• March/2006:
  activities begin

• April/2006:
  public release of the project at the 11th CONEB Conference, an annual meeting of more than 13,000 students national wide, in Campinas, Sao Paulo State — 13-16 April 2006.

• May/2006:
  webpage release www.direitodeacesso.org.br and www.a2kbrasil.org.br

• March/2006-2007:
  development of partnership with public-interest NGOs

* Partnership with Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor - IDEC, the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense, the largest not-for-profit consumer group in Brazil.

• March/2006-2007:
  development of partnership with international collaborators

* Partnership with the South Centre’s Innovation and Access to Knowledge programme, an intergovernmental organization of governments of the developing South, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

* Unofficial partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF, a U.S. public-interest not-for-profit NGO focused on freedom of speech, technology and law issues.

• March/2006-2007:
  education and information www.direitodeacesso.org.br and www.a2kbrasil.org.br

• November/2006:
  Study published, (in PDF format), titled “Copyrights, Access to Culture and New Technologies: evolving Challenges to Cultural Diversity”, in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, as a result of the International Network of Cultural Policy (INCP) 9th meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

• January/2007:
  preparation of a distance learning course on intellectual property and development

• February/2007:
  proposal of project law