WHAT
Fifth annual workshop of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business at The American University in Cairo (AUC) under the title “Digital Technologies and Development: Mobilization, Censorship, Entrepreneurship and Copyright.”
The workshop will consist of short sessions covering topics ranging from the role of digital technologies in civic participation, to censorship and copyright in the digital economy, and the role of entrepreneurship in development. In the last session the reflections of both the A2K4D team and AUC students will be shared on their experience with Harvard Law School’s networked course CopyrightX, taught this spring at AUC under the title “The Economics of Copyright and Creativity.”
Simultaneous translation to English and from Arabic will be provided.
WHO
The speakers include partners from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, members of the Access to Knowledge Global Academy, Innova Tunisia, Arab Policy Institute (API) and Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC).
WHERE
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
WHEN
Tuesday, June 9, 2015; 3:30 -8:30 pm
