[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 19/05/2015 5:50 am, parminder wrote:
> Coming to the context of the series of congresses on 'Intellectual
> property and public interest', here is the list of participants
> <http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Participants-Handout1.pdf>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.

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.

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Jeremy Malcolm
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