Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a
non-governmental organization. It was founded by
Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology. It deals with issues related to the effects of
intellectual property on
public health,
cyberlaw and
e-commerce, and
competition policy. It has fought the
Microsoft monopoly, the
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
monopoly,
software patents, and
business method patents. It has supported
free software in
government, open access for the
Internet, and privacy regulation. KEI works on access to
medicines, including a major effort on
compulsory licensing of patents. Beginning in 2002, CPTech began to work with
Tim Hubbard Timothy John Phillip Hubbard is a Professor of Bioinformatics at King's College London, Head of Genome Analysis at Genomics England and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK.
Education
Hubbard was educated at the ...
and others on a new trade framework for
medical research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
(R&D). In the context of current bilateral agreements, this is referred to as R&D+, which in contrast to
TRIPS+ approaches.
KEI is also working with a number of other NGOs to change the mission of the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), so that it operates more like a true
UN agency, with a social rather than a commercial agenda.
The organization is directed by
James Love.
See also
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Patent thicket
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Tragedy of the anticommons
External links
Knowledge Ecology Website
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Intellectual property organizations
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1995
Ralph Nader
Access to Knowledge movement