Global Infrastructure

“Just as participation in the physical economy requires access to roads, bridges, and vehicles to transport goods, similar infrastructure is needed in the virtual and knowledge economy.  However, here the highway is the Internet and other networks, bridges are interoperable data standards, and vehicles are computers and databases.”
 
- Director General Francis Gurry, an interview  given to the WIPO Magazine (September 2010)

The Global Infrastructure program signals a new direction for WIPO and reflects a concrete demonstration of one of its nine strategic goals: Coordination and Development of Global IP Infrastructure.  WIPO is coordinating with stakeholders and users to develop global IP infrastructure such as tools, services, platforms, standards, etc, that enable IP institution to work more efficiently, to collaborate more effectively and to provide better services of high quality to their stakeholders and users. For example, the Global Infrastructure enables innovators to create and share knowledge and to bring ideas to innovation and wealth creation in knowledge economy. WIPO also assists developing countries in building their IP infrastructure and in increasing their capacity to participate in the knowledge economy; and the WIPO Committee on WIPO Standards works as the international body to develop and update standards for common format and structure of IP data.

The Global Infrastructure includes the following areas:

These areas have been identified as the pillars necessary to underpin any sustainable infrastructure in the worldwide protection of intellectual property. WIPO works to assist all Member States and other stakeholders in coordinating and developing global IP infrastructure.

 

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