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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following people who are helping, in one way or another, to make the Commons-sense Project possible:

APC: Anriette Esterhuysen

A2LM in Southern Africa Project: Achal Prabhala

CoL: Paul West

CPTech: Jamie Love, Thiru Balasubramaniam

Creative Commons: Andrew Rens, Lawrence Lessig, Paula leDieu

Eve Gray & Associates: Eve Gray

IDRC: Heloise Emdon, Steve Song, Laurent Elder, Ailoune Camara

ILO: John Myers

IP Watch: Carolyn Deere, William New

Nigerian Mission, Geneva: Usman Sarki

OLS, U of KZN: Alan Amory

OSISA: Ashraf Patel

Paraffin: Phillipa Moore

Phoenix International: Carolyn Ackermann

SASLI: Susan Veldsman

Soros/OSI: Melissa Hageman, Vera Franz

Stellenbosch U: Jennifer de Beer

TRALAC: Tenu Avafia

U of Cape Town: Charles Masango, Hussein Suleman

SA Dept of Science & Technology: Adi Paterson, Bhavini Kalan

SA National Research Foundation (NRF): Andrew Kaniki

South Centre: Sisule Musungu
WIPO IGC: Wend Wendland

Wits P&DM: Moneerah Ismail

Wits University LINK Centre: Luci Abrahams, Alison Gillwald, Tumi Molefe

Wits University Library: Felix Ubogo, Denise Nicholson, Di Man

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Research Questionnaire

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