access to knowledge issues
Information technology scholars and activists from around the world will come together for a conference titled "Access to Knowledge 2" (A2K2), Friday-Sunday, April 27-29, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.
The conference is hosted by the Law School's Information Society Project (ISP), founded in 1997 to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications and other new information technologies on law and society.
The conference is a follow-up to last year's first (and well-attended) "Access to Knowledge" (A2K) Conference, conceived by ISP as a way of building an intellectual framework for access to knowledge and fostering coalitions between diverse groups. The Access to Knowledge social movement champions human rights, human development and the public interest as focal points of innovation and information policy.
"The A2K2 conference will be a pivotal event, mobilizing the A2K coalition of institutions and stakeholders that crystallized at the first landmark conference," says Eddan Katz, executive director of ISP and lecturer in law. "It will deepen our understanding of access to knowledge issues and help us set the agenda for policy and advocacy."
Plenary panel sessions throughout the weekend will focus on "A2K as a Social Movement," "Mobilizing Industry," "Mobilizing Governments," "Mobilizing Technologists" and "Mobilizing Civil Society." Policy panels will aim for tangible legal and technological solutions and collaborative strategies, covering such topics as "Internationalized Domain Names," "Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources," "Broadband Wireless in Developing Countries" and "Education in the Digital Age."
Law School professors Jack Balkin, founder and director of ISP, and Yochai Benkler will deliver the keynote addresses. More than 100 experts will participate on the panels, including policymakers such as David Gross, ambassador and U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy; industry leaders such as Andrew McLaughlin, head of Global Public Policy for Google; academics such as Pamela Samuelson, professor at the School of Information and Boalt Hall at the University of California-Berkeley; world-renowned scientists such as Wei Mao of the Computer Network Information System at the Chinese Academy of Sciences; technologists such as Jon Hall, founder of Linux International; and civil society leaders such as Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology International.
The A2K2 Conference is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft and the Ford Foundation. It is open to the public at a cost of $250. Non-Yale students pay $100; Yale students and faculty may attend free of charge. For more information or to register, visit the website at http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html.
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