Daily Archives: September 8, 2008

A2K3: A World Trade Agreement for Knowledge?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

Thiru Balasubramanian, Geneva Representative for Knowledge Ecology International presents a proposal (from a forthcoming paper by James Love and Manon Ress) for a WTO treaty on knowledge (so far all WTO agreements extend to private goods only). Since information is … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Access to Knowledge as a Human Right

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

Building on the opening remarks, the second panel addresses Human right and Access to Knowledge. Caroline Dommen, director of 3D, an advocacy group promoting human rights consideration in trade agreements, emphasizes the need for metrics: how can we tell how … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Tim Hubbard on Open Science

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

In the first panel at A2K3 on the history, impact, and future of the global A2K movement, Tim Hubbard, a genetics researcher, laments that scientists tend to carry out their work in a closed way and thus very little data … Continue reading →

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Access to Knowledge 3: Opening Remarks

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

I’m at my first Access to Knowledge conference in Geneva and I’ve never felt so important. Walking to the Centre International de Conférences in Geneva I passed the UN High Commission for Refugees and I’m sitting in an enormous tiered … Continue reading →

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