Open Access/open Source

Participation in the Europe-Africa Concertation Meeting

Brussels 2006-12-13,14

I travelled to Brussels for discussions with EU project Officers and to participate in the Europe-Africa Concertation Meeting

Europe Africa Concertation Meeting

I am today participating in the Europe-Africa concertation meeting. This meeting is organized by the START IST, project.
The START program is a specific support action within FP6 for promoting to get Subsaharan African Organizations into the FP7 Framework programs. There are 1 European and 2 African Partners in Start. It is a 2 years program and they will publish in October 2007 a strategic Framework.

Africa in the 7th framework

This is a very important news! The Organizer of the Europe Africa Concertation Meeting told me today, that all African Research Institutions are eligible for funding in projects of the 7th framewwork. My information up to now was, that only SouthAfrican Institutions would be eligible. This should be wrong. South African Institutions have another advantage. They will get specific funding also from their government if they participate in 7th framework projects.
If this verifies it is revolutionary and will change our approach to the 7th framework program.

Internatonal Open Access Workshop in Bangalore

Friends:n 2 and 3 November, an international workshop on open access was held at the IISc faculty hall. It was jointly organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian Institute of Science and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation with support from the Open Society Institute. There were 16 overseas experts and a dozen from India.

Please see the workshop website for the presentations and the policy statement that emerged from the
workshop:
<www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/>.

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.

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

Proposal for the NAIP

1. Creation of a Semantic Framework for Information and Knowledge Exchange in Indian Agricultural Research - India AOS

Collaboration with IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur has a project of a Personal Knowledge Manager. A kind of Knowledge Napster, that will make it possible to exchange information between all users of the PKM. Has to be programmed from scratch to give meat for the students.

The will send us a Project note and I promised a problem statement, set of users and set of requirements

Learning from India

I think that we arrived in a situation where we have to learn also IT from the Indians.
Prof. J.Adinarayana presented a Decision Support Systems, GramyaVika s with openSOURce cms, openGIS, local language querying...
email:adi@csre.iitb.ac.in

e-Sagu

I heard a very interesting presentation about an Agro Advisory system.Farmer Advice system, called e-Sagu.
P. Krishna Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, pkreddy@iiit.ac.in.
https://www.esagu.in

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