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 II: Technologies of Dissent: Information and Expression in a Digital World

This panel explores A2K issues relevant to classic civil and political rights, particularly freedom of expression.
Political expression and dissent are increasingly exercised online, through technologies ranging from social networking tools, blogs, email, and cell phones to more concealed and complex technical approaches such as the use of distributed denial of service attacks to disrupt [...]