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UNESCO Open Suite Strategy
Description:
Achieving peace, poverty reduction, and sustainable development by building inclusive knowledge societies with Open ICTs such as:
* Open Educational Resources (OER);
* Open Access (OA) to scientific information; and
* Free and Open Source Software
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Carolina Rossini has released a Green Paper on the State and Challenges of OER in Brazil. The paper is available in the group files.
More information can be found at: http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rea.
Carolina Rossini
Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Coordinator: Industrial Cooperation Project
Harvard University
crossini@cyber.law.harvard.edu
and
Coordinator: OER-Brazil: Challenges and Perspectives
carolina.rossini@gmail.com
skype: carolrossini
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Cornell-Library-Proposes-New-/20673/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Link sent to me by Susan D'Antoni on efforts by US university to keep Open Access going. Please don't hesitate to upload small stories on the 3 Open Suite thmes: OER, OA, and FOSS and to encourage your contacts to join the WSIS Open Suite Group.
Cheers,
Abel
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/12/us-government-looks-to-expand-scientific-open-access-policy.ars
"The US government's Office of Science and Technology Policy is hosting a forum for debating an expansion of an open access policy, used by the National Institute of Health, that guarantees all publications derived from the agency's funding are available to the public within one year."
