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The Access to Knowledge treaty is intended to ease the transfer of knowledge to developing nations, and to secure the viability of open innovation systems all over the world. The A2K (Access to Knowledge) movement is concerned with copyright law and other regulations that affect knowledge and places them within an understandable social need and policy platform: access to knowledge goods.
The recent consolidation of various local and global social movements working towards greater access to knowledge builds on previous and ongoing efforts by citizens' groups working for access to information and education rights in general. The movement's stance on intellectual property rights owes as much to the quest for free and open source software as to public health activism around patents and medicines.
