Theresa Rakocy, The National Law Review; The Open COVID Pledge: What Is It and Is It Right for You?
"Enter one possible solution: The Open COVID Pledge. A group of scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs developed the Open COVID Pledge to encourage businesses and research facilities to make their intellectual property available for use in the fight against COVID-19. The idea behind the Open COVID Pledge is to allow open sharing of intellectual property and technology to end the pandemic without the need for timely and costly licenses or royalty agreements. The initiative comes at a time when researchers and companies alike are surging ahead with ways to combat and end COVID-19. In its Press Release, the individuals behind the Open COVID Pledge explain that the license is needed because “enabling individuals and organizations across the world to work on solutions together, without impediments, is the quickest way to end this pandemic.”...
As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, with the number of new cases each day still increasing in most countries, research and the development of new technologies to combat and eradicate COVID-19 has blossomed. As discussed in an earlier post, countries and companies are looking for ways to contribute, with many now making available and expanding access to their intellectual property. The balance between access and protection of intellectual property, however, is delicate."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The Open COVID Pledge: What Is It and Is It Right for You?; The National Law Review, April 14, 2020
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Food delivery robots from Starship Technologies are coming to Pitt’s Oakland campus; Nextpittsburgh, September 3, 2019
Bill
O'Toole, Nextpittsburgh; Food delivery robots from Starship Technologies are coming
to Pitt’s Oakland campus
"Stakeholders got their
first look at the project last week when the Oakland Planning and Development
Corporation (OPDC)
held a public meeting where Starship gave a presentation
on the project.
The university has confirmed
to us that Starship’s service is due to launch later this fall, but the company
declined to offer further specifics about the project to NEXTpittsburgh.
According to the minutes of the meeting, they plan to begin a
staged rollout in mid-September. The fleet will eventually have 25 autonomous
rovers carting goods (presumably to hungry students) from campus food vendors
such as Forbes Street Market...
The food delivery service
poses obvious practical challenges for the flow of traffic and people
throughout the bustling neighborhood. According to the minutes of the public
meeting, several attendees expressed concerns over the potential for traffic and
bicycle accidents.
“It’ll be interesting to see
how they interface with people there in the public right of ways,” says Georgia
Petropoulos, executive director of the Oakland Business Improvement District, which has
no formal role in the project."
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