Re: Sasi Kumar in Paraguay - Free Software Asuncion

Juan, while Sasi is there, can you discuss how emerging economies can
work together on global policy issues like open standards and the
fight against software patents? These battles need to be fought at
multilateral forums like World Intellectual Property Organization,
International Standards Organization and others.

If we can get FOSS friendly countries working together at these
forums, we can create a powerful force to counter the lobbies for
proprietary standards and software patents. These lobbies are driven
by powerful companies with huge budgets. Governments are the only
forces that can stand up against these corporate lobbies and we need
to work closely with such supportive governments.

From a policy perspective, the BRIC/BASIC economies (BRIC = Brazil,
Russia, India & China, BASIC = Brazil, South Africa, India & China)
are already emerging as a powerful lobby. These countries are already
working together in areas like climate change. For example, US
President Obama chose to discuss the climate change issue directly
with the BASIC countries to break the deadlock at Copenhagen
Discussions in December 2009.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/18/obama.copenhagen/index.html

Let me know your thoughts on this.

Venky


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Here you have Sasi having "terere" similar to "mate" but cold.
> This picture was taken in a 3 hours radio program
>
> http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11837
>
> Here you can find a picture of the panelists (don't know if complete)
> People from Bolivia (very interesting country), Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay,
> Italy (you may know Marco Ciurcina), India (Sasi of course).
>
> http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11844
>
> Here you will find most of the persons that were working for the event, and
> some of them also panelists
>
> http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11846
>
> Now we are organizing Sasi agenda. Probably Bolivia-Ecuador-Brazil?-Uruguay?
>
> Of course the key countries now are Ecuador-Bolivia .
>
> regards
>
> juan
>
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