Participant/carolina-rossini

Carolina Rossini is a consultant in Intellectual Property and a Brazilian lawyer. She is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Information and Society at Harvard University, working at the Institutional Cooperation Project, and coordinates the Open Educational Resources: Brazilian challenges and Perspectives project under an Open Society Institute grant. She is also a Fellow at Diplo Foundation for the Program on Internet and Intellectual Property Law, and a Research Associate at IQsensato, a think thank based in Geneva, for the innovation policy project. Previously, in the USA, she acted as a Consultant for the Vision Team of the USAID Global Development Commons and a Research Associate at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School (Copyright for Librarians Project).

She is an active member of the A2K, UNESCO-OER, FLOSS and cyberlaw communities and has previously worked as Coordinator of Legal Clinical Programs at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law and as Lead of Projects and IP Lecturer at FGV's Center for Technology and Society. At FGV she coordinated the Open Business Latin America project and was pat of the Creative Commons Brazilian chapter.

Parallel to her work at FGV School of Law, she worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation Intellectual Property International Initiative during the two first years of the Initiative, providing advice and training in Intellectual Property and International Negotiations and being responsible for analyzing grant proposals.

Carolina has publications in the IP, Innovation Policy and Internet Governance area and took part in several international and national conferences as a speaker and organizer, was an academic representative at the Brazilian commission for the Convention on Biological Diversity, during the COP-8, and also in negotiations of the Developing Agenda at WIPO.

As a lawyer, Carolina worked for more than 6 years at Telefonica Telecommunications and Internet Group in Brazil and Spain.

She holds a LL.M. in Intellectual Property with honors from Boston University, and degrees from the University of Sao Paulo (Bachelor in Law), Instituto de Empresa-IE, Spain (MBA in E-Business), Sao Paulo State University-UNESP (Master in International Negotiations – Santiago Dantas Program), Certificate in Industrial Property (University of Buenos Aires) and a Certificate in Internet Governance from Diplo Foundation (E-Learning Certificate). She also studied a B.A. in International Relations at Pontific Catholic University of Sao Paulo - PUCSP

Shes speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Some of her papers are: "The role of University technology licensing to address the Access and Research Gap: analysis of some initiatives"

“The Open Access Movement: opportunities and challenges for developing countries” - Diplo Foundation, Internet Governance Program – 2007.(this article was accepted at “The Politics of Intellectual Property,” at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, France, April 2008 and First Pan-African Forum on Open Education Resources (OER), Ghana, Africa, May, 2008). This paper was publish at the Brazilian Law Journal: Revista Criação, N. 1, Vol. 1, 2008, IBPI - Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property.

“The WIPO Development Agenda and the Problem of Access to knowledge in Developing Countries” - Revista de Direito Administrativo – Under Review

“Biotechnology and Biodiversity: the Asymmetries between TRIPs and CDB and Implications for Developing Countries” – Instituto Socio Ambiental (ISA) and De Olho nas Patentes. (GIV/USP) – 2007.

Affonso, Carlos; Doneda, Danilo and Rossini, Carolina A.A., “The regulation of Spam and Implications in Internet Privacy” – Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) – 2006.

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

Main interests: Intellectual Property Policy; the concept of the Commons; Public Interest and A2K debate; Net Neutrality; Peer Production; The Role of Universities in Innovation; Open Access, Open Licensing; Social Responsible Licensing; Innovation Policy; Open Innovation; Community Building and Technologies for Development.