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<title>FSF Europe - World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) - PCT Working Group Event - Dec 10th 2003</title>
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<div align="right"><a href="http://www.wsis-pct.org/pct-events.html">[ PCT Working Group Event Page ]</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsis-pct.org">[ PCT Working Group Page ]</a></div>
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<h1>World Summit on the Information Society</h1>
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<h2>Patents, Copyright, Trademarks (PCT) Working Group Event</h2><br />
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<h1>"Free Software, Free Society"</h1><br />
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<p><b>Time: Wednesday 10 December 17H-20H</b><br />
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<b>Place: <a href="http://www.palexpo.ch/en/Home/Espaces/Congres/detail.php?espace_id=2">Room Cervin</a>, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland</b></p>
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<p>Software is the cultural technique of the digital age and access to
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it determines who may participate in a digital world. Because of its
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unique social, educational, scientific, political and economic
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benefits and opportunities, <a href="fs.html">Free Software</a> is one
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of the <a href="cs-benchmarks.html">essential benchmarks</a> of Civil
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Society for the <a href="http://www.wsis.org">World Summit on the
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Information Society</a>. Listen to and meet leading global experts on
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what is an essential building block for an empowering, sustainable and
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inclusive information society. Get input for governmental policy
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decisions and ideas on how software shapes the societies of tomorrow
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with people such as <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard
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Stallman</a>, founder of the Free Software Foundation.</p>
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<p>The event is publicly accessible without accreditation.</p>
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<h3>AGENDA</h3>
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<em>(announced)</em>
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<li><b>17:00</b> Georg Greve, FSF Europe, Opening Statement</li><br />
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<li><b>17:05</b> <a href="http://www.lessig.org">Lawrence Lessig</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org">CreativeCommons</a><br />(Chair: Georg Greve)</li><br />
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<li><b>17:35</b> <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>, <a href="http://www.fsf.org/fsf/">FSF</a><br />(Chair: Georg Greve)</li><br />
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<li><b>18:15</b> Juan Carlos Gentile, <a href="http://www.hipatia.info">Hipatia</a><br />(Chair: Francis Muguet)</li><br />
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<li><b>18:45</b> Pierre Ouedraogo (?)<br />(Chair: Francis Muguet)</li><br />
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<li><b>19:15</b> Theo Bondolfi, <a href="http://www.ynternet.org">Ynternet.org</a><br />(Chair: Loïc Dachary)</li><br />
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<li><b>19:45</b> Discussion<br />(Moderator: Loïc Dachary)</li><br />
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<li><b>20:00</b> Richard Stallman, FSF, Concluding Remarks</li><br />
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<h2>SUMMARY</h2>
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<p>Wednesday, Dec 10th, the Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks working
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group of Civil Society held its "Free Software, Free Society" event.</p>
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<p>After Prof. Lawrence Lessig, who shared his visions for a Free
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Society, the speakers shed light on their experience on building Free
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Societies with the help of Free Software in South America and
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Africa. This experience was complimented by the experience of the
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Swiss NGO Ynternet.org.</p>
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<p>Surprising special guests were Sergio Amadeu Da Silveira and Rogerio
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Santanna of the Brazilian government, who told the audience about
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their experience building the Free Software policy for Free Software.</p>
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<p>As the final speaker and after his appearence at the governmental
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high-level round table, Richard Stallman, founding father of the GNU
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Project, vividly expressed the freedoms of Free Software.</p>
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<h3>AGENDA</h3>
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<b>START 17:05</b><br />
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<li>Georg Greve, FSF Europe, Opening Statement & Chair</li><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.lessig.org">Lawrence Lessig</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org">CreativeCommons</a></li><br />
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<li>Juan Carlos Gentile, <a href="http://www.hipatia.info">Hipatia</a></li><br />
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<li>Sergio Amadeu Da Silveira and Rogerio Santanna, Brazilian Government</li><br />
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<li>Theo Bondolfi, <a href="http://www.ynternet.org">Ynternet.org</a></li><br />
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<li>Pierre Ouedraogo, Organisation Francophonie</li><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>, <a href="http://www.fsf.org/fsf/">FSF</a></li><br />
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<li>Georg Greve, FSF Europe, Concluding Remarks</li><br />
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<b>END 20:15</b>
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<p>Organisers : <a href="/about/greve/">Georg C.F. Greve</a>, <a href="http://www.dachary.org/loic/">Loïc Dachary</a>, <a href="http://www.muguet.org/">Dr. Francis Muguet</a></p>
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