[Upd-discuss] Yale ISP's 2nd Annual Access to Knowledge conference (A2K2)

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:25:08 -0400

**Remote participation in the A2K2 conference on the accompanyong =20
Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2. We =20
invite you to contribute background materials on access to knowledge =20
issues and to suggest questions to be addressed on the individual =20
panels.

2nd Annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K2)
Yale Information Society Project
April 27-29, 2007
Yale Law School
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html
REGISTRATION is still OPEN at https://wems.worldtek.com/yaleA2K2
A2K2 Open Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/=20
Yale_A2K2

The last several years have witnessed the coalescing of the Access to =20=

Knowledge (A2K) social movement that champions human rights, human =20
development, and the public interest as the focal points of =20
innovation and information policy.

The Yale Information Society Project's (ISP) first A2K conference =20
advanced our commitment to building a broad conceptual framework of =20
Access to Knowledge that can foster powerful coalitions between =20
diverse groups. The A2k conference brought together leading scholars =20
and activists from all over the world to participate in the =20
construction of an intellectual framework for access to knowledge. =20
Full conference proceedings and foundational resources for Access to =20
Knowledge are available at the Yale A2K conference wiki.

This year, on April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World Intellectual =20=

Property Day, the A2K2 conference promises be a pivotal event =20
mobilizing the A2K coalition. Taking place between sessions of the =20
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in which the =20
Development Agenda is being formalized, this gathering is an =20
oportunity to help define the emerging vision of innovation and =20
information policy. A2K2 will further build the coalition amongst =20
institutions and stakeholders that crystallized at the first landmark =20=

conference, help set the agenda for A2K policy and advocacy, and =20
deepen the understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of access =20
to knowledge issues. The A2K2 conference program is focused around =20
mobilizing different spheres of society: Industry, Civil Society, =20
Governments, and Technologists. The policy panels focus on a diverse =20
set of A2K issues and are oriented towards tangible legal and =20
technological solutions and collaborative strategies for policy =20
makers and individual institutions.

Plenary panels:

- Welcoming Address & Keynotes
     * Harold Koh - Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith =20
Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
     * Jack Balkin - Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the =20
First Amendment, Yale Law School
     * Yochai Benkler - Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale =20
Law School

- The Social Movement of A2K
     * Margaret Chon - Professor of Law & Director, Center for the =20
Study of Justice in Society (CSJS), Seattle University
     * Ahmed Abdel Latif - Second Secretary, Department of =20
International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
     * Ronaldo Lemos - Director of the Center for Technology & =20
Society (CTS), Funda=E7=E3o Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de =20=

Janeiro
     * James Love - Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
     * Sisule Musungu - World Trade Institute, University of Berne
     * Jerome Reichman - Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke =20
University Law School
     Moderator: Amy Kapczynski - Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and =20
Public Health, Samuelson Fellow in the Information Society Project, =20
Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health

- Mobilizing Industry
     * Brad Biddle - Senior Attorney, Intel Corporation
     * Andrew McLaughlin - Head, Global Public Policy and Government =20
Affairs, Google Inc.
     * Nagla Rizk - Associate Professor and Chair, Economics =20
Department, American University in Cairo
     * Pam Samuelson - Professor, School of Information and Boalt =20
Hall School of Law and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and =20
Technology, University of California, Berkeley
     * Jule Sigall - Senior Attorney, Legal & Corporate Affairs, =20
Microsoft Corp.
     * Brent Woodworth - Worldwide Segment Manager, Crisis Response =20
Team, IBM Corp.
     Moderator: Colin Maclay - Managing Director, Berkman Center for =20
Internet & Society

- Mobilizing Governments
     * Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian =20
Intellectual Property Office
     * Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher =20
School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO =20
Program Information For All
     * Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and =20
Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires
     * David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International =20
Communications and Information Policy
     * Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of =20=

Education, Chile
     Moderator: Shamnad Basheer - Frank H Marks Visiting Associate =20
Professor in Law, George Washington University Law School

- Mobilizing Technologists
     * Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian =20
Intellectual Property Office
     * Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher =20
School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO =20
Program Information For All
     * Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and =20
Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires
     * David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International =20
Communications and Information Policy
     * Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of =20=

Education, Chile
     Moderator: Colin Maclay - , Global Economic Governance =20
Programme, University of Oxford

- Mobilizing Civil Society
     * Gwen Hinze - International Affairs Director, Electronic =20
Frontier Foundation (EFF)
     * Nnenna Nwakanma - Cabinet Member & Regional Coordinator, =20
African Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS)
     * Josh Silver - Executive Director, Free Press
     * Sherwin Siy - Staff Attorney and Director, Global Knowledge =20
Initiative, Public Knowledge
     * Madhavi Sunder - Professor of Law, University of California, =20
Davis
     Moderator: Becky Lentz - Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Policy panels:

-- Partnerships for Access to Information
     * Serge Bounda - Chief Librarian , Sergio Vieira de Mello =20
Library, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
     * Hala Essalmawi - IPR Officer, The Library of Alexandria =20
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Egypt
     * Jason Phillips - Associate Director for International Library =20
Relations, JSTOR (Journal Storage)
     * Crispin Taylor - Executive Director, ASPB (American Society of =20=

Plant Biologists)
     Moderator: Ann Okerson - Associate University Librarian, Yale =20
University

-- Internationalized Domain Names
     * Wei Mao - Computer Network Information System, Chinese Academy =20=

of Sciences
     * Ram Mohan - CTO & VP Business Operations, Afilias Limited
     * Milton Mueller - - Professor, School of Information Studies, =20
Syracuse University
     * Hong Xue - Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale =20=

