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Dynamic Coalitions

Below is a listing of the Dynamic Coalitions brought to the attention of the IGF Secretariat. All Dynamic Coalitions may request a listing on this page by contacting the IGF Secretariat: igf [at] unog.ch.

 

The StopSpamAlliance

Dynamic Coalition on Privacy

The IGF Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (IGF DCOS)

The Dynamic Coalition on Access and Connectivity for Remote, Rural and Dispersed Communities

Dynamic Coalition on the Internet Bill of Rights

Coalition Dynamique pour la Diversité Linguistique

A2K@IGF Dynamic Coalition
Aims:

The purpose of the A2K@IGF Dynamic Coalition will be to support and expand Access to Knowledge (A2K) and promote freedom of expression in the realm of information and communication technology. The A2K@IGF coalition will focus on the following issues:

  1. Developing best practice norms for:
    a. limitations and exceptions to copyright, patents and other
    intellectual property rights;
    b. third-party liability for intellectual property infringements;
    c. implementation of anti-circumvention provisions in 1996 WIPO
    WCT and WPPT and other international agreements;
    d. on-line access to scholarly research, government funded
    research, and essential documents such as legal information;
    e. the support of alternative business models for creating
    knowledge goods, including free and open software, or open scholarly and
    scientific journals; and
    f. protecting access to freedom of expression and cultural
    diversity in issues relating to intellectual property rights.
  2. Coordinating participation and awareness of A2K activities at related fora, such as the WIPO Development Agenda or the WIPO proposals for an A2K Treaty.
Members:
  • Egypt's Library of Alexandria (Biblotheca Alexandrina)
  • IP Justice
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Knowledge Ecology International
  • Google
  • IP Academy of Singapore
  • Council of Europe
  • Centre for Technology and Society (CTS), of Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law
  • Free Software Foundation Europe
  • Fundação Getulio Vargas - O Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (FGV-CTS)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Member of European Parliament Marco Cappato
  • Kuwait Information Technology Society
  • Computer Professions for Social Responsibility - Peru
  • International Federation of Library Association
  • Association of Progressive Communications
  • Electronic Information for Libraries
  • Panos
  • South Centre Innovation, Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property
    Programme
  • Yale Law School Information Society Project
Website:

Mailing List 

http://mailman.ipjustice.org/list
Contact: robin (at) ipjustice (dot) org
Reports:

Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media on the Internet (FOEonline)

Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition

Gender and Internet Governance (GIG)

Framework of Principles for the Internet

Dynamic Coalition on Child Online Safety

Dynamic Coalition on "Accessibility and Disability"

Dynamic Coalition on Internet and Climate Change

 

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