Rami Olwan

Consumers International and the African Copyright and A2K Project (ACA2K) this week held a successful workshop looking at the Global State of Copyright and Access to Knowledge at the 2009 meeting of the multi-stakeholder United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The session was moderated by Dr Bassem Awad from ACA2K, who is also Chief Judge at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice.

Under the patronage of the Jordanian Minister of Justice HE Mr. Ayman Odeh, the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) is poised to launch Creative Commons- Jordan on Nov. 15th 2009 in cooperation with Creative Commons and the Jordanian Royal Film Commission at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business.

The number of payments for online games in the Middle East has rocketed from 100,000 a month in 2008 to 500,000 a month this year – and the majority of the transactions are taking place in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and the UAE.

Microsoft External Research Division has published recently an impressive book titled “The Fourth Paradigm- Data- Intensive Scientific Discovery" and Edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Krist in Tolle.