Consumers International (CI) Asia Pacific and Middle East office is organizing a Regional Consumer Access to Knowledge (A2K) Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 17 Feb 2009.
“The purpose of the meeting is to bring together CI members and other like-minded NGOs from across the region in a capacity building and networking exercise. Also, being developing a strategic plan for the global consumer movement’s involvement in A2K for the next two to three years”.
“The Dialogue is a knowledge sharing platform for capacity building and advocacy in areas of intellectual property rights/access to knowledge and broader communications and media rights. This group will provide input into CI’s activities in these areas, which will include an Access to Knowledge Watch List and a consumer survey on access barriers”. The program of the meeting is outlined below.
09:00:00 Registration
09:30:00 Welcome and introductions
10:00:00 Presentation on “Intellectual Property as a Consumer Issue” by Jeremy Malcolm
10:45:00 Break
11:00:00 Presentation of country reports on IP and communications rights
13:00:00 Lunch
14:00:00 Watch List and consumer survey objectives and orientation
14:30:00 Workshop on consumer survey
15:30:00 Break
16:00:00 Workshop report and discussion of project deliverables: watchlist and survey
17:00:00 Brainstorming/mind mapping session for content of strategic plan on IP for next 2-3 years
18:00:00 Close
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