President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay at the C-TAP Solidarity Call to Action launch
Channel: KEIWashDC
Date: 2020-06-02

On May 29, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada, and 36 co-sponsoring member states launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) with a Solidarity Call to Action. The WHO and the 37 co-sponsoring countries called upon key stakeholders and the global community “to voluntarily pool knowledge, intellectual property and data necessary for COVID-19.” The event was attended by several heads of states, government officials, academics, and leaders in the civil society community. This is a short clip of a statement by President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay. 

Statement of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) on the launch of the C-TAP: https://www.keionline.org/33276

Further information about KEI’s work relating to the coronavirus, including but not limited to the WHO C-TAP: https://www.keionline.org/coronavirus