For an overview of the current stage of events re: WIPO development agenda, see http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/pcda/ This is info from the First session of the Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to the WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) February 20- 24, 2006, in Geneva, Switzerland. There are links here to analysis from IP Watch, Third World Network, EFF, FSF, CPTech and others. Also see del.icio.us wipo feed.

You Are the MPAA: A Broadcast Flag Update - Imagine you're a happy-go-lucky conglomerate of Hollywood media companies.
Faced with some tweaks to your business model that you'd rather not
contemplate, your members have conceived of an ingenious alternative:
compelling tech companies to implement shoddy copy-protection on every digital
AV-enabled computer in the land.

Let's call this cunning plan the "Broadcast Flag."

Your "Broadcast Flag," while undoubtedly quite brilliant and only slightly

This useful table maps out the positions of WIPO Members on various aspects of the WIPO Development Agenda including governance, norm-setting, technical assistance and transfer of technology and access to knowledge. The eight areas mapped out and WIPO Member States' respective positions on them include: (1) Change Forum to PCIPD, (2) Amend WIPO Convention, (3) WERO, (4) Widen Participation and role of Civil Society & NGOs, (5) Committee on Tech Transfer, (6) Impact assessments and various other proposals, (7) Adopt Principles & Guidelines and (8) treaty on Access to Knowledge and Technology. link: http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/dev_agenda/iim_table.php