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Fourth CODESRIA Conference on Electronic Publishing

Fourth CODESRIA Conference on Electronic PublishingTheme: The Open Access Movement and the Future of Africa’s Knowledge Economy, Dakar, Senegal.

CALL FOR PAPERSThe Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) hereby announces the fourth in its electronic publishing conference series. This year’s theme focuses on the open access publishing model with particular attention to its possible impact on the future knowledge economy in Africa. CODESRIA promotes social science research and knowledge production and the publication and dissemination of research outcomes, and organises forums for discussing research findings and sharing of ideas to influence the improvement of the living conditions of African populations.

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IASA 2015 Annual Conference

"All for One — One for All: Common Concerns — Shared Solutions"

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IFLA Digitisation Workshop

This workshop will provide a foundation for librarians who must decide what technologies and digital formats to use for their current or future digitisation projects and programmes.

World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2015

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2015 will be jointly organized by UNESCO, ITU, UNCTAD and UNDP in Geneva, Switzerland, from 18 to 22 May 2015. The Forum provides structured opportunities to network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation.

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CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action

UNESCO will organize an international multistakeholder conference to discuss the first draft of the Comprehensive Study on Internet-related issues. This major global event is expected to attract participants from governments, civil society, academia, private sector, the technical community, inter-governmental and international organizations as well as noted thought leaders, innovators and pioneers in the Internet Governance space.

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2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

The theme for this year’s Congress will be “Setting the positive agenda in motion,” and will have a special focus on developments and opportunities in the so-called “BRICS” group of emerging economies.

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43rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)

On behalf of the AIIS Archives And Research Center For Ethnomusicology, we invite you to New Delhi for the 43rd IASA Annual Conference. The theme of this conference will be: "In Transition: Access for All".

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2012 Symposium: Call for Presentations

Submissions are encouraged from practitioners and experts for sessions lasting 50-90 minutes. They may consist of individual presentations, case studies, research reports, panel discussions, or other presentation formats and must fit into one of the three tracks being offered.

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eLearning Africa 2012

eLearning Africa is the continent’s largest gathering of high-level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education, business and government. It is the key networking event for developing eLearning capacities in Africa.

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KEI side event @ 8th WTO Ministerial Conference: The TRIPS Agreement and Copyright

What does the 3-Step test for copyright mean, in the context of the WTO TRIPS Agreement, and how does it differ from the 3-Step tests for trademark or patent rights.

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Trade and Development Symposium

The goal of the TDS is to encourage innovative thinking and analysis on issues related to trade and development for stakeholders to translate them into inputs for future negotiations.

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International Digital Curation Conference - "Digital Enhancement of Knowledge”

Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship.

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Advisory Committee on Enforcement : Seventh Session

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights : Twenty-Third Session

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Intellectual Property Rights and the Global Civil Society Reform Project

The London School of Economics and Political Science will be hosting a one-day workshop on ‘Intellectual Property Rights and the Global Civil Society Reform Project: What Next?’ on Friday 18 November 2011.

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Socially Responsible Licensing: Achieving Social Equity through Voluntary Licensing. Hosted by Boston University and Warwick University.

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Socially Responsible Licensing - Achieving Social Equity through Voluntary Licensing

The conference will build momentum for the principle of voluntary licensing mechanisms to solve issues of affordable access to life saving medicines in the developing world and will identify emerging technology areas where voluntary licensing mechanisms may be appropriate.

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Socially Responsible Licensing, Achieving Social Equity through Voluntary Licensing

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Bipartisan Bill Combats Online Piracy

A bipartisan group in the House today introduced legislation that expands protections for America’s intellectual property (IP) and combats the illegal distribution of counterfeit goods via rogue websites.

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2nd International On African Digital Libraries & Archives ( ICADLA - 2) Workshop and Conference

ICADLA invites participation from all African countries, private and public international development organisations, and other countries aiding Africa. ICADLA-2 will provide a platform for the realisation of the outcomes of ICADLA-1.

