Also in the final A2K3 panel, The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Natasha Primo, National ICT policy advocacy coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications, discusses three questions that happen to be related to my current research. 1) Where is the global in the global public sphere? 2) Who is the public in […]
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A2K3: Connectivity and Democratic Ideals
Published September 10th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Conferences and A2K3. 0 CommentsA2K3: Communication Rights as a Framework for Global Connectivity
Published September 10th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Technology, Human Rights, Conferences and A2K3. 1 CommentIn the last A2K3 panel, entitled The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Seán Ó Siochrú made some striking statements based on his experience building local communication networks in undeveloped areas of LCDs. He states that the global public sphere is currently a myth, and what we have now is elites promoting their self-interest. […]
A2K3: Opening Scientific Research Requires Societal Change
Published September 10th, 2008 in Developing world, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 0 CommentsIn the A2K3 panel on Open Access to Science and Research, Eve Gray, from the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, sees the Open Access movement as a real societal change. Accordingly she shows us a picture of Nelson Mandela and asks us to think about his release from prison and the amount […]
A2K3 Kaltura Award
Published September 10th, 2008 in Statistics, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property, Open Science and shameless self-promotion. 0 CommentsI am honored and humbled to win the A2K3 Kaltura prize for best paper. Peter Suber posts about it here and gives the abstract. His post also includes a link to a draft of the paper, which can also be found here: Enabling Reproducible Research: Open Licensing For Scientific Innovation. I’d love comments and […]
A2K3: Technological Standards are Public Policy
Published September 10th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Technology, Conferences and A2K3. 2 CommentsLaura DeNardis, executive director of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, spoke during the A2K3 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 advocates the […]
A2K3: A World Trade Agreement for Knowledge?
Published September 8th, 2008 in Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 1 CommentThiru 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 a public good (nonrival and nonexcludable), we will have a “market failure” if single countries […]
A2K3: Access to Knowledge as a Human Right
Published September 8th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights, Conferences, A2K3 and Intellectual Property. 1 CommentBuilding 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 open countries are? She suggests borrowing from the experience with human rights measurement. For example […]
A2K3: Tim Hubbard on Open Science
Published September 8th, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Human Rights, Conferences, A2K3, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 3 CommentsIn 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 is released. In fact he claims that biologists used to deliberately mess up images so […]
Access to Knowledge 3: Opening Remarks
Published September 8th, 2008 in Developing world, Conferences, A2K3 and Intellectual Property. 2 CommentsI’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 conference room with translation headphones and plush leather chairs. Maybe I’m easily impressed, but this […]
