The Development Gateway Foundation has announced six finalists in its global competition for using information technology to promote economic development. From yesterday's press release: 'Six finalists have been chosen from a field of 135 nominations for the Development Gateway Award 2005. The $100,000 award, to be announced in September, will recognize one finalist for outstanding achievement in using information technology to improve people's lives in developing countries....The finalists' stories will be shared on the Development Gateway Foundation’s global portal of development knowledge, to advance the understanding of their work and of these new technologies' catalytic role.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2005 01:21:00 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.
