- learning styles don’t exist?
Professor Daniel Willingham describes research showing that learning styles are a myth. Maybe.. but my students sure have them.
July 24th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in education | Comments (0)
when copyright goes copy wrong
When Copyright Goes Bad – excellent documentary by Ben Cato Clough and Luke Upchurch’s (from Consumers International) is a great, 15-minute mini-documentary on what copyright can do, what it is doing, and what it needs to stop doing.
Posted on Cory Docktrow’s boingboing.
May 9th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in copyleft, copyright, intellectual property, open source | Comments (0)
- a2k4: freedom to innovate
Moderator: Nahla Rizk, AUC
Edward Felten, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy
Information technologies: how do we use technology and provide active engagement with the technology to help people know how to engage. How did people build their technology? by ripping it apart and learning it – tinkering with technology. Then have a community with whom they can talk and work on the product. It is a social activity that engages people in the technology.
How can public policy encourage that? success of open source technology. Is OS technology an alternative business model to proprietary software? yes. It is a space that provides ability to tinker.
As for mobile phones which is the primary mode of access to ICT in much of the developing world. There is tension bet open and closed models and that is seen everywhere. Open source provides tech playground but offers also opportunity in becoming collaborative and engaged. But there is a tension over this kind of tinkering in the intellectual properties movement.
It is possible to reconcile open source and intellectual property. Some sort of protection for tinkering is important. We can foster competition. When you make technology accessible then it makes sense to the setting it is in.
Ronaldo Lemos, Center for Technology & Society, FGV-Rio
A law for the internet that can set the ground for innovation and not be repressive. It is a civil rights based law – it is using the law and also using the internet to write that law collaboratively.
Privacy, freedom of speech, rights of access [as a human right], safeharbors [what is your liability], net neutrality, open gvt data. Did not include copyright bec it has its own process.
Creating a new collective right/interest: net neutrality, decentralization etc. so that public prosecutors can sue on behalf of internet users.
Katherine Strandburg, New York University School of Law
Open source is important especially to developing countries because they have more control over it rather than be controlled and held hostage to software companies.
February 13th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in a2k, a2k4, conferences, events/conferences, yale university | Comments (0)
- freedom to innovate: knowledge, tech and culture
Some of the questions to be pursued by this panel include:
** What policy areas (e.g. spectrum policies, open access) are the critical topics of study to address the freedom to innovate? To what extent is a human rights framing for these issues helpful or desirable?
** What are the technological and legal architectures that are necessary to give individuals the space and the opportunity to innovate? How do these structures rely on, enhance or inhibit the enjoyment of rights? Whose rights are counted in this story?
** Where will new content and information technologies come from and how we can empower as many different individuals as possible to maximize innovation? What is the role of civil and political liberties themselves in creating the conditions that facilitate innovation?
source: http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/ak4f2i/
February 13th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in a2k, a2k4, conferences, events/conferences, yale university | Comments (0)
- right to education panel – a2k4
Some of the questions to be pursued by this panel include:
Does the greater cost-effectiveness of online venues strengthen the argument to recognize a more universal human right to higher education? Alternatively, could the availability of free online resources become an undesirable substitute for public efforts to promote traditional education?
Is digital education more democratic than previous forms of education? How can we ensure that preexisting social inequities – of gender, race, class, and linguistic background – are not replicated or reinforced in ways that violate the right to equal educational opportunities?
What are roadblocks to digital education in areas such as telecommunication policies, broadband infrastructures and access, and accreditation. What are the new business models or institutional forms that can support the expansion of digital education? What is the necessary role of the state and of companies that may not self-consciously see themselves as providing digital education, although their tools and services may be essential to this end?
Source: http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/a2k4education/
February 12th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in a2k, a2k4, education, yale university | Comments (0)
- right to health panel – a2k4 – public awareness and shared global responsibility
A2K4 Panel III. The Right to Health: Promoting Innovation and Equity
Thana Cristina de Campos, Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School – Sao Paulo
Wants to raise public awarness on a shared global responsiblity. Phramaceutical companies have the knowledge and power and responsibility bec it places us in a position to act.
Access to medicine is a human right. 4 principles: availability, accessibility, acceptablity, and good quality. Accessibility is most important esp in marginalized communities.
Amy Kapczynski, UC Berkeley School of Law
What do we mean by human rights in this context? is it a philosophical perception or economic and welfare system etc. There is also the human rights machinery. Focusing on access to medicine issues because they are the most developed in human rights health issues.
There are issues of obligations to non-state parties, and also obligations to non-nationals. How does the right to medicine apply transnationally? It is hard to talk about corporate responsibility and about transnational responsibility.
Talha Syed, UC Berkeley School of Law
Distributed justice is much better framework than human rights. Information economics is not that bad.
Christopher Mason, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Patenting Genes: what are genomic rights? What if someone took some of the cells you leave behind when you walk or sit and created a clone of you? this is not illegal, but it is most certainly disturbing. There is precedent to genomic rights in US history.
February 12th, 2010 by Marlyn | Posted in a2k, a2k4, events/conferences, yale university | Comments (0)
