Dear GKD Members, Three invitations for GKD List participants at WSIS or ICT4All.
1. OKN - Open Knowledge Network The first announcements of this programme, which originated from the G8 DotForce, caused a bit of quite intense discussion on this list when it was announced in 2002. It was formally launched at WSIS 1 by Professor Swaminathan and is now active with partners in Kenya, India, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The current programme is planned to run for a couple more years, and we are having a workshop to share learning to date. Learning from the Open Knowledge Network Experience: Grassroots Local Content Creation in Africa and South Asia Friday 18 November, 12:00 - 13:30 , ICT4All Exhibition, Room 6 This session will be a report back and experience sharing session for the Open Knowledge Network (OKN), presenting our activities and learning, and inviting input from others involved in similar work. The session will include presentations from the OKN partner projects, and will offer a space for sharing ideas on local content production and dissemination, appropriate technology and media for information sharing in development, gender issues, intellectual property rights, project sustainability and language issues. 2. FOSS 1: In collaboration with UNESCO and the National Informatics Centre (India), we have developed a new Open Source software platform, which will be briefly demonstrated at the session, with pre-release versions available for collaborating partners. It will be formally launched at the UNESCO stand immediately afterwards, 13:30 - 14:30 3. FOSS 2: I posted earlier a suggestion that we try and arrange a meeting to carry on face to face some of the really important discussion on FOSS that has been happening on this List. Although there was no reply, I suggest we try nonetheless to at least meet informally. There will be a lot of possible opportunities at various presentations - including possibly with Sun, whom we could ask about the Google alliance. As a random suggestion, 14:30 at the OKN stand (1312) to at least put faces to names...Tuesday 15th and/or Thursday 17th. Best wishes, Pete Pete Cranston Senior Advisor OneWorld UK 2nd Floor, River House 143/145 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3AB UK tel: +44 (0)20 7239 1400 fax: +44 (0)20 7833 3347 ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
