Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference

February 11-13, 2010 at Yale Law School
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.

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 [...]

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  • A2K4 Update

    Thanks to all the sponsors, partners, volunteers, and participants who made A2K4 such an enormous success!

    Video is now online for all plenary panels. Workshops will follow soon, as well as short video interviews.

    To access videos, summaries, and additional resources, please visit the blog posts for each panel, indexed at:

    http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/a2k4main/

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