has information on
possible plans of the Bibilotheca Alexandrina regarding digitizing Arabic
books?
Best
Charles Geiger
Executive Director WSIS
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computing.
Best wishes.
Arun
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okay Fred
good idea
- let's start
Friends:
Wikipedia in its present form also signals 'liveness' of content. On a
lap-top it is a version of an e-content dated XX.YY.ZZ.
We may have to capture the liveness property of Wikipedia on all low-cost
computers meant for individuals.
Otherwise, there is a good chance that this
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Here is an interesting argument in favour of making knowledge flow freely
without barriers. From Peter Suber's blog.
Subbiah Arunachalam
Building a positive intellectual commons
Peter Drahos, A Defence of the Intellectual Commons, Consumer Policy Review,
May/June 2006. Excerpt
Friends:
In case you have not heard about this new discussion group ..
There are a few articles, in the resources section, on OA in different
countries and regions. If this discussion group attracts many in Africa to join
and if it creates great enthusiasm for OA in Africa, it would be
.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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I think the problem is that the chicken
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Arun
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The ability to mesh network was included
flows
through a better understaning and support of open access, open source and
open science.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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Here is a news story from Peter Suber's blog Open Access News
UNESCO endorses OA
On September 22, UNESCO adopted Amendments to the Draft Programme
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Thanks and regards.
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Kris Dev has a point. Simple but often missed.
Arun
Dear all,
I believe if computers have to be really made useful in education, health,
etc, there must be a long term plan of investment in creating suitable
learning and health tools in an integrated way, rather than a disjointed
way.
I agree with Errol Hewitt that we need to promote INNOVATION (and
research) in developing countries. That is why I and a small (but growing)
group of friends around the world are promoting open access to scientific
literature. Believe me the ability to innovate is not an exclusive
privilege of a
Friends:
Here is a letter sent by many Fellows of the Royal Society who support open
access to Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society. More Fellows (FRS)
are expected to sign.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Lord Martin Rees
President
Royal Society
available its
courseware for free on the web.
Let me once again wish all success to the One Child One laptop project all
success. And thank Mr Jha for commenting on my views.
Arun
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Yes, Cindy, I agre with you. Horses for courses, as they say. The local
context determines what tools will be useful and what kind of solutions are
appropriate. As Mahatma Gandhi had said, the cusomer (or client) is supreme.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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Hello Arun,
Much you have written were great and inline
sums of money - the
minimum one can order is a million units - could be better invested in creating
infrastructure or setting up community telecentres. Good questions to
investigate.
Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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, SDC, APC, UNESCO, and many other
organizations, big and small.
Arun
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Subject: [bytesforall_readers] While in Tunis...
20th November,
Charles Du
Dear Emanuel:
You are not going to get the hundred dollar computer soon. It is NOT YET
PRODUCED. They have just used the WSIS event to make a high profile
announcement with a prototype. When it is ready you and I cannot buy it.
The minimum order they would accept is a million units! One should
Many peopole taking part in this list may not be aware how difficult it is
for a government to procure one million units of anything and distributing
it throughout the country. Being able to make a computer is one thing, and
working with governments and ensuring proper distribution is another.
have acquired some proficiency in using computers
through training programmes provided by the knowledge centres set up with
MSSRF's help. Hardly anyone has a computer at home. And the Pondicherry
model can be much more cost effective.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Imagine a village, in Africa perhaps
Friends:
Here is an announcement on the Fourth South-South Exchange Travelling Workshop.
It is open to development workers using ICTs in their programmes and restricted
to participants from developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The working language is English. Please spread
GKP/MSSRF South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop 2005
- Call for participation!
The South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop 2005 will be hosted by GKP
member, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), from 28 November
to 5 December 2005. The workshop, supported by the Global Knowledge
Subject: Kerala e-literacy project wins Prix Ars Electronica award
There were few mentions of this in the media, one exception was in the
Sakal group, which publishes Maharashtra Herald (Pune) and Gomantak
Times (Goa) too.
It said: The Akshaya e-literacy project aimed at bridging the digital
Government of India Comes Forward to Support Mission 2007: Every Village a
Knowledge Centre
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Chennai 600 113, India
New Delhi, 12 July 2005
India's Finance Minister, Mr Palaniappan Chidambaram, announced today
Thanks Larry! CODATA and ICSU are keen to promote open access to
scientific data and grid computing (for virtual collboration) - all of
which will help developing country scientists in ways we cannot foresee
now!
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
The idea of public commons is now picking up among
the digital divide without public computing
is
a fiction that needs to be exposed and contested.
Steve Eskow
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is a far more difficult job.