Law School
     * Peter Yu - Associate Professor of Law and founding director of =20=

the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program, Michigan =20
State University College of Law
     Moderator: Robert Guerra - Managing Director, Privaterra

-- Patent Quality
     * Tahir Amin - Co-founder, Initiative for Medicines, Access & =20
Knowledge (I-MAK)
     * Daniel Ravicher - Founder and Executive Director, Public =20
Patent Foundation
     * Frederick Abbott - Edward Ball Eminent Scholar, Florida State =20
University College of Law
     * Arti Rai - Professor of Law, Duke University
     Moderator: Joshua Sarnoff - Assistant Director, Glushko-=20
Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Practitioner-in-=20
Residence, Washington College of Law, American University

-- Open Access Literature
     * Achal Prabhala - Consultant, Lawyers Collective, India
     * Binyavanga Wainaina - Writer-in-Residence, Union College, New =20
York
     * Gary Dauphin - Blackplanet.com, Africana.com, AOL Black Voices
     * Rob Spillman - Editor, Tin House magazine and Executive =20
Editor, Tin House Books
     * Michael Vazquez - Advisory Editor, Transition magazine
     Moderator: Manon Ress - Director, Information Society Projects, =20
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)

-- Search Engines
     * Judith Dueck - Vice-Chair, Human Rights Information and =20
Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)
     * Niva Elkin-Koren - Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, Haifa =20
University, Israel
     * Michael Geist - Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-=20
commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada.
     * Robin Gross - Executive Director, IP Justice
     * Richard Owens - Director, Copyright E-Commerce Technology and =20
Management Division - WIPO
     Moderator: Sudhir Krishnaswamy - Head, Centre for Intellectual =20
Property Rights Research and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School, =20
India University, Bangalore

-- Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
     * Anetta Bok - Gender Representative for the Indigenous Peoples =20
of Africa Coordinating Committee-IPACC
     * Graham Dutfield - Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in =20
Intellectual Property Law Queen Mary, University of London
     * Abena Dove Osseo-Asare - Assistant Professor, Department of =20
History, UC Berkeley
     * Elpidio Peria - Associate, Third World Network (TWN) - =20
Philippines
     * Antony Taubman - Head, Global Issues Division, World =20
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
     Moderator: Anupam Chander - Professor of Law, University of =20
California, Davis

-- Community Media & the Global Public Sphere.=20
     * Murali Shanmugavelan - Head, Information Society Project, =20
Panos London.
     * Sasha Costanza-Chock - Annenberg School for Communication, =20
University of Southern California
     * Ethan Zuckerman - Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and =20
Society, Harvard Law School.
     * Natasha Primo - Chair, Association for Progressive =20
Communications (APC); Executive Director, Women's Net.
     * Wijayananda Jayaweera - Director, Communication Development =20
Division, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural =20
Organization (UNESCO)
     Moderator: Fazila Farouk - Head, Civil Society Information =20
Programme, Southern African NGO Network (SangoNet)

-- Broadband Wireless in Developing Countries.=20
     * Susan Crawford - Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. =20
Cardozo School of Law, New York
     * Willie Currie - Program Manager, Communications and =20
Information Policy, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
     * Satish Jha - Co-Chair, World IT Forum (WITFOR)
     * Kaili Kan - Capacity Development Officer, IICD
     * Caio Pereira - Researcher and International Relations =20
Coordinator FGV-Sao Paulo Law School
     Moderator: Diana Korsakaite - Director, Strategy Department, =20
Communications Regulatory Authority, Lithuania

-- Agriculture & Intellectual Property
     * Fleur Claessens - Programme Officer - Intellectual Property, =20
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
     * Daniel Kevles - Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale =20
University
     * Susan Sell - Professor of Political Science and International =20
Affairs, George Washington University
     * Dalindyebo Shabalala - Staff Attorney and Director, =20
Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project, Center for =20=

International Environmental Law (CIEL)
     Moderator: Andrea Glorioso - Assistant Researcher, Politecnico =20
di Torino

-- The Political Economy of Digital Archives
     * Glenn Otis Brown - Products Counsel, Google, Inc.
     * Paul Gerhardt - Project Director, Creative Archive, BBC
     * Magdy Nagi - Head of ICT Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, =20
Alexandria, Egypt
     * Denise Nicholson - Copyright Services Librarian, University of =20=

the Witwatersrand, South Africa
     * Guy Pessach - Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew =20
University of Jerusalem
     Moderator: Teresa Hackett - Manager, eIFL-IP, Electronic =20
Information for Libraries (eIFL)

-- Education in the Digital Age.=20
     * Titilayo Akinsanmi - Program Manager, Global Teenager Project, =20=

Mindset, Johannesburg, South Africa
     * Saskia Harmsen - Capacity Development Officer, IICD
     * Geidy Lung - Legal Officer, Copyright Law Division, Copyright =20
and Related Rights Sector, WIPO
     * Mira Sundara Rajan - Canada Research Chair in Intellectual =20
Property Law, Faculty of Law, The University of British Columbia, =20
Vancouver, Canada
     * Andrew Rens - LINK Centre, Creative Commons, South Africa
     Moderator: Jack Lerner - Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, Boalt Hall, =20
UC Berkeley

-- Access to Scientific Knowledge
     * Chris Armbruster - Founder and Executive Director, Research =20
Network 1989
     * Subbiah Arunachalam - Distinguished Fellow, MS Swaminathan =20
Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India
     * Juan Carlos de Martin - Associate Professor, Politecnico di =20
Torino
     * Larry Peiperl - Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine (Public Library =20
of Science)
     * Sibusiso Sibisi - President and CEO, Council of Scientific and =20=

Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
     Moderator: Dan Burk - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of =20=

Law, University of Minnesota Law School=