[drn-discuss] Yale ISP's 2nd Annual Access to Knowledge conference
(A2K2)
Eddan Katz
eddank at aya.yale.edu
Tue Apr 17 05:24:14 BST 2007
**Remote participation in the A2K2 conference on the accompanyong
Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2. We
invite you to contribute background materials on access to knowledge
issues and to suggest questions to be addressed on the individual
panels.
2nd Annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K2)
Yale Information Society Project
April 27-29, 2007
Yale Law School
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html
REGISTRATION is still OPEN at https://wems.worldtek.com/yaleA2K2
A2K2 Open Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/
Yale_A2K2
The last several years have witnessed the coalescing of the Access to
Knowledge (A2K) social movement that champions human rights, human
development, and the public interest as the focal points of
innovation and information policy.
The Yale Information Society Project's (ISP) first A2K conference
advanced our commitment to building a broad conceptual framework of
Access to Knowledge that can foster powerful coalitions between
diverse groups. The A2k conference brought together leading scholars
and activists from all over the world to participate in the
construction of an intellectual framework for access to knowledge.
Full conference proceedings and foundational resources for Access to
Knowledge are available at the Yale A2K conference wiki.
This year, on April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World Intellectual
Property Day, the A2K2 conference promises be a pivotal event
mobilizing the A2K coalition. Taking place between sessions of the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in which the
Development Agenda is being formalized, this gathering is an
oportunity to help define the emerging vision of innovation and
information policy. A2K2 will further build the coalition amongst
institutions and stakeholders that crystallized at the first landmark
conference, help set the agenda for A2K policy and advocacy, and
deepen the understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of access
to knowledge issues. The A2K2 conference program is focused around
mobilizing different spheres of society: Industry, Civil Society,
Governments, and Technologists. The policy panels focus on a diverse
set of A2K issues and are oriented towards tangible legal and
technological solutions and collaborative strategies for policy
makers and individual institutions.
Plenary panels:
- Welcoming Address & Keynotes
* Harold Koh - Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith
Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
* Jack Balkin - Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the
First Amendment, Yale Law School
* Yochai Benkler - Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale
Law School
- The Social Movement of A2K
* Margaret Chon - Professor of Law & Director, Center for the
Study of Justice in Society (CSJS), Seattle University
* Ahmed Abdel Latif - Second Secretary, Department of
International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
* Ronaldo Lemos - Director of the Center for Technology &
Society (CTS), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de
Janeiro
* James Love - Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
* Sisule Musungu - World Trade Institute, University of Berne
* Jerome Reichman - Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke
University Law School
Moderator: Amy Kapczynski - Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and
Public Health, Samuelson Fellow in the Information Society Project,
Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health
- Mobilizing Industry
* Brad Biddle - Senior Attorney, Intel Corporation
* Andrew McLaughlin - Head, Global Public Policy and Government
Affairs, Google Inc.
* Nagla Rizk - Associate Professor and Chair, Economics
Department, American University in Cairo
* Pam Samuelson - Professor, School of Information and Boalt
Hall School of Law and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and
Technology, University of California, Berkeley
* Jule Sigall - Senior Attorney, Legal & Corporate Affairs,
Microsoft Corp.
* Brent Woodworth - Worldwide Segment Manager, Crisis Response
Team, IBM Corp.
Moderator: Colin Maclay - Managing Director, Berkman Center for
Internet & Society
- Mobilizing Governments
* Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian
Intellectual Property Office
* Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher
School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO
Program Information For All
* Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and
Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires
* David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International
Communications and Information Policy
* Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of
Education, Chile
Moderator: Shamnad Basheer - Frank H Marks Visiting Associate
Professor in Law, George Washington University Law School
- Mobilizing Technologists
* Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian
Intellectual Property Office
* Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher
School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO
Program Information For All
* Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and
Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires
* David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International
Communications and Information Policy
* Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of
Education, Chile
Moderator: Colin Maclay - , Global Economic Governance
Programme, University of Oxford
- Mobilizing Civil Society
* Gwen Hinze - International Affairs Director, Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF)
* Nnenna Nwakanma - Cabinet Member & Regional Coordinator,
African Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS)
* Josh Silver - Executive Director, Free Press
* Sherwin Siy - Staff Attorney and Director, Global Knowledge
Initiative, Public Knowledge
* Madhavi Sunder - Professor of Law, University of California,
Davis
Moderator: Becky Lentz - Program Officer, Ford Foundation
Policy panels:
-- Partnerships for Access to Information
* Serge Bounda - Chief Librarian , Sergio Vieira de Mello
Library, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
* Hala Essalmawi - IPR Officer, The Library of Alexandria
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Egypt
* Jason Phillips - Associate Director for International Library
Relations, JSTOR (Journal Storage)
* Crispin Taylor - Executive Director, ASPB (American Society of
Plant Biologists)
Moderator: Ann Okerson - Associate University Librarian, Yale
University
-- Internationalized Domain Names
* Wei Mao - Computer Network Information System, Chinese Academy
of Sciences
* Ram Mohan - CTO & VP Business Operations, Afilias Limited
* Milton Mueller - - Professor, School of Information Studies,
Syracuse University
* Hong Xue - Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale
Law School
* Peter Yu - Associate Professor of Law and founding director of
the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program, Michigan
State University College of Law
Moderator: Robert Guerra - Managing Director, Privaterra
-- Patent Quality
* Tahir Amin - Co-founder, Initiative for Medicines, Access &
Knowledge (I-MAK)
* Daniel Ravicher - Founder and Executive Director, Public
Patent Foundation
* Frederick Abbott - Edward Ball Eminent Scholar, Florida State
University College of Law
* Arti Rai - Professor of Law, Duke University
Moderator: Joshua Sarnoff - Assistant Director, Glushko-
Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Practitioner-in-
Residence, Washington College of Law, American University
-- Open Access Literature
* Achal Prabhala - Consultant, Lawyers Collective, India
* Binyavanga Wainaina - Writer-in-Residence, Union College, New
York
* Gary Dauphin - Blackplanet.com, Africana.com, AOL Black Voices
* Rob Spillman - Editor, Tin House magazine and Executive
Editor, Tin House Books
* Michael Vazquez - Advisory Editor, Transition magazine
Moderator: Manon Ress - Director, Information Society Projects,
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
-- Search Engines
* Judith Dueck - Vice-Chair, Human Rights Information and
Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)
* Niva Elkin-Koren - Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, Haifa
University, Israel
* Michael Geist - Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-
commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada.
