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# ! The #sooner the #better # ! … #society #learns #Openness. # ! #Get #IT, #Share it, #Enjoy it. [Lobbying for open source and Linux in schools Posted 15 Sep 2014 by EmielBrok school supplies for back to school ] "About eight years ago, I started lobbying to bring more Linux and open source software to high schools and higher IT vocational institutions in the Netherlands and Belgium. Here's how I did it and what you can learn from it to do the same where you live."

[Lobbying for open source and Linux in schools Posted 15 Sep 2014 by EmielBrok school supplies for back to school ] "About eight years ago, I started lobbying to bring more Linux and open source software to high schools and higher IT vocational institutions in the Netherlands and Belgium. Here's how I did it and what you can learn from it to do the same where you live."

"Madrid City Adopts Strong Transparency and Lobby Regulation Rules Madrid, 27 July 2016 - The Madrid City Council today approved one of the most progressive sub-national transparency regimes in Europe, encompassing proactive publication on a broad scale, the right to request information, including via anonymous requests, and a strong lobby regulation that requires the registration of lobbyists before they meet with public officials."

"But Cabinet Office tells Ars research results can still be used for lobbying purposes. by Glyn Moody - Feb 23, 2016 4:50pm CET"

"Summary: Microsoft's covert efforts (lobbying with the help of public partners like NASSCOM) to eliminate an India-leaning software policy in India is finally paying off"

"On 12 September, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who sit on the committee on constitutional affairs (AFCO) will presumably vote on the report on "Transparency, integrity and accountability in the EU institutions". The report includes important proposals on how to make decision-making in Brussels more transparent and ethical."

"Top European lawmakers on Wednesday promised to raise the curtain on meetings with lobbyists, but transparency organisations scoffed at their "timid," "disappointing," and "shameless" proposals."

"from the time-for-a-change dept Here on Techdirt we've written many times about the problematic nature of drug patents. They are harmful both directly, in terms of the price distortions they cause and seek to spread to new markets, and indirectly, through the lobbying that the pharma industry deploys to strengthen and extend them, notably in trade agreements such as TPP and TAFTA/TTIP. "

"from the time-for-a-change dept Here on Techdirt we've written many times about the problematic nature of drug patents. They are harmful both directly, in terms of the price distortions they cause and seek to spread to new markets, and indirectly, through the lobbying that the pharma industry deploys to strengthen and extend them, notably in trade agreements such as TPP and TAFTA/TTIP. "

"Summary: Some of the latest reports pertaining to Microsoft's (and its patent trolls') pursuit/lobbying for software patents at a time when such patents lose their appeal/lustre in the United States"

" Las negociaciones en curso sobre el tratado comercial EEUU-UE, conocido como Asociación Transatlántica de Comercio e Inversión (TTIP, por sus siglas en inglés), se están realizando a puerta cerrada, codo con codo con los grupos de presión de las grandes multinacionales. La influencia que ejercen estos grupos es tan grande, que su colaboración con los negociadores merece especial atención. Nuestra contribución: ¡conceder un premio al grupo empresarial más resultón!"

"Temeridad legislativa El informe del abogado general indica que el sistema confirmado con la aprobación de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, en noviembre de 2014, sólo con los votos del PP, es ilegal. El sistema que se implantó y que defendió el Secretario de Estado de Cultura, José María Lassalle, no es acorde con la directiva europea, porque no es un sistema equitativo de compensación y porque no estudió el impacto económico sobre los titulares antes de actuar contra la anterior norma."