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Local Contextualisers
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There is a dedicated group of people who have been tirelessly providing us with insightful and provocative writings for the Local Context, Global Commons node, and I think that it's time that they were introduced to the iCommons community.
The team works together from different corners of the globe: India, Brazil, the United States and South Africa, meeting monthly on skype, phone and email to talk about what themes to share with the community. This group of Local Contextualiers share local events, trends and debates around intellectual property, access, piracy and culture. So, introducing, in no particular order, our bright, shining local contextualisers:
Paula Martini is an activist, academic and researcher at the Center for Techonology and Society, Fundacao Getulio Vargas School of Law. She manages the Cultura Livre project which is a south-south collaboration between South Africa and Brazil, investigating open access, open culture and local responses to WIPO and the Development Agenda.
Prashant Iyengar is a Technology/IP lawyer and a new media activist based in India. He runs a free database of Indian Supreme Court cases, and is currently a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. He has also previously (2006-07) been an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute.
Paul Jacobson, iCommons Fellow in South Africa, is a new media lawyer, blogger and podcaster. He is the founder of Jacobson Attorneys and writes about new media and the law for a number of blogs and publications. Paul studied law and philosophy (among others) at the University of the Witwatersrand and lives in Johannesburg with his wife and three puppies.
Allison Fish is doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation research focuses on intellectual property claims to yoga and the reactions that these claims trigger. She is currently based between Bangalore, India and Irvine, California where she is conducting her ethnographic fieldwork for this project.
Rebecca Kahn is a journalist, researcher and Bloody Mary-freak based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She's a part-time staffer at iCommons where she works as a writer and researcher, and is working on her MA in Journalism at Wits University.
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