Friday, February 10, 2012

Wishin' I Was There

April 28, 2007

Yale University's Access-To-Knowledge (A2K) conference is going on this weekend and unfortunately, I'm not there. About 300 leading scholars and activists from more than 40 countries attended last year's summit.

This year, organizers want to build on that momentum to help "set the agenda for access to knowledge policy and advocacy, and deepen the understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of access to knowledge issues," the conference's site said. The chief topic is mobilizing the private sector, governments, technologists and civil society around A2K issues.

Those of us who were not fortunate enough to attend can keep up to speed with the project by reading the A2K conference Wiki here.

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