UNESCO has launched an online platform to assist communication and collaboration among those working toward the goals of the Geneva WSIS Plan of Action --which endorsed OA. (Thanks to Francis Andre.) Excerpt:
The participants of the Consultation meeting of action lines moderators/facilitators on 24 February 2006 in Geneva decided that, in order to launch activities under each Action Line and facilitate the initial contacts among facilitators and participants,...UNESCO should be provisionally appointed as the interim focal point for action lines falling in its areas of competence.
Through this platform, UNESCO seeks to gather the opinion of those interested in these action lines on all aspects related to multi stakeholder implementation.
Action Line C3: Access to information and knowledge
Action Line C7: E-learning
Action Line C7: E-science
Action Line C8: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
Action Line C9: Media
Action Line C10: Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
For example, click on Access to information and knowledge to post messages for others around the world working toward this goal of the WSIS Plan of Action.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/14/2006 01:59:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
