The workshop was organized by the National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago (NALIS), in collaboration with UNESCO....
Stakeholders examined areas of possible cooperation in developing digital collections, discussed the development of a Caribbean Digital Library Initiative (a cooperative formed through the award of a grant from the US Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) in 2005), and deliberated on the Caribbean’s participation in the [OA] World Digital Library Project....
Initially the workshop was designed to accommodate forty participants. However, over three hundred applications were received....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/12/2007 05:45:00 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.