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

[Poncelet Ileleji]

+++++1 Anriette well said indeed,

Thanks alot

Poncelet

On 19 May 2015 at 18:13, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I am writing against my better judgement, but here goes anyway.
>
> The Global Congress on IP has been one of the most important spaces were
> radical civil society has mobilised and strategised against some of the
> most problematic US-government lead initiatives with regard to impact on
> access to knowledge in recent years - ACTA and TPP.
>
> I have only ever been an observer at the Global Congress (when it was in
> Cape Town in 2013) but have always learnt a lot, and I really value the
> work that this community does in WIPO among other spaces. In Africa the
> Global Congress has collaborated with projects such as the African
> Access to Knowledge project.. people that we have done really important
> work with, and who have influenced intellectual property legislation
> positively. They work with groups such as councils for the blind and
> visually impaired, and the library community. People that we need in
> internet governance spaces if we want to build movement for social
> justice in internet governance.
>
> I find it extremely disappointing and distressing that the debate in
> this thread is not about substantial issues that the Global Congress
> will address, but about whether it is 'multistakeholder' or not -
> evolving into yet another set of assertions that everyone who supports
> the notion of multistakeholder in ANY sense at all is by definition
> coopted by empire.
>
> Why not write about substantive issues, and about how to pursue a social
> justice agenda around the issues that are internet-related that the
> Global Congress will address?
>
> Anriette
>
>
>
> On 19/05/2015 18:51, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > 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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