[Ecommerce] Power Knowledge : A Development View on Information Commons and Intellectual Property

[James Love]

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From: Valerie Peugeot <vpeugeot@vecam.org>
Date: November 9, 2005 10:01:14 AM EST
Subject: PREPARATION OF ROUND TABLE IN TUNIS TUESDAY 15/ PREPARATION
DE LA TABLE RONDE A TUNIS MARDI 15
Reply-To: vpeugeot@vecam.org

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Dear all,

you are expected to join as speakers the round table due to take
place on Tuesday the 15th from 15:00 to 17:00 room Jerba (WSIS).
Theme : =93Power Knowledge : A Development View on Information Commons
and Intellectual Property"

This round table is a prolongation of 2 projects Vecam has been
carrying on lately :

- a meeting which took place in Paris last April on "A Development
View on Information Commons and Intellectual Property"
(http://www.vecam.org/article.php3?id_article=3D392) ;
- the publication of the book "word matters" (http://www.vecam.org/
article.php3?id_article=3D698&nemo=3Dedm)
You all have been involved with one or another project.

As you know, governments have decided from the very start that
intellectual property issues should not be included in WSIS, and
remain under the exclusive responsibility of WIPO and WTO. (as if the
future of information societies could be thought of without
considering IP issues !)

Anyway, as this WSIS is coming to its closure, we think more than
ever that those questions need to be raised and that the kind of work
you are carrying need to be publicized in such a forum. We want the
civil society actors who have been involved into WSIS to keep on
working around WIPO and WTO agenda and support the initiatives driven
by actors who already are involved in those fora. We need to show the
continuity between what we have been fighting for in WSIS and the
issues raised in other bodies.

you will be 3 key note speakers :
- Jamie Love (Cptech)
- Ga=EBlle Krikorian (health issues and IP)
- Herv=E9 le Crosnier (author of the article on digital libraries)

and "debating speakers" who are authors who have contributed to "Word
matters" and who bill be attending Tunis WSIS. they are kindly
invited to react/comment the 3 introductive speaches, putting in
relation their own theme with the intellectual property issues.


We suggest the following pattern :
- introduction :  val=E9rie Peugeot 5 minutes
- Jamie Love : intellectual property issues at the world level, what
are the priority : 15 minutes
- Ga=EBlle Krikorian : information on the international negotiations
around health issues : 15 minutes
- Herv=E9 le Crosnier : how can different civil society movements act
together to promote access to knowledge : 15 minutes

Reactions/ questions from the "debating" speakers : 40 minutes

Debate with the floor : 30 minutes

Please tell me if this proposal is convenient for you.

best

Val=E9rie Peugeot


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