The World Conference of WSEAS on E-ACTIVITIES (E-Learning, E-Communities, E-Commerce, E-Management, E-Marketing, E-Governance, Tele-Working) is the internationally recognised Forum for the dissemination of the latest advances on E-Learning, E-Communities, E-Commerce, E-Management, E-Marketing, E-Governance, Tele-Working etc as well as their impact and their interaction with other areas of Science and Engineering. The various WSEAS conferences on E-ACTIVITES has been successfully held each year since 2002 and has produced more than 11 volumes of Proceedings while the best papers and the invited papers after extension and after peer review from 4 international referees, are published in WSEAS Journals covered by all the major scientific indexes.

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The World Conference of WSEAS on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and CYBERNETICS (CIMMACS '08) is the internationally recognised Forum for the dissemination of the latest advances on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Man-Machine Systems, Cybernetics, Simulation, Modelling, Optimization etc as well as their impact and their interaction with other areas of Computer Science and Engineering. The various WSEAS conferences on Neural Networks, Fuzzy SYstems, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Man-Machine Systems, Cybernetics, Simulation, Modelling, Optimization has been successfully held each year since 1996 and has produced more than 151 volumes of Proceedings while the best papers and the invited papers after extension and after peer review from 4 international referees, are published in WSEAS Journals covered by all the major scientific indexes.

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Innovate, Share, Succeed
Welcome to the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2009 website where you can find all the information you need to take part in the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors in education and training. By taking part in OEB, you will meet over 2200 colleagues and like-minded people from more than 90 countries.

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The evaluation of academic online information resources through usage assessment accompanies their integration into academic libraries. The topic associates librarians, publishers, vendors and scientists into a common discussion on resource management, evaluation, research and theoretical aspects. Between 1998 and 2008, the work on usage assessment advanced in several ways. The COUNTER Codes of Good Practice are to become international standards and facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way. Regularly revised and updated, they are built upon common definitions of collected usage statistics. Vendors and service providers offer tools and services for the management of usage data, compliant with the COUNTER standards.

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Eighth Annual Conference
First Call for Papers

This is the first call to submit proposals for papers or posters for the IUG-SA 2009 Conference to be held at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Conference Centre in Port Elizabeth from 11-13 November 2009.

The theme of this year's conference is Millennium Maximised! and the rationale behind the theme is to maximize the products in Millennium in order to make the most of our integrated library system.
In line with this year's theme, the IUG-SA 2009 Committee is calling for presenters to share their innovative and/or optimal use of III Products. Ideally we are looking for presentations on new features, enhancements or aspects in Millennium or in other III Products that have not been presented at previous IUG-SA conferences.

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The emergence of economies based on the production, distribution, use of knowledge and information was charted by the OECD (1996) in the report "The Knowledge Economy". Economies are more and more becoming reliant upon an effective gathering and utilization of knowledge and the creation and sharing of knowledge is rapid in the new economy. OECD suggests that innovation has changed from a linear model to a non linear and more complex relationship-based model. Discovery and innovation are no longer a process of fixed linear sequence of phases but is the result of numerous actions of many players. The promise of the knowledge economy has attracted the interest of national governments both in advanced industries and developing economies. Innovation intensive industries such as biotechnology, ICTs and super-semiconductors are the foundations of the new economy.

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Organized by:
The Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (Globelics)
UNU-MERIT (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
CRES, UCAD (Dakar, Senegal)

GLOBELICS (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems) is an international network of scholars who apply the concept of "learning, innovation, and competence building system" (LICS) as their framework and are dedicated to the strengthening of LICS in developing countries, emerging economies and societies in transition. The research aims at locating unique systemic features as well as generic good practices to enlighten policy making relating to innovation, competence building, international competitiveness, regional development, labor market and human capital development. In an increasingly global and knowledge-based competition, management strategies need to be based upon an understanding of these framework conditions and the public policies which seek to regulate the environment.

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The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) will take place from September 8-11 at the University of Trento.
The first ICSD was organized in 2007 by the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore. The great interest in the conference showed the need to create a communication area between the two communities. The goal is to facilitate the creation digital library application which could be brickstones of the semantic web.

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The World Library and Information Congress 2009, 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, will take place in the Fiera Milano Convention Centre (MIC), Milan, Italy. The entrance to the MIC is located on the Via Giovanni Gattamelata 5.

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Better Library Services for Print Disabled Persons through Partnerships with Publishers and Public Libraries.This conference will highlight the importance of delivering library services for print disabled people and show you how to improve your publishing and library services through co-operation and partnership.

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Copyright law affects the lives of faculty, scholars, researchers, and other library users today in unprecedented ways. Standard library activities, such as interlibrary loan, raise concerns for copyright holders, and yet the Copyright Act of 1976 recognized ILL as a legitimate library activity within certain parameters. The law is dated and libraries struggle to comply with its provisions while still serving their use communities.
Join leading copyright law expert Laura (Lolly) Gasaway to discuss Section 108 of the US Copyright Act, which applies to limitations and exclusive rights of digitization and reproduction of library materials and archives. In this session, we will address:
• Providing photocopies to users
• Providing digital copies to users
• Preserving analog works
• Licensing's impact on the library exceptions
• Interlibrary loan in the 21st century

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organized a meeting on the needs of visually impaired persons and the associated IP challenges on Monday, July 13, 2009, from 9 to 10.30 a.m., at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG).

The proliferation of digital technologies has added a new dimension to the question of how to maintain a balance between the protection available to right owners, on the one hand, and the needs of specific user groups on the other hand. User groups which seek to benefit from reasonable exceptions and limitations to copyright protection include more than 160 million blind or visually impaired persons around the world.

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing a Conference on Intellectual Property and Global Challenges to be held on July 13 and 14, 2009, at the International Conference Center Geneva (CICG), following a proposal by the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) at its 12th session held in Geneva from June 23 to 27, 2008 in the context of discussing a work program for the SCP. The Conference will address issues relating to the interface of intellectual property with other areas of public policy, notably health, the environment, climate change, food security and disability, and serve as a global forum to discuss issues and solutions to some of the major challenges in relation to intellectual property the world faces today.

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The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as, but not restricted to, PKP’s OJS, OCS, OMP, Lemon8-XML, and OA Harvester) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale.

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The second seminar is devoted to one of the big challenges for research institutes: how to guarantee persistence and continuous access to its records to all researchers. In addition to enabling data-driven research work and the duty to store the context of publications to allow replications, we have in many cases the ethical duty to preserve our valuable data for future generations.

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The second international m-Libraries Conference, held and sponsored by the University of British Columbia in conjunction with Athabasca University, The Open University and Thompson Rivers University, will be held June 23rd and 24th of 2009 at University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus. This conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments.

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The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), 
will be held at the University of Geneva on the 17th-19th of June 2009 
(view map, slide show of the building).

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Rethinking Electronic Publishing : ELPUB 2009 (Preface)
Susanna Mornati, Turid Hedlund
Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group

Heather Morrison, Gilbert Bede, Richard Baer, Melissa Belvadi, Michelle Chou, Alison Curtis, Pamela Dent, John Dobson, Faith Jones, David Karpinnen, Shirley Lew, Christine Manzer, Corinne McConchie, Kathy Plett, Laurie Prange, Kevin Stranack, Ella-Fay Zalezsak

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This year’s Computers Freedom and Privacy conference will be in Washington, DC, June 1-4, 2009. We are already working hard to put together another phenomenal conference.
We’re expecting the usual mix of brilliant and forward-looking activists, technologists, academics, and government experts. And, given the Washington, DC location of the conference this year.

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The Africa Institute of South Africa is hosting a two-day international conference on Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities and Impediments from 28-29 May 2009.
The conference is aimed at examining the state of scholarly publishing on the continent with a view of influencing policy regarding the fostering of an enabling environment for scholarly knowledge production.
The conference will also focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale.

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The IFLA Newspapers Section in collaboration with the National Library of Sweden are organizing a two-day pre-conference and satellite meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, 19-20 August 2009. The venue for the conference is the National Library, which is situated in the park Humlegården in central Stockholm..

Co-sponsors of the conference are the IFLA Preservation & Conservation Section, and IFLA Core Activity on Preservation & Conservation (PAC).

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Identification of opportunities, strategies and practical examples for new forms of research and scholarship and for the management of the digital content of these activities by academics, researchers, scientists, information professionals and IT experts

ICPSR, the world's largest archive of social science data and part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is pleased to continue the digital preservation training program developed at Cornell University. The workshop series is intended for managers who are or will be responsible for digital preservation programs in libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions. The goals of the workshop are to foster critical thinking in a technological realm and provide the means for exercising practical and responsible stewardship of digital assets in an age of technological uncertainty.

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The era of digital networks has given rise to new problems in the area of intellectual property. They include the question of how best to deal with the massive numbers of downloads of film, music and software via peer-to-peer file sharing. They also open up copyright issues arising out of the digitalisation of entire public libraries.

The issues affect many different interest groups, ranging from large film and music industry corporations to individual authors and artists trying to make a living from their work, as well as teenagers who risk being prosecuted after posting copyright-protected material on YouTube.

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The ICTD2009 conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development, and will include both academics and practitioners. In addition to academic paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and demos, this conference features exciting keynote presentations.

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The 17th Annual Conference will be held in Cambridge, England on Wednesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 16th, 2009, with another exceptional roster of participants and comprehensive review and analysis of today's cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law.
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law building in the Sidgwick Site of the University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, England CB3 9DZ.

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The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project. DigCCurr is a three-year (2006-2009), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded collaboration between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The primary goals of the DigCCurr project are to develop a graduate-level curricular framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare students for digital curation in various environments. DigCCurr initiatives in support of this goal are informed by representatives from the project’s collaborating institutions as well as an Advisory Board of experts from Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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This one-day “Conference on Scholarly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons” is organized to take stock of the current developments in Open Access and to highlight the issues that would need to be addressed to enable a wider access to scientific knowledge and to enhance the visibility of research performed in India.

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Access to broadband is an imperative for the full expression of citizenship in today’s world. With affordable broadband, the enormous potential for socio-economic, cultural, and educational development in South Africa can be realised.
The Association for Progressive Communications – www.apc.org; South Africa Connect – www.southafricaconnect.org.za; SANGONeT (Southern African NGO Network) – www.sangonet.org.za; and The Shuttleworth Foundation – www.shuttleworthfoundation.org are convening a one-day event as a first step towards drafting a framework for a national broadband strategy for South Africa.

In the USA a diverse group of people came together to launch a National Broadband Coalition under the banner of BB4US to provide the then President-elect, Barack Obama and the incoming US Congress with a policy framework for a comprehensive national broadband strategy. President Obama’s technology policy is committed to deploy next-generation broadband infrastructure to get true broadband to every community in the United States through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation’s wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives.’

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IQsensato, jointly with the Plato Institute in Nairobi, is launching the Nairobi Seminars on Development Research (NSDR). The first seminar in the series, to be co-hosted with Health Action International (HAI) Africa, will take place at the Sarova Panafric Hotel in Nairobi on 13th March 2009. The topic for this first seminar is: “National and Regional Action to implement the WHO Global Strategy on Incentives and Financing for Essential Health Research”. Due to limited space and logistical arrangements pre-registration is required. To register send an e-mail to info@haiafrica.org.

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The international conference on the Development of an equitable Information Society in Africa: The role of Parliaments is hosted by the Parliament of Rwanda and organized in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) under the aegis of the Pan African Parliament.

In the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva, December 2003a) the international community recognized the crucial importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to meet the basic development needs of developing countries. The Action Plan endorsed by the Summit highlights the strategic importance of legislative measures aimed at promoting the equitable deployment of ICT services “to build an inclusive information society and to put the potential of knowledge and ICT at the service of development”.

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TERI invites your attention to ICDL 2010, the third conference in the Institute’s ICDL
(The International Conference on Digital Libraries) series. ICDL 2010 is proposed to be organized during 23-26 February 2010 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘Digital Libraries : Shaping the Information Paradigm’ and the focus is on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.

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SAASTA will be hosting its 2nd African Science Communication Conference between 18 - 21 February, bringing together individuals across the various sectors in realising Science Communication's role in driving economic growth and long term sustainable development. As Africans, we need to define our destiny and change our mindset with respect to science, engineering and technology, as well as research. For the success of our continent and its people, it is imperative that significant investment in the popularisation and public understanding of Science and Technology development is made. It was this realisation that lead to the development of Africa 's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (August 2005).

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The practice of science undergoes constant evolution. As discoveries are made, technologies developed, and data generated, new approaches for conducting science arise and flourish. In recent years, computing has drastically changed our ability to produce and analyze data, with implications for the ways in which we store knowledge and communicate about science. Open source software, public databases, open data standards, and Open Access publishing are now all indispensable to conducting research in the biomedical sciences. Looking forward, we can imagine a world in which research and data are fully open; where there are no barriers preventing the use and re-use of data for new purposes. This vision of 'Open Science' is within reach, but significant technical and cultural barriers remain.

Through the efforts of pioneering individuals, we are seeing a glimmer of what is possible. Open Notebook Science, public lab wikis, and a few online services provide inspiration, proof-of-principle, and infrastructure. Yet to fully realize the potential of Open Science, we need not only a fundamental shift in how science is practiced, but the rigorous development and testing of tools, standards, and frameworks enabling its practice. This workshop will serve as one of the first focused venues for evaluating existing tools, assessing socio-cultural ramifications, and envisioning the future of Open Science

The Unit of Library & Information Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur is pleased to announce the International Conference on Libraries, Information & Society 2008 (ICoLIS08) on 18-19 November 2008, the second ICoLIS Conference since its first event in 2007. We invite the active participation of stake holders in the information and knowledge domain in ICoLIS08.

The conference will be hosted at Hotel Armada, Petaling Jaya, which is around 15 minutes drive from KL Sentral and about an hour from the KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport).

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For information: Contact: Mr. Precious Moyo, Tel. +27 11 7819511 or Email, www.syncombi.co.za

The pages of the world’s newspapers have traditionally provided a detailed record of the notable events and interests of the communities for which they were produced. Much of this “first rough draft of history” has been preserved intact for decades and even centuries in research libraries and archives. Today news is produced and delivered in digital media that are inherently dynamic and fugitive, challenging society’s ability to ensure the survival of yesterday’s reporting for future study.
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Access is Canada’s premier library technology conference that focuses on issues relating to technology planning, development, challenges and solutions.

This year the conference will be held in Hamilton, Ontario at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel (conference) and Hamilton Public Library (Hackfest) from October 1-4 and is hosted by:

The South Centre Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme (IAKP) is pleased to invite you to the second South Centre International Symposium on “Examining IP Enforcement from a Development Perspective”. Addressing TRIPS-Plus standards on Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement has become one of the most significant challenges for developing countries. The purpose of the symposium is to being together different stakeholders from developing country governments, intergovernmental organisations, academia and civil society to discuss the policy challenges that developing countries face on IP enforcement.

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The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School will host the third Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. It will be held at the Geneva International Conference Centre and will bring together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.

The First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture presents a unique opportunity for scholars with various backgrounds, whose work contributes to the promotion or study of an emerging Free Culture, to present their research work to a multidisciplinary audience of academic peers and practitioners. It will be held in conjunction with the fourth iSummit, one of the largest annual events for the Free Culture and related movements. Our aim is to provide a platform for scholars to communicate their findings to an audience that extends beyond individual disciplines because we believe that the wider participation in the creative process (and consequently in the formation and dissemination of our modern culture) enabled by new Internet technologies, innovative legal solutions and new business models, are far-reaching and therefore deserve to be examined through the lens of multidisciplinary inquiry.

The focus of the workshop will be on the presentation and critique of work in progress, and with the inclusion of both academic researchers and practitioners, so as to produce a holistic perspective on the future of a more participative, open and free information society. Workshop participants will have the chance to present their work at an event which attracts some of the world's foremost thinkers on the future of the Internet, as well as practitioners, technologists, activists and artists who help shape that future.

Committee and business meetings take place June 28-July 1, 2008, and Council Meetings run to July 2. Education programs take place primariliy June 28-30, 2008. The exhibits will be held June 28-July 1.

The Conference will be held at the Fordham University School of Law, which is located in midtown Manhattan at 140 West 62nd Street, New York City, adjacent to Lincoln Center to the south.