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From: Valerie Peugeot <vpeugeot@...>
To: GCNP <gcnp@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 1:16:11 PM
Subject: [gcnp] [EN] Conference : A Development View on Information Commons

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A Development View on Information Commons
and Intellectual Property.
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Public conference
Friday, April 1st : 9.00 – 18.30
ENST, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris - France

Information and registration:
http://www.vecam.org

- Introduction
- Program of the conference
- Organisation

1 - introduction
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Information and communication technologies enable a quick and rather
cheap circulation of knowledge, cultures and emotions.
How can we build a global right of intellectual property that would use
this capacity so as to favor access to knowledge to all (individuals,
people, countries) ?
Developing Southern countries need the exchange of knowledge. Now, the
new international laws regarding intellectual property, on the contrary,
aim at reinforcing the domination of Northern countries and the
merchandising of knowledge and culture. (TRIPS at the WTO, reform of the
WIPO, Convention on cultural diversity at the UNESCO...).

Thankfully, opposition is very strong and many social movements are
rising everywhere in the world to point out injustices related to the
enlargement of intellectual property in all domains. Especially to offer
concrete alternatives such as free software, free access to science,
Creatives Commons license, generic drugs, exchanges of knowledge…
Culture and knowledge are not to be treated like any merchandise. People
and individuals’ lives as well as education and democracy are at stake.

We offer you a day of thought and debates through workshops on health,
agriculture, industrial technologies and culture issues.
- How can development and solidarity actors build information commons at
the world scale?
- How will new social and political practices enable knowledge to
circulate and fully serve equality in the world?
- How to reconstruct the balance of intellectual property between
interests of the whole of society in the access of knowledge and
financing of creation and innovation?

Coming from various places in the world, key actors of this new movement
for free access to knowledge will be present during this public conference.


2 - Program
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Conference opens: 9.00 a.m.

4 Successive workshops:
- Health and intellectual property: conducted by Florent Latrive.
Speakers: Bernard Pécoul, Philippe Pignarre, Benjamin Coriat and Gaëlle
Krikorian.

- Agriculture, traditional knowledge, biopiracy and intellectual
property: conducted by Valérie Peugeot. Speakers: François Dufour,
Frédéric Thomas, Anne Chetaille and Suman Sahai.

- Research, industry and patents: conducted by Philippe Aigrain.
Speakers: Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra, Cheick Oumar Sagara, Michel Trometter
and Jamie Love

- Knowledge, creation and intellectual property: conducted by Hervé Le
Crosnier. Speakers: Pascal Renaud, Jean-Claude Guédon and Claudine Belayche.

Plenary closing session: 5.00 p.m.: conducted by Valérie Peugeot.
Speakers: Suman Sahai, German Velasquez and Jamie Love


3 - Organisation:
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The April 1st meeting is an initiative of French non for profit
organisation Vecam made possible by a partnership with:
- the Intergovernmental Agency of French speaking countries
- The journal Transversales sciences culture
- l'ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)
- The non for profit organisations Mosaïque du Monde, April and the
Foundation Sciences Citoyennes.
- C&F editions

The organising committee is coordinated by Valérie Peugeot and gathers
Philippe Aigrain, Nicolas Casadevall, Florent Latrive, Véronique Kleck,
Hervé Le Crosnier, Pascal Renaud and Nicolas Taffin.

The complete program, a presentation of the speakers as well as a
documentary kit can be found on line http://www.vecam.org.
Registration on line http://www.vecam.org
The conference is free space willing.
Registration is advised.
A contribution is requested for the buffet.

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