The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) convened two events during the first two days of the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India (3-6 Dec 2008).
Workshop 21 : “Knowledge as a Global Public Good: How Fair Use, Open Source and ICT Standards Can Expand Digital Inclusion”
4:30-6:00pm, December 3, Room 5
Moderator: Malini Aisola, Knowledge Ecology International
Speakers:
- Richard Owens, Director of the Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, WIPO
- Laura Denardis, Associate Research Scholar in Law, Lecturer in Law, and Executive Director, Information Society Project, Yale University
- Rishab Ghosh, Senior Researcher, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Thiru Balasubramaniam, Geneva Representative, Knowledge Ecology International
- Aslam Raffee, Chairperson of the Open Source and Open Standards Standing Committee, Government IT offices counsel, South Africa
Open meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards
11:30-1:00pm, December 4, Room 7
Speakers:
- Thiru Balasubramaniam, Knowledge Ecology International
- Aslam Raffee, Open Source and Open Standards Standing Committee, South Africa
- Denis Direito, National Institute of Information Technology, Brazil
- Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Laura Denardis, Information Society Project, Yale University
- Eddan Katz, Electronic Frontier Foundation