<incom> TACD Conference "The reform of WIPO: Implementing the Development Agenda" - Sept 17 Geneva

[Soenke Zehle]

From: Julian Knott <jknott at consint.org>

Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
The Reform of WIPO : Implementing the Development Agenda

17 September 2007

International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)
(17 Rue de Varembe, CH 1211 Geneva 20)

In mid-September 2004 the TACD hosted the first Future of World 
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Meeting in Geneva. That 
meeting brought together leading experts and stakeholders from academia, 
industry, NGOs, and governments, as well as members of the WIPO 
secretariat, to discuss the future of this United Nations Agency. In 
short, those gathered then examined what the mission of WIPO was and 
what it ought to be. At that years' WIPO General Assembly, in response 
to a proposal by Argentina and Brazil co-sponsored by 12 other 
developing countries and spurred on by the discussions at the said TACD 
meeting among other events, WIPO Member States decided to examine 
proposals on establishing a development agenda for WIPO.

The Development Agenda was adopted by WIPO Member States at the 
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development 
Agenda(PCDA) during its February and June 2007 sessions. PCDA 
recommendations are at 
http://www.wipo.int/ip-development/en/agenda/pcda07_session4.html. These 
recommendations will be adopted by the WIPO General Assembly, its 
highest-governing body in September/October 2007.

Almost exactly three years later in 2007, TACD is convening "The Reform 
of WIPO: Implementing the Development Agenda" a week before the WIPO 
General Assembly to re-invigorate the community of Member States, 
academia, civil society, global experts and industry to take stock of 
the Development Agenda with a view to discuss the content and the 
implementation of the Agenda and what that means for the future of WIPO.

Preliminary Conference Programme

8h30 - 9h00: Registration

9h00 - 9h15: Welcome and Introduction
TACD Representative

9h15 - 10h50: Panel I: WIPO in the 21st Century: Looking back and 
looking forward

10h50 - 11h15: Coffee Break

11h15 - 13h00 Panel II: Implementing the AGENDA - The Framework for
Norm-Setting, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

13h00 - 14h30: Lunch Break

14h30 - 16h05 Panel III: Implementing the AGENDA - The Reform of
Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

16h05 - 16h30 Coffee Break

16h30 - 18h00: Panel IV: Implementing the AGENDA - Access to Knowledge 
and Alternative Models

18h00 - 18h15: Closing

18h15: Cocktail


Speakers include:

Ahmed Abdel Latif - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt (Confirmed)
Alwin Sixman, Consumentenbond
Carlos Correa - University of Buenos Aires (TBC)
Carolyn Deere - Oxford University (Confirmed)
Charles Clift - DFID (TBC)
Ellen 't Hoen - MSF/Amsterdam University (Confirmed)
Frederick Abbott - Florida State University (Tentative)
Graham Dutfield - University of Leeds (Confirmed)
Group B country representative (TBC)
Guilherme Patriota - Permanent Mission of Brazil in Geneva (Confirmed)
Gwen Hinze - EFF (Confirmed)
James Love - KEI (Confirmed)
Manon Ress, KEI (TBC)
Maximilliano Santa Cruz - Permanent Mission of Chile in Geneva
(Tentative)
Pedro Roffe - ICTSD (Tentative)
Representative of Third World Network (Confirmed)
Representative of WIPO (TBC)
Rishab Aisher Ghosh - UNU-MERIT (Confirmed)
Robin Gross - IP Justice (Confirmed)
Ron Marchant (Confirmed)
Sisule F. Musungu - University of Berne & Yale Law School (Confirmed)
Tenu Avafia - UNDP, South Africa (Confirmed)
Tilman Lueder - European Commission (Confirmed)
Tim Hubbard-Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Confirmed)
Tony Taubman -WIPO (Confirmed)
World Bank Representative (TBC)


Julian Knott
TACD Coordinator
Consumers International
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