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Welcome to the Access to Knowledge Wiki.
This wiki was created to capture the valuable conversations and knowledge exchanged at the Yale A2K conference in April 2006. If you attended the conference we would love your artifacts, from notes to additional resources.
We are also using this wiki to collect general resources for the access to knowledge movement. We encourage everyone with content to add to add it. You must have an account to add to the wiki, but anyone can create an account.
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Yale A2K2 Conference, April 2007
A2K2 Panels, working groups, notes, presentations, and other resources
Yale A2K Conference, April 2006
Panels, notes, presentations, and other resources
Access to Knowledge Resources
- A2K tagged items on del.icio.us
- A2K Initiative portal
- American Scientist Open Access Forum
- CPTech's Access to Knowledge page
- Resources for Wine Knowledge
- South Centre Programme on Innovation, Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property
- Technology Blog
- TACD Conference on Access to Knowledge, May 12-13, 2005
- Third World Network's Biodiversity, Access, Indigenous Kowledge, & IPRs
- Yale A2K Conference at Bonyuttams
- UNU-MERIT's Access 2 Knowledge Hub
- Cool Collections
- World's Knowledge Resource
- Yale A2K Conference at Bonyuttams
- A2K tagged items on del.icio.us
Access to Knowledge Issues
Compulsory licenses for copyrighted works
Broadcasts
Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasters
Medical Genomics
Genomics has dramatically altered the way in which medicine is practiced and diseases are diagnosed. These changes are reflected in the current legislation of the United States Senate, both in terms of the financial and institutional support for these new technologies (The Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2007 [1]) and their inherent privacy issues (The Genetic Information and Non-discrimination Act, “GINA” [2]). Also, intellectual property battles have erupted surrounding genetic sequences, donated tissues, other biologics, and the uses of their information content. We will be discussing the implications of pending legislation, their international effects, and intellectual property of biological substrates.
Biotech
Similar to biotech, bioinformatics is on the rise. It is a field of study that is similar to biotech, but rather, it relies heavily on the understanding of both the biological sciences, as well as the computational sciences. Degree programs are opening in a few select universities. For for information, visit the University of Nebraska Medical Center, incollaboration with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Bioinformatics program.
Scientific Knowledge (as research data and articles)
CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication - strong on technologies of access
German eScience conference 2007 - strong on linking the grid, knowledge networking and eLearning with open access to scientific knowledge
Some other genomic resources can be found at Health Blog.
I am looking for some prominent speakers and experts in teh area of information technology in Biotech space. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Satish Jha
Software
ICTs
Conceptual and semantic consistency: Towards An Ontology for A2K
