Session
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 60
Format description: Round table discussions and equal participation of all stakeholders.
The overall objective will be to show how innovation, creativity and a conducive intellectual property ecosystem can enhance gender equality in games and app development. To achieve this, the session will first showcase the creativity and innovation of women in video game and app development. Secondly, it will show how the intellectual property system can further ensure equality and creative attribution. Thirdly, it will present practical IP tools, policies and good practices to be used at the national level. The event will also provide space for a diverse group of stakeholders (industry, government, and academia) from various regions.
The event will be co-moderated on site and online. Speakers would also be foreseen to attend on site and online. WIPO will draw from previous successful experiences in organizing similar events in previous IGFs.
🔒World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Michele Woods, Director, Copyright Law Division; WIPO Ryszard Frelek, Counsellor, External Relations Division.
Among others:
Ms. Kate Edwards, Geographer, CEO and Principal, Consultant – Geogrify. LLC, Seattle, U.S (onsite)
Ms. Tami Bhaumik, Vice President of Civility and, Partnerships, Roblox (onsite)
Ms. Michele Woods, Director, Copyright Law Division, WIPO
Mr. Julio Raffo, Head, Innovation Economy Section, Department for Economics and Data Analytics) (online)
Ryszard Frelek, Counsellor, External Relations Division, WIPO
Ms. Kristine Schlegelmilch, Senior Advisor, IP and Gender, Office of the Deputy Director General (PTS), WIPO
Ryszard Frelek, Counsellor, External Relations Division, WIPO
5. Gender Equality
5.b
5.c
17. Partnerships for the Goals
17.6
17.7
Targets: SDG 5 The event will aim to showcase good practices, tools and policies that are aimed at empowering women in the videogame and application development industries. SDG 17 The videogame and app industry require multi-stakeholder collaboration between, for example, developers, platforms, and policy-makers, to name a few. These kinds of cross-sectoral partnerships are linked to enhancing, promoting, and encouraging public-private partnerships in support of sustainable development. The program will consider how legal and regulatory frameworks required for developing countries and economies in transition can be enabled to drive such collaborations.