Participant/carolina-rossini

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Carolina Rossini is an attorney and holds degrees from the University of Sao Paulo-USP, Brazil (Bachelor in Law), Instituto de Empresa-IE, Madrid, Spain (MBA in E-Business), Sao Paulo State University-UNESP, Brazil (Master in International Negotiations), Certificate Course in Industrial Property from University of Buenos Aires and a Post-Graduation Course in Internet Governance from Diplo Foundation (E-Learning Certificate).

She is pursuing the Master in Law from Boston University, focused on Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy and working at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School as a research assistant and at Diplo Foundation, as a Fellow with reserach focus on IP policy and the impact of the Internet.

She is an active member of the A2K, UNESCO-OER, FLOSS and cyberlaw communities. She previously worked as Coordinator of Legal Clinical Programs at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law (2006-2007) and as Lead of Projects at FGV's Center for Technology and Society (2005-2007) where she worked in projects such as Creative Commons and Open Business, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Carolina has experience as a professor of Intellectual Property and Internet law and has served the Ford Foundation as a consultant. She also has more than six years' experience as an in-house attorney for Telefonica Telecommunications and Internet Group in Brazil (from 1999 to 2005).

Carolina has publications in her area and took part in international and national conferences as a speaker. Her last article (The Open Access Movement: opportunities and challenges for developing countries. Let them live in interesting times http://campus.diplomacy.edu/env/scripts/Pool/GetBin.asp?IDPool=3737 ) was chosen to two conferences: "The Politics of Intellectual Property," at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Rennes, France, April 2008 and First Pan-African Forum on Open Education Resources (OER) Ghana, Africa, on May.

Carolina is the co-author of a study commissioned by the Brazilian Internet Committee related to the Regulation of Spam in Brazil( http://www.cgi.br/publicacoes/documentacao/ct-spam-EstudoSpamCGIFGVversaofinal.pdf)

She can be reached at carolina.rossini(at)gmail.com

Main interests: IP policy, public interest and A2K; Net Neutrality; peer production; role of Universities in innovation process; open licensing.

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