"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
Important Resources Hotels in Fort Cochin The Koder House, old Jews Patrician house, finely restored directly in front of the fishing nets www.koderhouse.comkoderhouse@sify.com (150 - 300) 0091 4842218485/6/7/8/9 Hotel Arches Hotel simpler but with nice rooftop restaurant that serves also beer (hidden) 00914842215050 www.hotelarches.comreservations@hotelarches.com Old Harbour Hotel One of the Hotels I liked most, also directly in Fron of the Fishing Nets.
From February 20 -23 I participated in the ICSD in Bangalore, organized by ARD Prasad from the Documentation, Research and Training Center of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore. My group presented the Ontology based electronic FNA journal and the proposal for an AGRIS OAI architecture. I was furthermore Theme Speaker in the session on "Institutional Repositories and Case Studies" and participated in the concluding Panel discusion on "Semantic Web and Digital Libraries:Research & collaborations".
I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Central Europe Conference of the eFarmer project (eFarmer Central European Conference 2007). The title of my presentation is "Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure for Agricultural Research and Technology" (see attached file). The eFarmer project has been granted by the EC in the context of the eContent Program.
I am participating in the Information days of the Directorate e of the IST area of the European Commission. The Director Harald Forster, and the 2 Unit heads, Pat Manson (Digital Libraries and Technology enhanced Learning) and Roberto Cencioni (Intelligent Content and Semantics) have organized this meeting to inform about the possibilities and constraints to present projects to be funded within FP7. There are more than 300 participants from throughout Europe.
We have been invited to present a project within the "proposals clinic".
Hongkong is still on the first place, Germany on an egregious 19, just behind Japan, Italy is on place 60, much behing Thailand (50)------ who did expect better?
There are new reasons for a traditional leftist approach to social politics! Reasons to defend globalization and capitalism! If globalizations leads to the impoverishment of the lower middle classes and to the outrageous enrichment of the upper 10%, the consequence will be that the rage of the impoverished will not go against the rich, but against the developing countries which are taking their place in the world economy. So the "struggle of class" becomes new sense in the developed world.