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Developing Knowledge for Economic Advancement in Africa: 2nd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives

The theme of the conference is Developing Knowledge for Economic Advancement in Africa. We invite participation from all African countries, private and public international development organisations, and other countries aiding Africa.

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Open Access Africa

Open access to the results of scientific and medical research has potential to play an important role in international development, and this conference will discuss the benefits of open access publishing in an African context, from the perspective of both readers seeking access to information, and researchers seeking to globally communicate the results of their work.

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WorldWide Virtual Conference : Library 2.0 2-4 November 2011

This free conference is being held online, in multiple time zones, over the course of two days (three actual calendar days when including all time zones).

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2011 International Mobile Learning Conference (MLearn 2011)

The convergence of global adoption of smart phones integrating hi-quality media capture devices and trends in social networking, participatory media and cyber infrastructure provide remarkable opportunities for making mobile social media integral to distributed learning environments.

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Golan v. Holder: Copyright, the Public Domain, and the First Amendment at the Supreme Court

Copyright's relationship with the First Amendment is back before the U.S. Supreme Court, with oral arguments to be held on October 5th, 2011.

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PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the international scholarly publishing community.

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Symposium of Intellectual Property (IP) Authorities – Services for Access to Knowledge in Promoting Innovation and Creativity

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing a third Symposium of Intellectual Property Authorities to be held on September 22 and 23, 2011, at WIPO. The Symposium will provide heads of IP authorities, industry leaders and other stakeholders with an international forum in which they can share ideas and experiences for improving services to be provided by IP authorities.

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Creative Commons Global Summit 2011

The Creative Commons Global Summit, Powering an Open Future, will bring together the CC community in Warsaw, Poland, to engage strategically on the future of our shared commons, to renew and further build CC’s vital community, to collaborate on mutual projects and initiatives, and to celebrate our successes as we head towards the end of our first decade together.

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2011 IPR Center Symposium “Online IP Theft in the 21st Century”

The symposium will highlight the various issues associated with online intellectual property (IP), including its overall impact and the public and private sectors efforts to address this growing problem.

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ETD 2011 - 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ETD2011 is an international symposium and gathering of current and future researchers and practitioners in the area of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. ETD2011 will provide delegates with the unique opportunity to network, share experiences and discuss current good practices from around the world, enabling researchers and practitioners to chart a future course.

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14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ETD2011 will provide delegates with the unique opportunity to network, share experiences and discuss current good practices from around the world, enabling researchers and practitioners to chart a future course.

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Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

The global intellectual property landscape has witnessed important changes in recent years. Most notably, the public interest dimension of intellectual property has emerged as a paramount concern. Th

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Global Congress Issues Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest has been released by a group of over 170 policymakers and advocates from approximately 35 countries who met August 25-27 at American University Washington College of Law. It provides a series of specific recommendations for action by the international intellectual property public interest community.

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Open Repositories 2011

What is the role of social interactions within repository technical communities in developing strong, distributed services and cyberinfrastructure to create open access to and preservation of our shared digital heritage?

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e-Learning - 6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training

eLearning Africa, the Continent’s premier annual conference on ICT-enhanced learning and which this year is hosted by Tanzania, will once again be showcasing a wealth of proposals that promise to stimulate thought and discussion.

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eLearning Africa 2011 – Spotlight on Youth, Skills and Employability

Over 40 per cent of Africa’s population is younger than 24 years old. 198 million Africans, 20 per cent of the continent’s population, are aged between 15 and 24 – the largest percentage of young people anywhere in the world. Children (under the age of 15) account for another 20 per cent. eLearning Africa 2011 will focus on this group and its huge potential.

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The Third International m-libraries Conference

The conference will explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move’, via a growing plethora of mobile and handheld devices.

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The Future of African Librarianship

The purpose of the Summit is to create an exciting and collaborative business atmosphere that will stimulate critical debate on library and information service issues with a view to developing an action plan for quality library services and librarianship on the African continent, and to provide the networking opportunities so vital to any professional community.

