[A2k] Yale ISP White Paper on the Committee on Development and IP

[Manon Ress]

Eliot Pence has published a White Paper for the Yale Information
Society Project on the Development Agenda discussions currently taking
place in the CDIP.  In time for the second session of the CDIP which
begins July 7th, the paper proposes a renewed focus on necessary
procedural reforms as part of the work-plan for implementing the WIPO
Development Agenda.

Below is the Executive Summary and here's a link to the paper:

http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/ISP/PenceWhitePaper.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"This Yale ISP White Paper critically analyzes the first session
meetings of the newly formed Committee on Development and Intellectual
Property [CDIP]. It explores the overlooked subject of process and
procedure at the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO]. In
doing so, it tries to advance the Committee's efforts to create
individualized activities for implementation of the 45 recommendations
contained in the Development Agenda [DA], by refocusing attention back
on reforming the mechanism through which that objective is achieved,
namely a work-plan methodology. Specifically, it looks at discussions
pertaining to two agenda items during the first session meetings
(Agenda Item 4 and Agenda Item 5), and proposes a new classification
and clustering method for considering the 45 recommendations. It
concludes by suggesting that further attention to methodological
issues and other "roadblocks," such as the role of the Secretariat,
the level of
transparency and the sequence of budgeting and financing in the
discussions, are as integral to the success of the Development Agenda
as the discussions over the activities themselves."

Contact:  Eliot Pence  <eliot_pence at hotmail.com>