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Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D)


Access to Knowledge

Access to Knowledge (A2K) refers not only to the right to receive, but also to participate in the creation, manipulation and extension of information, tools, inventions, literature, scholarship, art, popular media and other expressions of human inquiry and understanding. 

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Who We Are
The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at AUC’s School of Business is a regional center for scholarship, research and policy analysis on intellectual property and human development in Egypt and the Arab world. A2K4D is a founding member of Access to Knowledge Global Academy (A2KGA).
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Click here to read about A2K4D's vision and mission.
 

Announcements!

The Access to Knowledge for Development Center is hosting its annual workshop in Cairo, Egypt on June 16 and
 17, 2013. The two day workshop will bring together A2K4D's different networks and stakeholders from across several countries. The workshop seeks to increase the visibility of the collaborative efforts between A2K4D and members of the Open African Innovation Research Project (Open A.I.R.)Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and SocietyYale Law School's Internet Society Project (ISP) and members of the Access to Knowledge Global Academy, among stakeholders including academia, policy makers, civil society and activists in Northern Africa.  

For more information on the conference and to register, click here

The Access to Knowledge for Development Center will be co-organizing and participating in the 
Open African Innovation Research (Open A.I.R.) Conference on Innovation and Intellectual Property in Africa and Third Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Cape Town, South Africa on December 9 to 13, 2013. 

For more information on the conference, click here
 


 Advisory Board
Professor Jack Balkin, Yale Law School   
Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School  
Professor Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires  
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University