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 jucar@hipatia.net 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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