I think Prof. Adama Samasekou of Mali will be playing a key role in this conference on multilinguism at Bamaco. One of the things the conference should promote is setting up open access interoperable institutional archives in all higher education and research institutions all over Africa. 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 that > deserves > more attention (which it is gradually getting, as attested to by UNESCO > and > ACALAN's initiative in setting this up). > > Will others on these groups be attending - and out of those any blogging? > If so, > it would be great to have an aggregation (multilingual, of course). I > could > offer a page on the Bisharat site if someone could help set it up - though > perhaps this could also be put on the DDN site or an aggregation site > (??). > > A few of the members of Unicode-Afrique > (http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Unicode-Afrique/ ) will also be in > Bamako and > a couple of them have promised summaries of the 2-day conference for that > list > (but not blogs). These could also be incorporated somehow. > > All the best and k'an b'u fo! > > Don > > Don Osborn, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Bisharat! A language, technology & development initiative > *Bisharat! Initiative langues - technologie - développement > http://www.bisharat.net > > > > Quoting Marouen MRAIHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> BTW >> the agenda is here (it seems really interesting) >> > http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18391&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html >> >> Marouen MRAIHI >> WSIS Youth Caucus >> http://www.wsisyouth.org >> http://www.mraihi.com >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Marouen MRAIHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 29 avr. 2005 15:09 >> Subject: About Unesco seminar in Bamako >> >> Concerning Unesco seminar of Bamako " >> Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in >> Cyberspace" >> > http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17688&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html >> , since I am already in Bamako, if anyone needs a help for hosting >> (hotel >> booking or free hosting :) let me know. >> >> I'll be blogging what will be happening there >> >> Marouen MRAIHI >> WSIS Youth Caucus >> http://www.wsisyouth.org >> http://www.mraihi.com >> _______________________________________________ >> DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >> DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org >> http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >> To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with >> the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
