> A2K policy issues to be addressed include:
>
> * Compulsory Licensing for Access to Medicines
> * Community Media
> * Multilingual Domain Names
> * Open Source Licensing
> * Distance Education
> * Traditional Knowledge & Genetic Resources
> * Collaborative Scientific Databases
> * Access to Government Information
> * Agriculture & Genetically Modified Crops
> * Peer Production
> * Digital Archiving
> * Online Journalism
> * Municipal WiFi & Mesh Networking
> * Generics Pharmaceutical Industry
> * Open Standards
> * Digital Rights Management
How about adding an "Open Access" category, among the essay topics?
It really is a special case, with unique features of its own:
"Free Access vs. Open Access" (began Aug 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2957.html
"On the Deep Disanalogy Between Text and Software and Between Text
and Data Insofar as Free/Open Access is Concerned"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2968.html
"Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons" (Jun 2004)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3798.html
"Open Access Data Archiving: A Complement to Article-Archiving"
(Mar 2005)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4459.html
Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Rotenberg, Boris wrote:
Call for Papers & Writing Competition - Yale ISP Second Conference on
Access to Knowledge (A2K2) [April 27-29, 2007]
The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) and the
International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (IJCLP) are pleased
to announce their fourth interdisciplinary writing competition and call
for papers in conjunction with the Second Access to Knowledge (A2K2)
Conference taking place on April 27-29, 2007 at Yale Law School . We
invite scholars, policy makers, technologists, activists and industry
representatives to submit papers for the writing competition and/or for
publication by the IJCLP.
Conference Description
History shows that revolutions come with a price tag and the 'information
revolution' through which we are living is no exception. We are
only now beginning to understand the economic and humanitarian tolls
along the information superhighway and how much the evolution into a
worldwide information economy is really costing humanity on a global
scale. Environmentalism was a belated response to the industrial
revolution. The Yale Access to Knowledge (A2K) Initiative aims to build
an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as
the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights.
The A2K2 conference will be an event focused on mobilizing the A2K
coalition. A2K2 will keep building the connections between access to
knowledge issues and amongst the institutions that crystallized at the
first landmark conference. Developing both a theoretical framework and
delving into the details of practical implementation, the program will
focus on mobilizing the private sector, governments, and civil society
around A2K issues. A2K2's policy panels will be structured towards
tangible legal and technological solutions and collaborative strategies
for policy makers and individual institutions.
Conference proceedings and foundational resources from last year's Access
to Knowledge conference are available at the Yale A2K conference wiki
at
http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/.
A2K policy issues to be addressed include:
* Compulsory Licensing for Access to Medicines
* Community Media
* Multilingual Domain Names
* Open Source Licensing
* Distance Education
* Traditional Knowledge & Genetic Resources
* Collaborative Scientific Databases
* Access to Government Information
* Agriculture & Genetically Modified Crops
* Peer Production
* Digital Archiving
* Online Journalism
* Municipal WiFi & Mesh Networking
* Generics Pharmaceutical Industry
* Open Standards
* Digital Rights Management
A full conference description will be available on the Yale ISP's A2K2 Initiative page at
http://research.yale.edu/isp/.
Writing Competition
Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon
EST, January 8th, 2007. The author of the best paper, as well as two
runners-up will be invited to present their work at a panel during
the conference. The author of the winning paper will receive coverage
of his/her travel to and accommodations at Yale University for the
conference. Selected papers will be announced by March 1st, 2007. The
authors of the award-winning papers will automatically be invited to
publish their work in a special Autumn 2007 volume of the International
Journal of Communications Law & Policy (
http://www.ijclp.org) devoted
to Access to Knowledge.
Journal Publication
Submissions for publication must be received by noon EST, May 1st,
2007. The selection committee, composed of the editorial board of the
IJCLP, and some of the Yale ISP Fellows, will review and consider all
submissions for publication in the special Autumn 2007 volume of the
journal, including submissions for the writing competition. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by July 15th, 2007.
Submission Guidelines
Papers may be submitted on any A2K2-related issue, provided that they lie
within the central focus of the IJCLP - communications law & policy. All
submissions should be written in English in .rtf or .pdf format. They
should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000
words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be
e-mailed simultaneously to the lead editors of the IJCLP, Simone Francesco
Bonetti (simo.bonetti[at]tiscalinet.it <mailto:simo.bonetti_at_tiscalinet.it>
) and Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg[at]yahoo.it). Inquiries may be
addressed to any of the above.
Special Call for Papers for Authors from countries listed as developing and transition countries
In addition, the IJCLP is pleased to announce a special (additional)
call for papers supported through a grant from the Open Society Institute
(OSI) <
http://www.soros.org/>. Authors from countries listed as developing
and transition countries* are invited to submit papers related to A2K2
by May 1st, 2007. Any paper selected for publication will receive
financial support from our OSI grant. Such support shall include a
small stipend to each author in addition to free editorial processing
by the Journal. Please note that authors who submit papers for this
specific call are also eligible for the general call for papers and
the writing competition awards announced on our web site. Submissions
should be e-mailed simultaneously to the lead editors of the IJCLP,
Simone Francesco Bonetti (simo.bonetti [at] tiscalinet [dot] it) and
Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg [at] yahoo [dot] it). Inquiries may be
addressed to any of the above.
* i.e. Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burma, Burkina Faso, Cambodia,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti,
Hungary, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho,
Liberia, Lithuania, Laos, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova,
Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, South
Africa, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Turkey,Ukraine, Uganda,
Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Received on Thu Dec 07 2006 - 18:09:49 GMT