Dear Colleagues IFLA, along with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and UNESCO, will be holding an Interactive Facilitation Meeting on Open Access<http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2011/Agenda.aspx?event=event_104>as part of next week’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011<http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2011/Home.aspx>in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting takes place on *Thursday **May 19th, 14:45- 16:15pm.***
The meeting will look at the current achievements of the key players in the field of open access and facilitate a discussion about whether they are replicable across countries. Participants will address how open access could be included in national and regional research and educational policies, in order to formally embed it into education and research institutions. The new IFLA Statement on Open Access<http://www.ifla.org/en/news/just-released-ifla-statement-on-open-access>will also be introduced and discussed, and co-operative activities between libraries highlighted. The panellists are: · *Sanjaya Mishra, Programme Specialist (ICT in Education, Science and Culture), UNESCO * · *Lars Bjornhauge, Chief Librarian, Lund University Library, Sweden (Member of IFLA President's Working Group on Open Access)* · *Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager* · *Jens Vigen, the Head of Scientific Information Service and the Head Librarian of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, Geneva, Switzerland * Moderator: · Stuart Hamilton, IFLA Senior Policy Advisor I am pleased to inform you that if you are not attending the WSIS Forum then you can still follow this session remotely. Please visit the Forum’s remote participation page for further details<http://groups.itu.int/Default.aspx?tabid=1415>. Once you have registered for remote participation you will be able join the session to share your views and experiences and ask questions. I hope that you will be able to virtually attend and if you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Stuart Stuart Hamilton Senior Policy Advisor International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions P.O. Box 95312 2509 CH The Hague Netherlands 00 31 70 314 0884 http://blogs.prodigio.nl/stuart/ ************ *Visit the new IFLA website at **www.ifla.org** ! *********
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