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Accès au Savoir: Un Guide pour tous vise à donner une introduction sans spécialiste et concise aux questions de la propriéte intellectuelle et à A2Kⁱ et choisir des questions relatives aux droits à la communication et aux technologies de l'information et de la communication(ICTs).

Entre 2009 et 2010, Consumers International a lancé une enquête dans 25 pays sur les obstacles auxquels font face les consommateurs lors de l’accès et l’utilisation de supports protégés par droit d’auteur.

Consumers International, the Centre for Internet and Society, India, and Center for Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, are presenting a workshop at this year's Internet Governance Forum on its opening day, 14 September, titled "Freedom of expression or access to knowledge: are we taking the necessary steps towards an open and inclusive Internet?"

On Tuesday July 20, a group of public interest organizations, represented by Sean Flynn, Associate Director of PIJIP, will file a complaint alleging that U.S. trade policy in the Obama Administration violates international human rights obligations. The complaint will be filed with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover.

A live press conference will take place at the Media Center at the International AIDS Conference 2010, Vienna, at 12:00 noon Vienna time.

Sean Flynn explained:

The Malaysian government has set an example for the Asia-Pacific region in its support for free and open source softwareⁱ (FOSSⁱ). In 2004 it launched a master plan for rolling out FOSS throughout the public sector. That plan is now in its second phase of "accelerated adoption", which is intended to make the use of FOSS within government more pervasive. The overall aims of the programme are:

Consumers International participated in a group of over 90 academics, practitioners and public interest organizations from six continents who gathered at American University Washington College of Law, June 16-18, 2010 to analyze the official text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTAⁱ), released for the first time in April, 2010.

Consider this my hello world post!

My name is Martin, I'm from Norwalk, Connecticut. In my spare time, I love listening to R&B music and am an active follower of the 90s era. I love listening to Boyz II Men and After 7, and try and keep everyone up to date on their progress. In addition, I write regularly and am working on my first novel.

I work in softwareⁱ development and am an avid web developer. As a result of my field, I deal a lot with copyrightⁱ issues and am interested in talking with others about their experience in the field.

Can't wait to meet everyone!

WIPOⁱ is currently receiving public comments on the proposed treaty for the blind, visually impaired and other reading-disabled persons. This is potentially of immense importance, being the first time that consideration has been given to lightening the restrictive international copyrightⁱ regime by including new minimum flexibilities, beginning with the very deserving case of the blind. You are encouraged to post your own comments to WIPO using the link above. Consumers International's comment, pending moderation, is as follows:

The United States Trade Representative has just released its 2010 Special 301 Report, which is an annual report card for how strongly other countries enforce the intellectual property rights of United States rights holders - rather like the converse of our IP Watchlist, which was released last week and focuses on how well a country's copyrightⁱ laws advance the interests of consumers.

On 21-22 April, Kuala Lumpur hosted a gathering of 36 Consumers International members and partners for its first global meeting on Access to Knowledge. The meeting included the launches of CIⁱ's 2010 IP Watchlist, which has since gained much media interest, and our runaway hit short film When Copyright Goes Bad, which has since accumulated almost 50 thousand page views in English and Spanish.