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Subbiah Arunachalams Post to the BOIA on the AGRIS OAI Workshop

This is the Blog that Arun sent to the BOAI list:

First Workshop on Open Access in Agricultural Science and Technology: Indian
Initiatives, 6-7 November 2006.

EventBlog Until August 2006

Robinson Beaches

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Professional events 2006

05/15/06
Tour of the GAAS Information Institute

05/14/06
Permalink Dinner with President Luo

Sunday night we had the official banquet with President Luo of GAAS, who is also vice secretary of the party committee of Guangdong. Dr. Luo emphasized that the province of Guangdong was among the first in 1998 to bring internet services into rural areas. Bridging the rural digital divide would be one of their main goals and he wishes collaboration whit FAO on this

05/12/06
Meeting with the AGRIS group at CAAS

Cecilia with a Group of Indian Students:

FAO present at IST event 2006

2 Colleagues from my group particpated in the IST event, organized by the European Commission to present 6th framwork projects on November 21-23 in Helsinki (https://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/conference/index_...). Attached is the Presentation given by Marta Iglesias in the Networking session on Knowledge Infrastructures.

Our Spring of Hope

There were two competing visions.Mahatma Gandhi has a vision of self-reliant villages, with a reinvigorates agriculture and craft prodution. He opposed modern urban industry because it dehumanized man. Jawaharlal Nehru had a modern scientific mind, and he was mcuh impressed by the economic gains of the Soviet revolution: but he was also committed to democracy. He had a vision of democratic socialism with the state leading the processs of industrialization. He spurned capitalism because it expolited and it created inequalities.

Gutcharan Das: India Unbound

THis is an emblematic book, written by an Indian, US educated, but with his career completely in India. It is a plea for capitalism and democracy

Knowledge and Information Management

This is an email I sent today to some of my colleagues. It is here out of context but could be of interest nevertheless.

Greetings from Bangalore airport, which is a quite uncomfortable place as there are no airline lounges and the crowds are filling up a small waiting area. Unfortunately all outbound flights from here to the "West" depart after 1 am......

New publications from my group

The following publications, written by my group have been published on the Document Repository as part of "Agricultural Information
and Knowledge Management Papers" Series.

* Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus:
Definitions, tools, procedures
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ag862e/ag862e00.pdf

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