Access to Knowledge (A2K)

Reading and documents  

Consumers International (CI)

• Copyright and Access to Knowledge: report by Consumers International, 2006 [PDF]
• Asia Pacific Consumer Vol. 43 & 44 No. 1 & 2 / 2006 Full colour 60 page magazine featuring key A2K issues. See "Libraries – the Peoples Universities" by eIFL p. 47 pdf
• In Russian "Libraries – the Peoples Universities" [PDF]

Position of WIPO member states on an A2K treaty, August 2005

Draft text of an A2K treaty, May 2005 [PDF]

A2K discussion list: information and public archive [PDF]

Meetings and conferences

Consumers International (CI)

• Study on Copyright and Access to Knowledge. Rajeswari Kanniah, CI Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at IFLA 2006, Seoul [PPT]
• Copyright and Access to Knowledge: training workshop, Bangkok, 5 June 2006 Presentation by Dick Kawooya, eIFL-IP Uganda [PPT]

Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue

• New Relationships between Creative Communities and Consumers, Paris, June 2006
• The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property, March 2006
• A Treaty on Access to Knowledge II, London, May 2005
• A Treaty on Access to Knowledge I, Geneva, February 2005
• The Future of WIPO, Geneva, September 2004

Files / Images: 

ci-bangkok.ppt

ci_ifla2006.ppt

ci_report.pdf

peoplerus.pdf

a2k_treaty_may9.pdf