Arun
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Mr. John Hibbs writes
thread between these various programmes is the public commons
approach.
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will subscribe to the
journals where the articles appear and those who cannot can access them
electronically at no cost to themselves.
Arun
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of sharing.
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Hi
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, when an
individual (or a family) earns enough to be able to afford something he/she
may decide to 'own' it.
Arun
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Dear Andy and Steve and others on the list:
Telecentres are what we make of them and the activities we build around
them. The women in the villages around Pondicherry in southern India, like
most other women in rural southern India, would rarely come in front of men
from outside their own
world.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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hi DDN communty -
this upcoming global event looks like it will move things
.
That is the only way to make access to research information affordable and
on a level playing field. Africa now has the technology (and it is
improving all the time). All it needs is the political will.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Thanks for bringing this up. This event addresses a vital topic
In academia, much of what they write is meant for free and open
distribution. The system works like this: Whenever you want what you write
to be freely accessible to others, you send it to a journal (preferably an
open access journal) and also deposit it in an interoperable open access
of the science-development
interface and he is genuinely concerned about the problems faced by developing
countries.
The full text is available on the NAS website. I wish the editors of The
Economist read it.
Happy reading.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
The challenge of bottom-up development
I agree with this statement. In Pondicherry in southern India, we did not
aim at e-goverance at all when we started the Information Village Research
Project with financial support from IDRC. But as we started providing
information on government entitlements, among other things, more and more
But the UK Government, and especially the DTI, is not willing (or reluctant)
to support the open access movement and not yet willing to implement the
recommendations of Mr Ian Gibson and the members of his committee!
Arun
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Friends:
Here is a message (on simputers) I received from Ms Laina Raveendran Greene,
an ICT4D consultant working out of California and Singapore. In fact Laina
must have met Dr Swami Manohar, one of the founders of the simputer project,
as both of them were there at the PANASIA review meeting
Friends:
This message on the cost of setting up and running institutional open access
archives from Franck Laloe should reach Ms Ann Okerson (who thinks that the
costs of OA archives or institutional repositories are hughe) and readers of
her Serials article. Les Carr's idea of having authentic
] On the need to adopt open access
Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:
In most cases the sponsors are the taxpayers. Much of the world'research
is funded by governments. It is only legitimate to expect that publicly
funded research should be availble to the public for free. And sponsors
such as the Wellcome Trust
access archiving.
Unfortunately the Royal Society (today) is not a great supporter of open
access as determined by the Berlin Declaration.
For more about OA, please look up Peter Suber's blog.
Arun
Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:
Physicists were among the first to adopt the culture of archiving
.
One thing I am sure about is that groups like ours with so many energetic
and enthusiastic people with a zeal for public good causes can and must play
a role. Especially those who are active in the open source movement and
Ourmedia.
Regards.
Arun
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under an open-access model because they don't think it's
financially viable. Only time will tell whether the PLoS financial model
will be sustainable, but so far the results seem positive
ac
Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:
Dear Andy:
From what I have heard so far, Ourmedia seems to be a very good
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hi DDN community -
for those who might be interested, i'm blogging about
If you want more information on the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation's
work or about Mission 2007, please contact us.
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the support to enable that to happen.
I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others)
to adopt and implement these recommendations.
Thanks and best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam
into reality,
the world will be a different place!
Arun
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It's 7pm in Mumbai and I'm chilling
Friends:
Here is some good news for Open source enthusiasts.
IBM India, C-DAC and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, have signed a
co-operation agreement to set up an 'Open Source Software Resource Centre'
(OSSRC) in Mumbai with an investment of $1.2 million over the next three
describing the organization and the
programme. You may also provide email addresses, contact numbers and the url of
your website.
I will be grateful for your help.
Arun
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and scholarly literature. Those interested in bringing in this revolution
may please read the voluminous and lucid writings of Stevan Harnad, Peter
Suber, and Leslie Chan. A simple search on these names will lead you to a
vast amount of literature on open access.
Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam
and
tsunamis.
Many friends around the world have sent messages expressing concern and
anxiety. We are unable to answer all of them individually. Through this
message, we assure all of you that we are doing all that we can.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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From: Andy Carvin
Dear Friends:
Christmas and the New Year are occasions for joy and happiness. But
unfortunately the earthquake (which did not cause much damage in my city)
and the tsunami that followed it, which had devastated the lives of tens of
thousands of people in my home state and neighbouring
MSSRF's rural
knowledge centres for a week and see how things are done in southern India.
Also of interest should be the Open Knowledge Network [OKN piloted by
OneWorld, MSSRF and other partners]. Among international agencies, both IDRC
and IICD are active in Uganda.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam
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