Sam Pitroda is the Chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission, which has repeatedly recommended an OA mandate for publicly-funded research in India (one, two, three, four).
He has now been asked to advise the Mexican government on how to make Mexico the knowledge capital of Latin America.
Comment. This is good news for OA in the country which produced the Declaration of Mexico in October 2006. A national-level OA mandate in Mexico would be the first in Latin America.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/09/2008 12:01:00 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.
