A2K4 Panel V: Freedom to Innovate: Knowledge, Technology, Culture
We live in an age of decentralized innovation in which civil liberties and cultural freedom depend on the freedom to innovate and share innovations with others. Increasingly, cultural freedom, access to knowledge, and freedom of expression depend on the ability of entrepreneurs to create new tools for sharing, producing, and distributing content. Increasingly, new ideas [...]
A2K4 Panel VI: The Right to Science and Culture: Access and Participation
Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right of everyone to take part in cultural life, and to share in the benefits of scientific progress. This “right to science and culture” has great relevance for access to knowledge issues, but is still in the early stages of development.
This panel will [...]
A2K4 Workshop: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for an African Information Ethics
Organized by the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
As our contemporary information society continues to take hold on the African continent, there is a pressing need to recognize and formalize an “African information ethics”, that is, understanding and applying principles of information ethics (access to knowledge, intellectual property, information literacy, intellectual freedom, privacy) within the [...]
A2K4 Workshop: The Right to Read: Copyright and Access for Persons with Disabilities
This panel will discuss the proposal for a WIPO treaty for disabilities, as well as other topics concerning the right to read for persons with disabilities.
A2K4 Workshop: The Right to Development and the WIPO Development Agenda
Organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
The right to development (RTD), proclaimed in 1986, is “an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and [...]
A2K4 Panel VIII: Rights-Based Strategies for Advancing Access to Knowledge
The final panel of the conference focuses on Rights-Based Strategies for Advancing Access to Knowledge. Much of the conference has focused on synergies between access to knowledge and human rights goals in specific subject areas. The concluding panel will discuss more generally the broader challenges and opportunities implicated by attempts to promote A2K goals [...]
The Nuts and Bolts of FOIA
I had the opportunity to spend some time this week summarizing the basics of FOIA, and thought that others might be interested as well. Best of luck in your FOIA requests!
FOIA Basics
As you might already know, the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides citizens with access to federal government documents. After making sure a [...]
FOI Fee Fraud?
The Globe has an interesting article up about the prohibitive costs of government records requests.
According to the story, one Boston reporter was given
an estimate of $6,600 by a large state agency in response to his requests to review the e-mails of several senior officials. The agency justified the price as the cost of finding the [...]
February 5 Frank Pasquale Lecture on Search as Speech
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project and Knight Law and Media Program lunch speaker series featuring Frank Pasquale discussing “Search as Speech: Does the First Amendment Limit Regulation of Google?” on Friday, February 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Networking and Information Sharing
Hello from Betsy, new ISP fellow and blogger.
Perhaps this is old news, but I found this fascinating. A new Boston University study shows that the people with the largest social networks are not necessarily the best idea spreaders. Instead, the best ideas spreaders are those at strategically placed nodes, even if they are less well [...]
Is signing a petition an exercise of free speech?
When a citizen signs a petition to place an initiative on the ballot, is he or she acting as a voter or as a legislator?
Chime in!
Free Speech, Meet Material Support Laws
The ABA Journal discusses what it calls “the U.S. Supreme Court’s first major test of whether the war on terrorism conflicts with the free speech principles of the First Amendment.” (…what took y’all so long?!)
“I am opposed to violence of all sorts. It seems crazy to me that I could go to jail for trying [...]
Say it ain't so, Wikileaks!
It’s no secret that I’m wildly, terribly, and insanely in love with Wikileaks.
The controversial whistleblowing platform publishes anonymous submissions of governmental, corporate, and organizational documents, and is dedicated to exposing oppressive regimes and revealing unethical behavior. The great thing is that they’re actually good at it: they released the Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta [...]
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