Mr Matsuura located UNESCO’s engagement with the theme of the Workshop in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, informing the participants of UNESCO’s strategic emphasis on building knowledge societies and “how certain principles can best be operationalized, namely, freedom of expression; respect for cultural and linguistic diversity; universal access to information; and equal access to quality education for all.”...[T]he Director-General highlighted “the interdependency between sharing technological and scientific knowledge and accelerating development”, and the importance of universal access. He said that, following the Geneva phase of the WSIS, UNESCO is stressing the need to translate agreed principles into concrete action, including the area of e-Science. It supports the search to find new ways of using technology to facilitate access and to build new models for sharing scientific information through networks, the development of standards and metadata, and online repositories (the “information commons”). “We recognize that sharing digital scientific information and data has an important role to play in the building of knowledge societies,” said the Director-General, adding that “we are prepared to take responsibility for coordinating multi-stakeholder implementing teams dealing with the Action Lines that fall within UNESCO’s competency such as science.” Noting that the Workshop “anticipates the Action Lines of the WSIS Plan of Action”, the Director-General welcomed its “practical, policy-oriented and experienced-based approach”, an orientation “which is exactly right at this juncture for addressing the challenges we face.”
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/04/2005 09:43:00 AM.
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.
