Frederick Abbott
Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law
Florida State University
Panel: Patent Quality
Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at the Florida State University College of Law. He is Rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association, on the Panel of Experts of UNCTAD’s Program on the Settlement of Disputes in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property, consultant to the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project on TRIPS and Development, to the World Bank and to the Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva). He has served as consultant to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy. Professor Abbott serves as arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford). He is former Chair of the American Society of Law Intellectual Property Interest Group and the International Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and former Director of the American Society of International Law Research Project on Human Rights and International Trade. He is Chair of the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics. Professor Abbott is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of international economic law, international intellectual property rights law, and public international law. His books include UNCTAD-ICTSD Resource Book on TRIPS and Development (Principal Consultant with Carlos Correa)(2005), The International Intellectual Property System: Commentary and Materials (with Thomas Cottier and Francis Gurry) (1999), China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement (1998), Public Policy and Global Technological Integration (1997), and Law and Policy of Regional Integration (1995). His book on treaty-making, Parliamentary Participation in the Making and Operation of Treaties, edited with Stefan Riesenfeld, was awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. He has served as Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, as Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Bonn, Visiting Professor and Weickert Fellow at the University of Berne, Visiting Professor at University of California, Hastings College of the Law and at Vanderbilt Law School, and was Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Abbott regularly teaches on the faculties of the World Trade Institute in Berne and the Central European University - World Law Institute in Budapest. Professor Abbott holds BA and LLM degrees from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School.
Titilayo Akinsanmi
GTP Program Manager
SchoolNet Africa
Panel: Education in the Digital Age
Titilayo Akinsanmi currently works with SchoolNet Africa as Joint Programme Manager of the Global Teenager Project. She has experience in the broadcasting (radio and TV) and mobile telecommunication industries. Ms Akinsanmi holds a BA in English from Obafemi Awolowo University and has a passion for connecting people, ideas and resources. She currently volunteers for the AFARA project and facilitates the WSIS Youth Caucus and the IKAMVA youth project.
Getachew Mengistie Alemu
Director General,
Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office
Panel: Mobilizing Governments
Getachew Mengistie Alemu, 43, serves as the Director General of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office. He is the driving force in developing Ethiopia’s intellectual property system and the use of it as a policy tool to meet the development needs of the country and its people.
Mr Getachew Mengistie’s innovative approaches to using intellectual property rights to advance socioeconomic development in Ethiopia are recognized as having valuable applications across the African continent. Through his work at the Intellectual Property Office and as a key participant in the drafting and revision of the national copyright law and the development of the recently enacted trade mark law, Mr. Getachew created what is widely regarded as the most effective intellectual property office in developing Africa. He has ensured the future progress of the intellectual property system in Ethiopia by establishing intellectual property courses at the Addis Ababa University Law School, where he served as an assistant professor. Mr. Getachew is also often called upon to participate in multilateral trade agreements administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization. He has written and published articles in intellectual property and technology transfer and bio-prospecting issues
Tahir Amin
Co-Founder
Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)
Panel: Patent Quality
Tahir Amin is a practising solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He trained and practised with two of the leading IP firms in the UK and also served as an in-house global IP manager. Tahir has over 10 years experience in prosecuting, licensing, opposing and litigating trademarks, patents, and designs. He has spent two years in India researching public interest IP issues and working on patent oppositions. Tahir has since co-founded I-MAK, a group increasing access to knowledge on IP and pharmaceutical products.
Chris Armbruster
Executive Director
Research Networks
Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge
Chris Armbruster was born in the American sector of Berlin. He studied at Bielefeld, Germany (1994, Diplom-Soziologe) and Lancaster, UK (2002, PhD Sociology, funded by the ESRC). In the process of researching the history of the Soviet empire and of state socialism he spent time at UJ Kraków, ELTE Budapest, Uniwersytet Wrocławski and Novosibirsk State University (NGU). He is an alumnus of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Open Society Institute (HESP-Civic Education Project).
His working papers may be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=434782.
Chris has been a Jean Monnet Fellow of the European Forum (2004-05) «The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems in the 21st century» at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute: http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/
He was also Fellow of the Fondazione Antonio Ruberti (2005-06) (as awarded by EIROforum - European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN); European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA); European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); European Space Agency (ESA); European Southern Observatory (ESO); European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL).
Chris Armbruster is the Executive Director of the Research Network 1989 - http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/
The Research Network 1989 is an association of internationally mobile EastWest scholars of the post-1989 generation that collaborate in trans-national and interdisciplinary working groups that typically pursue a comparative agenda. We integrate eastern and western Europe, reach out into Eurasia and keep bridges across the Atlantic. The Research Network 1989 has the following aims:
1. To investigate the global, historical and contemporary changes associated with the year 1989, particularly in a trans-national and comparative perspective.
2. To provide a meeting ground for the post-1989 generation of EastWest scholars who typically have received scholarships and prizes to 'go East', 'go West' and 'go around the world.
3. To intellectually prepare the coming 20th anniversary in 2009.
Chris Armbruster spent several years investigating the European and global knowledge society in the following dimensions
- Higher Education finance
- Entrepreneurial universities
- The rise of the post-doc in Europe
- Innovations in scholarly communication and publishing
- Open Access and non-exclusive copyright licensing
http://ssrn.com/author=434782
Currently he is pursuing a new project on the technological and commercial viability of overlay services on the basis of open access to research articles and data (in collaboration with the Max Planck Digital Library, Director: Laurent Romary - http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/)
Subbia Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge
Subbiah Arunachalam (Arun) is an information consultant based in Madras (now renamed Chennai) in South India. He has been associated with the Indian academic and scholarly communities for over three decades.
He has been an editor of scientific journals (Indian Journal of Technology, Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Pramana - Journal of Physics), a science writer, a researcher in chemistry, a teacher of information science, a librarian in a national laboratory, the executive secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals.
Currently he is a Distinguished Fellow in the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and a part-time Visiting Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include science on the periphery, scientometrics, and information access. He has recently completed a literature-based study on mapping science in India. He has more than 40 papers to his credit and is on the editorial boards of six refereed international journals. He has delivered more than twenty invited talks in international conferences. His forte is his knowledge and understanding of the Indian scientific and scholarly community and their work. He is a member of both the Indian and the International Science Writers Associations.
Interview: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-india-needs-open-access.html
Jack Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, and Director,
Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Welcome Address
Professor Balkin received his Ph.D in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. He writes in the areas of constitutional law, social and cultural theory, cyberspace and telecommunications law, torts and jurisprudence, with a special emphasis on the law of freedom of speech. He is the author of many articles on various aspects of constitutional law, legal theory, society, and culture. His books include: Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (1998), Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (4th ed. 2000), Legal Canons (2000), and What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (2000).
Shamnad Basheer
Panel: Mobilizing Governments
Yochai Benkler
Welcome Address
Yochai Benkler is Professor of Law at Yale Law School since 2003. His expertise is in information law and policy in the digital environment, communications law, and intellectual property. Before starting to teach, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press 2006). Selected articles include Coase's Penguins, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, 112 Yale Law Journal 369 (2002) and Freedom in the Commons, Towards a Political Economy of Information, 52 Duke L.J. 1245 (2003). Professor Benkler has an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University and a J.D. from Harvard University.
Brad Biddle
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Panel: Mobilizing Industry
Brad Biddle is a senior attorney with Intel Corporation, where he is the lead counsel for Intel's Systems Technology Lab. Brad has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University School of Law and California Western School of Law, practiced information technology law with Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward LLP, and served as General Counsel and VP of Business Development for Internet music pioneer MP3.com. Brad has led Intel Corporation's involvement with the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, working closely with many in the A2K community.
