Access to Knowledge 2008

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The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights

New technologies enable communication that transcends the boundaries of the nation state, creating the possibility of a public sphere that also transcends the nation state. The A2K movement itself takes advantage of the digital facilities - such as wikis, blogs, mobile devices, and social networking tools - that might produce a global [...]

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Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research

Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of unnecessary copyright and licensing restrictions. Made possible by the internet and author consent, OA supports wider and faster access to knowledge. This panel featured Leslie Chan, of the University of Toronto; Subbiah Arunachalam of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and Global [...]

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Dr. Victoria Stodden awarded the Kaltura Prize

This morning, Dr. Victoria Stodden was awarded the Kaltura Prize for her paper entitled “Enabling Reproducible Research: Open Licensing for Scientific Innovation.” The Kaltura Prize is granted to the author of the best submission on a topic relating to digital media remix, open-source business models, collaborative production, democratic culture, or related themes which speak to [...]

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Alternatives to Monopolies : Prizes

Today’s second panel will discuss the possibility of prizes as alternatives to monopolies. The panel will be moderated by Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT, and the panelists will include James Love of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Bard Geesaman of X-Prize Foundation, Erika Duenas from the Embassy of Bolivia in Washington D.C. and Pierre Chirac, Médecins sans [...]

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Technological Standards are Public Policy

I just listened to Laura DeNardis, executive director of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, speak during the panel on Technologies for Access. She makes the point that many of our technological standards are being made behind closed doors and by private, largely unaccountable, parties such as ICANN, ISO, the ITU, and other standards bodies. She [...]

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Technologies for Access

For panel descriptions and links to bios see: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/7118.htm
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A2K Academy Launch

Immediately following the last panel, speakers from academic institutions in five countries announced an exciting new partnership in research, scholarship, and curriculum design for A2K. [slides]
At right, the A2K Academy’s first book launch. The cover image features Sherezade, an installation by Brazilian artist Hilal Sami Hilal at the Palacio das Artes in 2007, captured by [...]

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Research and Capacity Building for A2K

The panel description and speaker bios are here. Please post your comments below the summary…

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Open Business Models

A new breed of entrepreneurs has emerged to challenge the old assumption that exclusive intellectual property regimes are essential for cultural innovation. These new business models demonstrate that “free culture”—in the sense of open and democratic—can still provide livelihoods for creators and businesspeople. This panel will examine these new ways of doing business and [...]

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The Value of Copyright Exceptions and Limitations in the Information Society

This panel will explore the value of copyright exceptions and limitations and includes the insights of Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam, Kenneth Crews, Colombia University, Emilija Banionyte, Vilnius Pedagogical University Library, Lithuania, Coenraad Visser, University of South Africa (UNISA), Antoine Aubert, Google, and moderated by Winston Tabb, IFLA.

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Closing the Knowledge Gap

Anil Gupta
The first panel of day 2 will discuss closing the knowledge gap. The panel will be moderated by Madhavi Sunder of the University of Chicago Law School and the panelists include Miriam Nisbet of the Information Society Division, UNESCO, Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network, Alan Story from the University of Kent and [...]

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A2K and International Trade

The Panel
The last panel of the day explores the relationship between access to knowledge and international trade and features Thiru Balasubramaniam, Knowledge Ecology International, Catherine P. Bennet, National Foreign Trade Council, Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law, Gabrielle Marceau, WTO Secretariat and University of Geneva, Sisule Musungu, University of Bern & IQsensato and moderated [...]

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Access to Knowledge and the WIPO Development Agenda

Teresa Hackett
The third panel of the day will explore the Access to Knowledge Movement and its relation to the WIPO Development Agenda. The panel features Dominique Foray of Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Teresa Hackett of eIFL.net, Richard Owens of World Intellectual Property Organization, Maximiliano Santa Cruz of the Permanent Mission of Chile in Geneva, [...]

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Access to Knowlege and Human Rights

The Panel

The second panel of the day will examine the relationship between human rights and A2K, featuring Molly K. Beutz of New York Law School, Christian Courtis of the International Commission of Jurists, and Marisella Ouma of the Kenya Copyright Board. The panel is moderated by Caroline Dommen of 3D-Trade-Human Rights-Equitable Economy.

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The Global A2K Movement

The opening panel examines the history, impact, and future of the Global A2K Movement. The panel description and speaker bios are here.

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Keynote Address by Jack Balkin

Jack Balkin, Founding Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, gave a keynote address on the lessons of the Network Neutrality debate for Access to Knowledge.

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Opening Addresses

Sisule Musungu
Sisule Musungu, the conference organizer, and Laura DeNardis, the Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, opened the A2K3 Conference. A short summary of their remarks follows…