Sam Pitroda, Chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission (NKC), is calling for implementation of the NKC's recommendations. Details in today's issue of The Hindu:
The recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission on the knowledge paradigm have to be executed to bridge the gap between the educated and uneducated, Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the commission said on Saturday....
The recommendations of the commission have to be executed, he said adding there were a huge gap between the haves and have-nots, the educated and the uneducated people in the country.
The recommendations have not received much attention from various quarters, he added.
Pitroda also said, there was resistance from both within and outside the education system to new ideas....
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.
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