[p2p-research] Fwd: Bibliotheca Alexandrina launches its Access to Knowledge (A2K) electronic platform

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mar 31, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: Bibliotheca Alexandrina launches its Access to Knowledge (A2K)
electronic platform
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*Alexandria**, Egypt** 30th of March, 2008*

Today, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) launches its Access to Knowledge
(A2K) electronic platform which has been developed over several months to
become the leading source of information on Access to Knowledge in the Arab
region and the world. This platform aims to raise awareness about the
importance of A2K and its role in accelerating development efforts around
the world, and in the Arab region in particular, by providing an interactive
forum that will be continuously to include latest news and international
developments in the field, in addition to the latest articles published on
the topic, some of which will be also translated into Arabic to make it
available to the widest audience possible. Visitors will also be able to
interact and contribute through several discussion forums and periodical
consultations that will also host prominent international researchers and
practitioners.

The BA's activity comes against the backdrop of the need to remedy the
negative effects of obstacles denying developing countries access to
international knowledge that would contribute to their development processes
and to the advancement of human intellect.

Such obstacles result from the rising trend of using international
intellectual property protection rules and regulations by developed
countries for the purposes of exclusivity, therefore, blocking the use of
such knowledge by developing countries to create new knowledge.

Being aware of such challenges, and in view of its role in disseminating
knowledge and contributing to scientific progress and consequently economic
and social development, the BA has undertaken the responsibility to promote
for the importance of A2K, especially on the regional Arab level, and moving
on to the international level.

Within this context, the BA has organized two regional seminars on
intellectual property and its relation to development in the year 2005, and
A2K and its impact on supporting creativity and innovation in 2006.  Various
regional and international stakeholders have participated in both events,
which enriched the discussions and resulted in practical recommendations.
These include the update of the A2K website.

The A2K website can be reached on the following address:
www.bibalex.org/a2k

For more information, please contact us on the following address:
a2k at bibalex.org

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