Irina Bogdanovskaia
Faculty of Law, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO Program Information For All
Panel: Mobilizing Governments
Serge Bounda
Chief Librarian
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Panel: Partnerships for Access to Information
Mr. Serge Bounda is the Chief Librarian of the Sergio Vieira de Mello United Nations Library, Nairobi.
As an Information and Communication Specialist, he has over 18 years of work experience, including 13 years at the international level.
Before joining the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2002, Mr. Bounda served as the Head Librarian at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania from 1998 - 2002. He has also served as Librarian in various international organizations which included; International Labour Office (Switzerland), World Meteorological Organization (Switzerland), United Nations Office (Geneva), and World Health Organization (Switzerland). Mr. Bounda has also worked for various academic libraries which included University of Lyon II, Maison de l’Orient Mediterraneen between 1990 and 1992.
In Nairobi, Mr. Bounda spearheaded the establishment and implementation of a common United Nations Library in Nairobi for all the UN agencies.
As an Information Manager, he successfully coordinated and contributed to initiate strategic partnership projects such as the setting up of an Environmental Information Center in Iraq (2006) to empower and build capacity for government officials, researchers and the civil society in post-war countries. In addition, he represented UNEP and played a crucial role in working closely with Yale University, WHO, FAO and leading publishers to implement the Online Access to Research in Environment project (OARE), which aims at providing free access to online environmental journals for people in developing world.
At UNEP, he was honoured in May 2003, as the first recipient of the Staff Member of Quarter Award (January to April 2003) in recognition of his creativity, professionalism and hard work.
Mr. Bounda is also a key member of the UN Steering Committee for the Modernization and Integrated Management of UN Libraries. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Small and Field Libraries, Technical Assistance Programme and Depository Libraries System. At the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), Mr. Bounda is the focal point for the UN documentation and Archives.
Mr. Bounda, a Congo national, was born in Brazzaville in 1966. His educational background includes a Degree in Computer Sciences (Diplome d’Etudes Superieures Specialisees – DESS - en Informatique Documentaire of ENSSIB, France; a Degree in History (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies –DEA - en Histoire – Mention tres honorable (Universite Lyon II Lumiere, France), and a Degree in Documentation (Diplome d’Aptitude aux Fonctions de Documentaliste from the University of Dakar.
Mr. Bounda is married and has two children.
Glenn Otis Brown
.
Google
Panel: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Glenn Otis Brown was Executive Director of Creative Commons from Summer 2002 until spring 2005. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.
Before coming to Creative Commons, Glenn clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has also worked stints at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season.
Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa) and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). In college, Glenn was awarded a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Dan Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
Moderator: Access to Scientific Knowledge
Professor Dan L. Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in Patent Law, Copyright, and Biotechnology Law. An internationally prominent authority on issues related to high technology, he is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks.
Professor Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota, Professor Burk taught at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. He has also taught as a visitor at a variety of prominent institutions, including Cornell Law School, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, University of Tilburg, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Program for Management in the Network Economy at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy.
Anupam Chander
Professor of Law
University of California, Davis
Moderator: Traditional Knowledge and
Genetic Resources
Anupam Chander is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the regulation of globalization and digitization.
A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, representing foreign sovereigns in international financial transactions.
In Spring 2004, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University, and in Fall 2003, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell University. He began teaching as an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in 1999, and joined the UC Davis faculty in 2000.
His publications include: Homeward Bound, NYU Law Review (forthcoming 2006); Globalization and Distrust, Yale Law Journal (2005); The Romance of the Public Domain, California Law Review (2004); Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Yale Law Journal (2003); The New, New Property, Texas Law Review (2003); Whose Republic?, University of Chicago Law Review (2002); and Diaspora Bonds, N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2001) (Ass'n of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper, Honorable Mention).
Margaret Chon
Professor of Law & Director, Center for the Study of Justice in Society(CSJS)
Seattle University
Panel: The Social Movement of A2K
Margaret Chon endeavors to analyze how law deploys power, in order to re-construct legal doctrines and systems to promote social justice. She teaches in the areas of procedure, technology, race and law. Her current scholarly interests lie at the nexus of intellectual property, development, and global social justice. The complex but essentially simple question of equality is never far from her thoughts. She is a professor at Seattle University School of Law and also the director of the Center of the Study for Justice in Society at Seattle University. Not least, she is the proud mother of two children, Nicholai and Chloe.
Fleur Claessens
Programme Officer - Intellectual Property
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Panel: Agriculture and Intellectual Property
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Graduate Student Fellow
USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Panel: Community Media and the Global Public
Sphere
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a graduate student at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, where he researches international media policy and the transnational movement for communication rights. He works with the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society and the Indymedia video distribution collection.
Carlos Correa
Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics, Law Faculty
University of Buenos
Panel: Mobilizing Governments
Professor Carlos M. Correa is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics and of the Post-graduate Course on Intellectual Property at the Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires. He has been a visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities and consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNDP, WHO, FAO, IDB, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, UNDP and other regional and international organizations. He has advised several governments on intellectual property and innovation policy. He was a member of the UK Commission on Intellectual Property, and of the Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health established by the World Health Assembly in 2004. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on law and economics, particularly on investment, technology and intellectual property.
Susan Crawford
Associate Professor of Law
Cardozo School of Law
Panel: Broadband Wireless in Developing
Countries
Susan Crawford is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, teaching cyberlaw and telecommunications law. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.
Ms. Crawford’s practice was focused on internet law and policy issues, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, advertising, and defamation. She represented major online companies, startups, and joint ventures, and worked particularly closely with companies doing business in the domain name world. From 1996-1998, she taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center, and she speaks frequently about online legal issues.
Ms. Crawford writes about telecommunications policy and internet governance issues. Her article, "The Biology of the Broadcast Flag" was published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal in late 2003; "The Accountable Internet: Peer Production of Internet Governance" (with David R. Johnson and John G. Palfrey, Jr.) was published by the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology in 2004; "Shortness of Vision: Regulatory Ambition in the Digital Age" will be published as part of a symposium hosted by the Fordham Law Review in late 2005; "First Do No Harm: The Problem of Spyware" will be published as part of a symposium hosted by the Berkeley Technology and Law Journal in late 2005; . Upcoming pieces will be about online identity, FCC jurisdiction, and other digital policy issues. She has also published many online essays about ICANN (most co-authored with David R. Johnson), and maintains a website and blog at www.scrawford.net.
Susan is a member of the Board of ICANN, the Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of Public Knowledge, SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.
Willie Currie
.
APC
Panel: Broadband WiFi in Developing Countries
Willie Currie is the Communications and Information Policy Programme Manager of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
From 1999 – 2002, Willie was a councilor on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA).
In the mid 90s, he was special adviser to Dr Pallo Jordan, Minister of Posts Telecommunications and Broadcasting in the first post-apartheid government. In this capacity, he coordinated the telecommunications policy process that led to the White Paper on Telecommunications Policy.
Prior to this, as General Secretary of the Film and Allied Workers Organisation (FAWO), Willie was involved in the development of broadcasting policy during the transition to democracy in South Africa.
Willie holds an MA in Film and Television Studies for Education from the University of London, Institute of Education. He is an associate of the LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Daniel Dardailler
Associate Chair for Europe
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Daniel Dardailler is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Associate Chair for Europe, Head of W3C Offices, and chair of the official standard liaison task force of the consortium. He sits on the ICANN Board of Directors as W3C liaison and is also a member of the UN Internet Governance Forum advisory group.
Daniel joined the W3C team in Sophia-Antipolis, France, in July 1996. In 1997, he launched the Web Accessibility Initiative and was the Technical Director of the activity til 2003. As such, he participated in the design of some important standards like HTML, CSS, WAI Guidelines. From 2000 to 2006, Daniel was W3C Europe operational Director.
Prior to joining W3C, from 1990 to 1996, Daniel was working in Cambridge, USA, as a software designer and programmer for the X Window System Consortium and the OSF/TheOpenGroup. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Unix/Graphics engineer at the Bull Research Center in France.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science in Digital Typography and Networking from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (1989).
Gary Dauphin
Writer/Editor
Blackplanet.com, Africana.com and AOL Black Voices
Panel: Open Access Literature
Judith Dueck
Vice-chair
HURIDOCS
Panel: Search Engines
Judith Dueck is a human rights professional with 20 years involvement in human rights including 6 years full time international experience in management, activism, needs assessments and project development. She has Work experience with human rights NGOs and IGOs including the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), director of Al Haq (Branch of the ICJ) and others. She is also an award-winning researcher/writer including one book on censorship (Award of Merit, University of Manitoba), 4 books on international human rights documentation methodology as well as articles on information access, library organization, human rights, technology, education and other topics. She is an international public speaker and seminar leader in complex and sensitive situations. Judith has formal and informal training in a wide range of areas including human rights, library, management, curriculum development and cultural resources management. She is a certified teacher with 25 years experience including primary to university post degree levels. Included 15 years of experience working in an inner city high school with a large multicultural and new Canadian population. She is a board and committee member (past and current) for human rights, development, educational and library groups. Long standing board involvement (currently Vice-Chair) with HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International) based in Geneva.
Graham Dutfield
Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow
Queen Mary, University of London
Panel: Traditional Knowledge and Genetic
Resources
Graham Dutfield is Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, he was Academic Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity-building Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Development. From 1 May 2007 he will be Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
He is authored or co-authored four books on intellectual property, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the life science industries, and edited two others, the most recent being Innovations Without Patents (with Suthersanen & Chow). He was also the lead author of Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Development, which was published by ICTSD and UNCTAD. He is currently writing two books: Global Intellectual Property Law with Uma Suthersanen, and Playing God. His current research interests include: biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing; biotechnology, genomics and the patent system; biotechnology regulation and governance; history of patent law and the life science industries; indigenous peoples? rights; innovation and creativity in law, economics, philosophy and history; intellectual property and human rights; IP and sustainable development; IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore; patent law; IP and agriculure; and the politics of intellectual property.
He has served as consultant or commissioned report author for several governments, international organisations, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Niva Elkin-Koren
Professor of Law and a co-director of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology
University of Haifa School of Law
Panel: Search Engines
Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law and a co-director of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology at the University of Haifa School of Law. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, the regulation of search engines, liability of information intermediaries, and the significance of the public domain. She received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995. She was a visiting professor at NYU School of Law (2004-2005), George Washington University Law School (2001), and Villanova School of Law (1997). http://law.haifa.ac.il/faculty/eng/elkin.htm
Hala Essalmawi
Attorney at Law, Intellectual Property Officer
Library of Alexandria
Panel: Partnerships for Access to Information
Ms Essalmawi is an attorney at law and the Intellectual Property Rights Officer at the Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina,BA). She is the project leader of BA A2K initiative www.bibalex.org/a2k She obtained her LLB & LLM from the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University and a Post graduate Diploma in International Law and Development form the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.
She attended many courses, seminars and workshops in Egypt and abroad on International Law, law and development, intellectual property rights, electronic resources and electronic publishing. Ms. Essalmawi is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association, the Association of Attendees and Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law. She is the Intellectual Property Resource Person for the International Development Law Organization, IDLO, Rome, IP impact Program in Egypt and the representative of the eIFL-IP network in Egypt.
Fazila Farouk
Deputy Director
SANGONeT
Moderator: Community Media and the Global
Public Sphere
Fazila is the Editor of the SANGONeT portal as well as the head of SANGONeT's Civil Society Information Programme. She has worked for more than a decade in the South African NGO sector in development planning and non-profit financial sustainability. Fazila has a varied publications record and holds an MSc degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Natal. She recently completed a PhD-level course in Social Theory at the University of Witwatersrand.
Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law
University of Ottawa
Panel: Search Engines
Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law, was a member of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam, is a nationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen, and is the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law. He is the editor of several monthly technology law publications and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues. Dr. Geist has received numerous awards for his work including Canarie’s IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada and he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2003. More information can be obtained at http://www.michaelgeist.ca.
Paul Gerhardt
Creative Archive project leader
BBC
Panel: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Dr Paul Gerhardt leads the Creative Archive project for the BBC, and co-ordinates the UK’s Creative Archive Licence Group – a consortium of public and commercial broadcasters and archives developing a shared public access strategy. He is a frequent speaker and writer on this internationally recognized and pioneering project. He has thirty years experience working in education and broadcasting, from small independent production companies to the big UK networks. His career at the BBC has included the launch of the overnight Learning Zone on BBC Two, and transformation of the major BBC/Open University partnership. From 2001 to 2004 he was Controller, Learning, and responsible for the BBC's adult education strategy and for national campaigns such as The Big Read. Last year he chaired the international jury for the NHK Japan Prize. He was educated at the University of Hull and has a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
Rishab Ghosh
Senior Researcher
MERIT
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Research coordinator (OSI board member) Rishab sees his role on the Open Source Initiative board not in advocacy, but in promoting unbiased, evidence-based research on the socio-economic, legal and technical aspects of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) worldwide. He is Founding International and Managing Editor of First Monday, the most widely read peer-reviewed on-line journal of the Internet. He is Programme Leader at MERIT/International Institute of Infonomics at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, where he moved from Delhi, India in 2000. He coordinated the European Union -funded FLOSS project, a comprehensive study of users and developers, and leads the FLOSSPOLS project studying government use, skills development and gender issues in FLOSS. He is actively involved in initiatives related to government policy on FLOSS in Europe and Asia. He conducts research funded by the EU, the Dutch government and the US National Science Foundation.
Andrea Glorioso
Assistant Researcher
Department of Automation and Information, Internet Media Group
Politecnico di Torino
Moderator: Agriculture and Intellectual
Property
Andrea Glorioso divides his working time as a free-lance consultant on FLOSS technology, law and policy and as a researcher at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) on analysis and development of multi-disciplinar methods for the promotion of free, libre, open-source licenses for software and other kinds of creative works. Previously he was the technical coordinator of Media Innovation Unit, the research branch of Firenze Tecnologia (Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence) devoted to research, development and promotion of free software, libre content and open networks.
He also worked as the technical director of the European IST project AGNULA, whose goal was to spread Free Software in the professional audio/video domain. Andrea Glorioso holds a MA degree in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Padova (summa cum laude) and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Torino/WIPO Worldwide Academy.
Georg Greve
President
Free Software Foundation Europe
Moderator: Mobilizing Technologists
Robin Gross
Executive Director, IP Justice
Panel: Search Engines
Robin D. Gross is founder and Executive Directive of IP Justice an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and protects freedom of expression (www.ipjustice.org). An attorney, Ms. Gross advises policy makers throughout the world on the impact of intellectual property rules before national legislatures and in international treaties and trade agreements. Ms. Gross lectures at international seminars, law schools and universities on cyberspace legal issues including digital copyright, fair use, and Peer-2-Peer (P2P) file-sharing.
Ms. Gross serves as a member of the High Technology Legal Advisory Board for Santa Clara University School of Law, where she teaches International Copyright Law. She represents the Non-Commercial Users (NCUC) Constituency on the GNSO Policy Council at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Union for the Public Domain, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to protecting the public domain. Ms. Gross also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - Peru, and for FreeMuse, an independent international organization based in Copenhagen that advocates freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.
In July 2004 Managing Intellectual Property Magazine named Ms. Gross as one of “2004’s Top 50 Most Influential People in Intellectual Property in the World.” She was called to testify before the US Copyright Office during the 2003 and 2000 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Rulemaking Hearings .
