Rami Olwan

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF) and the United Nations Development Programme/ Regional Bureau for Arab States (UNDP/RBAS) published an important report entitled Arab Knowledge Report 2009 Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge.

“The report focuses on the organic relationship within the knowledge-society-development triad that is linked to modernisation, productive openness to both the inside and the outside, and all that contributes towards the strengthening of Arab human dignity”.

In pages 77- 83, the report talks about IP freedom and the situation of A2K in the Arab world. Egypt is the only country from the Arab world that was mentioned as a participant of the international efforts calling for freedom of IP for developing countries.

The full report is available here http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Documents/AKR-2009-En/AKR-English.pdf