[A2k] Webcast of Civil Society Meeting with WIPO DG candidates

[Dalindyebo Bafana Shabalala]

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Dear colleagues,

On May 15, 2008, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
will be choosing a new Director-General. Historically, the selection
process has been non-transparent and closed to civil society. In an
attempt to open up the process, CIEL, Third World Network, and a group
of civil society organizations invited all 15 of the WIPO
Director-General candidates to meet with civil society groups on April
15, 2008 in Geneva. Candidates were also asked to respond in writing to
8 questions.

    * The letter requesting a meeting can be found here
      <http://www.ciel.org/Publications/WIPO_DG_Letter_19Mar08.pdf>.
    * The Agenda for the meeting is available here
      <http://www.ciel.org/Publications/WIPO_Agenda_15Apr08.pdf>.

A Webcast of the whole meeting in five sequences is available below:

Video 1 -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5093362967627971571&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5093362967627971571&hl=en>
Video 2 -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1312827334844132820&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1312827334844132820&hl=en>
Video 3 -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8845402997045229188&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8845402997045229188&hl=en>
Video 4 -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5105921436401561633&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5105921436401561633&hl=en>
Video 5 -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8998862960353259859&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8998862960353259859&hl=en>

Further information on who attended the meetings well as the written
responses that have been received so far, can be found on the CIEL
website at: http://www.ciel.org/Tae/WIPO_DirGen_15Apr.html

News reports on the WIPO DG candidates race and on the meeting with
civil society can be found at:
http://ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=955 (Responses to 5 IP Watch
Questions)
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1016 (Report on meeting with
Civil Society)
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1002 (Report on Candidates
meeting with member states)

We encourage civil society and other stakeholders to make their opinions
and evaluations known and to engage as fully as possible in the
discussion about who the best person should be to lead to WIPO.


Dalindyebo Shabalala
Center for International Environmental Law
and
Sangeeta Shashikant
Third World Network