New Haven Independent

A2K: It’s A Movement

by Tom Ficklin | May 1, 2007 9:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Following are videotaped highlights from an April 27-9 conference held at Yale Law School on “A2K” — the Access to Knowledge Initiative. Scholars from around the world attended to asses the “economic and humanitarian tolls along the information superhighway and how much the evolution into a worldwide information economy is really costing humanity on a global scale. Environmentalism was a belated response to the industrial revolution” and “to build an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as a the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights.” (Click here for more info.)

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