6th International Conference on Open Access (November 12 - 14 2008)

Lilongwe, Malawi

Hosted by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Association of Malawi (ICTAM) in collaboration with The Royal Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH) and The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the objective of this workshop is to identify and share experiences on affordable and cost effective ICT technologies around the globe. Based on Open Access principles, the workshop intends to address ICT as a tool that will bring developmental change to the society at large.

According to the organisers, besides the sharing of communication resources, the conference will also address the sharing of processing and memory capacity in terms of grid technologies. The Eurpean Union-supported E-Learning grid facility for Europe and Latin America project offers a tutorial and an opportunity for interested users as well as providers of computer resources to explore how they could benefit from connecting to a global computational grid.

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The conference is designed for academics, professionals, researchers, planners, political leaders, innovators, and the private sector.


Click here to register online. The registration fee is US$250, and includes parallel workshops, a conference bag and materials, lunches, refreshments during breaks, and a dinner on Friday, November 14 2008.