On July 7th, 2010, Antonella and I had the opportunity to participate in the one-day workshop titled: ‘Open Access- Maximising Research Impact”, hosted at Bioversity International; organized by Maria Garruccio (Bioversity) and the CGIAR’s Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property (CAS-IP) group.
Call for participation for researchers interested in ICTD, public-access computing, and community informatics. The iConference 2011 will be held from February 8–11, 2011, in Seattle.
Since the announcement of the EASSy undersea cable in 2005, Open Access has been a term of significant debate in the development of undersea cable initiatives and in the general strategic development of communication infrastructure in Africa. Yet, it is a term that is variously understood and often abused especially by the marketing departments of undersea cable initiatives. There is not an African undersea cable initiative that doesn’t claim to be Open Access but all operate on different ownership and pricing models.
The current financial crisis has been branded as that of the banking, insurance and automobile industries. However, other sectors—namely telecommunications—which are seemingly humming along should not be ignored by those interested in maximizing today’s economic lessons. Turning a blind eye toward a profitable industry should no longer be an option. Industry regulators and legislators must be prepared to take proactive action before an industry falters.
The CGIAR, through our ICT-KM Program, has been awarded a grant in the context of the European Commission–funded project Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE).
This is the presentation by Simone Staiger-Rivas to CIAT 2009 Knowledge Sharing Week, delivered during a session yesterday on The  importance of communication
