[KMDG-L] No more tickets for BOBCATSSS 2012!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!


Unfortunately there are no more tickets left for next year's BOBCATSSS conference in Amsterdam!

Thus it is not possible to register anymore!

At the moment, we are having a look at all of our lists to see if there are any mistakes and if people who have registered but haven't paid yet are still willing to attend.


With best regards,
Your BOBCATSSS 2012 Team

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[KMDG-L] BOBCATSSS 2012 - 1st Call for Participation

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are cordially invited to Amsterdam between January 23 and 25, 2012
to celebrate the 20th anniversary of BOBCATSSS together with us!

In keeping with the theme "information in e-motion", there will be
lectures, workshops and poster sessions on:

... "E-media in motion", the rise of mobile devices as e-book-readers
and their usability for you and me

... "My information" and if telling our everyday-details to a social
network instead of a diary is really as benign as we think

... "Organizations 2.0" and the best ways to archive and spread
information in big companies

... "Access to public information" and whose task it is to provide it
most adequate: authorities, libraries or someone completely different?

Register until December 1st and you'll save up to 15 % with our
Early-Bird price!
To register now just follow this link:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/registration/

More detailed information on the conference programme can be found on
our website:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/

In addition we'd like to introduce our Keynotes:

- Geert Lovink, a Dutch-Australian media theorist, will hold a speech
about a world beyond Facebook
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/about/staff/

- Karin Spaink, a dutch feminist and writer will inform us about our
personal privacy and its relation to safety
http://www.spaink.net/who=me.html

To learn more about our special guests please see:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/keynote-speakers/

Sincerely,

Your BOBCATSSS 2012-Team
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Stuttgart Media University (GER),
Hanze University Groningen (NL) -

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[KMDG-L] UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) [http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap], aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members.

The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:

• Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access
• Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States
• Thematic focus areas of OA
• Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world
• Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country
• Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States
• Funding and deposit mandates
• Links to OA initiatives in the world

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment and to view their country's status, and understand where and why Open Access has been most successful.

Development of the Global Open Access Portal has been made possible with support received from the Governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This GOAP will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.

Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO's mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.

Source: UNESCO

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067, India
www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
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