Press, Presentations, Publications and Partners Press Interviews Generation Y pay? On Air Interview with SAfm, 2 November 2009 [not available online] PositionIT Mapping the World class African city Heather Ford May 2009 [podcast] Textbook Market Moneyweb, Local watchdogs eye global publisher,03 November 2008 10:48 ITNewsAfrica Shuttleworth Foundation concerned over education publishing giant restructuring, October 24, 2008 Business Day Pearson to raise its stake in SA publisher, Sue Blaine, 2008/10/24 12:00:00 AM Business Day SA leg of publishing merger approved, Sue Blaine, 2007/08/16 12:00:00 AM The Star Bid to stop merger of textbook publishers, Angelique Serrao, 2 August 2007, 20:22 Business Day Concern raised over publishing merger, Sue Blaine, 2007/07/31 12:00:00 AM The Battle for Open Standards ITWEB Informatica Government's clout on open standards by Ivo Vegter and Pamela Weaver, IT Informatica Reference Series ITWeb  OOXML standard is published, Candice Jones, 26 Nov 2008 Tectonic South Africa appeals ISO’s OOXML decision, Alastair Otter, September 17, 2008 ITWeb  ISO dismisses OOXML appeal, Candice Jones, 10 Jul 2008 Business Day SABS tackles ISO and Microsoft on digital standards, Lesley Stones, 2008/06/06 12:00:00 AM ITWeb Emerging markets back SA, Candice Jones, 5 Jun 2008 Groklaw: The Shuttleworth Foundation Supports South Africa's Appeal Against OOXML Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 12:06 PM EDT ITWeb SA appeals ISO's decision, Candice Jones, 26 May 2008 ITWeb Cautious optimism for MS decision, Candice Jones, 23 May 2008 ITWEB, Emerging markets reject OOXML, 4 April 2008 ITWeb Armscor eyes open source, Leon Engelbrecht, 28 Nov 2007 ITWeb  Citizens win with interop standard, Leon Engelbrecht, 26 Oct 2007 Tectonic Shuttleworth Foundation backs ISO ruling,Alastair Otter, September 11, 2007 My Broadband, Computing SA Shuttleworth Foundation supports ISO decision on Microsoft, 11 September, 2007 Public Knowledge Research funding a trap for inventors, Big News, 1 October 2009, Interview with Big News, news for entrepreneurs, on the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research Act 2008 [offline] IP Watch Proposed Rules On Public Research In South Africa Stir Debate Dugie Standeford, 4 June 2009 @ 3:32 pm Tectonic Government regulations threaten innovation, free software, say opponents,Alastair Otter, April 29, 2009 Legal Brief IPR research regulations 'unconstitutional', says expert, Thu 23 April 2009 ITWeb IP Act puts profit first, Audra Mahlong, 3 Feb 2009 IP Bill locks down innovation, Audra Mahlong and Siyabonga Africa, 15 Jan 2009 ITWeb, Presentations in 2009 (I am currently revising and loading the presentations into slideshare, its a work in progress) 'pwned' Copyright and Legal Information, 10th Law via the Internet Conference, Durban, 27 November 2009 Open UCT Strategy Workshop, Center for Educational Technology, 20 October 2009 'Copyright and Copyleft', UCT Graduate School of Business, Business Acumen for Artists, October 7 2009 'The Moral Panic of Copyright Crime' Library and Information Association of South Africa Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Conference, Free State University of Technology, Bloemfontein September 2009 Lead Discussant Copyleft Panel Expert meeting on Development and Intellectual Property Third World Network Geneva 20th September 2009 Speaker 'Managing Heritage Digitization Issues' Visual History Archive and Creative Commons South Africa Workshop on Legal Issues of Digitizing Visual Material University of Cape Town 15 September 2009 'Open Standards in South Africa' Yale Internet and Society Project, Global A2K Academy,  A2K Scholars Seminar, 19-21 August 2009 'Free and Open Source Software', On Line Media Conference, Cape Peninsular University of Technology 1 August 2009, 2009, Cape Town 'The Bayh Dole Act: Its emergence in Africa and impact on access to medicines' in "Towards and Intellectual Proeprty Regime that protects Public Health" World Health