Before founding IP Justice in 2002, Ms. Gross was the first Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property with the cyber-liberties organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation where she began the group’s campaign in intellectual property litigation in 1999. While at EFF, she defended Morpheus P2P file-sharing software developers at the district court in a case that upheld the US Supreme Court’s “Betamax” ruling, and represented consumers over their right to use digital VCRs. In 1999 Ms. Gross led EFF’s defense of web publishers of DeCSS computer code that unlocks DVDs (including Norwegian teen Jon Johansen). She also represented 2600 Magazine (against the major movie studios) and Princeton scientists (against the recording industry) over publication of technical information banned by the DMCA. In 2001 she developed EFF's Open Audio License, an early public license for music that permits public sharing in exchange for artist attribution.
California’s legal newspaper The Daily Journal selected Ms. Gross as one of “California’s Top Ten Most Influential Attorneys in 2001”. She has appeared as a guest legal expert on TV and radio news stations including CNN, BBC, NPR, PRI, Tech TV, NHK, DRS, VOA, and CBC. Ms. Gross has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, Wired News, Associated Press, Reuters, Financial Times, Billboard and other media outlets.
A 1998 graduate of Santa Clara University’s High Technology Law Program, Ms. Gross is licensed to practice law in California. A Michigan native, she graduated from Michigan State University’s James Madison College in 1995 with degrees in political philosophy and international relations. Ms. Gross’ personal interests include music, dancing, playing basketball, yoga, sewing, baking, and her Dalmatian, Spot.
Robert Guerra
leading privacy advocate
Moderator: Internationalized Domain Names
Robert Guerra is based in Toronto, Canada. He is one of the founding
directors of Privaterra - an ongoing project of the SAGE Charitable
foundation that works with Human Rights NGOs to assist them with
issues of data privacy, secure communications and information
security. He currently sits on the board of Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and has been actively involved in
the preparatory process of the UN World Summit on the Information
Society, including as a panelist at the Pan European and Latin
American Regional Meeting, an NGO advisor to the Canadian delegation,
and the focal point for CPSR. He also sits on the advisory board of
several non-profits, including Taking IT Global and DiploFoundation's
Internet Governance and Policy Capacity Building Programme
Teresa Hackett
Project Manager
eIFL-IP
Moderator: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Teresa Hackett is the Project Manager of eIFL-IP: Advocacy for Access to Knowledge, a programme to raise awareness in copyright issues for libraries in eIFL.net member countries and to represent their interests in international policy fora.
Teresa was the Director of the European library association (EBLIDA) from 2000-2003, provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council Germany.
Teresa has a special interest in legal issues in information work, especially n the electronic environment, and has worked as a consultant to a variety of European organizations. She is currently an Expert Resource Person on the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM). Teresa is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Teresa is a native English speaker and speaks Irish, German and Dutch.
Jon Hall
Founder, Linux International
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1], a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name. According to Hall, his nickname "came from a time when I had less control over my temper."
He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and SGI. He is currently an industry consultant.
It was during his time with Digital that he initially became interested in Linux, and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to DEC Alpha|Digital's Alpha platform. It was also in this general timeframe that Hall, who lives in New Hampshire, started the Greater New Hampshire Linux_User_Group|Linux Users' Group.
Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association. He is a well known elder statesman of the programming community, and a leader of the open source movement. At the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, Hall was honoured with a Lifetime Recognition Award for his services to the open source community. Hall holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1977) and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).
Saskia Harmsen
Capacity Development Officer
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
Panel: Education in the Digital Age
Saskia Harmsen has been working as Capacity Development officer for the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) for over four years. In her history at IICD, she has worked on the capacity development programme for IICD’s Bolivia, Zambia and Ghana Country programmes.
Born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Saskia was raised and schooled in Sweden, Germany, and Austria, and holds a BSc degree in Management Studies from the University of London, and an MA degree from the University of Amsterdam. Her MA research was focused on the use of ICTs for Rural Development under Professor Cees Hamelink. Her ICT-related working history has seen her active in customer relationship management for various software firms, and has brought her to develop European business opportunities for an Israeli internet start-up, before taking up a position with IICD.
Saskia also coordinates cross-national activities and partnerships related to Capacity Development in ICT4Development on behalf of IICD, such as itrainonline. The itrainonline partnership has brought to the fore experience and lessons in terms of collaboration and partnership, as well as in the development and use of learning resources in a collaborative fashion using electronic means. Additionally, in order to overcome the absence of official learning materials, whether for Secondary Education or Improved Farming Practices, IICD has supported a number of organisations to utilise ICTs to develop, enhance and share their own appropriate content. Saskia has been involved in the formulation and implementation of many of these projects and programmes from a capacity building perspective, and can relay IICD’s experiences with collaboration and content development from both national and international level.
Gwen Hinze
International Affairs Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Moderator: Mobilizing Civil Society
Gwen Hinze is the International Affairs Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-governmental organization with over 10,000 members worldwide, dedicated to the protection of consumers' rights and civil liberties in the digital world. EFF works to educate policy makers in various fora, including the World Intellectual Property Organization and international standards bodies, about the need for balanced intellectual property regimes that protect creators, preserve access to knowledge, foster technological innovation, and empower digital consumers. EFF has particular expertise in the technological protection measure provisions of the 1998 U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, having been counsel of record or amicus curiae in all the early major cases interpreting its scope. Ms. Hinze is one of the co-authors of EFF's report Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA, and has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office for consumer exemptions in the DMCA rule-making inquiry. Ms. Hinze is a lawyer specializing in international intellectual property and Internet regulation policy. She is a member of the State Bar of California in the United States, and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.
Wijayananda Jayaweera
Panel: Community Media and the Global Public Sphere
Satish Jha
Special Advisor, Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICTs
Panel: Broadband Wireless in Developing
Countries
Currently Co-Chair of WITFOR - World IT Forum sponsored by IFIP and UN organisations, Satish Jha, Chairman of JM Consulting LLC in Washington DC, has been an international information technology management executive since 1990 including as the head of global information systems management for Roche in Switzerland, head of health care information technology practice of the consulting firm James Martin & Co in New York and Chairman of META Group India. He is also a Special Adviser to the Kofi Annan Center for excellence in ICTs.
He is also engaged as an invited member on the Board of the MD/DC Collaborative in Healthcare IT and the hospital track of Maryland Healthcare Commission and chairs eHealth-Care Foundation.
Satish was one of the youngest Editors in the national press in India and was Editor of Dinamaan, a national newsweekly of The Times of India Group. He co-founded Janasatta for The Indian Express Group and prior to that headed the Research Bureau of the Financial Express.
Various organizations and initiatives he co-founded include Digital Partners India, Tarahaat.com, eHealth-care, Baramati Initiatives, DESI Power, FREND, PUCL Bulletin and he has mentored over a couple dozen ICT for Development organizations, several of them having won international awards including Stockholm Challenge awards.
He has been published by various daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly journals in seveal areas including political commentary, economic analysis, energy, media, telecom, healthcare, planning and social entrepreneurship in India, Europe, Australia and the US.
Brewster Kahle
.
Internet Archive
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Brewster Kahle (rhymes with 'kale', (IPA: /keɪl/) is a U.S. internet entrepreneur, activist and digital librarian. He was an early member of the Thinking Machines team, where he invented the WAIS system. He later started WAIS, Inc. (sold to AOL), the nonprofit Internet Archive, and the related for-profit Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com). He continues as Director of the Internet Archive as of 2007. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a key supporter of the Open Content Alliance. His stated goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge". Kahle is a plaintiff, along with film archivist and fellow Internet Archive contributor Rick Prelinger, in the court case Kahle v. Gonzales (formerly Kahle v. Ashcroft). The plaintiffs in that case asserted that the striking of the renewal requirement on copyrighted works (in the Berne Convention Implementation Act and Copyright Term Extension Act) stands in violation of the First Amendment by preventing orphaned works from entering the public domain. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the plaintiffs' arguments in an opinion issued January 22, 2007. In 2005, Kahle was elected to a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kahle and his wife created the Kahle/Austin Foundation, a US$45 million trust which in 2003 gave US$1,787,175 to Internet Archive. Kahle graduated from MIT in 1982 with an SB degree in Computer Science & Engineering where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. The emphasis of his studies was artificial intelligence; he studied under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis.
