
p://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html
>
>The information revolution holds great promise for
development,
>freedom, and justice, but this potential is fragile.
Without a
>coherent framework for why access to knowledge matters
and an agenda
>how to achieve it, this potential could be undermined by
the growing
>propertization and regulation of knowledge. The
Information Society
>Project (ISP) at Yale Law School invites you to help
determine the
>future of A2K.
>
> From April 21st to April 23rd, 2006, join policy
makers, activists,
>industry leaders, and academics at Yale Law School for a
conference
>addressing this topic in areas such as intellectual
property policy,
>telecommunications, education, culture, science, and
health care.
>Leading thinkers and advocates from North, South, East
and West will
>focus on generating cutting edge research agendas,
concrete policy
>solutions, and strategic partnerships for the next
decade.
>
>Please register from the conference website at
>ht
tp://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html.
>
>Plenary Panel defining Access to Knowledge include:
>
>-- Framing A2K in human rights and development
>-- Political economy of trade treaties and intellectual
property
>-- The economics of information
>-- Privacy, national security, and free expression
>-- Innovative public and private solutions to knowledge
access and
>knowledge production in developing countries
>
>Policy Panel topics include:
>
>-- Measuring Access to Knowledge
>-- Wireless Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) and A2K
>-- Traditional Knowledge
>-- Access to Scientific Knowledge
>-- Network Neutrality in the Developing World
>-- Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright
>-- Access to Medicines: India and TRIPS
>-- Peer Production and Education
>-- Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Globalization
>-- Agriculture, and Genetically Modified Crops
>-- Licensing Frameworks for Access to Knowledge
>-- Open Archives (OA), OA Publishing and Libraries
>
>For a full conference description and list of speakers,
please visit
>the conference website at
>ht
tp://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html. Space
is limited,
>so please register soon.
>
>
>----------------
>Eddan Katz
>Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
>Executive Director, Information Society Project
>http://islandia.law
.yale.edu/isp/
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