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The worldwide academic community has found new ways to strengthen their connections and open conversations with social initiatives through digital channels.

The Global Congress of Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (GCIP) 2020 version was intended to be in Cartagena, Colombia. We built an excellent host committee integrated by recognized Colombian and Brazilian social and academic organizations: Karisma Foundation, IFARMA Foundation, Misión Salud, ISUR  centre from Rosario University and InternetLab from Brazil.

With the pandemic, the GCIP was cancelled. Instead, the host committee designed a virtual event called #IPWeek, Week of the Intellectual Property, the Public Interest and COVID-19, to open a space to share global insights about the COVID19 impact on intellectual property / public interest relationship. In 2020, We held 31 events between central conferences, panel discussions, ted talks, strategic meetings, among others. More than 600 participants and 120 panelists joined during the week’s activities. 

#IPweek was a success, and we have decided 2021 will have one too.

From October 25th to 29th the internet will be our convention centre again to share and discuss the teachings that COVID-19 pandemic left us in our thematic lines: access to medicines and other health technologies, copyright, digital rights, trade agreements and traditional and diverse knowledge.

Save the date!

Call-for-proposals will be open soon, and in this edition, we will include a call for creative pieces about the intellectual property / public interest relationship in a post-pandemic world.

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