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Hello from your Vice Chair

Hi Delegates,

My name is Stephanie Chen and I’ll be your vice chair this March.

A little about myself: I’m on the Club Tennis team and a member of Koinonia Fellowship. I first came to BMUN as a high-school delegate in UNEP and am looking forward to chairing WTO this year.

I hope you’ve all been keeping up with the latest on your topics. To help you get beyond the synopses, here are links to LexisNexis’ Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) site:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/ip/

and International Law updates:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/international/

The sites won’t get all your research done (you should be doing that on your own) but will serve as a basis for learning more about IPR and what’s happening in the WTO.

Good luck writing some quality position papers! Feel free to post on the BMUN WTO blog with relevant comments.

- Stephanie

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6 Responses to “Hello from your Vice Chair”

  1. jatin Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    hi, i just wanted to ask that if it is a 2 member delegation do we write 2 position papers from both the topics or just choose one and write it together

  2. wto Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    it’s one paper per delegation per topic, not per person, so that’s two position papers total - one on food safety and one on intellectual property.

  3. jatin Says:
    February 8th, 2008 at 3:00 am

    Thank you!

  4. Sarach Says:
    March 8th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Hello

    I was wondering if there would be a overhead projector in the committee or simply a projector where you plug something into the computer and then it projects. Also are yields were permitted in this conference over all?

    Thank you

  5. Daniel and Jiwei (Japan) Says:
    March 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    Japan feels that some of the existing regional organizations can be utilized to help with technological development in developing nations. For example, Japan is a member of FEALAC (Forum for East Asia - Latin America Cooperation) and APEC (Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation), and has structured its national policies around those of these groups. Japan urges delegates to see if they are members of these organizations or ones like them. We feel that if an international standard for regulating the distribution digital technology and other relevant intellectual property rights is established, then the regional bodies will have a platform that they can build upon as appropriate for nations in the organization. Such a system would protect developed nations like Japan, while also helping the developing nations receive sufficient technologies to help bridge the “digital divide”.

  6. Mozambique Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Mozambique agrees with Japan. There is a distinct line between the technology of the developed and undeveloped nations. On the other hand there are many techonological groups that have been aiding nations such as Nigeria, Chad, Namibia, Ghana, and Chile with expanding technology such as the past one lap top per child and the previous classmate. Mozambique does agree with the solutions stated in the previous blog. We would however like to state that the issue with digital rights is quite distant with that of giving technology to all nations. Instead the main focus is on sustaining the digital qualities and thier original purposes.

    The Republic of Mozambique

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