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IFLA Presidential Meeting 2011, Libraries driving access to knowledge: Action for Europe

Libraries driving access to knowledge: Action for Europe is a two day conference organised by IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and FOBID.

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2011 ProLISSA Conference

The DISSAnet series of conferences are intended as a biennial event to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science. The first five conferences took place in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009. All five conferences were very successful, and were attended by a number of academics and information professionals from across South Africa, the SADC countries and further afield. Conference papers that were presented prior to 2009 can be found on the DISSAnet website at http://www.dissanet.com.

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3rd Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

The 3rd Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy is focused on higher education teaching excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today.

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International Conference on Digital Library Management

Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries

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The 10th anniversary International Copyright Law conference will be THE meeting place for lawyers, policy makers, artists' representatives, publishers and academics

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International Conference on Future Challenges, Ancient Solutions

This conference examines several areas in which there are challenges confronting Pacific Island peoples and looks to the past to see whether solutions were developed in response to comparable challenges. The aim of this conference is to identify those ancient solutions and evaluate their efficacy. The overarching goal is to inform solutions for contemporary challenges, particularly by enhancing their cultural and environmental sustainability to the Pacific Islands context.

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Regional Workshop on Benefits of Open Access for Research Dissemination, Usage, Visibility and Impact

Participants to the workshop will discuss the possible impact of the fair use economy in Africa and put forward sound arguments for its promotion within developing countries. They will also look at Open Access Policies in Africa and how operational activities can champion national Open Access policies. The workshop will also be the occasion to identify collaborative work opportunities on existing multilingual platform for the sharing of open scientific resources.

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International Conference on New Trends in Education and Their Implications

The objectives of this conference are to:
• Present and discuss emerging theoretical perspectives and their practical applications,
• Establish a platform to share research findings to encourage the use of research to improve education,
• Promote collaboration, discussion and sharing of knowledge, experience and expertise

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Latest Developments on ACTA

Join WIIT for an off-the-record discussion about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Learn about the Agreement's proposed legal framework to improve enforcement of international intellectual property rights, and some of the controversies surrounding it.

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Open Ed 2010

The general objective of the conference is to give a space for discussion, research, practice sharing, and community building around the Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, concentrating primarily, but not exclusively, on issues dealing with OER’s coming-of-age. The OpenEd conference is increasingly recognized as the international forum for those who wish to present and discuss their innovations and/or research projects, andl for those who wish to learn about the institutional decisions needed to make open education a reality.

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Open Ed 2010 - The Seventh Annual Open Education Conference

The field of “open educational resources” is in its second decade. There have been many experiments, many introductions, many subsidies and grants acquired to discover what OER is and how it can be used, and many tryouts in a multitude of settings. From these thousands of seeds that were planted and the thousands of flowers that have sprouted and bloomed only a few have proved hearty enough to survive and propagate. At the same time, new and exciting things are just beginning.

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Berlin 8 Open Access Conference

To share and discuss the strategies, policies, implementation mechanisms, sustainable infrastructures, and international collaboration for open access to information, especially those by governmental and funding agencies, research and education institutions, scholarly communications and knowledge organizations, to promote effective and sustainable open access in today’s and future digital research, education, and cultural environments.

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Creative Commons's Cairo Iftar

In partnership with Aramex, CCIftar Cairo will be focused on "Share!". It will feature music, light presentations and talks about how people could share legally that content that they create. It will showcase many Egyptian and Arab examples, such as Al Masri Al Youm portal and the Al Jazeera Creative Commons repository.

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3rd CopySouth Workshop: International Conference on Copyright Issues

The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) is a transnational and interdisciplinary group who met for its third workshop June 28-30, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro. Since its inception in 2004, the CSRG has sought to bring together activists and academics from around the world, including participants from Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, USA, Ghana, South Africa, UK, Switzerland, the Philippines, to discuss the impact of copyright on the global south.

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