So I think the session went pretty well. The rooms at the ITU are quite big (see pic, taken from the stage at the beginning of the session) and at first glance it can look like you have very few people in the audience. It’s only once I counted that I realise that we had, [...]
This morning I am in Geneva to chair a session at the 2009 WSIS forum. ‘Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge’ is incoming IFLA President Ellen Tise’s Presidential Theme, and earlier this week Ellen was on a high-level panel here at WSIS to speak on this topic. Today we are following it up with an hour [...]
Unrelated to Saint Petersburg, but an important piece of news nonetheless: China has become the first country to openly oppose the continuation of the Internet Governance Forum after the end of its 5 year mandate.
And so the day of the workshop. Yesterday morning we were lucky enough to spend some time exploring the beautiful gardens of the Peterhof, the rather extravagant residence built by Peter the Great on the coast of the Gulf of Finland (interesting Peter the Great fact – he was over two metres tall but had [...]
Hello from Saint Petersburg. I am here until Thursday this week to help stage a workshop on the IFLA Internet Manifesto for colleagues from 15 regions of Russia. The workshop is the first stage of a large project that will run to the end of 2009 and hopefully beyond, which will see over 200 Russian [...]
Copyright strangles creativity. Copyright rewards originality. It is a nuisance to the public and unduly enriches a few people. It is the backbone of our knowledge economy that fuels progress. Hate it, love it, break it, protect it; few people lack strong opinions about copyright and its place in society. And the issues are only [...]
Today’s reading: Wired does a primer on Google Book Search, while the LIS School at the University of North Carolina host an OCLC/Kilgour lecture on it and post the video…Vivienne Reding throws petrol on the fire of Internet Governance with an idea for an “Internet Governance G-12“…the New York Times go Dutch (to give you [...]