Kaili Kan
Professor & Director,
Policy & Development Institute of Information Industries,
Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT)
Panel: Broadband Wireless in Developing
Countries
Dr. Kaili Kan is currently Professor at the School of Economics & Management and Director of the Policy & Development Institute of Information Industries (PDIII) at Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT). Dr. Kan received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984, after which he worked as manager of Strategic Technology Assessment at Pacific Bell, Special Advisor to ChinaSat, and consultant for the World Bank. Since 1987, as Deputy Director of the Economic & Technological Development Research Center (ETDRC) of China Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications (MPT), Dr. Kan was responsible for research on telecommunication policy and development strategy of China’s telecommunication sector for over a decade. Dr. Kan also holds a number of other positions, including member of the advisory committee for drafting China’s telecommunication law.
Amy Kapczynski
Fellow,
Information Society Project
Moderator: A2K as a Social Movement
Eddan Katz
Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School
Moderator: Mobilizing Governments
Eddan Katz is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School. He has written articles and teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, intellectual property, telecommunications, and bioethics. He also wrote the hypertext poem Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, which has since been made into a T-shirt through the public domain license under which it was released. Eddan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC, Berkeley in 2002, with a Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual Property Scholarship. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC, Berkeley in 2002-3; and a Resident Fellow with the ISP in 2003-4. Eddan received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale in 1997.
Daniel Kevles
History Professor,
Yale University
Panel: Agriculture and Intellectual Property
Professor Kevles recieved his BA from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his PhD from Princeton (History) in 1964. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; and the history of science, arms, and the state. He is currently Chair the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
His teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society, and U.S. history since 1940.
Harold Koh
Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law
Yale Law School
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has served as the fifteenth Dean since 2004.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
A graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Harvard Law School (where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review), he went on to serve as law clerk to Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before coming to Yale in 1985, he practiced law at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
Dean Koh has written more than 80 articles and authored or co-authored eight books, including Transnational Legal Problems (with H. Steiner & D. Vagts) and The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association's award as the best book on the American Presidency.
Dean Koh has been awarded nine honorary doctorates and two law school medals and has received more than twenty-five awards for his human rights work. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a member of the American Law Institute. He has served as an Editor of the American Journal of International Law and the Foundation Press Casebook Series. He has received Guggenheim and Century Foundation Fellowships and he sits on the boards of directors or overseers of Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, National Democratic Institute, Human Rights First, and Human Rights in China. He has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of America's 45 leading public sector lawyers under the age of 45, and by A Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Asian-Americans of the 1990s. He has given several dozen named lectures.
Recently, he received the 2005 Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association and the 2003 Wolfgang Friedmann Award from Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in International Law.
Diana Korsakaite
Deputy Director, Communications Regulatory Authority
Republic of Lithuania
Moderator: Broadband Wireless in Developing
Countries
Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Faculty of Law
Oxford University
Moderator: Search Engines
Sudhir Krishnaswamy is currently writing a Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Law, Oxford University on ‘The Basic Structure Doctrine in Indian Constitutional Adjudication’. He was a College Teaching Fellow in Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford from 2003-2005. He was an Independent Research Fellow at the SARAI Programme on Intellectual Property Law and the Knowledge-Culture Commons at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India from 2002-2005. He is an Editor of the the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and was an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal from 2003-4.
Sudhir Krishnaswamy graduated with a Bachelors degree in Art and Law [Honours] from the National Law School Bangalore in 1998. He went on to complete the Bachelor in Civil Law degree at the University of Oxford between 1998-2000 on a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent the next two years teaching law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His research interests include public law, property law, legal theory and the reform of legal systems.
Ahmed Abdel Latif
Second Secretary, Department of International Organizations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
Panel: A2K as a Social Movement
Ahmed Abdel Latif is a Second Secretary at the Department of International Organizations of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was delegate of Egypt to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and to the TRIPS Council of the World Trade Organization (2000-2005) as well as Coordinator of the African Group at WIPO (2004). Author of "Developing country coordination in international intellectual property standard-setting," (T.R.A.D.E Working Paper 24, South Centre), he is a graduate of the American University in Cairo, Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ronaldo Lemos
Director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS),
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro
Panel: A2K as a Social Movement
Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Lemos is the head professor of Intellectual Property law at FGV Law School. He is also the director of the Creative Commons Brazil and a member of the Board of iCommons, the international Creative Commons project. He has earned his LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He coordinates various projects, such as the Open Business Project, an international initiative taking place in Brazil, Nigeria, Chile, Mexico, South Africa and the UK. He is one of the founders of Overmundo, the largest Web 2.0 initiative in Brazil.
Becky Lentz
Electronic Media Policy Program Officer
Ford Foundation
Moderator: Mobilizing Civil Society
Becky Lentz is the Ford Foundation’s first program officer for media policy and technology, coming to Ford with combined experience in the corporate sector, state and local government, the non-profit sector, and academia. Appointed in late 2001, she has worked to build a new area of grantmaking at Ford and also within philanthropy that focuses on communications and information policy, having granted approximately $20 million to support issue advocacy, public interest research, capacity building assistance for NGOs, and social movement engagement in issues such as media consolidation, privacy rights, freedom of expression, media diversity, media representation, media literacy, and intellectual property rights. Becky has been supporting a diverse array of organizations in the media reform and justice sector, focusing primarily on building strategically linked institutional capacity for long term protection of public interest values in communications policymaking. Among her grantmaking successes are numerous 'firsts' in the field: Consumer’s Union’s HearUsNow portal; the Center for Public Integrity’s Well Connected project; the Media Justice Fund at the Funding Exchange based in NYC; the Internet Governance Project at Syracuse University; the Media Empowerment Project of the United Church of Christ’s Office of Communication; the soon to be launched Civil Society Fellows visitor program experiment at the Oxford Internet Institute; the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere media project at the Social Science Research Council; the Rockwood Leadership Program’s Fellowships for leaders in media reform and justice; and the Media Policy Working Group of the affinity group Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. She is also a founding contributor to the new Media Democracy Fund housed at the Proteus Fund in MA and has supported the Media and Democracy Coalition housed at Common Cause. Becky was instrumental in Ford’s establishment of its first international initiative in intellectual property rights. After her assignment at Ford, she will join New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication as a Visiting Scholar for one year where she plans to publish from her doctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Radio, TV, Film; speak and present on the role of philanthropy in social change related to communications policy; and continue to work with an international project on freedom of expression issues that she initiated while at Ford.
Jack Lerner
Samuelson Clinic Fellow
Berkeley Law School
Moderator: Education in the Digital Age
Jack Lerner has been Clinic Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic since January 2005. While at the Clinic, Jack has counseled policymakers, scientists, artists, nonprofit organizations, and academics as they confront problems where law, technology, and public policy intersect, in conjunction with teams of Samuelson Clinic Student Interns. Jack also co-teaches the companion seminar with Professor Deirdre Mulligan, which provides a forum for exploring the links between legal theory and the cases and projects on which students are working.
Jamie Love
Director,
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)
Panel: A2K as a Social Movement
James Love is the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. Information about CPTech is on the web at http://www.cptech.org. An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and members of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force on Intellectual Property. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Geidy Lung
Legal Officer of the Copyright Law Division
WIPO
Panel: Education in the Digital Age
Geidy Lung is Senior Legal Officer of the Copyright Law Division of the Copyright and Related Rights Sector of WIPO.
