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	=== Panel B - Access to knowledge: building the commons ===		=== Panel B - Access to knowledge: building the commons ===

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	L’adresse originale de cet article est http://www.vecam.org/article1090.html		L’adresse originale de cet article est http://www.vecam.org/article1090.html
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		+	==== Panel B : Accès aux connaissances : construire les biens communs====
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		+	Thursday 12 February 2009. Report by Hervé Le Crosnier in French: http://fm-sciences.org/spip.php?article379&lang=en


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		+	=== ''Who, what, where and when ?'' ===
		+	On January 26th and 27th, 2009, the Sciences and Democracy World Forum will be held in Belém (Brazil). Unions and researchers’associations, social and civic movements, and NGOs are going to discuss the stakes of the democratization of sciences and technologies such as the place of scientific research in a sustainable world, the status of common goods of knowledge, the democratization of scientific and technological choices, the democratic control of the impact of BANG technologies (Bits Atoms Neurons and Genes) in real life, the ethics and the social responsibility of researchers...
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		+	== First Reports from Belem ==
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		+	=== Panel A : Sciences & Démocratie : quels enjeux ?===
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		+	Thursday 12 February 2009
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		+	Report by Hervé Le Crosnier in French: http://fm-sciences.org/spip.php?article376&lang=en
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		+	=== Panel B - Access to knowledge: building the commons ===
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		+	Introduction Thursday 12 February 2009 by Valérie Peugeot
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		+	Commons Production of knowledge
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		+	Welcome to this second panel, dedicated to the question of access to knowledge and the building of the commons.
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		+	Let me introduce myself briefly: my name is Valérie Peugeot, I come from France, from an non profit organisation called Vecam, which was created in 1995, and works since then to promote social appropriation of information and communication technologies and to put into the public space the political issues related to those technologies.
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		+	This morning I have the difficult task to coordinate and introduce this panel. It was prepared together with other organisations, KEI - Knowledge ecology international (Jamie Love), APC - Association for progressive communications, AIPSN – All Indian people science networks (Amit Sengupta), in relation with the coordination of the sciences and democracy world forum.
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		+	Before presenting and giving the floor to our five panellists, let me just say a few words about the way we decided do draft the theme of this panel.
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		+	We all have a deep consciousness that the importance of knowledge in our societies is growing everyday, not only is it the centre of our culture, but it is also becoming the hart of our economies, the driving force of our development, both in so called developed or developing countries. We are also aware of the fact that the way in which this knowledge can circulate is changing dramatically for two main reasons: one is technical, and the other political.
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		+	The technical one is networking and digitalisation, a direct result of innovation. This allows knowledge, converted into data, to circulate and to copy instantaneously without any limits. Among other consequences, it implies that one main factor of growth is becoming what economists use to call a non exclusive, non rival, non subtractive good. That means that the access to knowledge can not be denied, that once a person enjoys access to a chunk of knowledge, others still can have the benefit of it. Those characteristics are traditionally related to economic public goods, although in today’s economy, they apply to a large range of cultural knowledge, of which only a small portion falls into public domain. And this major change is introducing a deep destabilisation in our economic models. The private sector, used to deal with scarcity, ignores how to deal with this situation of abundance, or refuses to take the change into account.
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		+	The second reason for a drastic change in knowledge circulation is ideological: in the last 30 years, we have, little by little, under the influence of neoconservative and neo liberal ideologies, lost sight of what the objectives of sciences, technology and knowledge as a whole should be. Equity, shared welfare, a sustainable society, a growing cultural inheritance are almost “politically un correct” once confronted with the short term ambitions of a science compelled to find its funding in the private sector and therefore driven by commodification forces.
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		+	Having said that, how do the knowledge commons fit into the picture, how the commons can help us facing this deep shift both in the production and circulation of knowledge?
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		+	First of all, let me clarify briefly the concept of knowledge commons: the commons, are neither knowledge in the public domain, nor knowledge ruled by market forces and its restrictive conception of intellectual property rights. Knowledge commons are results of innovation, of creativity, that are deliberately placed under a self organised regime of rights and rules by the communities which have a direct interest in them, whether they are producers or users of this knowledge. Theses rights and rules favour the circulation and sharing of this knowledge among the community, while maintaining the community control and governance over these discoveries, inventions, traditional knowledge and artefacts.
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		+	In our views, this approach presents several advantages, and I shall insist on two of them:
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		+	First of all, the knowledge commons open a path, a third way, which goes far beyond the traditional closed choice between a publicly owned or privately owned knowledge and science as a whole. The knowledge commons can be built and increased by the communities themselves, in a self organised manner. This implies that not only will it have an impact on the circulation of knowledge, but also on the democratic organisation of communities. The knowledge commons allows us to build a different relation to economy – the way wealth is built and shared – but also to governance.
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		+	Second advantage: it questions the public authorities about their new responsibilities. But, as the issues at stake call for an international public framework, which by nature takes years to be built, we do not have to wait: the communities can start building the knowledge commons, right now, at the local, national or international level. When you look at the existing movements – I am talking about the free software movement, the creative commons movement, the open science initiative, the free archive organisation, the free data movement, and other initiatives that will be introduced by the panellists… –, you can tell that the knowledge commons is being built here and now, and it is our task, our responsibility, as searchers, academics, or activists, to amplify this wave, and to give it the theoretical and political framework it deserves.
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		+	L’adresse originale de cet article est http://www.vecam.org/article1090.html


