David sez,
This evening is the start of the blockbuster Yale Law School ISP Access to Knowledge (A2K) conference. The conference’s major goal is to bring together different strands of the A2K movement — access to medicines, telecoms, textbooks, software, libraries, to name a few — and build normative frameworks and coalitions to pave the way for substantial political change. Jack Balkin just kicked off the conference by arguing that A2K is not just an issue of economic development, it is a demand of justice and democratic participation.
The conference brings together an astounding collection of scholars, activists, and government officials to bang their heads together and help figure out how best to promote access to knowledge for human development. Among the leaders here are Sisule Musungu, Jack Balkin, Jamie Love, Manon Ress, Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Geidy Lung, Terry Fisher, Richard Jefferson, Yochai Benkler, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Theresa Hackett, Richard Owens, John Howkins, Ronaldo Lemos, Joaquim Falcao, Madhavi Sunder, Anupam Chander, Volcker Grassmuck, William Drake, Lawrence Liang, Michael Geist, Anriette Esterhuysen, and many many more. Wow.
Conference notes will go up on Lawmeme and the conference wiki. Speakers and the conference schedule are on the official site.
(Thanks, David!)