• A2K -- to think about that network of people, ngo's that were active in the access to knowledge movement and see what they could do. Bodo thinks they are too soft. Talk to Jamie Love. Talk to Lawrence Lliang. Access to medicines as a good and a bad example. 
• What are the projects within Public Library, map them (ubu web, monoskop, aaaaarg...)
• How to write a history between different agents

GROUP 1: ALAN & TOM, THE CANONICAL STORY

Genealogy or genealogies? This will be relevant to how broad the hypothetical organisation's appeal can be.

PUBLIC LIBRARY, LONG-DUREE HISTORY

• -- Political genealogy: French revolution & Englightment, universality of human rights incl. right to a2k, termination of printing privilege (i.e. early copyright); Chartist's reading rooms & self-education/real useful knowledge (what about domestication of the dangerous classes?)
• -- Carla Hesse: Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
• -- Economic genealogy: exemption from commodity in books, statutory licenses
• -- Epistemic genealogy: library as classification machine - -> CATALOG
• -- Artistic genealogy: historic avant-gardes, symbolic & effective are melded
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A2K IN 20th C

• -- mass education (hence 150 million potential users to the infrastructures we affirm)
• -- decolonialization & uneven development, capacity building
  • -- UNESCO: free flow of information vs. right to self-determination, UNCTAD --> A2K many organizations in A2K stem from these earlier processes in the 60s-80s
  • -- New world information & communication order & MacBride Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Information_and_Communication_Order
• -- minor knowledge, shadow libraries vs. imperial knowledge, censorship 
  • -- (contemporary examples MayDay Rooms deposits, Herman Wallace's dream library, Written-off)
• -- Doha round, WIPO copyright treaty
• -- TRIPS & WTO: globalization of intellectual property regimes, creation of enforcement mechanism at WTO; South Centre, BRICs: responses was local campaigns and application of legal expertise to identify room to manouvere within TRIPS obligations (educational exceptions, compulsory licensing etc)

A2K at the dawn of 21st C 

• -- discursive-based approaches (appeal to legal reform) vs material-based aproaches (direct provision, lowered cost of textual production)
• -- netutopian librarian projects: Project Gutenberg (Michael Hart) --> Carl Malamud (scraping) --> Brewster Kahle --> Aaron Swartz
• -- distributed communication infrastructure
• -- open access, berlin declaration
• -- 3 a2k conferences, Geneva declaration, WIPO Development agenda 2007, NGO and International organization centred, push for exceptions (Marrakesh 2013)
• -- p2p, pirate bay trial (poetics of commotion -- what was the result of that?)
• -- pirate parties as a product of populist discontent
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A2K from a non-western-centric point of view

• -- informal provision (book-production in India)
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