Rami Olwan

The Consumers International Global Meeting on A2K 2010 is to be held at the Holiday Villa hotel in Subang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 and 22 April 2010.

The Fordham Annual IP Conference 2010 is scheduled to be held in Fordham Law School, New York City on Thursday, April 8th and Friday April 9th, 2010. Although the conference is US IP centric, it attracts many lawyers, academics, judjes and others coming from all over the world. I will provide some more feedback on the conference later on.

Dubai Information technology spending in the UAE is expected to witness a 9.1 per cent growth this year to $15.91 billion (Dh58.39 billion) compared to last year's $14.54 billion as focus shifts to broader IT services, said a top industry expert.

Next week ccAustralia and x|media|lab are co-hosting a lunchtime seminar in sydney as part of media 2010 on al jazeera's creative commons repository. Moeed ahmad, head of new media at al jazeera will be there, joined by professor brian fitzgerald, project lead of creative commons australia and rami olwan, project lead of creative commons jordan to discuss free and open models of content management in the digital media environment.