[A2k] Mark you Calendar: ISP at Yale A2K4 Feb 12-13, 2010

[Manon Ress]

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See you there!
Manon


A2K4: A Conference on Access to Knowledge and Human Rights

Hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School

February 12-13, 2010 in New Haven, CT



Register now at: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/a2k4.htm



The right to take part in cultural life, to share in scientific
progress, the rights to education, health care, and food: all are
impacted by and impact upon policies and movements around intellectual
property and Internet freedom.

This two-day conference seeks to lay the groundwork =96 conceptual and
strategic =96 to build bridges between the A2K and human rights
communities pursuing common goals of promoting greater access to
knowledge, culture, technology and tools for innovation worldwide.

The conference will feature a diverse range of academics and
practitioners in panels on topics including Perspectives on Access to
Knowledge and Human Rights, Technologies of Dissent, The Right To
Health, Digital Education, Freedom to Innovate, The Right to Science
and Culture, Information Ethics, The Right to Development,
Accessibility and the Right to Read, and Rights-Based Strategies for
Advancing Access to Knowledge.

For more information, schedule, speakers list, program, and to
register, please visit: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/a2k4.htm
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The conference is being hosted by the Yale Information Society
Project, an intellectual center examining the implications of the
Internet and new information technologies for law and society.
Organizing partners include the following:




3D: Trade, Human Rights, Equitable Economy
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
Access to Knowledge for Development (A2K4D) Center, Department of
Economics, School of Business, American University in Cairo
A2K Research Program at the Funda=E7=E3o Get=FAlio Vargas School of Law in
Sao Paulo
Association for Progressive Communications
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Centre for Technology and Society at the Funda=E7=E3o Get=FAlio Vargas
School of Law in Rio de Janeiro
Centro de Est=FAdios Interdisciplin=E1rios de Derecho Industrial and
Econ=F3mico
Consumers International
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Human Rights USA

Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School

Intellectual Property Watch

International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development

IQSensato

Knowledge Ecology International
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale
Law School
UCT Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies




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Manon Ress
manon.ress@keionline.org
Knowledge Ecology International
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670, Fax: +1.202.332.2673

Il vaut mieux remuer une question, sans la d=E9cider, que la d=E9cider,
sans la remuer. (Pens=E9es, essais, maximes et correspondance de J.
Joubert  p.249)
Translation: It is better to debate a question without settling it
than to settle a question without debating it