This weekend, the international community of scholars and activists working on Access to Knowledge (A2K) will gather at Yale University. Following up on the first conference of this kind one year ago:

[t]his year, on April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World Intellectual Property Day, the A2K2 conference will be a pivotal event mobilizing the A2K coalition. A2K2 will further build the coalition amongst the institutions and stakeholders that crystallized at the first landmark conference, help set the agenda for access to knowledge policy and advocacy, and deepen the understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of access to knowledge issues. Developing both a theoretical framework and delving into the details of practical implementation, the program will focus on mobilizing the private sector, governments, technologists, and civil society around A2K issues. A2K2’s policy panels will be structured towards tangible legal and technological solutions and collaborative strategies for policy makers and individual institutions.

UNU-MERIT’s Rishab Ghosh will be at a panel on “Mobilizing Technologists“.

I’m very much looking forward to reading the discussions and results of this conference. If you want to get to know the field, the conference page offers a list of resources, There’s also a conference wiki here.