- Knowledge Ecology International
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Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a non-governmental organization. It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology. It deals with issues related to the effects of intellectual property on public health, cyberlaw and e-commerce, and competition policy. It has fought the Microsoft monopoly, the ICANN monopoly, software patents, and business method patents. It has supported free software in government, open access for the Internet, and privacy regulation. KEI works on access to medicines, including a major effort on compulsory licensing of patents. Beginning in 2002, CPTech began to work with Tim Hubbard and others on a new trade framework for medical research and development (R&D). In the context of current bilateral agreements, this is referred to as R&D+, which in contrast to TRIPS+ approaches.
KEI is also working with a number of other NGOs to change the mission of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), so that it operates more like a true UN agency, with a social rather than a commercial agenda.
The organization is directed by James Love.
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Books authored Political campaigns Campaign for 1992 presidential election · Campaign for 1996 presidential election · Campaign for 2000 presidential election · Campaign for 2004 presidential election · Campaign for 2008 presidential electionOrganizations Public Citizen · Knowledge Ecology International · Public Interest Research Group · Center for Auto Safety · Connecticut Citizen Action Group · Essential Information · Princeton Project 55 · Appleseed Foundation · Democracy Rising · Equal Justice Foundation · American Antitrust Institute · Commercial AlertOther An Unreasonable Man · Political positionsCategories:- Intellectual property organizations
- Non-profit organizations based in the United States
- Organizations established in 1995
- Ralph Nader
- Access to Knowledge movement
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