In collaboration with THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS LAW & POLICY (IJCLP) we are pleased to announce the forth interdisciplinary Access to Knowledge (A2K) Writing Competition.
We are proud to announce the winner and runners-up of the ISP/IJCLP writing competition.
Winner:
Cyberscience and the knowledge-base economy, open access and trade publishing: From contradiction to compatibility with nonexclusive copyright licensing
by Chris Armbruster
Runners-Up:
Patents as credence goods
by Thambisetty
The New Network Neutrality: Criteria for Internet Freedom
by Pickard and Meinrath.
Congratulations to the winner and the two runners-up and we would like to again thank all the other competition participants for their submissions. We are still considering many of those articles for publication, and the authors can expect to be updated soon as to that process.
Thank you,
Simone F. Bonetti & Boris Rotenberg
Lead Editors, IJCLP
In addition, the IJCLP is pleased to announce a special (additional) call for papers supported through a grant from the Open Society Institute (OSI). Authors from countries listed as developing and transition countries* are invited to submit papers related to A2K by May 1st, 2006. Any paper selected for publication will receive financial support from our OSI grant. Such support shall include a small stipend to each author in addition to free editorial processing by the Journal. Please note that authors who submit papers for this specific call are also eligible for the general call for papers and the writing competition awards announced on our web site. Submissions should be e-mailed simultaneously to the lead editors of the IJCLP, Simone Francesco Bonetti (simo.bonetti [at] tiscalinet [dot] it) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (krishnaswamysudhir [at] gmail [dot] com). Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above.
* i.e. Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burma, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Laos, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Turkey,Ukraine, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe