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 Is Open Access only for rich countries?
 Participate now in an online dialogue on open access and the developing
world

You are invited to take part in an online discussion on Open Access (OA)
from the perspective of the developing world.

Funded by DFID, through the Mobilising Knowledge for Development (MK4D)
programme in the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University,
and managed through the African Commons project in South Africa and the
Centre for Internet and Society in India, the discussion will be hosted on
UNESCO’s WSIS Open Access Community Forum. This open access dialogue will
provide a valuable space to discuss different perspectives on what open
access means for the developing world and what it can offer.

There is compelling evidence which indicates that OA has finally entered
mainstream discourse. Yet, in the developing world context there remain
specific challenges and untapped opportunities for OA. A series of open
access discussions aimed at developing world critical thinkers, activists
and academics, seeks to explore insights and articulate opinion on OA in
the developing world.  Join us for stimulating debate!

Setting the context

Open access has enjoyed a great deal of acceptance and growth over the last
decade, with a particularly strong spurt in the adoption of open access
policies by major agencies and governments in the last 12 months. With open
access policies and initiatives now being taken up by UNESCO, the World
Bank, the FAO, the European Commission, and the governments of the United
Kingdom and the United States, among others, it is clear that open access
has entered the global mainstream. These policies stress the human rights
potential of open access in providing access to scientific and cultural
knowledge, ensuring its impact and ensuring public access to publicly
funded research.

We now know that open access can work in the immediate and short term in
providing better access to the research literature, whilst some of the
longer term consequences and effects are still emerging. This is especially
so in the developing world, which has been badly served by the publishing
system we have inherited from the 20th century, which has marginalized
research from developing countries. New opportunities and possibilities are
created by open access, and, at the same time certain pitfalls need to be
noted and avoided.

A foundational report prepared to inform this dialogue shows the risks
posed to all scholarly communications, discourse and practices by the
publish-or-perish system, and indicates that in the developing world, the
detriments are potentially much deeper and more damaging.  As researchers
are incentivised to publish in overseas-based journals - mostly unavailable
in many developing world contexts - this research ‘brain-drain’ risks
widening the gap between research and policy [1].

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Get discussing!

The first debate will kick off on Tuesday, 27 November 2012.

A general topic will be complemented by two sub discussions.  The
discussion will be hosted on the WSIS Knowledge Platform's Open Access
group. To take part you will be required to register on the platform.

KEY TOPIC: Production, publication and consumption of scholarly knowledge
and OA.

This will focus on the greater concern of scholarly research in the
developing country context debating the questions: What does OA imply and
offer the developing world in terms of production, publication and
consumption of academic materials and research activities? What are the
specific challenges and opportunities for access to knowledge in developing
countries?

Within this topic the following sub-themes will be introduced:

Sub-theme 1: Considering the issues of 'translation' of research for
development impact; co-production and increasing access to academic
materials; and the importance of OA in producing and sharing of
non-state-supported educational materials; and

Sub-theme 2: OA in academia and the search for global prestige; the
perverse impact of metrics and rankings; scholarly knowledge production;
and sharing and consumption challenges in developing countries.

We will keep you posted about the second debate which will take place early
in January 2013.

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