Organisation course on Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health, 25 June 2009, Cape Town 'Not a patcholi scented info hippie'  Alternative Publishing Workshop, Creative R & D/PALM Africa Workshop, 5 June 2009,  Twelve Apostles Cape Town 'Access to learning materials and copyright in Africa, findings of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project' Iqsensato Seminar, 20 May 2009, Geneva 'Open Licences and Copyright Exceptions' Open Content Workshop NASPERS , 14 May 2009, Cape Town 'The Mechanics and Mystique of Open Licences' University of Cape Town Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research Unit Inaugural Lecture Workshop 'IP Challenges for the Future", 12 May 2009, All Africa House, UCT [caption id="attachment_669" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="Breakwater Campus"][/caption] 'Privacy, Intellectual Property and Surveillance' Connectivity and Convergence, Alternative Regulatory Strategies for Telecommunications, UCT Graduate School of Business Executive Course, 17 April 2009, Breakwater Campus Publications in 2009

Access to Knowledge in South Africa: Part of the A2K Research Series, Edited by Andrew Rens & Rebecca Kahn, Yale Law School Information Society Project, October 2009
Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons, International Development Law Organization and Natural Justice, October 2009 (co-authored with Abrell, Bavikatte, Cocchiaro and Jonas)
'Implementing the WIPO Development Agenda: Treaty Provisions on Minimum Exceptions and Limitations for Education' in Implementing WIPO's Development Agenda International Development Research Centre, July 2009
Report on the Open Review of the South African Copyright Act, Edited by Andrew Rens and Rebecca Kahn, Shuttleworth Foundation Report

Partners African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project Consumers International A2K Advisory Group Creative Commons South Africa Freedom to Innovate South Africa The African Commons Project Historical Presentations etc A list of presentations, participation on panels etc from 2005 Keynote Speaker: 'Open Standards in E-government' Government XML Standards in Government Workshop, Tshwane University of Technology 17 June 2008 Panel: Creative Commons and Access to Knowledge, iCommons iSummit, Saporo, 2 August 2008 Speaker: “Text, Hypertext and Rent Seeking” Southern African Association of Universities Leadership Summit on “The Challenges of Open Access and Scholarly Communication” University of Botswana, 20-21 November 2007 Speaker, The Global Innovation Value Chain, Marcus Evans 4th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, Rosebank, Johannesburg, 18-19th October 2007 Speaker, Southern African Legal Information Institute Workshop on Privacy and Legal Reporting, Constitution Hill, 21-22 September 2007 Speaker; 'Alchemists and Scientists' National Science and Technology Forum Work Shop 'New Vision and Mission of the DST & Intellectual Property Rights (IPR’s)', CSIR , Thursday, 21 June Speaker: Education 3.0 , A2K2, Second Conference on Access to Knowledge, Yale Law School, April 26-9, 2007 Speaker: Copyright and Plagiarism in Blogging, Digital Citizens Indaba, Rhodes University, 14 September 2006 (http://dci.ru.ac.za/) Speaker: Access to Knowledge, SANGONET THETA, Swaziland, 2 August 2006 Speaker: Enterprise Commons, Speaker South African experiences Commons Clinics, Moderator , iCommons iSummit, Rio de Janiero, 23-25 June 2006 Speaker on FM10, First Monday Conference, Chicago May 15-17, 2006 Panel Chair on DRM and Access to Knowledge, Access to Knowledge Conference, Yale Law School April 21- 23, 2006 Speaker at SANGONET, ICTs for Civil Society" Conference and Exhibition from 7-9 March 2006 on ‘A Creative Commons for South Africa – Building Open Communities’ Keynote Speaker: Creative Commons South Africa, Commons-Sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons, 25-27 May, 2005, The LINK Centre – Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa