The Centre for Technology and Society (CTS), at FGV School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, and the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme of the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of countries of the South, established a recent collaboration project aimed at reporting and making analisys of WIPO discussions. This is the first of many posts that will be drafted to achieve that goal. This first post was drafted by South Centre's experts.

I was in Geneva last week at the ‘Experts Meeting on the Internet Governance Forum’. The meeting was organised by the Consumer Project on Technology, the South Centre and the Third World Network, and we discussed the possibility of taking issues such as the Access to Knowledge Treaty to the newly formed Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Remember the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)? Well, at the final session of WSIS, the delegates drafted the ‘Tunis Agenda’ which asked the Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, to convene a ‘new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue’. Some say that the IGF was just a way for the US representatives to draw attention away from the impasse over critical aspects of the WSIS Declaration (including issues around intellectual property alternatives). But James Love from CPTech is determined that this isn’t just another talk shop – which is why he brought us together in Geneva to talk strategy with regards to the upcoming conference in Athens in November.