{"id":58707,"key":"The_Access_to_Knowledge_for_Development_Center","title":"The Access to Knowledge for Development Center","latest":{"id":1206820,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:55:24Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at [http://www.aucegypt.edu/ The American University in Cairo]'s [http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/Pages/default.aspx School of Business] is a regional center for scholarship, research and policy analysis on access to knowledge, intellectual property and human development in Egypt, the Arab world, and Africa. A2K4D's work is guided by a belief in the positive impact of A2K on inclusive development in the digital age. A2K4D promotes rigorous research on legal and economic issues confronting access to knowledge, a valuable resource to academics and policymakers. The center strives to raise awareness of the A2K paradigm.\n\nIn collaboration with international partners, A2K4D launched the [http://www.law.yale.edu/images/ISP/A2KGA_Proceedings.pdf Access to Knowledge Global Academy] in 2008, promoting research and advocacy on the equitable production and distribution of knowledge goods and tools. A2K4D is the recipient of the Richard Bartlett Gift to support collaboration with [http://www.yaleisp.org/ Yale Law School's Information Society Project]. The center is also a participant in the [https://networkofcenters.net/ Global Network of Internet and Society Centers], championed by [http://web.archive.org/web/20160904042659/https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society]. Additionally, A2K4D serves as the North African Hub of [http://web.archive.org/web/20151008002439/http://www.openair.org.za:80/capetown2013 the Open African Innovation Research Partnership (Open AIR)].\n\nMain website:http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/A2K4D/Pages/default.aspx\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:organizations]]\n[[Category:open source appropriate technology]]"}