Prior to joining WIPO, Ms Lung was legal researcher and taught civil and intellectual property law in the University of los Andes (Venezuela). She practiced as an attorney and was external legal advisor of companies and foundations in the field of science and technology. She was consultant in the Cooperation for Development Bureau of WIPO for Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of copyright.
Her responsibilities at the International Bureau relate to WIPO’s activities regarding progressive development of international copyright and related rights, in particular the secretarial tasks for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and issues related to digital technology, limitations and exceptions to copyright as well as private international law.
She has represented WIPO at various international meetings in different regions of the world. Among other responsibilities, she coordinates the external relationships regarding copyright matters with various organizations such as Unesco, IFLA and the World Blind Union.
Ms. Lung is lawyer and accountant, and holds a LLM in Intellectual Property. She speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.
Colin Maclay
Managing Director
Berkman Center
Moderator: Mobilizing Industry
Colin M. Maclay is the Managing Director of the Berkman Center, where he is privileged to work in diverse capacities with its faculty, staff, fellows and extended community to realize its ambitious goals. His broad aim is to effectively and appropriately integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) with social and economic development, focusing on the changes Internet technologies foster in society, policy and institutions. Both as Co-founder of the Information Technologies Group at Harvard’s Center for International Development and at Berkman, Maclay’s research has paired hands-on multi stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends, challenges and opportunities for the integration of ICTs in developing world communities.
Colin has worked extensively in India, Latin America and at the international level on ICT policy for the underserved, developing and implementing research projects on topics including rural ICT access, ICTs in education, entrepreneurship, telecommunications infrastructure and policy, electronic government, and IT Enabled Services. He has a particular interest in leveraging universities’ unique capacity to engage in varied ICT policy and impact research and dialogue, and conduct technology research and development. Outside Harvard, he is a fellow at the University of Washington’s Center for Internet Studies, Chairman of the Sports for Development Foundation, and Advisor to the World Computer Exchange. Colin’s studies have taken him to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Northeastern University.
Wei Mao
Director General
China Network Information Center (CNNIC)
Panel: Internationalized Domain Names
Dr Mao is the Director of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
He is the Trustee of the 2nd China Communications Standards Association. He also served as Number Council Commissioner for the NRO and Address Council Commissioner for the ASO in 2006. Due to his lead, country-code top level domain ".CN" registration ranks at fourth in the world. He took the lead in extending research into the Internet statistics field, whilst taking part in constituting a number of RFC standards as one of China's pioneers. He also directed a number of national Internet research projects of China.In October 2006, Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names, to which Doctor Mao contributed as chief author, was adopted by the IETF, and coded as RFC4713.In July 2005, Doctor Mao was approved to establish the IMA@ietf.org mail-list and successfully sponsored the IETF (EAI WG) conference for Internationalized eMail Addresses in Beijing.In March 2004, Doctor Mao, as chief director, co-established the "Joint Engineering Team Guideline for Internationalized Domain Names Registrations and Administration for Chinese, Japanese and Korean", coded as RFC3743 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Bio at <http://www.apnic.net/meetings/23/ec/mao.html>
Juan Carlos de Martin
.
Politecnico Turin
Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge
Juan Carlos De Martin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Information Engineering at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy. His research focus is on multimedia processing and transmission. Between 1993 and 1995 Dr. De Martin was a Visiting Scholar at the Signal Compression Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments' Media Technologies Laboratory in Dallas, USA. Between 1998 and 2005 he was a researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Information and Telecommunications Engineering (IEIIT) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Torino, where he led the research group on multimedia communications. Juan Carlos De Martin is the author of over 70 international scientific publications and of several patents. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE); he is also a member of the IEEE Multimedia Communications and of the IEEE Signal Processing Education Technical Committees. Dr. De Martin is an Expert Evaluator of Research Programs for the Italian Ministry of University and Research and for the Ministry of Productive Activities.
Andrew McLaughlin
.
Google
Panel: Mobilizing Industry
Andrew McLaughlin is Head of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs for Google Inc., based in San Francisco. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center.
Working at the intersection of law, politics, economics, and technology, Andrew's Berkman Center work has principally taken the form of projects to expand Internet infrastructure in developing countries. He has assisted governments, NGOs, and private sector actors to understand and analyze Internet and communications technologies; to reform their laws, policies, and regulations; and to foster favorable environments for local technology entrepreneurship.
Erik Moeller
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Erik Möller is an author and project manager. He is a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization which
runs Wikipedia, and a long-time contributor to Wikimedia projects and
the underlying software. He also works with a new organization called
Stichting Open Progress on the development of structured wiki
technology.
Ram Mohan
Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technical Officer, Afilias
Panel: Internationalized Domain Names
Ram Mohan is the Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited.
Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .info and .aero domains, the registry services provider for the .org and .mobi domains, India's .in domain and 8 other sovereign country domains (ccTLDs).
Ram is a recognized expert in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the effort to make domain names work in scripts and languages other than ASCII/English. He was a co-author of the IDN Guidelines that have been widely adopted by registries worldwide, and has authored, edited or reviewed the majority of ICANN IDN technical and policy documents. He is a member of the IDN President's Advisory Committee. He was the chairs the ICANN Working Group on IDNs.
Ram is one of the founding members of the ICANN Security & Stability Committee (SSAC), and the ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). He has served on the ICANN Whois task force, and is a member of the DNSSEC-Deployment Working Group.
An active public speaker, Ram Mohan has delivered speeches on Internet Security, Cybercrime, DDOS Attacks, Multilingualization, Digital Divide, IDNs, DNSSEC and Whois. He sits on the boards of various educational and leadership non-profits in the Philadelphia area.
Presentation at <http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/gnso-idn-wg-outcomes-ram.pdf>
Milton Mueller
Professor, School of Information Studies,
Syracuse University
Panel: Internationalized Domain Names
Milton Mueller, Ph.D. (U. Pennsylvania, 1989), is Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, where he directs its Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Network Management.
Dr. Mueller has experience in both the analysis of Internet policy/politics/economics and in its practical governance. His book "Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace" (MIT Press, 2002) was a favorably reviewed and prescient overview of the key political issues of IG. He is one of the founding members of ICANN's Noncommercial Users Constituency and has been elected by its members to serve as Chair and on various Councils and Task Forces making ICANN policy. He served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences study of "Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System." He has spoken before the ITU on IPv6 and other Internet governance issues, and published scholarly articles on DNS economics, ENUM, domain name trademark disputes, WSIS civil socie ty and international institutions in ICT.
His bio is at <http://ischool.syr.edu/~mueller/>.
Sisule Musungu
Panel: A2K as a Social Movement
Mr. Musungu is a legal researcher and policy analyst on innovation for
development, access to knowledge and intellectual property. He also has
research interests in human rights law especially on economic, social
and cultural rights. He has authored many publications and papers and
spoken at many international conferences on these issues as well as
consulted for, and or acted as an advisor to various UN agencies,
international organisations, non-governmental organisations and national
governments.
Some of his recent work and publications include, among others: "The Use
of Flexibilities in TRIPS by Developing Countries: Can they Promote
Access to Medicines?", (with Cecilia Oh), South Centre and WHO, Geneva:
2006; "International Intellectual Property Standard-Setting: A Review of
the Role of Africa in Shaping the Rules for the Regulation of the
Knowledge Economy", in Yusuf, A., (ed.), African Yearbook of
International Law, African Foundation of International Law: 2006; and "Rethinking Innovation, Development, and Intellectual Property in the
UN: WIPO and Beyond", Issues Papers No. 5, QIAP, Ottawa: 2005.
Mr. Musungu, who is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, is currently
writing his PhD thesis on graduation in patent law at the, University of
Berne in Switzerland and holds law degrees from the University of
Pretoria and the University of Nairobi as well as a Post-graduate
Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law. Previously, he worked as
the Coordinator of the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme at
the South Centre and as an associate at the law firm Hamilton, Harrison
and Mathews in Nairobi.
Magdy Nagi
Head of Sector, Information & Communication Technology
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Panel: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Dr. Nagi is a Professor in the Computer Science department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe, in 1974, where he served as Lecturer for two years and as a Consultant to its Computer Center from 1974-1990. During this period he also served as Consultant to many companies in Germany such as Dr. Otker, Bayer, SYDAT AG, and BEC.
On the national level he was a Consultant to many projects under the umbrella of either the University of Alexandria or the Faculty of Engineering for designing and/or implementing automation projects for governmental authorities or public sector companies, such as the Ministry of Interior, the Health Insurance Organization (HIO), the Social Insurance Organization (SIO), and the Customs Authorities.
Since 1995, Dr. Nagi has served as Consultant to Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Among his activities are the design and installation of Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s network and its information system as well as the design and implementation of the library information system, namely a trilingual information system that offers full library automation. He is currently serving as the Head of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector at Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Dr. Nagi is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society as well as several other scientific organizations. His main research interests are in operating systems and database systems. He is author/co-author of more than 80 papers.
Denise Nicholson
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University of Wits, South Africa
Panel: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Denise Rosemary Nicholson is the Copyright Services Librarian at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
She has been very active in South Africa and other parts of Africa
addressing copyright and A2K issues.
She is a member of a number of international, regional and local
copyright committees and/or A2K projects. She spearheaded the
establishment of the African Access to Knowledge Alliance (AAKA),which
was registered as a continental body on 2007. She has presented at many
international conferences and has a number of publications. She was
awarded "Academic Librarian of the Year" in 2001.
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor, Culture and Communication
New York University
Panel: Mobilizing Technologists
Helen Nissenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication and Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University. Professor Nissenbaum conducts research in the social, ethical, and political dimensions of information and communications technology. At Princeton University, she served as Associate Director of the University Center for Human Values and before that held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. She holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, an M.A. in Education, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.
Her scholarly publications span the topics of privacy, property rights, electronic publication, accountability, the use of computers in education, and values in the design of computer and information systems. Her research on values in design, security, and privacy have been supported through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Nissenbaum's books include Emotion and Focus, Computers, Ethics and Social Values (coedited with D.J. Johnson), and Academy and the Internet (co-edited with Monroe Prince) and she is a co-founding editor of the journal, Ethics and Information Technology.
Nnenna Nwakanma
Cabinet member and regional coordinator
African Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS)
Panel: Mobilizing Civil Society
Nnenna Nwakanma holds a triple Bachelors (in the Social Sciences, History and English and a Masters degree in International Relations and Law. She has done large-scale work within International development organisations and institutions in Africa on Information, Documentation and International Relations. Among them, The Home Health Education Service, The Helen Keller Foundation(www.hki.org) and The African Development Bank(www.afdb.org). Co-founder of different pan-African organizations: The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)(www.fossfa.net), The Africa Network of Information Society Actors (ANISA), and the Africa Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS). One of the major Civil Society Actors in the World Summit on the Information Society, she represents the African Civil Society on the Digital Solidarity Fund(www.dsf-fsn.org), and advises on the Africa Information Society Initiatiave.(www.uneca.org/aisi). Today she is Council Chair of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa.
She is also the Co-author of Our Side of the Divide. http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/index.php?id=1022 http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/capetown04/ourside.pdf
Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-61390&als[theme]=Silenced%20Report
Vision in Process http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_de/Vision_in_process.pdf
The Incommunicado Reader http://www.incommunicado.info/
At present she works as a Consultant to governments, Civil Society organizations, business entities and International Development Organizations on various domains of her expertise in African Development:Human Rights, Conflict Management,Gender Mainstreaming and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Ann Okerson
Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs
Yale University
Moderator: Partnerships for Access to
Information
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
Panel: Traditional Knowledge and Genetic
Resources
My general research interests include: the history of scientific knowledge, popular culture, and natural resource management with an emphasis on experiences in Africa. I study the disjuncture between elite and popular understandings of health, technology and the environment in different historical periods, with an eye towards how history might inform public policy today.
My main research focus currently is the history of drug prospecting in Africa. I address the ways in which patents, databases, and chemical formulas shape rights to medicinal plants and related pharmacological knowledge. This project places the history of drug discovery in an international framework to better understand the global pharmaceutical industry.
Richard Owens
Director, Copyright E-Commerce, Technology & Management Division
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Panel: Search Engines
Richard Owens is Director of the Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (www.wipo.int). His work lies at the intersection of copyright, digital technologies and the Internet, involving issues such as emerging online business models, the copyright liability of Internet intermediaries including P2P service providers, the rights of users and consumers of digital content, digital rights management (DRM) including ICT standards issues, open source software, and copyright collective management.
Before joining WIPO, Mr. Owens was International IPR Adviser for British Music Rights (BMR) in London, the lobbying and public affairs voice of UK composers, songwriters and music publishers. While in London he also contributed to UK implementation of the EC Copyright and E-Commerce Directives, and participated in RightsWatch, an EC-funded project aimed at developing self-regulatory notice-and-takedown procedures for the European Union under the E-Commerce Directive.
A national of the United States of America, Mr. Owens was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the George Washington University National Law Center, Washington DC.
Larry Peiperl
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Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge
Trained in Internal Medicine, Larry Peiperl comes to PLoS from UCSF,
where he is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He was the
founding director of the UCSF Center for HIV Information and served
for 6 years as editor-in-chief of the HIV InSite Web site. As an
investigator in the NIAID-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group and
subsequently the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, he has participated in
the design and leadership of several multicenter clinical trials, and
edits the HVTN Pipeline Project Web site. He has written several
widely distributed sources of information on HIV, starting in 1992
with the first pocket clinical handbook published on this topic.
Larry has served as a teaching attending physician at San Francisco
General Hospital and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and is
currently a volunteer physician at San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
Medical Clinic.
Caio Pereira
Lecturer
Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
Panel: Broadband Wireless in Developing
Countries
Caio Pereira is a lecturer at the Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas – São Paulo (Brazil). He holds a J.S.D. and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. He was a fellow at Yale's Information Society Project (2004-2005). His research interests include telecommunications policy in developing countries, design and implementation of universal service policy, regulatory reform in telecommunications and media industries, media regulation and antitrust. Mr. Pereira has published articles in Brazil and in the United States, dealing with telecommunications law and policy, Internet policy and antitrust issues.
He graduated from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1998. In 1999 and 2000, he held office as Director of the Department for Economic Protection in the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, which is the antitrust authority responsible for issuing opinions in mergers and prosecuting anticompetitive practices before the Brazilian antitrust tribunal. Before coming to Yale, he also worked as a private attorney, focusing his practice on antitrust, regulation of public utilities and corporate law.
Elpidio Peria
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Third World Network
Panel: Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
An associate of the Third World Network, Elpidio Peria is a practising lawyer based in the Philippines giving practical policy and legal advise to farmers' organizations, indigenous peoples' organizations and their support groups, including government agencies in the Philippines, on issues relating to the interplay of indigenous peoples' rights, genetic resources and traditional knowledge, modern technologies and intellectual property rights. Previously, he was part of the Technical Secretariat of the Philippines' Inter-Agency Committee on Biological and Genetic Resources (IACBGR) from the time it started operating in 1997 as a body granting access and benefit-sharing agreements under the Philippine's Executive Order 247 until it was rendered inoperative by the effectivity of Republic Act 9147 around 2003. He also was part of the first Board of Trustees of the Philippine Institute for Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC), a government corporation created under Republic Act 8423 which dealt with the issues relating to traditional medicine from the period 1999-2002. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Philippine Delegation to the Convention on Biological Diversity as a policy and legal adviser on issues relating to access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. He has given and is continuously giving upon request, a series of capacity-building and orientation seminars on access and benefit-sharing and its related issues across South East Asia with a diverse audience ranging from the government, farmers' and indigenous peoples' organizations, students and civil society organizations.
