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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! --- 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/
-- Sunil Abraham Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iosn.net International Open
Source Network - Software Freedom for All Asia-Pacific Development
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