The primary goal of this programme is to engage IAP and its Members in strengthening their own scientific and technical (S&T) capacity as well as in developing countries and transitional economies by enhancing access to and use of digital knowledge and the related infrastructure. More specifically, it will promote the goal established in IAP's Strategic Plan to enhance the quantity and quality of information on issues of science and society that is being exchanged among member academies, thereby building the policy advisory capacity of individual academies. The programme also will build directly upon the activities and results of the 2004-2007 Initiative on Access to Scientific Information in Developing Countries. The two major areas of focus are:
access to and use of digital S&T data and information, and
access to and use of digital networks and infrastructure for research and education....
Thanks to Paul Uhlir for the alert and for adding these details:
This program is focused on the greater involvement of science academies in a number of areas in developing countries, including: OA digitization of valuable analog research material [and] open institutional repositories....
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.
