[okfn-za] Anyone going to 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, Cape Town, 9-13th December?

[Jonathan Gray]

Is anyone planning to go to the 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public
Interest in Cape Town on 9-13th December?

http://www.openair.org.za/capetown2013

If so would love to hear about your plans. Particularly interested to see
whether there are any sessions/discussions/meetings planned on copyright
reform, particularly in light of recent revelations about IP negotiations
from the TPP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

J.

## 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest

>From 9 to 13 December 2013, delegates from national and international
governmental entities, the private sector, civil society and academia will
gather for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town, South Africa.
Hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT), participants will engage with
diverse perspectives and future scenarios for intellectual property (IP),
innovation and development during the combined 3rd Global Congress on IP
and the Public Interest and Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in
Africa. These concurrent events are being convened at the historic
Breakwater Lodge conference centre in Cape Town's Waterfront district.

## Presentations and Workshops

The five days of Congress & Conference events will feature a mix of keynote
speeches to plenary sessions and specialised presentations to smaller
breakaway groups and workshops. Participants will break into thematic
tracks in order to receive targetted presentations and conduct in-depth
scrutiny of the present status of key current strands of public interest
engagement with global and national IP regimes. The five thematic tracks
are : (1) user rights; (2) access to medicines; (3) enforcement; (4)
openness; and (5) traditional knowledge. Participants will also attend
workshops proposed and convened by their fellow participants, so as to
ensure that the Congress & Conference address all matters of current
concern to the IP experts who make the journey to Cape Town.

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