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

Wed May 20 15:01:20 EDT 2015

I have been to all of them and now I am in the organization committee. It
is a different community from the traditional IG community that is part of
the BB (with some overlapping individuals of course). And it has been a
great meet up for knowledge exchange of those working on intellectual
property, open licensing/access, access to medicines, and access to
knowledge. So +1 on Anriette and others on the same tone.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>
wrote:

> +1 from here too. I've only been to one of the Global Congresses and
> whilst some of the presentations seemed to me overly-academic / lecturing
> it is the focal point for non-industry intellectual property policy
> advocates to get together each year.
>
> Given the amount of change that's possible in IP norm-making in Europe,
> the US, and so many other places - change that CS has been demanding for
> years now being possible - it would be indescribably awful for even one
> tiny bit of that potential to be wasted through definitions of terms. The
> lives of real people and the future of knowledge access are the game. It
> seems to me that should be the laser-like focus of CS.
>
> IMO
>
>
> On 20 May 2015, at 10:35, Poncelet Ileleji <pileleji at ymca.gm> wrote:
>
> +++++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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