Open Round Table Open Round Table
"Developing Country Access to On-Line Scientific Publishing: 
Sustainable Alternatives"

Programme
In the panels there will be those who either produce something different, propose a concrete idea, offer access to on-line literature or can help solve local problems such as network challenges. All of this should be concrete work , and what is more important is that it is produced for the poorest countries.

 
              Friday 4 October 2002
               
    8:00 - 9:15 Registration & Administrative matters

    9:15 - 9:30  Opening Ceremony

                                       Erio Tosatti - Acting Director, The Abdus Salam ICTP

                                       Hilda Cerdeira (ICTP)
                                       "Round Table Preliminaries"


    9:30 - 12:00 Focused initiatives from Publishers & Special licensing
     

      Chair:     Minella Alarcon (UNESCO)
       
      Panelists:    Pieter Bolman 
                             "Elsevier Science"
                              (Presentation: PPT)
       
                   Martin Blume  (APS: Americal Physical Society)
                  "Low cost on-line journal access for developing countries"

                   Desmond Reany (IOP: Institute of Physics)
                "Equity of access to information"

                    Loriano Bonora & Hector  Rubinstein (SISSA)
                  "JHEP : Journal of High Energy Physics and new SISSA projects 
                   of e-publishing"
                     (Presentation: HTML)

                    Rosalind Reid (American Scientist/Sigma Xi, The Sci Research Soc)
                  "Building an interdisciplinary archive for developing-country
                     scientists"
         
         

      Briefs:     Ajit Maru (CGIAR)
                        "IPR issues and licensing issues in providing access for developing 
                        countries for on-line publications"
                                (Presentation: PPT)
     

    13:30 - 15:30 World-wide initiatives from NGO's and content providers
     

      Chair:   Martin Blume (APS)

      Panelists:   Barbara Aronson (WHO)

                        " The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)"
       
                              Frances Pinter (OSI) 
                              "Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL)"
                                (Presentation: PPT)

                              Carol Priestley (INASP)
                               "Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)"
                                (Presentation: PPT)

                             Hilda Cerdeira (ICTP) 
                             " Free eJournals Delivery Service (eJDS)"
                                 (Presentation: HTML)
     

    16:00 - 18:00 Web-to-eMail access

       
      Chair:   Ian Butterworth  (Imperial College/IUPAP) 

      Panelists:  Clement Onime (ICTP)
                          "www4mail: The past, present and future"
                          (Presentation: PPT)

                            Katherine Morrow (Bellanet) 

                "Bellanet and www4mail: A low-cost, pragmatic strategy to increase
                 web access in the South"
                     (Presentation: PPT)

                Tobias Eigen (Kabissa) 
                "Kabissa space for Africa: Experiences with www4mail"
                   (Presentation: PPT)
         
         

      Briefs:    E. Mwanbene (Univ. Malawi)
                       "eJDS  from the user's point of view"

                       Kurt Brauchli (Univ. Basel)
                     "pm2mail: PUBMED to email utility"
                      (Presentation: HTML)
       

    18:00 - 19:00 Poster Session
         


    20:00 Get together (special buffet at AGH)     - Photos

         

 
              Saturday 5 October 2002
               
               
    9:00 - 10:30 Connectivity monitoring of Research and Educational Institutions in the
                  least developed countries
     

           Chair:  Pieter Bolman (Elsevier )

           Panelists: Enrique Canessa (ICTP-eJDS)
                               "Real time network monitoring in Africa: A proposal"
                                (Presentation: HTML)

              Mike Jensen(ACACIA)
                               "Measuring Internet use in Africa"
                              (Presentations: PPT - 1 - 2)

                                Les Cottrell (SLAC)
                               "Monitoring Internet Connectivity of Educational and Research 
                                 Institutions"
                                (Presentation: PPT)

    11:00 - 12:30  Optimization/Awareness of resources & ICT tools
     

           Chair: Katherine Morrow (Bellanet) 

           Panelists: Buhle Mbambo (Univ. Zimbabwe Library) 
                               "African framework for e-knowledge"
                                  (Presentation: PPT)

                                  Giampaolo Amadori (IBM Linux) 
                                  "Open source IBM strategies for developing countries"
                                    (Presentation: PDF)
     

                                "Bridging the digital divide through knowledge exchange-information 
                                  systems"
                                  (Presentations: PPT - DOC)

                                 Manfredi La Manna (ELSSS)
                                 "Academic-led alternatives to commercial journal publishing, with  
                                 special reference to developing countries"

                                 Carolin Bothe (GTZ)
                                 "Information Service on the Adaptation and Dissemination of
                                 Technologies: Possible use of www4mail in the GATE and GTZ context"                               (Presentation: PPT)
     

    14:00 - 16:00 Local solutions: networking, Internet infrastructure and the digital divide

           Chair:  Desmond Reany (IOP)

           Panelists: Sandro M. Radicella (ICTP-ARPL)
                             "Role of information technology and communications in sustainable 
                                development: Our experience"
                                (Presentation: PPT)

                                Carlo Fonda (ICTP-ARPL)
                              "Training in open source and networking for development"
                                (Presentation: HTML)

                                 Gabriel O. Ajayi (ICT Center, Nigeria)
                            "Bridging the digital divide: The Nigerian case study"
                                (Presentation: PPT)
     

            Briefs:    Ahmadou Wague (Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
                            "Problem of Internet access in research laboratories in Senegal"
                                (Presentation: PPT)
     

    16:30 Concluding remarks

                Chair:  Rosalind Reid (American Scientist/Sigma Xi, The Sci Research Soc)
     
                                      Hilda Cerdeira (ICTP) 
                                      Reading of
                                        "Bridging the digital divide: Recommendations of Trieste"

                                      Ian Butterworth  (Imperial College/IUPAP)