[Air-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Fwd: [gcnp] [EN] Conference : A Development View on Information Commons

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> Date: March 5, 2005 9:33:07 AM EST
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> From: Valerie Peugeot <vpeugeot at vecam.org>
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> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 1:16:11 PM
> Subject: [gcnp] [EN] Conference :  A Development View on Information 
> Commons
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> A Development View on Information Commons
> and Intellectual Property.
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>
> Public conference
> Friday, April 1st : 9.00 – 18.30
> ENST, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris - France
>
> Information and registration:
> http://www.vecam.org
>
> - Introduction
> - Program of the conference
> - Organisation
>
> 1 - introduction
> ----------------------
>
> Information and communication technologies enable a quick and rather
> cheap circulation of knowledge, cultures and emotions.
> How can we build a global right of intellectual property that would use
> this capacity so as to favor access to knowledge to all (individuals,
> people, countries) ?
> Developing Southern countries need the exchange of knowledge. Now, the
> new international laws regarding intellectual property, on the 
> contrary,
> aim at reinforcing the domination of Northern countries and the
> merchandising of knowledge and culture. (TRIPS at the WTO, reform of 
> the
> WIPO, Convention on cultural diversity at the UNESCO...).
>
> Thankfully, opposition is very strong and many social movements are
> rising everywhere in the world to point out injustices related to the
> enlargement of intellectual property in all domains. Especially to 
> offer
> concrete alternatives such as free software, free access to science,
> Creatives Commons license, generic drugs, exchanges of knowledge
>
> Culture and knowledge are not to be treated like any merchandise. 
> People
> and individuals’ lives as well as education and democracy are at stake.
>
> We offer you a day of thought and debates through workshops on health,
> agriculture, industrial technologies and culture issues.
> - How can development and solidarity actors build information commons 
> at
> the world scale?
> - How will new social and political practices enable knowledge to
> circulate and fully serve equality in the world?
> - How to reconstruct the balance of intellectual property between
> interests of the whole of society in the access of knowledge and
> financing of creation and innovation?
>
> Coming from various places in the world, key actors of this new 
> movement
> for free access to knowledge will be present during this public 
> conference.
>
>
> 2 - Program
> --------------
>
> Conference opens: 9.00 a.m.
>
> 4 Successive workshops:
> - Health and intellectual property: conducted by Florent Latrive.
> Speakers: Bernard Pécoul, Philippe Pignarre, Benjamin Coriat and Gaëlle
> Krikorian.
>
> - Agriculture, traditional knowledge, biopiracy and intellectual
> property: conducted by Valérie Peugeot. Speakers: François Dufour,
> Frédéric Thomas, Anne Chetaille and Suman Sahai.
>
> - Research, industry and patents: conducted by Philippe Aigrain.
> Speakers: Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra, Cheick Oumar Sagara, Michel 
> Trometter
> and Jamie Love
>
> - Knowledge, creation and intellectual property: conducted by Hervé Le
> Crosnier. Speakers: Pascal Renaud, Jean-Claude Guédon and Claudine 
> Belayche.
>
> Plenary closing session: 5.00 p.m.: conducted by Valérie Peugeot.
> Speakers: Suman Sahai, German Velasquez and Jamie Love
>
>
> 3 - Organisation:
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> The April 1st meeting is an initiative of French non for profit
> organisation Vecam made possible by a partnership with:
> - the Intergovernmental Agency of French speaking countries
> - The journal Transversales sciences culture
> - l'ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)
> - The non for profit organisations Mosaïque du Monde, April and the
> Foundation Sciences Citoyennes.
> - C&F editions
>
> The organising committee is coordinated by Valérie Peugeot and gathers
> Philippe Aigrain, Nicolas Casadevall, Florent Latrive, Véronique Kleck,
> Hervé Le Crosnier, Pascal Renaud and Nicolas Taffin.
>
> The complete program, a presentation of the speakers as well as a
> documentary kit can be found on line http://www.vecam.org.
> Registration on line http://www.vecam.org
> The conference is free space willing.
> Registration is advised.
> A contribution is requested for the buffet.
>
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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