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OER in Brazil Green Paper

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:54:53 -0500

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

OpenEd 2010

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:36:31 -0500

Pan Commonwealth Foum 6

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:38:44 -0500

PCF6 as an international conference will explore the contribution of open and distance learning to international development goals, by opening up access to learning at every level. The Forum brings together practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers in the fields of open and distance learning and development from over 70 countries. It provides opportunities to share experience and expertise, and to contribute to future policy and provision. Participants will represent the main Commonwealth, Asia and international institutions and agencies active in the field, including funding bodies and technology providers.

Cornell Library Proposes New Model to Keep arXiv Going

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:44:28 -0500

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

Yale A2K Conference

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:35:46 -0500

Conference announcement and registration invitation - the Yale A2K conference in mid-February 2010. With the Yale Global Academy for Access to Knowledge, there should be a good showing of developing country delegates.

http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/a2k4.htm

From Eve Grey

US Government Office of Science and Technology (Open Access) Policy

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:34:45 -0500

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."

Google - Meaning of Open

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:33:31 -0500

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html

2010 World Journalism Congress

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:06:01 -0500

eLearning Africa 2010

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:04:44 -0500

ACU Conference of Executive Heads

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:03:04 -0500