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On 19/05/2015 5:50 am, parminder wrote:<br>
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Coming to the context of the series of congresses on 'Intellectual
property and public interest', here is the <a
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of participants </a>of the 2011 Congress . Just one big
business participant - Google among scores and scores others. And
none in program committee, or among the hosing group or funders
(except one, again Google, which is certainly an oddity, perhaps
explainable but wont go there right now) . No way to me this looks
like a multistakeholder or MS conference, as we have come to
understand the term in the Internet governance space.<br>
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Apples and oranges; the Global Congress on IP and the Public
Interest never purported to be a multi-stakeholder event; it is
closer to a Best Bits meeting or your Internet Social Forum, both of
which are civil society only, than it is to something like the IGF.<br>
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