Save the Date: February 12-13, 2010
by Lea Shaver | November 12, 2009 | announcements, events, workshops and symposia | 8 Comments
A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
Please save the date for the Fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on February 12-13, 2010.
Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; expand the benefits of scientific and technological advancement; and promote innovation, development, and social progress across the globe.
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School has already hosted three major conferences on access to knowledge. These helped to lay intellectual groundwork for theorizing A2K as a framework for public policy and to consolidate a broad international A2K movement.
This year, we will again host a major A2K conference, but with a more specialized theme: the intersection between access to knowledge and human rights.
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 policies and movements around intellectual property and Internet freedom. This conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – 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 two-day conference will feature a diverse range of academics and practitioners in plenary panels on topics including Access to Knowledge and International Human Rights, Technologies of Dissent, The Right to Culture and Science, and Digital Education and The Right to Learn. The conference will also include breakout sessions of working groups organized around specific issue areas such as: climate change, gender equality, Internet freedom, food security, access to medicines or other topics, depending on the interests of attendees and partner organizations.
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. More information can be found at http://yaleisp.org/2009/11/a2k4/ or http://isp.law.yale.edu.
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November 12th, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
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November 17th, 2009 @ 11:58 am
How does one register for the Feb 12-13 event?
December 31st, 2009 @ 10:03 am
Registration is now open! Visit:
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=803707
January 4th, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
This event and theme “the intersection between access to knowledge and human rights” is international in scope and relevance. Is there any chance of remote participation or remote viewing (streaming video, videotaping of speakers, plenaries, events)? Thank you. -r
January 9th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
Like Robert, I’m interested in if A2K4 will be streamed or the proceedings will be published at a later date. Thanks!
January 16th, 2010 @ 3:58 pm
I’m working online in Italy as a volunteer for a Human Rights NGO based in Sierra Leone.We’re especially interested in getting country-specific Human Rights educational programs designed to be compatible with capacity of the XO computers – see our proposed project on our website – to teach Human Rights in schools.
Can you outline guidelines for the use of new ICT technologies to teach Human Rights?
Can you pay expenses for African participants?
January 22nd, 2010 @ 4:27 am
[...] 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. More information [...]
January 29th, 2010 @ 10:20 am
I am an Ll.B. Yale Law 1940. I am a Fellow at the McGovern Inst. for Brain Research. I am writing a book for non-scientists on the nature and general functioning of the human mind as a unique biophysical machine, roughly analogous to a computer by very different, that manipulates physical energy signals to control its related body individually and collectively within societies to affect the world haphazardly. I have a new paper on some legal implications of knowing how the mind works in general. I introduced computer law to the world in 1960 and was its guru until retirement in 1986. I would like to speak at the conference to provide a platform for the specific topics by explaining how the mind operates reasonably logically in accordance with mental equivalents of computer programs, particularly the instincts to survive and perpetuate the species and, also, its versions of computer application programs it constantly creates and updates, but significantly uniquely chaotically to be creative and exercise some free will. A possible topic for my proposed talk could be “The Human Mind as the Source of All Knowledge and the Vagaries of its Use by Minds Individually and Collectively.” I hope that you are receptive to this offer. It should provide a new insight regarding the mind and information as the expression of knowledge, just as I did for computer law. I taught that at Boston Univ. School of Law for seven years and published the first book about it and countless articles and lectured about it throughout the world.