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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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APPENDIXES

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Appendix A
International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science

UNESCO Headquarters

Fontenoy Room II

Paris, France

March 10-11, 2003

Jointly organized by

International Council for Science (ICSU)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

The U.S. National Academies

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)

and

International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)

PROGRAM

Monday, 10 March

8:00

Registration

8:40

Welcome by CODATA President

Shuichi IWATA, University of Tokyo, Japan

8:45

Introduction by Symposium Chair

M. G. K. MENON, LEAD India

8:55

Keynote Address

David DICKSON, Science and Development Network, United Kingdom

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Session One—Legal, Economic, and Technological Framework for Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science

9:20

Introductory Remarks by Session Chair

Elizabeth LONGWORTH, Industry New Zealand

9:30

Overview of Legal Aspects in the European Union

Thomas DREIER, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

9:55

The Legal Context in Developing Countries

Alan STORY, University of Kent Law School, United Kingdom

10:20

Economic Overview of Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Scientific and Technical Information

Robin COWAN, MERIT/University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

10:45

COFFEE

11:10

UNESCO’s Approach to Open-Access and Public-Domain Information

Koïchiro MATSUURA, Director-General, UNESCO

11:25

Economic Considerations for Open-Access and Public-Domain Availability of Scientific Information in Developing Countries

Clemente FORERO-PINEDA, University of Bogota, Colombia

11:50

Information Technology and Data in the Context of Developing Countries Chrisanthi AVGEROU, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

12:15

Discussion

12:45

LUNCH

The Opportunities and Challenges of Open-Access and Public-Domain Scientific Information in Developing Countries

Session Two—Data and Information in the Public Health Sector

14:00

Introductory Remarks by Session Chair

Dialo DIOP, Université Cheihk Anta Diop, Senegal

14:10

The Ptolemy Project: Delivering Electronic Health Information in East Africa

Massey BEVERIDGE, University of Toronto, Canada

14:35

Health Information for Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Jean Luc PONCELET, Pan American Health Organization, United States

15:00

Bioline International and the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine: A Collaborative Model of Open-Access Publishing

D.K. SAHU, JPM Managing Editor, India, and Leslie CHAN, Bioline, Canada

15:25

COFFEE

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Session Three—Data and Information in the Environmental Sector

15:50

Introductory Remarks by Session Chair

Farouk EL BAZ, Boston University, United States

16:00

Geospatial Information in Development

Mukund RAO, Indian Space Research Organisation

16:25

A Comparative Analysis of Data Access Policies in Meteorology

Peter WEISS, U.S. National Weather Service

16:50

Recent Developments in Environmental Data Access Policies in the People’s Republic of China

LIU Chuang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

17:15

Discussion

17:50

ADJOURN

18:00

RECEPTION

Tuesday, 11 March

8:15

Registration

Session Four—Basic Sciences and Higher Education

8:50

Introductory Remarks by Session Chair

Lulama MAKHUBELA, National Research Foundation, South Africa

9:00

Information Needs for Basic Research: An African Perspective

Andrew KANIKI, National Research Foundation, South Africa

9:25

International Transfer of Information in the Physical Sciences

R. Stephen BERRY, University of Chicago, United States

9:50

Access to Scientific Information: Distance Education—The Ukraine and Other CIS Countries’ Perspectives

Mikhail ZGUROVSKY, National Technical University of Ukraine

10:15

COFFEE

Session Five—Innovative Models for Public-Domain Production of and Open Access to Scientific and Technical Data and Information

10:40

Introductory Remarks by Session Chair

Dominique FORAY, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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10:50

A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data: International Considerations

Jerome REICHMAN, Duke University Law School, United States; Paul UHLIR, The National Academies, United States

11:10

The Open-Source Paradigm and the Production of Scientific Information: A Future Vision and Implications for Developing Countries

Charles SCHWEIK, University of Massachusetts, United States

11:35

New and Changing Scientific Publication Practices Due to Open-Access Publication Initiatives

Erik SANDEWALL, Linköping University, Sweden

12:00

Overview of Open-Access and Public-Commons Initiatives in the United States

Harlan ONSRUD, University of Maine, United States

12:25

Discussion

12:55

LUNCH

Session Six—Examples of New Initiatives in Developing Countries

14:00

Introductory Comments by Session Chair

Alexei GVISHIANI, United Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences

14:15

Overview of Initiatives in the Developing World

Sarah DURRANT, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, United Kingdom

14:40

Open-Source GIS Software in Brazil

Gilberto CAMARA, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil

15:00

Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems

Sal MUTHAYAN, Doctoral Candidate, South Africa;

Florence MUINDE, UNESCO Fellow, Kenya

15:20

Metadata Clearinghouse and Open Access to Geographic Data in Namibia

Emma NOONGO and Nico WILLEMSE, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia

15:40

Open-Access Initiatives in India

T. B. RAJASHEKAR, National Centre for Science Information, India

16:00

General discussion

16:20

Closing Remarks by Symposium Chair

M. G. K. MENON, LEAD, India

16:30

ADJOURN

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries to (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and their potential effects on international research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

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