{"id":640,"date":"2006-04-21T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2006-04-21T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:22:55","slug":"access_to_the_a2k_conference_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/access_to_the_a2k_conference_2\/","title":{"rendered":"access to the a2k conference 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse and I have just arrived at the Yale University to police barricades, blocked of streets, bus loads of demonstrators, and general confusion. I wish I could say that it was in support of protecting open and accessible knowledge, as we are here to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/isp\/eventsa2k.html\">Access 2 Knowledge conference<\/a>. However, the crowds of Falun Gong supporters (with a few Free Tibet activists in the mix) were protesting the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060421\/pl_nm\/china_usa_dc;_ylt=Ao7v5FuGBpd9dhdIYhlvq3wa.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--\">arrival of President Hu Jintao from China<\/a>. Wandering the streets of New Haven to find an unblocked entrance to the law school, Jesse and I reflected a bit on the irony of the difficulty of physically &#8220;accessing&#8221; the building where we will hear current thinking and planning on the making knowledge accessible.<br \/>\nThe conference&#8217;s stated goal is to &#8220;bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South, in order to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade&#8230;The A2K Conference aims to help build an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights.&#8221; Sessions will cover peer production, economics of a2k, copyright, access to science and medicine, network neutrality and privacy.<br \/>\nWe very excited to be here, as presenters include some of our favorite IP \/  Copyright \/ Open Content thinkers:  Yochai Benkler, Eric Von Hippel, Susan Crawford, and Terry Fisher.  We&#8217;re sure that by Sunday, we&#8217;ll have more to add to the list.<br \/>\nStay tuned for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse and I have just arrived at the Yale University to police barricades, blocked of streets, bus loads of demonstrators, and general confusion. I wish I could say that it was in support of protecting open and accessible knowledge, as we are here to attend the Access 2 Knowledge conference. However, the crowds of Falun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,375,395,607,900,1367,1798,1837,2054],"tags":[2283],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a2k","category-access","category-conferences_excursions","category-copyright","category-eric_von_hippel","category-ip","category-open_content","category-susan_crawford","category-terry_fisher","category-yochai_benkler","tag-conferences_excursions-a2k-open_content-copyright-ip-access-yochai_benkler-eric_von_hippel-susan_crawford-terry_fisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}