GEG’s Expert Taskforce on Global Knowledge Governance invites you to take part in a short international survey on Global Knowledge Governance and Intellectual Property.

The survey will help us gather a diversity of views from around the world on challenges facing the international institutional arrangements and processes that shape the rules and practices for creating, using and sharing knowledge – and related goods and services. We also seek views on principles that should guide reforms and specific options for consideration. The survey focuses particular attention on questions of how global governance influences international intellectual property-related rules and practices.

The results of the survey will be used as input into the Taskforce’s final report, which will be published in late 2010 and made available to the diversity of governments, international organizations and stakeholders interested in the future of global knowledge governance. The taskforce’s report will also draw on interviews, expert consultations and a review of the most relevant scholarly and policy literature. Further information on the Taskforce can be viewed here.

The survey is open for responses until 30 July 2010 and should take only 20 – 30 min of your time. You may opt to jump to the end of the survey at any stage and it is also possible to save your work and return to it later (instructions for this are available on the survey site).

To complete the survey, click here. Pour une version en français, appuyez ici.Para una versión en español de la encuesta, haga clic aquí.

For questions on the survey or on the work of the Taskforce, please contact Carolyn Deere Birkbeck (carolyn.deere@politics.ox.ac.uk) or Catherine Monagle, Secretary of the Expert Taskforce on Global Knowledge Governance, at intellectualproperty@univ.ox.ac.uk.

We thank you in advance for your contribution and look forward to reading your views.