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		+	Call for a World Social Forum sciences and democracy: The first World Social forum on science and democracy during the WSF in Belem - Brazil, January 2009.
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-	~~1. promote and develop the knowledge commons of humanity as public~~
-	~~goods;~~
-	~~2. debate upon the issues and means in order to support scientists to~~
-	~~fully respond to their social responsibility;~~
-	~~3. strengthen the autonomy of researchers; defend the public missions~~
-	~~of research and improve the conditions in which scientific activities are~~
-	~~led by students, researchers, engineers;~~
-	~~4. strengthen the capacity of citizens movements to produce knowledge~~
-	~~and to be partners of scientific institutions;~~
-	~~5. strengthen the capacity of our societies, in the North as in the~~
-	~~South, to take democratic decisions in the field of science and~~
-	~~technology;~~
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-	~~Scientists and social movements need to share their expertise and~~
-	~~conceptions to build societies that better respect human rights, cultural~~
-	~~diversity and social and ecological needs.~~
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-	~~Therefore, we, members of the scientific community, organisations and~~
-	~~citizens, are calling for the organisation of the first World Social forum~~
-	~~on science and democracy during the WSF in Belem - Brazil, January 2009~~
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-	~~Para Um Forum Social Mundial Ci�ncia e Democracia~~
-	~~Appel pour un Forum Social Sciences et D�mocratie~~
-	~~Call for a WSF science and democracy~~
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-	~~Firmas - Signatures~~
-	~~(24 Octobre 2007)~~
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-	~~Socios :~~
-	~~Partners :~~
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-	~~- Aitec France~~
-	~~- Adreca France~~
-	~~- All india people's science network India~~
-	~~- Alternatives Canada~~
-	~~- Associação alternativa terrazul Brazil~~
-	~~- Association rhone alpes des petits d�brouillards France~~
-	~~- Attac france France~~
-	~~- ATTAC VAL D'OISE SUD-EST France~~
-	~~- Consorcio para el desarrollo sostenible de la ecoregi�n andina Peru~~
-	~~- Crid France~~
-	~~- Demos United Kingdom~~
-	~~- Etc group United States~~
-	~~- F�d�ration mondiale des travailleurs scientifiques (FMTS) France~~
-	~~- Fondation Sciences Citoyennes France~~
-	~~- GeneWatch UK United Kingdom~~
-	~~- Global Chance France~~
-	~~- Health Action International (coordinator Essential Innovation Campaign)~~
-	~~BUKO Pharma-Kampagne Germany~~
-	~~- Ines Germany~~
-	~~- Les Amis de la Terre du Rh�ne France~~
-	~~- Responsibility for the future Yugoslavia Belgrade, Serbia~~
-	~~- Science for the people United Kingdom~~
-	~~- Scientists for global responsibility (SGR) United Kingdom~~
-	~~- Scienza e democrazia -- Science and Democracy Italy~~
-	~~- Snesup-fsu France~~
-	~~- Transform! France~~
-	~~- Vecam France~~
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-	~~Socios de 10 pa�ses :~~
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-	~~Brazil~~
-	~~Germany~~
-	~~Canada~~
-	~~France~~
-	~~India~~
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-	~~Organisations from 10 countries:~~
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-	~~Italy~~
-	~~Peru~~
-	~~Serbia~~
-	UK
-	~~USA~~
-	~~Individuales de 24 pa�ses : Individuals from~~
-	~~24 countries:~~
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-	~~Algeria~~
-	~~Austria~~
-	~~Belgium~~
-	~~Brazil~~
-	~~Canada~~
-	~~Czech Republic~~
-	~~France~~
-	~~Germany~~
-	~~Greece~~
-	~~India~~
-	~~Italy~~
-	~~Korea~~
-	~~Norway~~
-	~~Peru~~
-	~~Poland~~
-	~~Portugal~~
-	~~Romania~~
-	~~Serbia~~
-	~~Spain~~
-	~~Sweden~~
-	~~Switzerland~~
-	UK
-	~~Uruguay~~
-	~~USA~~

