I am at the A2K3 conference in Geneva, Switzerland not far from CERN where earlier today the LHC, the large Hadron collider, was scheduled for start up.

It is an interesting juxtaposition, the LHC is classic example of standard knowledge practises, a single massively expensive installation run by technocrats largely opaque to the public. Commendably CERN has tried to communicate what it is doing to the wider world, one senses though that it is not a natural or entirely comfortable feat.

It is these issues of knowledge structure/configuration/values embedded in technology andpractises which are being critiqued at the 3rd Access to Knowledge Conference. Held during 2006 and 2007 at Yale University its being held this year in Geneva, site of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the International Telecommunications Union and non governmental International Standards Organisation.

The presentations are being blogged at www.a2k3.org

The posts are a close representation of what we are hearing here. You can also post comments, questions and challenges so that you can have access to the knowledge being shared here.