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Daisy Ouya , OA consultant ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section

UNESCO Open Access Programme Objectives and Activities. eIFL General Assembly, Lund 6-8 August, 2010. Daisy Ouya , OA consultant ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Communication and Information (CI) Sector UNESCO www.unesco.org/webworld/en/openaccess. Outline.

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Daisy Ouya , OA consultant ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section

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  1. UNESCO Open Access Programme Objectives and Activities eIFL General Assembly, Lund 6-8 August, 2010 Daisy Ouya, OA consultant ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Communication and Information (CI) Sector UNESCO www.unesco.org/webworld/en/openaccess

  2. Outline • UNESCO Mission and the OA Programme • OA Programme objectives • Recent achievements • Near-term activities • Longer-term plans • Call for partnership

  3. A. Background UNESCO Building peace in the minds of people Mission: Building of Peace Alleviation of Poverty Sustainable Development Intercultural Dialogue

  4. Major Sectors • Education • Natural Sciences • Social and Human Sciences • Culture • Communication and Information

  5. B. UNESCO’s Open Access programme C&I Sector • Open Suite Strategy programmes • - OER • OTP • FOSS • Open Access (OA) • 3 Divisions • Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace • Communication Development • Information Society

  6. OA logo designed by PLoS

  7. Why OA? • Knowledge societies are informed societies • N-S disparity in information access and exchange

  8. OA Repositories Map (July 2010) http://maps.repository66.org/

  9. OA Programme objectives (For 2010 – 2011) • Publishers facilitate open access • Countries/institutions mandate open access Global Map of Open Access Initiatives and Stakeholders developed

  10. C. Recent achievements OA web page developed – live on 23 July 2010 www.unesco.org/webworld/en/openaccess

  11. D. Partners/advisors to the OA programme • eIFL • ICTP • OASIS • EPT • Individual OA experts

  12. E. Near-term activities 1. Regional OA workshop in Africa – planned for Oct/November 2010 – UNESCO/EIFL/ICTP Topics: • Open approaches to scholarship • OA benefits for researchers, research institutions, funders, countries • OA policies and mandates • Benefits of OA publishing and OA business models • Libraries and OA

  13. 1. Regional OA workshop in Africa – planned for Oct/November 2010 Target participants: • Regional policy institutes • National Science policy bodies • Universities • International Research NGOs • Journal editors/publishers

  14. 1. Regional OA workshop in Africa – planned for Oct/November 2010 Target countries: • Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia

  15. E. Near-term activities 2. Berlin Conference, Beijing, Oct 2010

  16. E. Near-term activities 3. Mapping of OA initiatives worldwide Outputs: Publication and website

  17. F. Longer-term activities Major future focus likely to be • OA Advocacy • Capacity building • Support to IR development Policy makers, Librarians & Researchers are central to success. Will continue to work in partnership

  18. G. UNESCO strengths • Cross-cutting mission of peace building, poverty alleviation, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue • Global priorities: Africa and Gender equality • Global outreach:32 offices worldwide, including 15 in Africa

  19. G. Conclusion • UNESCO seeks to partner with active OA programmes, and contribute UNESCO’s unique strengths to advance Open Access to information

  20. Thank you www.unesco.org

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