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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Andrew Rens is Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation. He is also Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and director of The African Commons Project, charter member of Freedom to Innovate South Africa and a research associate at the LINK Center. After teaching at Wits Law School he was a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
A renowned speaker in his field, Andrew has delivered addresses at the Second Conference on Access to Knowledge at Yale Law School, Digital Citizens Indaba at Rhodes University and the National Science and Technology Forum. He also writes on access to knowledge, the commons and intellectual property and is an avid blogger at ex Africa semper aliquid novi.
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Time to Take Another Look at Jospeh Stiglitz’s ‘Globalisation and its Discontents’
How does the International Monetary Fund (IMF) respond to liquidity crises? How does this affect people in developing countries? Joseph Stiglitz wrote Globalisation and its Discontents in 2002 to address these questions, questions that are more urgent than ever today, in the current global liquidity crises.
Appropriate responses to these crises is a central theme of the book, which makes it...
