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 [...]
Publicly Owned and Operated Media
LIVE BLOGGING (EXCUSE THE TYPOS)
Ellen Goodman – Rutgers University Law School
Public Media, from Broadcast to Broadband
What is the purpose of public broadcasting?
Original vision of 1967 Public Broadcasting Act – very contemporary, ahead of its time – universal service in every community and citizen engagement in every community
Preserving Local Journalism
Welcome, friends! We’re excited to explore ways to sustain local journalism. This panel, moderated by Adam Yoffie of the ISP, will be presented in two components: dimensions of the challenge and solutions to it.
Preserving Local Journalism
Welcome, friends! We’re excited to explore ways to sustain local journalism. This panel, moderated by Adam Yoffie of the ISP, will be presented in two components: dimensions of the challenge and solutions to it.
Coming Up Next…
The Conference resumes at 1 p.m. EST with a panel on Preserving Local Journalism. The panel will comprise two discussions: Paul Starr (Princeton), Steven Wildman (Michigan State), and Lisa George (Hunter College) will frame the Dimensions of the Challenge, and Peter Shane (Knight Commission) and Paul Bass (New Haven Independent) will offer Possible Solutions. Join [...]
Who Uses The News, And How?
The Conference’s first panel aims to discuss the demand for news, who its audience is, what they’re looking for, and how the new and vast range of choices is affecting the consumption of traditional news. On the panel are Tom Rosenstiel (Director, Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism), Jay Rosen (New York University), Lee Rainie [...]
One of our panelists, Steve Dennen, has just noted that Twitter’s year-on-year growth in unique visitors is an incredible 1,703% Certainly, conference participants are hitting the #kmedia tag. See the #kmedia search results, and add your own.
Also, the conference is streaming live through ustream. Watch and participate—from anywhere!
A sample from our Twitter feed after the [...]
Welcome To The Conference!
Welcome to this year’s Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messengers? conference.
Dean Robert Post—who represented the Washington Post during his time at Williams & Connolly—welcomed participants. For Post, the question facing us is: when we think about the new media ecology, and how we want to reconstruct it, what are the [...]