* Robin Gross - Executive Director, IP Justice
* Richard Owens - Director, Copyright E-Commerce Technology and
Management Division - WIPO
Moderator: Sudhir Krishnaswamy - Head, Centre for Intellectual
Property Rights Research and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School,
India University, Bangalore
-- Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
* Anetta Bok - Gender Representative for the Indigenous Peoples
of Africa Coordinating Committee-IPACC
* Graham Dutfield - Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in
Intellectual Property Law Queen Mary, University of London
* Abena Dove Osseo-Asare - Assistant Professor, Department of
History, UC Berkeley
* Elpidio Peria - Associate, Third World Network (TWN) -
Philippines
* Antony Taubman - Head, Global Issues Division, World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
Moderator: Anupam Chander - Professor of Law, University of
California, Davis
-- Community Media & the Global Public Sphere.
* Murali Shanmugavelan - Head, Information Society Project,
Panos London.
* Sasha Costanza-Chock - Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Southern California
* Ethan Zuckerman - Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, Harvard Law School.
* Natasha Primo - Chair, Association for Progressive
Communications (APC); Executive Director, Women's Net.
* Wijayananda Jayaweera - Director, Communication Development
Division, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
Moderator: Fazila Farouk - Head, Civil Society Information
Programme, Southern African NGO Network (SangoNet)
-- Broadband Wireless in Developing Countries.
* Susan Crawford - Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law, New York
* Willie Currie - Program Manager, Communications and
Information Policy, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
* Satish Jha - Co-Chair, World IT Forum (WITFOR)
* Kaili Kan - Capacity Development Officer, IICD
* Caio Pereira - Researcher and International Relations
Coordinator FGV-Sao Paulo Law School
Moderator: Diana Korsakaite - Director, Strategy Department,
Communications Regulatory Authority, Lithuania
-- Agriculture & Intellectual Property
* Fleur Claessens - Programme Officer - Intellectual Property,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
* Daniel Kevles - Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale
University
* Susan Sell - Professor of Political Science and International
Affairs, George Washington University
* Dalindyebo Shabalala - Staff Attorney and Director,
Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project, Center for
International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Moderator: Andrea Glorioso - Assistant Researcher, Politecnico
di Torino
-- The Political Economy of Digital Archives
* Glenn Otis Brown - Products Counsel, Google, Inc.
* Paul Gerhardt - Project Director, Creative Archive, BBC
* Magdy Nagi - Head of ICT Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Alexandria, Egypt
* Denise Nicholson - Copyright Services Librarian, University of
the Witwatersrand, South Africa
* Guy Pessach - Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Moderator: Teresa Hackett - Manager, eIFL-IP, Electronic
Information for Libraries (eIFL)
-- Education in the Digital Age.
* Titilayo Akinsanmi - Program Manager, Global Teenager Project,
Mindset, Johannesburg, South Africa
* Saskia Harmsen - Capacity Development Officer, IICD
* Geidy Lung - Legal Officer, Copyright Law Division, Copyright
and Related Rights Sector, WIPO
* Mira Sundara Rajan - Canada Research Chair in Intellectual
Property Law, Faculty of Law, The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
* Andrew Rens - LINK Centre, Creative Commons, South Africa
Moderator: Jack Lerner - Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, Boalt Hall,
UC Berkeley
-- Access to Scientific Knowledge
* Chris Armbruster - Founder and Executive Director, Research
Network 1989
* Subbiah Arunachalam - Distinguished Fellow, MS Swaminathan
Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India
* Juan Carlos de Martin - Associate Professor, Politecnico di
Torino
* Larry Peiperl - Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine (Public Library
of Science)
* Sibusiso Sibisi - President and CEO, Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
Moderator: Dan Burk - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of
Law, University of Minnesota Law School
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