<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi people</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I would rather reserve my comments on the IP summit for now. But suffice it to say that since South Africa adopted an Open Standards/Open Source policy, there has been a renewed effort on the opposite direction.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div> <br>Let me use this opportunity to inform of the effective holding of the 5th African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons - http://www.idlelo.net<br><br>Kindly support in whichever way you can.<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Nnenna<br></div><div><br style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><br>Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG | Consultants<br>Information | Communications |
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Agenda Africa IP Summit<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1303740920">Hi Sangeeta, and all interested colleagues in this summit, <br><br>It's quite clear that this summit is massive propaganda and lies by a cartel of predators. While there are very few possibilities to influence this juggernaut agenda, it's certainly worth spreading solid information to stimulate the perception by the participants and the media of the delusions instilled by the cartel.<br>
<br>Therefore a letter to the summit organizers is certainly a proper initiative. Presumably they are not going to be much impressed, although they could reply with some lip service. Actually, the real target is African people. They need hearing and reading other visions than the cartel spin. But is there adequate material for that purpose ?<br>
<br>For a readership not necessarily well seasoned in internet and intellectual property, a text should be short, easily readable, and explicit on messages to be conveyed. The proposed letter does not seem to be well targeted to a large readership. It could be recomposed in 1/3 of the words and carry the same messages in shorter sentences.<br>
<br>A preliminary useful step would be to write down in one line each essential message that should not be missed.<br><br>Cheers<br>- - -<br><br><div class="yiv1303740920gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:58, Sangeeta Shashikant <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sangeeta@twnetwork.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sangeeta@twnetwork.org">sangeeta@twnetwork.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1303740920gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);"><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Times;">Dear All, </span></div>
<span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times;">Attached is a draft agenda of the Summit. It is an updated version of what is available on the US government site. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times;">It is a pretty twisted agenda on IP. </span></div></div></div></span><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family:Times;">If you are interested to protest against this Summit, pls do sign onto the letter we have drafted to WIPO. See below</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br>
</span></div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><span style="font-family:Times;">Sangeeta</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times;">Third World Network</span></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">Dear All,</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">The US government is planning to hold in April an Africa IP Summit in</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">partnership with Japan, France, and WIPO. South Africa is hosting this</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">meeting. The private sector (ICC, BASCAP,Pfizer, Eli Lily et al) is</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">sponsoring this meeting.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">The main focus of this Summit is enhanced IP protection and</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">enforcement particularly on counterfeiting and piracy. Clearly this is</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">a platform for US, Japan France to promote the TRIPS plus plus agendas</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">seen in ACTA, TPPA, EPA etc, and this Summit will be promoting more</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">anti-counterfeiting bills in Africa. Many of these provisions are</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">likely to have a problematic impact on access to medicines.</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"> If you are interested in more details see the US government site</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cldp.doc.gov/programs/Africa-intellectual-property-forum"><span style="font-family:Times;">http://www.cldp.doc.gov/programs/Africa-intellectual-property-forum</span></a><span style="font-family:Times;">.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">The Commercial Law Department Programme of the US department of</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">commerce is organising this summit.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">We think it is important to raise some concern over this event. So we</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">have drafted 2 letters. One addressed to the World Intellectual</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">Property Organisation WIPO (see below).</span><span style="font-family:Times;">We have also drafted similar letter </span></div>
</div></div></div></span><div><span style="font-family:Times;">to South Africa missions in Geneva. </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><span><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);">
<div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">If you are interested to sign on to these letters, pls send me the</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">name of your organisation and contact details to</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sangeeta@twnetwork.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sangeeta@twnetwork.org"><span style="font-family:Times;">sangeeta@twnetwork.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Times;"> or </span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ssangeeta@myjaring.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:ssangeeta@myjaring.net"><span style="font-family:Times;">ssangeeta@myjaring.net</span></a></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">by Friday, 3rd February.</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;">
<span style="font-family:Times;">Regards</span></div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">Sangeeta Shashikant</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;"><span style="font-family:Times;">Third World Network</span></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;">
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