[DDN] Re: what are your favorite telecentre initiatives?

2005-05-01 Thread Dani Matielo
Hello Andy and everybody, my name is Dani Matielo and I have been lurking in this list for a while. The discussions here are very interesting and I hope I can participate more in the future. For now, I would like to add a telecentre initiative to Andy's list, called Acessa São Paulo, led by the

Re: [DDN] Re: Fwd: About Unesco seminar in Bamako

2005-05-01 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
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 t

Re: [DDN] Google Unites Europe (fwd)

2005-05-01 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends: What the Europeans are attempting to do is a good thing. After all, long before USA came into being, Europe was the cradle of Western Civilization. If all the great literary works of the West were to be available free on the Net, it will be good for the entire world. I would like Mr Chir

Re: [DDN] Google Unites Europe

2005-05-01 Thread David P. Dillard
In this regard this recent Net-Gold post may also be of interest. From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:54 am Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH: ISSUES: European Libraries Fight Google-ization to which Claude Almansi

Re: [DDN] Software Freedom Day - Sept 10, 2005

2005-05-01 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
Dear Phil and friends: We may also consider a similar freedom day for freeing the scientific and scholarly research literature from the clutches of toll-access journals so anyone with access to Internet can access the full text of research papers online. Already many individuals (such as Peter S