[open-government] Call for papers--Knowledge Commons Conference in Belgium next September

Thu Dec 22 14:05:32 UTC 2011

Dear Colleagues:

It is my pleasure to announce that the call for papers for the 1st
Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons is now
launched: deadline 31st of January 2012 for the abstract submission (deadline for full paper submission 31st of July 2012). More 
information is available on the conference website at:
http://biogov.uclouvain.be/iasc/index.php

The keynote speakers for the conference include:

Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland, US
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California at Berkeley, US
Samir K Brahmachari, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Emile Frison, Bioversity International, Italy
Paul David, Stanford, US and Telecom-ParisTech, France, UNU-Merit, NL
Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

We encourage you to submit a paper and presentation to this event. You also will find more detailed information in the call for papers below and in the link above.

Best regards,

Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Paul F. Uhlir

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1ST THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE KNOWLEDGE COMMONS

Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources:
Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and Genetic
Resource Commons

12-14th  September  2012

Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://biogov.uclouvain.be/iasc/index.php

TOPIC

A variety of initiatives and policies have been proposed that are going
beyond "open access", and aim to facilitate more effective and extensive
(global) sharing on local and global pools of not only scientific
information and data but also genetic resources and cultural
expressions. There is thus a need to examine a number of these
proposals' conceptual foundations from the economic and legal
perspectives and to analyze the roles of the public domain and commons
in facilitating sharing of scientific and technical data, information
and materials.

The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to
bring together leading people from a number of international scientific
research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and
policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of
institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain
conditions for collaborative research.

CONFERENCE TRACKS

.	Track 1 on "Scientific Research and Innovation Commons"
.	Track 2 on "Digital Information Commons"
.	Track 3 on "Historical experience of the knowledge commons"
.	Track 4 on "Genetic Resource Commons"
.	Track 5 on "Cultural Commons"
.	Cross-cutting conference track 6 on climate change

ORGANISATION

Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
Utrecht University, Netherlands

SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

.	Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
.	Paul David, Research Chair in the Digital Economy, Telecom-ParisTech
and l'Ecole Polytechnique, France, and Stanford Institute for Economic
Policy Research, US.
.	Jerome Reichman, Duke Law School, US.
.	Gurdial Singh Nijar, Director of the Centre of Excellence for
Biodiversity Law, Malaysia	
.	Carlos M. Correa, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
of Industrial Property Law and Economics at the University of Buenos
Aires (UBA)
.	Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and
Scholarly Communication
.	Paul Uhlir, Director of the Office of International Scientific
Information Programs, The National Academies, US.
.	Michael Halewood, Head of the Policy Research and Support Unit at
Bioversity International (CGIAR), Headquarters in Rome, Italy
.	Eric Brousseau, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris
.	Francoise Genova, Director Strasbourg astronomical data centre, France
.	Geertrui Van Overwalle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

CODATA (International Council for Science : Committee on Data for
Science and Technology) : GICSI taks group on Global Information Commons
for Science
Faculté Universitaire Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), Belgium
Ghent University, Belgium
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
UNU-Merit (Maastricht)
University of Utrecht, Netherlands