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The A2K term is also used in academic discourse and literature. Bloomsbury Academic have produced a series on issues in Brazil, [1] Egypt [2] and India; [3] while UCT Press have published an overview of the issues in Africa. [4] An academic overview of the issues can be found in 'Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property ...
James Packard Love (born 1950) is the director of Knowledge Ecology International, formerly known as the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-governmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property policy and practice and innovation policy, particularly as they relate ...
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a non-governmental organization. It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology. It deals with issues related to the effects of intellectual property on public health , cyberlaw and e-commerce , and competition policy .
Knowledge functions (e.g., capturing, organizing, and providing access to knowledge) are performed by technical staff, to support knowledge processes projects. Knowledge functions date from c. 450 BC, with the Library of Alexandria, [dubious – discuss] but their modern roots can be linked to the emergence of information management in the ...
The Wikimedia Foundation has identified knowledge equity as a key element toward its strategic direction for an ecosystem of open and inclusive knowledge, [5] [6] where everybody has the access to create and consume knowledge. [7] This has been connected with education as a social strategy for expanding knowledge equity. [7]
A number of civil society bodies have been working on a draft Access to Knowledge (A2K) [30] treaty which they would like to see introduced. In 2009, WIPO started drafting future treaties on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore in relation with indigenous peoples and local communities .
Epistemic privilege or privileged access is the philosophical concept that certain knowledge, such as knowledge of one's own thoughts, can be apprehended directly by a given person and not by others. [1] This implies one has access to, and direct self-knowledge of, their own thoughts in such a way that others do not. [2]
Old horse stables Cal Poly at Pomona stands on the former Arabian horse ranch of cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg.. Events leading to the foundation of present-day Cal Poly Pomona began with the ending of the Voorhis School for Boys near Walnut Creek [18] in San Dimas, California, and its acquisition by the San Luis Obispo–based California Polytechnic School in 1938.