I wish I had known in advance; this fits rather well with the MAHIN
project I am presently doing the prototype for.
Philipp Schmidt wrote:
If any of the readers are in the NYC area on Thursday 13 April, please
stop by our open source/standards/medicine symposium. We have a range
of great speakers and are hoping for a lively discussion.
/p
PS _ Apologies that my first post to this list is such shameless
advertising -- but I honestly think this might be of interest to this
group!
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UNU-MERIT holds Research Symposium on “Open Source” and “Open
Medicine” at UN Headquarters
Can an Intellectual Property regime designed to protect private
interests be reformed to open up standards and knowledge? What results
when government authorities promote free, open source software in
their jurisdictions? Who (if anyone) should own or control access to
the human genome sequence? What parallels can be drawn with the
fundamental principles of 'openness' for science and society as a whole?
These are among the issues to be discussed at a Research Symposium
titled Challenging Intellectual Property Access to Knowledge Issues in
Open Source and Medicine, at the UN Headquarters, New York, on 13
April 2006 . The event is co-organized by the United Nations
University -Office at the United Nations, New York , and UNU-MERIT.
The speakers include:
* Tim Hubbard, Head of Human Genome Analysis, The Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK;
* Louis-Dominique Ouédraogo, Retiring Inspector, UN Joint Inspection
Unit;
* Tadao Takahashi, Principal Investigator at Project Foresight
ICTs-2015, Centre for Strategic Studies in Brazil; and
* Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Senior Researcher, UNU-MERIT.
The event is open to interested members of the public. Registration
forms can be downloaded from the website of the UNU Office at the
United Nations , New York . (http://www.ony.unu.edu/)
See full announcement (with embedded hyperlinks) here -
http://www.merit.unu.edu/a2k/
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