I had an invite to this conference the other day; there are so many good reasons that I want to get to it and I am THAT close, but so far no banana. (Why its so difficult is a whole posting alone). But if you are within spitting distance of New Haven Connecticut between April 21 and 23, make an effort and tell me about it afterwards.
Access to Knowledge, on April 21st-23rd, 2006, at Yale Law School.
The information revolution holds great promise for development, freedom, and justice, but 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 conference is designed to bring together policy makers, activists, and academics working on intellectual property policy, ICTs, education, libraries and archives, culture, traditional knowledge, health care, and other strands of the access to knowledge movement that are beginning to converge. 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.
For a change its not focused on Larry Lessig which is nice if only so that other voices get heard. And although i don't know most of them, it would be worth the very low fee $185 for the 3 days, just to hear these guys
- Rishab Ghosh, MERIT - An elegant guy who was on the Stockholm Challenge Jury with me a few years ago, and an even mroe elegant thinker
- Vandana Shiva - How such a relentless nurturer of the planet turned up with a name like Shiva beats me.
- Eric von Hippel, MIT - The guy who wrote the stuff on why companies that get their customers to design their products are orders of magnitude more efficient and profitable than those who don't.
Plenary Panel topics include:
-- Frameworks for defining Access to Knowledge in human rights and development;
-- The economics of information;
-- innovative public and private solutions to knowledge access and knowledge production in developing countries;
And i'm going to miss it all, drives me nuts.
Nice bloggy thing though, I asked how come this loudmouth in the far south gets an invite to a Yale conference at New Haven. The answer: "one of the ISP student fellows follows your blog and recommended that you might be interested". See, it is worth keeping the thing going.
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