Bibliotheca Alexandrina Launches A2K

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) launched, on March 30, its Access to Knowledge (A2K) electronic platform which has been developed over several months to become the leading source of information on Access to Knowledge in the Arab region and the world.

This platform aims to raise awareness about the importance of A2K and its role in accelerating development efforts around the world, and in the Arab region in particular, by providing an interactive forum and opportunity for visitors to interact and contribute through several discussion forums and periodical consultations that will also host prominent international researchers and practitioners.

The BA�s activity comes against the backdrop of the need to remedy the negative effects of obstacles denying developing countries access to international knowledge that would contribute to their development processes and to the advancement of human intellect.

Such obstacles result from the rising trend of using international intellectual property protection rules and regulations by developed countries for the purposes of exclusivity, therefore, blocking the use of such knowledge by developing countries to create new knowledge.

Being aware of such challenges, and in view of its role in disseminating knowledge and contributing to scientific progress and consequently economic and social development, the BA has undertaken the responsibility to promote for the importance of A2K, especially on the regional Arab level, and moving on to the international level.

For more information, visit the A2K website.