Who and how could manage and prevent problems like genomic manipulation, massive technological aplication for war or devastation of natural spaces. What is the rol that knowledge plays in these topics.

A comparison between Greek and modern democracy, as different as they are, shows how delicate the prejudice which defends that there is no more than one democracy is.

Intellectual Property as an essential tool for the cultural industries, problems that come up from the protests against its use and conciliation with the common initiatives.

Miguel Jara talks about the current problems withing the pharmaceutical industry from a social view. Medical patents, generic drugs and public health, scientific position towards the "pharmacist giant"

This conference shows the state of the art inside the publication model of open access. A revision of the main initiatives that have developed this type of repositories in our country.

The second meeting of the Commons Lab deals with the idea of the common goods, the reappropriation of the commons by the community and the Internet as a producer of knowledge.