6th International Conference on Open Access

The Information and Communication Technologies Association of Malawi (ICTAM) in collaboration with The Royal Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH) and The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), is hosting the 6th International Conference on Open Access from 12-14 November 2008 in Lilongwe, Malawi.

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.

Besides sharing of communication resources, the 6th Open Access Conference in Malawi will also address the sharing of processing and memory capacity in terms of grid technologies. The EU-supported EELA-2 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.

Sub-themes for the conference

• ICT Infrastructure
• Strategic ICT leadership
• Universal access
• Policy and social implications
• ICT usage
• Open source, media and ICT
• ICT entrepreneurship and supply chains
• Mobile technology

Dates: 12-14 November 2008

Venue: Crossroads Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi

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