If any of the readers are in the NYC area on Thursday 13 April,
please stop by our open source/standards/medicine symposium. We have
a range of great speakers and are hoping for a lively discussion.
/p
PS _ Apologies that my first post to this list is such shameless
advertising -- but I honestly think this might be of interest to this
group!
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UNU-MERIT holds Research Symposium on “Open Source” and “Open
Medicine” at UN Headquarters
Can an Intellectual Property regime designed to protect private
interests be reformed to open up standards and knowledge? What
results when government authorities promote free, open source
software in their jurisdictions? Who (if anyone) should own or
control access to the human genome sequence? What parallels can be
drawn with the fundamental principles of 'openness' for science and
society as a whole?
These are among the issues to be discussed at a Research Symposium
titled Challenging Intellectual Property Access to Knowledge Issues
in Open Source and Medicine, at the UN Headquarters, New York, on 13
April 2006 . The event is co-organized by the United Nations
University -Office at the United Nations, New York , and UNU-MERIT.
The speakers include:
* Tim Hubbard, Head of Human Genome Analysis, The Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK;
* Louis-Dominique Ouédraogo, Retiring Inspector, UN Joint Inspection
Unit;
* Tadao Takahashi, Principal Investigator at Project Foresight
ICTs-2015, Centre for Strategic Studies in Brazil; and
* Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Senior Researcher, UNU-MERIT.
The event is open to interested members of the public. Registration
forms can be downloaded from the website of the UNU Office at the
United Nations , New York . (http://www.ony.unu.edu/)
See full announcement (with embedded hyperlinks) here - http://
www.merit.unu.edu/a2k/
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