Category Archives: A2K3

A2K3: Connectivity and Democratic Ideals

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

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) … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Communication Rights as a Framework for Global Connectivity

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In 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 … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Opening Scientific Research Requires Societal Change

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In 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 … Continue reading →

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A2K3 Kaltura Award

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

I 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 … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Technological Standards are Public Policy

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

Laura 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 … Continue reading →

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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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