He is currently working on a policy paper on IPR and the Commons in the Philippine setting with the Foundation for Media Alternatives and researchers from the University of the Philippines Law and Internet Society.
Guy Pessach
Affiliate Fellow, Information Society Project
Lecturer, The Faculty of LawThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Panel: The Political Economy of Digital Archives
Guy Pessach is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School, where he had also carried his post-doctoral studies as a Fulbright scholar. Guy's main areas of interest are copyright law, information law and the interface of law, culture and innovative communication technologies. Guy's current research focuses on "The Dynamics of Cultural Preservation in Digital Domains - A Democratic Compass".
Jason Phillips
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JSTOR
Panel: Partnerships for Access to Information
Jason Phillips is Associate Director for Library Relations for JSTOR. In this role, Jason is responsible for leading JSTOR’s outreach efforts to the global library and scholarly community. Prior to working for JSTOR, Jason was Director of Business Development for Blackboard, a leader in e-learning software and services for the higher education and academic publisher markets. Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and an MBA from the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington, DC.
Achal Prabhala
Consultant
Lawyers Collective, India
Panel: Open Access Literature
Achal Prabhala was trained in economics and public policy. He coordinated the Access to Learning Materials Project in Southern Africa during 2004/2005, and works on access to medicines and a2k in association with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore.
Natasha Primo
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APC
Panel: Community Media and the Global Public Sphere
Natasha Primo is chair of the Association for Progressive Communications and executive director of Women's Net, a site designed to enable women to use ICTs for social activism.
Arti Rai
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Duke Law School
Panel: Patent Quality
Arti Rai - Professor of Law, Duke University (from http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/rai/bibliography.html)
Arti Rai is an expert in patent law, law and the biopharmaceutical industry, and health care regulation. Her recent publications include "Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine," in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries: Biotech and Software (AEI-Brookings Press, 2005); "Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?" Public Library of Science: Medicine (2004) (with Stephen M. Maurer and Andrej Sali); "Collective Action and Proprietary Rights: The Case of Biotechnology Research with Low Commercial Value," in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005); and “Engaging Facts and Policy: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Patent System Reform,” 106 Columbia Law Review (2003).
Professor Rai joined the Duke Law faculty in 2003. In the fall of 2004, Rai was a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. Prior to joining Duke, she was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was also a visiting professor in Fall 2000. From 1997-2001, she was a faculty member at the University of San Diego School of Law. She has also been a faculty fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University; a MacLean fellow at the University of Chicago Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; and a trial attorney focused on health law at the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch. She was an associate at the firm of Jenner & Block, in Washington D.C., after completing a clerkship with Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco.
Rai graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in biochemistry and history (history and science), attended Harvard Medical School for the 1987-1988 academic year, and received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1991. While in law school, she served as executive editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Daniel Ravicher
Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center
President and Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation
Panel: Patent Quality
Mr. Ravicher is Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Prior to co-founding SFLC with Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.. Mr. Ravicher received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of South Florida. Mr. Ravicher has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Jerome Reichman
Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Panel: A2K as a Social Movement
JEROME H. REICHMAN is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He has written and lectured widely on diverse aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. His articles in this area have particularly addressed the problems that developing countries face in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). On this and related themes, he and Keith Maskus have recently edited a book entitled international public goods and transfer of technology under a globalized intellectual property regime (Cambridge University Press 2005).
Other recent writings have focused on intellectual property rights in data; the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods; and on the use of liability rules to stimulate investment in innovation. Recent articles include: “The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods” (co-authored with Keith Maskus), 7 Journal of International Economic Law 279-320 (2004); “A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment” (co-authored with Paul Uhlir), 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 315-462 (2003); and Using Liability Rules to Stimulate Local Innovation in Developing Countries: Application to Traditional Knowledge (with Tracy Lewis) in international public goods and transfer of technology under a globalized intellectual property regime (2005).
Professor Reichman serves as special advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Project on Stimulating Local Production of Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries. He recently served as special advisor to the United States National Academies and the International Council for Science (ICSU) on the subject of legal protection for databases. He is a consultant to numerous intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations; a member of the Board of Editors, Journal of International Economic Law; and on the Scientific Advisory Boards of il Diritto di Autore (Rome) and IP Watch (Geneva, Switzerland).
Andrew Rens
Legal Head
Creative Commons South Africa
Panel: Education in the Digital Age
Andrew Rens, obtained BA and subsequently LLB (equivalent of JD) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, before working as a lawyer in private practise. His next real job was for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration during the start up of this independent government agency for the resolution of labour disputes. He left the CCMA to engage in teaching and human rights litigation as an attorney at the Wits Law Clinic while he completed his Master of Laws, focusing on Intellectual Property Issues on the Internet at Wits Law School where he subsequently taught Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media Law and pioneered a course in Information Technology Law. Mr. Rens is the Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, and currently resides in San Francisco where he works on issues around access to knowledge, collaborative creative works and the Digital Divide.
Manon Ress
Director, Information Society Projects
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
Moderator: Open Access Literature
Manon Ress works for the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) and Essential Information, a Washington, DC- based non-profit created about 20 years ago by Ralph Nader and John Richard. Essential Information provides information to journalists, activists and consumers all over the world (http://www.essential.org). She works on various e-commerce and consumer protection issues such as the definition of consumers, unfair contracts and tort liabilities and on issues related to internet governance such as free speech, privacy protections and fair use rights. Since October 2000, she has been a consumer representative on the US Delegation to the Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. She is focusing on Intellectual Property issues, building public awareness and interest in debating the value of the public interest in intellectual property rights.
Prior to her present position, she was the Director of the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, a labor-founded non-profit where she worked on the use of the internet by labor unions. She was the Manager of Education and Technology for an international team working on distance education in Malaysia. She has held teaching and research positions at Princeton University and Temple University.
She received a BA and a Master's Degree from Universite de Nice, France and a Master's and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Nagla Rizk
Associate Professor, Economics Department
American University in Cairo
Panel: Mobilizing Industry
Nagla Rizk is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo. She lectures and conducts research on the knowledge economy, its relation to economic theory and to human development, with special emphasis on the realities of developing countries, implications, potential and challenges involved. Of particular interest is the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a driver for economic development. She has done extensive work on the assessment of e-readiness of small and medium enterprises in Egypt and the potential of ICTs for empowering and raising the productivity of firms in the digital economy. She is presently working on issues related to the economics of Access to knowledge (A2K), intellectual property and economic development. Her current research projects focus on Egypt’s open source software and on copyright in the Arab music industry. She is also working on a macroeconomic study of Information Technology and Economic Growth in Egypt and the Middle East. She has served as Chair of the Economics Department of the American University in Cairo, research advisor on Egypt’s E-readiness at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and is currently the Leader of Egypt’s research team within the Research in Africa Network working on ICT for Development, affiliated with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC of Canada). She received her PhD from McMaster University and has taught at the University of Toronto.
Pamela Samuelson
Professor, School of Information Management and Systems and Boalt Hall
School of Law Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
University of California, Berkeley
Panel: Mobilizing Industry
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Since 2002, she has also been an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Josh Sarnoff
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American University Washington School of Law
Moderator: Patent Quality
JOSHUA D. SARNOFF is the Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and a practitioner-in-residence at the Washington College of Law, American University, where he supervises law students in the practice of intellectual property law. He is a registered patent attorney, teaches patent law, and has been involved in a wide range of intellectual property legal and policy disputes. He has published articles on patent law, has coordinated an academics’ position statement on patent law reform, has filed amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has been a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on intellectual property, trade, and environmental issues, and a