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== '''Towards a political dialogue between scientists and social movements''' ==

Since 2001, world social forums have gradually structured the agendas of
thousands of NGOs, medias, unions, social movements, local authorities,
institutions and even governments across the planet. Today they are
considered as major events to elaborate, share and build social, cultural
and economic transformations on global and local levels.

Although the impacts of sciences and techniques on our daily lives, on
economic, social and environmental realities are higher than ever, we have
been observing, since the origins of the WSF , a chronic deficit of
scientific and technical themes in these forums.

The reason for this is neither indifference nor absence of capacity of
expertise but a lack of political consideration of the stakes related to
the place and future of sciences in our societies, on behalf of both
social movements and scientists.

That is why we believe that the building of a space of open cooperation,
of wide public and democratic debates between scientists, NGOs and social
movements at a world level will open new and exciting opportunities to:

1. promote and develop the knowledge commons of humanity as public
goods;
2. debate upon the issues and means in order to support scientists to
fully respond to their social responsibility;
3. strengthen the autonomy of researchers; defend the public missions
of research and improve the conditions in which scientific activities are
led by students, researchers, engineers;
4. strengthen the capacity of citizens movements to produce knowledge
and to be partners of scientific institutions;
5. strengthen the capacity of our societies, in the North as in the
South, to take democratic decisions in the field of science and
technology;

Scientists and social movements need to share their expertise and
conceptions to build societies that better respect human rights, cultural
diversity and social and ecological needs.

Therefore, we, members of the scientific community, organisations and
citizens, are calling for the organisation of the first World Social forum
on science and democracy during the WSF in Belem - Brazil, January 2009

Para Um Forum Social Mundial Ci�ncia e Democracia
Appel pour un Forum Social Sciences et D�mocratie
Call for a WSF science and democracy

Firmas - Signatures
(24 Octobre 2007)

Socios :
Partners :

- Aitec France
- Adreca France
- All india people's science network India
- Alternatives Canada
- Associação alternativa terrazul Brazil
- Association rhone alpes des petits d�brouillards France
- Attac france France
- ATTAC VAL D'OISE SUD-EST France
- Consorcio para el desarrollo sostenible de la ecoregi�n andina Peru
- Crid France
- Demos United Kingdom
- Etc group United States
- F�d�ration mondiale des travailleurs scientifiques (FMTS) France
- Fondation Sciences Citoyennes France
- GeneWatch UK United Kingdom
- Global Chance France
- Health Action International (coordinator Essential Innovation Campaign)
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne Germany
- Ines Germany
- Les Amis de la Terre du Rh�ne France
- Responsibility for the future Yugoslavia Belgrade, Serbia
- Science for the people United Kingdom
- Scientists for global responsibility (SGR) United Kingdom
- Scienza e democrazia -- Science and Democracy Italy
- Snesup-fsu France
- Transform! France
- Vecam France

Socios de 10 pa�ses :

Brazil
Germany
Canada
France
India

Organisations from 10 countries:

Italy
Peru
Serbia
UK
USA
Individuales de 24 pa�ses : Individuals from
24 countries:

Algeria
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Greece
India
Italy
Korea
Norway
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Uruguay
USA