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James Love is the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. Mr. Love is an advisor on intellectual property policies to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations, public health NGOs, and private sector companies. Mr. Love is the US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, a member of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, and a member of the IP Charter Steering Committee. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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I'm in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where the biggest debate is over the future of "Internet Governance." The final text for this was agreed upon about 30 minutes ago. The two quick sounds bites are that (1) the US and the US based Internet Corporation for Domain Names and Numbers (ICANN) retain, for now, control over the most important aspects of the global Internet Domain Name System (DNS), and (2) the conversation over this issue and a surprisingly broader governance agenda is continuing, under the United Nations. more
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